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I was asked to hit things.

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*had been listening the whole time*

If I had recalled, you had asked If I could secure more amaranthine. She may be able to aid in that endeavor, should we need more samples.

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Hitting things is useful.
*The light in the orbs fade, revealing tiny fragments of a crystal in one, an oscillating chunk in another, and an empty sphere in another, surrounded by a dozen other experiments in various stages*

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More samples would allow these tests to scale. However, I’ve made useful progress thus far.

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It’s quite an adventure in store, that’s for sure. What happens if you try to attack it? You said you can’t touch it conventionally, but there are parts here that you could definitely attack and do damage to.

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Hitting things is useful.
*The light in the orbs fade, revealing tiny fragments of a crystal in one, an oscillating chunk in another, and an empty sphere in another, surrounded by a dozen other experiments in various stages*

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More samples would allow these tests to scale. However, I’ve made useful progress thus far.

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Here, the environment will get you. On most of them, it doesn’t care, and a few will make it angry.

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Glad you agree.
*Glances over each of them for a few seconds each, not fully understanding what I’m looking at*

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*smiles* I like the sound of that. What have we learned?

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It can get angry despite being in a slumber?

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This sample appears to be able to remove itself from reality entirely. Initially the substance was unrecoverable, but tweaking the variables enabled later fragments to rematerialize after a short timer expired.

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It can. Its emotions are usually short-lasting, but you don’t want to be caught in them.

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They can control that I think. Consciously. The people with Amaranthine in them.

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Experience in that too, huh?

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I tried to visit its heart once. That nearly woke it up.

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You have its anatomy mapped and correlated to a real living thing’s?

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I’m not some expert on what this thing is, but if anything is a heart, it’s whatever I found.

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What was it?

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I see. With additional effort, we may be able to replicate its effects.

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Oh? Alright. This is very good information. Thank you for your efforts, data. Is there any additional info at this time?

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I see. With additional effort, we may be able to replicate its effects.

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To what end?

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All I could see were crystalline threads connecting scales much worse than these. They all seemed to point toward some central thing, but there were far too many to make out what it was.