[IC] Myriad Reality

[Valiance]

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*Steps through while the world behind us shakes itself apart*

@Nimda

...
*Ducks into it behind you after taking one last look around*

[Nimda]

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...
*Ducks into it behind you after taking one last look around*

@Valiance

*Sighs as I step through and releases the dragon god's soul*

[Valiance]

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*Sighs as I step through and releases the dragon god's soul*

@Nimda

Surprised to have come out relatively unscathed.

[Nimda]

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Surprised to have come out relatively unscathed.

@Valiance

I expected nothing less of you two.

[Valiance]

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I expected nothing less of you two.

@Nimda

I appreciate the vote of confidence.

[Nimda]

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I appreciate the vote of confidence.

@Valiance

What happened when you were replaced by that... thing?

[Valiance]

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What happened when you were replaced by that... thing?

@Nimda

I went back to the world of the blobs.

[Nimda]

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I went back to the world of the blobs.

@Valiance

I figured as much. At least you found your way back without the map.

[Etcetera]

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I figured as much. At least you found your way back without the map.

@Nimda

*Materializes in a flash of golden lightning*
As did you both.

[Valiance]

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*Materializes in a flash of golden lightning*
As did you both.

@Etcetera

*My posture shifts on your arrival*
Right.

[Etcetera]

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*My posture shifts on your arrival*
Right.

@Valiance

Do you realize what exactly you accomplished today?

[Valiance]

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Do you realize what exactly you accomplished today?

@Etcetera

You came all this way to say something so I imagine it’s because you believe the reality to be different than what I believe.

[Etcetera]

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You came all this way to say something so I imagine it’s because you believe the reality to be different than what I believe.

@Valiance

I genuinely question what your true goal was.

[Nimda]

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I genuinely question what your true goal was.

@Etcetera

*Scowls*
We killed that thing. What else?

[Etcetera]

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*Scowls*
We killed that thing. What else?

@Nimda

“That thing” being?

[Valiance]

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I genuinely question what your true goal was.

@Etcetera

Are you asking?

[Nimda]

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“That thing” being?

@Etcetera

The worst of your kind?

[Etcetera]

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Are you asking?

@Valiance

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The worst of your kind?

@Nimda

*Responds with a subtle hint of bitterness*
What you’ve accomplished is a pinprick of a pinprick. In that respect, yes. I am asking what your purpose was today.

[Valiance]

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*Responds with a subtle hint of bitterness*
What you’ve accomplished is a pinprick of a pinprick. In that respect, yes. I am asking what your purpose was today.

@Etcetera

She can share on her own behalf if she likes. My business is no business of yours.

[Etcetera]

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She can share on her own behalf if she likes. My business is no business of yours.

@Valiance

Then perhaps you should have trusted your own intuition. That force that you encountered, if it can indeed be compared to something knowable, was not the entity you sought. As much as it can be understood, what you saw today was akin to a cell in your body, not its heart. And the defenses, its immunities.