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Nnnoo… We were hoping that finding the Panda thingy would also give us that answer.

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Everything hinges on the computer, then? Not exactly inspiring confidence.

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*Shrugs*
I don’t know anything about anything, in this place.

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Let's hope we can even access it.
*The atmosphere around us becomes hazy and small sparkles twinkle suspended in the air*

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It's kinda what we're banking this whole plan on, so I do t-
*Stops and stares at the sparkles*
What's this?

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I'm not su—
*The haze clears and opens into an expanse full of concentric holographic circles, each issuing text warnings across each known language on the planet, the circles becoming taller and more pictorial the closer they get to the center, in almost a holographic ziggurat*

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*Mouths a "woah" as the surroundings clear*

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*Looks between the features with a puzzled expression, many of which are written in simplified language*
I wonder what this could be.
*The closest legible text on the nearest slowly-rotating circle reads "Red-black access ONLY. This chamber is worse than life-threatening. It puts your eternal soul in danger. There is no one who can help you. Unless you know what you're doing, TURN AROUND. STAY OUT."*

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... Hyperbole, right?

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I have absolutely no clue what's in here. Does anything strike you?

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Not even remotely, no.

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*Takes a few steps deeper, and as the circles get tighter, the warnings also become shorter, including "MAJOR TIME ANOMALY ZONE" and then further inward, a pictogram of a man aging into a decrepit state as everything around him turns to dust*

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You think it's a bluff to keep people away from what's inside?

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*Shrugs and shakes my head*
Your guess is as good as mine. Do you get the impression it's protecting some kind of secret?

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I would think it's important at least.

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One way to find out.
*In the center of the rings is a perfectly circular hole with smooth eggshell-white edges and a pristine blue ladder bolted to the sides that leads down two floors*

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I guess I'll go first. My "eternal soul" is already kinda tainted.

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Tainted? Tainted how?
*Another set of signs on the way down indemnify Myth Co. from any and all consequences of entering this chamber and emphasize that the reader accepts complete personal responsibility for any and all effects*

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From dying and it becoming fused with a reality-warping storm before I was given a new body. It's a long story, if there ever was one.
*Approaches the ladder and starts my descent*

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*At the bottom lies a glass floor overlooking a lens-like black aperture, and on the wall is a shelved a series of small books, alongside a single number pad with an accompanying sign that reads "code in manual"*
We may have time to hear it.