whizzball1

Myriad Reality

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All very weird, but I've seen stranger.

@Source

Yes. Be careful of yourself, in any case. It's not a nice feeling to be used.

Myriad Reality

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In that case, where are all the others?

@Source

*Shrugs*

Myriad Reality

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That would explain the headache, but I didn't think I was out for that long.

@Source

Perhaps you were, perhaps you were not. I cannot say how complex your story is, for I know not the extent of Fairy Blue’s. But you are entwined in it, somehow; accept that, at least: you are not loosely related to Fairy Blue, not so loosely as you think.

Myriad Reality

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Fairy Blue? Are you sure you've got the right girl?

@Source

Quite so. There was an unpleasant series of events to confirm this, and has really led to a lot of heartache and change. In any case, her story not only spans the aeons that Tier Five existed, but goes even further back, to before the beginning of the Nobility System, for—as we have discovered in various interrogations—she knew each and every member of the Nobility System in some way or another, even before it was formed. A very strange woman, to be certain. What this means for you is that you have been transported across not only space but also time, and certainly for purposes beyond what either of us knows.

Myriad Reality

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Alright, now you've got me interested.

@Source

The Nobility System, you see, was deeply flawed, as is to be expected for a small system of friends who happened to be raised to positions of power under strange and unexpected circumstances. A number—two, in particular—a number of grand rebellions were conducted, I do believe, one by an organisation called Black Paper Moon and another by an organisation which would eventually become Tier Five. Fairy Blue was deeply involved with Black Paper Moon; she may even have headed it, but ultimately, the other rebellion gained control of the System and sealed the Nobility. BPM was disbanded and its members scattered, Lost to time for aeons—until Fairy Blue showed up again.

Myriad Reality

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What story is that?

@Source

The story of Fairy Blue.

Myriad Reality

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My story?

@Source

Ah, the story which relates most closely to your present existence.

Myriad Reality

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I heard something about that. Tier Five, was it?

@Source

Tier Five was a recent regulator, yes. There have been three major such regulators—or Systems, as we call them—that matter. Until recently, we were in an Automated System, and before that, the Tier System under the benevolent but mechanically flawed Tier Five, and long, long ago, the small, overworked, and lazy Nobility System. It was between the Nobility System and the Tier System that your story starts getting interesting.

Myriad Reality

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Hit me.

@Source

Next up: Existence (usually) has regulators. Not rulers, per se, but regulators with various levels of intrusion.

Myriad Reality

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Worse?

@Source

Potentially harder to swallow.