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So what if we had never been to this room before and got here a different way? We’d just not be able to know how to proceed? Memory testing the highly dangerous secret machine room is weird.

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Then you shouldn’t be here. Easy. Normally the system and personnel would notice and eject you from the program. It’s more of a stall rather than an actual security measure. And we aren’t in the machine room anymore, we’ve been digitize and in a more secure and safe environment. The alternate path to the Augmentation department.

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I don’t think I followed most of that. But I do get that we’re not actually back in that room for real.

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That okay cause I’m gonna get us in.
*spams both enter keys at the same time and the room flashes red with a loud error sound for a few moments before everything is broken down and we are back into the cube like digital space*

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I mean, it is nifty.

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To be honest, it more of to get other scientists to stay out, not necessarily other outside people.
*looks around*
Welcome to the Augmented reality, or digital reality. Whatever fits your fancy.

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So what if we had never been to this room before and got here a different way? We’d just not be able to know how to proceed? Memory testing the highly dangerous secret machine room is weird.

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To be honest, it more of to get other scientists to stay out, not necessarily other outside people.
*looks around*
Welcome to the Augmented reality, or digital reality. Whatever fits your fancy.

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What does that entail?

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I fully agree with you here.

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It feels like showing off. You could probably get it done other ways.

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So do we have to warp out of the digital space again?

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And the broader question—
*Rotates the map in my hands*
Where we'll end up.

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Zinnia probably knows.

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No doubt.
*Pinches the two points together that we left previously and ended up*
I hadn't anticipated a digital layer to this lab. Maybe that's where Dynamo is hiding.

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Maybe another time-manipulating space that got borked somehow, and now it's taking forever for him to get out?

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If it's the same worst case as the last one, I'm sure there's no Dynamo left to save.

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Well, there was that visual. But at the same time, the guide said you don't age. I'm not so sure. If that's true, along with what Zinnia is saying, that might have just been a scare tactic.

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What do you have in mind? I don't follow.

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I’m thinking he could be stuck in a time, er, chamber, that messed up and is much slower on the inside, unlike the one we were in. So even if he is fine and could fix it, it will still take him forever to do in real-world time.

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*Slowly nods*
...Yes. Yes, you just might be right about that. Good point.

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That might be our best-case scenario, honestly.

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At that point, the question is still how we find him. I don't have an answer to that quite yet.

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Still hoping this all-important device we’re hunting down can fill in the gaps for us.