Valiance

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Exactly what I was thinking. If we can identify where the dragon was, we can find its nest.

@Artifact

Surely it could easily have moved in the undoubtedly huge amount of time that’s passed since?

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

If we can find its heart, we can kill it. If this still of their lives was taken shortly after the dragon was possessed, we might find a clue in the reflections.

@Artifact

A nexus point where the people are within range of something that happened and could be reacting to? Say, a crowd of folks looking terrified of something?

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

I don’t know. The sensation is hard to describe, but it’s as if these scenes were a feather’s fall from continuing on. I feel like destroying anything reflective like this would be the wrong choice.

@Artifact

We won’t, then. But that means we’re going to have to put in a lot more effort and be more careful.

Myriad Reality

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*Traces one of the faces with my index finger hovering just over the gold*
...Because these people may still be alive.

@Artifact

Why would they be kept alive?

Myriad Reality

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The mechanics are not a great concern to me, regardless.
*Inspects the side of one of the houses, reflecting exchanges in a now-desolate market on the other side, some people frozen in the middle of exchanging money*
Eerie.

@Artifact

I think that’s the gimmick. So what’s stopping us from just blasting the whole planet to bits? Either just annihilating this dragon on the spot or forcing him to reveal himself immediately.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Multifarious>

What is this made of?

@Artifact

It’s “stereoholographics”- hard light structuring. Technology invented before my people’s big downfall- Don’t ask me how it works.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

As is the land, gold. We are well within its influence here.

@Artifact

Mhm. I will be avoiding touching the ground as long as possible.

Myriad Reality

<Snipped quote by Valiance>

Nor do I. Something evil happened here.

@Artifact

Likely. Which dragon type are we after again, currently?

Myriad Reality

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*The structures gleam with holographic imprints of an active city, alive with the daily activities of its residents and this snapshot of their world, almost like mirrors into another plane*

@Artifact

I don’t trust a place like this. Not even remotely.

Myriad Reality

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*Maneuvers through one of the buildings, flying in through a window and out through a door made of gold and adorned with precious gems, coming to rest on the streets with a beat of my wings—the city rumbles in observation of our presence, but does not act further*
The land appears to be safe!

@Artifact

*Studies the city in detail from my high perch*
It wasn’t the ground that concerned me.