Yatagarasu

Myriad Reality

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*Nods*
That’s what I was thinking.

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If his trail already lead us here, it sounds like it’s only a matter of time before he stumbles here by accident just like we did.

@Audacious

Perhaps, but it'll be less time if he investigates those who were already here.

Myriad Reality

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If following my dad's trail got us here, wouldn't you want us to beat Dynamo so he can't find this place? It seems like that will happen no matter what we do.

@Legend

I think the chances of you beating him, completely killing him before he can escape, and doing so as soon as you find him before he can garner any information from you, are very low. I don't mean any offense by that, I've simply underestimated him befote.

Myriad Reality

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*Sighs*
But are you telling us we’re out of luck? Because if trying to get there, just means we end up here, and we can’t get past this point, then we just have to shrug it off and accept the loss?

@Audacious

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*Takes several breaths with sharp exhales*
Don't scare me like that. Can you at least give us some pointers or advice?

@Legend

*Once again closes my eyes for a moment as I think*

The fact that you're here means you're close. The best I can do is give you a guide who can lead you past here, and have them shadow you until you've lost the scent of this place. Then they could give you a direct path. But that probably isn't ideal when you're on a time crunch...

*I open my eyes*

Time moves very slowly here, compared to most places, so you don't have to worry about having lost too much time. But I can't say the same for wherever you might go next. The real problem is that the circumstances I mentioned mean that I can't prevent what happened from happening again, so the chance of getting back here is unfortunately there.

This would he a lot easier if it were a different enemy, one who I didn't think could or would try to find this place.

Myriad Reality

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Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, how does keeping us trapped here help anything!?

@Legend

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Can’t… Let us go?

@Audacious

I can't let you go there, to where I believe your enemy is. If you go to enough other dimensions, like I assume you would need to in order to find your way there yourselves, that would make it harder to trace a path back here.

*I place a hand on my head*

I apologize for my wording.

Myriad Reality

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Find him, assess, get whatever allies we need. But the only way for us to make the right plan is to know exactly what's going on.

@Legend

You very well could end up not getting a chance to assess, let alone anything else.

*Sighs deeply*

But you want to find your dad. If he was fighting Dynamo, chances are he ended up in the exact place I'm afraid of him being in. I'm not satisfied with your plan, but... Normally, I couldn't in good conscience prevent you from going, even if it made others aware of us...

But right now there are extenuating circumstances. So I'm sorry, but I can't let you go when there's such a high chance of you being traced back to here. Even if you don't know how you got here, others could reverse engineer a path from studying you, now that you've been here.

Myriad Reality

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I'm not sure now. The message told me to adapt to the situation at hand, because it hit an unpredictable condition.

@Legend

Then what is your plan for how to proceed? Run into a likely defeat and pray that you can save him? Gather allies to help you? What will you do if you're too late, if you were already too late to begin with? A recorded message doesn't give much assurance that he's safe.

Myriad Reality

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It was a contingency plan. But that's why any information you can help us with would mean the world to me.

@Legend

*Closes my eyes for a moment*

I can see why your father was rivals with him, if he was the type to make backup plans for what to do. But what was this plan? Just... find him and hope you can help?

Myriad Reality

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He left me a message, which is how I found out things went wrong.

@Legend

You received a message, telling you to find him, and you aren't sure what the problem is or why he's fighting Dynamo? That's not especially... reassuring.

Myriad Reality

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And I know we can tip the scales. Dad believes in us.

@Legend

You have contact with him?

Myriad Reality

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I mean, that’d be good, no?

@Audacious

Apparently I didn't say that correctly. I meant to say, what if you're too late?