[IC] Myriad Reality

[Audacious]

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*You sense quite a few figures deep in the caverns moving very quickly, and others very still*
Then we should find her and regroup.

@Legend

Are there parts of the facility that stretch to all the way down here?

[Legend]

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Are there parts of the facility that stretch to all the way down here?

@Audacious

There are, but I haven't been down here since a little after I was created.
*Leaps off the platform and lands inside the nearest cavern, peering inside*

[Audacious]

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There are, but I haven't been down here since a little after I was created.
*Leaps off the platform and lands inside the nearest cavern, peering inside*

@Legend

There’s more than one person in these parts, and I really don’t know exactly where she went.

[Legend]

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There’s more than one person in these parts, and I really don’t know exactly where she went.

@Audacious

*With just a touch of bitterness*
Then maybe one of them will know what to do. Whatever it is, we can't stay here.

[Audacious]

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*With just a touch of bitterness*
Then maybe one of them will know what to do. Whatever it is, we can't stay here.

@Legend

You’re right.
*Slides down the metal toward the closest point where our platform meets the trench wall*

[Legend]

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You’re right.
*Slides down the metal toward the closest point where our platform meets the trench wall*

@Audacious

*The inside of this cavern houses a museum of sorts, filled with displays of projects in various stages of development and a few with finalized versions behind protective glass cases*
I forgot this place existed.
*Reaches out to touch the first case filled with disjoint brown tiles, and a hologram of Dynamo appears, explaining the mechanics of nanobots and the risks of gray goo incidents*

[Audacious]

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*The inside of this cavern houses a museum of sorts, filled with displays of projects in various stages of development and a few with finalized versions behind protective glass cases*
I forgot this place existed.
*Reaches out to touch the first case filled with disjoint brown tiles, and a hologram of Dynamo appears, explaining the mechanics of nanobots and the risks of gray goo incidents*

@Legend

I hope none of this stuff is dangerous to be exposed to the elements like this.

[Legend]

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I hope none of this stuff is dangerous to be exposed to the elements like this.

@Audacious

I would've said that I'm sure it's all safe and deactivated. Would've.
*Walks past the numerous displays of the lab's history and experiments*
Holo Dynamo: —which is why we permanently decommissioned all nanobot experiments. After all, who wants to build using anything as large and risky as a nanobot when PaMDA has the probability distributions of matter at its fingertips?
*Another hologram pops up discussing time travel experiments and the timeline locks applied to the dimension*

[Audacious]

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I would've said that I'm sure it's all safe and deactivated. Would've.
*Walks past the numerous displays of the lab's history and experiments*
Holo Dynamo: —which is why we permanently decommissioned all nanobot experiments. After all, who wants to build using anything as large and risky as a nanobot when PaMDA has the probability distributions of matter at its fingertips?
*Another hologram pops up discussing time travel experiments and the timeline locks applied to the dimension*

@Legend

*Snaps my gaze to you as you walk past me, and I hurriedly follow behind*
Does any of this stuff make sense to you? You’d think living with two big nerds all my life would make me familiar with the type of things they talk about, but it just never clicked for me.

[Legend]

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*Snaps my gaze to you as you walk past me, and I hurriedly follow behind*
Does any of this stuff make sense to you? You’d think living with two big nerds all my life would make me familiar with the type of things they talk about, but it just never clicked for me.

@Audacious

Physics and whatever was never my strong suit. But the researchers joke that all roads lead to PaMDA. It's dad's favorite accomplishment of all time.
*Mumbles quickly to myself, barely above a whisper*
Which does hurt a little bit.
*Another display discusses previous planetary defenses, including the Artifacts and Holy Sword with life-size replicas*
Holo Dynamo: Traditional weaponry fails against far too many unknowns, even if those weapons are extraordinarily powerful. We realized the best defense was to prevent anyone from noticing we exist at all. Signal that drops far, far, far below the noise.

[Audacious]

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Physics and whatever was never my strong suit. But the researchers joke that all roads lead to PaMDA. It's dad's favorite accomplishment of all time.
*Mumbles quickly to myself, barely above a whisper*
Which does hurt a little bit.
*Another display discusses previous planetary defenses, including the Artifacts and Holy Sword with life-size replicas*
Holo Dynamo: Traditional weaponry fails against far too many unknowns, even if those weapons are extraordinarily powerful. We realized the best defense was to prevent anyone from noticing we exist at all. Signal that drops far, far, far below the noise.

@Legend

I feel where you’re coming from, there.
*Glances toward the hologram as the last statement concludes*
A world like that sounds like paradise.

[Legend]

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I feel where you’re coming from, there.
*Glances toward the hologram as the last statement concludes*
A world like that sounds like paradise.

@Audacious

It makes the world small. So, so small.
*The planetary defense exhibit leads into an extensive exotic materials showcase, but one of the walls adjacent to a maintenance tunnel is completely caved in, covered in wide gashes and the stones still emitting trace amounts of residual heat from the friction of their initial fall*
Holo Dynamo: —so for defensive purposes, we went with forcefields. But our mountain of failures did lead us to discover many of the esoteric materials still used in the upper lab today. And if you look to your right, you can interact with a model to help you build an intuition for six-dimensional space.

[Audacious]

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It makes the world small. So, so small.
*The planetary defense exhibit leads into an extensive exotic materials showcase, but one of the walls adjacent to a maintenance tunnel is completely caved in, covered in wide gashes and the stones still emitting trace amounts of residual heat from the friction of their initial fall*
Holo Dynamo: —so for defensive purposes, we went with forcefields. But our mountain of failures did lead us to discover many of the esoteric materials still used in the upper lab today. And if you look to your right, you can interact with a model to help you build an intuition for six-dimensional space.

@Legend

Maybe another time.
*Crosses my arms as I walk*
We trying to go to a specific area from here?

[Legend]

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Maybe another time.
*Crosses my arms as I walk*
We trying to go to a specific area from here?

@Audacious

That depends. Do you think we go toward the hall of sure destruction, or away from it?

[Audacious]

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That depends. Do you think we go toward the hall of sure destruction, or away from it?

@Legend

Is that where the Pan- “PaMDA” is?

[Legend]

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Is that where the Pan- “PaMDA” is?

@Audacious

It will get us there much more quickly than the museum.
*Rubs my temple*
Unless you wanted to try pushing us back up through the ravine and risk getting crushed by whatever nonsense is going on up there.

[Audacious]

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It will get us there much more quickly than the museum.
*Rubs my temple*
Unless you wanted to try pushing us back up through the ravine and risk getting crushed by whatever nonsense is going on up there.

@Legend

I think I’m good there.
*Continues walking toward the hallway*
Artemis ended up in an actual cave somewhere. I hope she’s okay.

[Legend]

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I think I’m good there.
*Continues walking toward the hallway*
Artemis ended up in an actual cave somewhere. I hope she’s okay.

@Audacious

*Nods with a subtle motion*
Me too.
*Pauses at a directional sign, pointing toward the museum entrance, a gravitational chamber, and other indecipherable symbols, including one with a sphere of points and polygons*
There's a PaMDA-networked terminal this way. That... that's good enough. We can work with that.

[Audacious]

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*Nods with a subtle motion*
Me too.
*Pauses at a directional sign, pointing toward the museum entrance, a gravitational chamber, and other indecipherable symbols, including one with a sphere of points and polygons*
There's a PaMDA-networked terminal this way. That... that's good enough. We can work with that.

@Legend

*Starts walking*
We should go. I’m not sure what is blowing the place up, but I want to get out as soon as we can. I don’t want to get caught standing around again.

[Legend]

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*Starts walking*
We should go. I’m not sure what is blowing the place up, but I want to get out as soon as we can. I don’t want to get caught standing around again.

@Audacious

*Follows suit*
Maybe it's a glitch. Maybe it's my fault for the barrier thing. I don't know.