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As well as anyone. Your goals and conflict are woefully simple when you strip away all the grandstanding and passion filled speeches.

*Pauses with a smirk*

You're motivated to fight each other for your own petty and selfish reasons, just like everyone else.

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Ah, so you don’t. Shame.
*turns around and looks at the cityscape around us*
Maybe you are not the one whom I can build up. Maybe your neighbors can be the one.

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*Chuckles*

Doubtful, like I said. Not unless you offer one of them power to rule us all. But then you have to be the one to keep that in check.

*Crosses arms*

And I truly wonder if you can.

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*Blasts you with a beam as wide as the area the spikes cover*

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There's something else! Text of some kind!

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*sighs
I can’t give you power, and I won’t if I capable. It would be too easy and I would make someone new to do it. A blank canvas, as one would say. But...
*turns to you*
I can show you how you can. It is a journey that only you can do. Cause it is your strength after all. And many of you are fair candidates who can achieve that strength.
*smiles*
Then you will have to keep truly wondering.

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*Looks more closely*

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*Brushes away at the dirt and rock, unveiling an ancient character for the word "open"*
What does it say?

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

Open? That makes no sense for a bowl.

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Maybe it represents something for them?
*After scraping away around the bowl, water from the stream soaks through the side of the crag*

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*spins and a metal cone materializes ahead of me just before the beam hits me, shielding me and redirecting the energy around me*

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*Tilts my head*
I wonder what...

<Snipped quote by Revolutionary>

Oh dear—this is a really bad location. I hope these don't erode easily.
*As the bowl fills with water, it starts to run down the middle dip and drip onto the text*

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We need to get the rest of it unearthed just in case.

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You're right. We need to move it somewhere else.
*Kneels down to dig away the rock around it, and the rune begins to glow*
What—

<Snipped quote by Webmaster>

Wow.
*Kneels down as well to look closer*

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What in the world is going on?
*Rocks at the base of the crag crumble and fall away, revealing a passageway into the stones*

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*Looks at it and back at the bowl*
Some kind of... Ancient mechanism?