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Myriad Reality

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This place is vaguely how we travel between my world and to tech.

@Ignacious

Any reason in particular it’s like this?

Myriad Reality

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Mmmm
*looks at a pillar that is twisting and leads to a platform that is moving back and forth slowly*
Uhh Okay. That pillar right there is where you need to jump next, but there are two spaces that you need to jump. I’ll tell you when to jump.

@Ignacious

Alright...
*Squares up*
Is this... a video game?

Myriad Reality

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I’m trying to help!

@Ignacious

You are, you are. Just... where to next?

Myriad Reality

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*shifts my weight to aid your balance*

@Ignacious

*Starts to stumble to the left*
Woah, careful—

Myriad Reality

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*looks around*
jump over there. But hold your place, because the platform is not as big as you think.

@Ignacious

Okay, let me try—
*Hops and then tries to account for your balance*

Myriad Reality

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Hm.
*Backs all the way up to where I started*

@GalaxyRaider

*The normal desktop greets you, gleaming with the lab’s plain text logo*

Myriad Reality

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*Goes to make another move, hesitates for a moment, then checks for any trace of a record of who has accessed this data*

@GalaxyRaider

*Melody is the only user in the access logs, along with automated backup and data management processes*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks explicitly for the results of what became of these failures*

@GalaxyRaider

*Bits and pieces of data note that they were removed from containment, but nothing further*

Myriad Reality

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...
*Leans closer and tries to glean more info about the specific failures*

@GalaxyRaider

*Each entry is missing data previously cleared from the memory space, but they seem to point toward an additional extension on top of self-modifying code that seemed to induce self-deletion of malicious data, creating an uncontrolled feedback loop*

Myriad Reality

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Yup!!

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*looks at the room around us, scanning, then points*
There!

@Ignacious

*Walks forward, trying to move quickly while adjusting for your balance*
On it.

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Yeah, yeah, I’m getting around to it.
*Backs up to the prior logs*
It felt like a shoe in though, am I right?

@GalaxyRaider

*The logs indicate that several code patches applied correctly to viruses, with three exceptions that caused them to self-modify out of control into horrific forms*