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All together, you're injured and staying here won't help you. We can find a small medical clinic on the way.
*looks back at the machine*

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*Looks at you for a curious few moments*
You're the expert. Let's go.

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*nods*
Violet, can you enter the code?
*looks to Artemis*
stand with me.
*walks over to the lense like platform*

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*Stands on top of it, looking with curiosity at the device*

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*after Vi punches in the code, I gasp and quickly run over to a nearby computer and type away at it and the screens turning black with green code. The room flashes red three times and then green and I run back to the platform and we begin to dissipate from the feet up into small holographic like blocks*

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What—did you do?

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We entered in a preferred way. In a sense, we are temporarily digitized!

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Does that make it easier to survive?

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Yes, and it makes me more comfortable. Essentially, we are simultaneously passing between the seams of reality and through the network of the lab.

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I'm not sure I understand, but... that works.

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*waves my hand*
Just know we are safer now, but I still don't like being here.
*looks around*

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*We enter an office containing a small river flowing under a curving pane of glass that leads underneath the adjacent wall, accompanied by radiant green foliage dotting the walls and flower beds embedded into the floor; toward the back stands a set of shelves, books, and documents, alongside a desk and swivel chair*

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*deadpans*
Why am I not surprised...
*walks over to the desk*

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*The desk has multiple drawers with blueprints, ideas, and half-finished projects, alongside basic computer equipment many years old by the lab's standards; next to the decks are stacks and stacks of game consoles, cartridges, and magazines in an easy-to-retrieve enclosure*

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*scans over the blueprints for anything that I would see as important for where I am going to and boots up the computer*

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*Most of the blueprints are for new segments of the lab or far-fetching dreamlike ideas like floating cities; the computer itself boots slowly but immediately prompts for a password*

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*thinks to self*
Hm...what would his password be?
*types password123*

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*The password entry rejects the attempt and a password hint pops up below the input field reading "Hint: Nice try."*

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Hm...