[IC] Myriad Reality

[Audacious]

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So it’s not just you who can use them. What happened when he visited?

@Nimda

He was publicly berated, scorned, and shunned. But people gave him the space he needed, since no one wanted to start anything. Fear and aversion to conflict, and all that. One day, when I was younger- not that I’m old now, but I was unarguably a child then- he found his way into the same library as me. I was there for school, but no one was really watching over me. I was too involved with myself to really care or notice, but when I look back, everyone else definitely evacuated or at least left sight.

[Spiritblitz]

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*Frowns*
You don’t have to. I don’t want you to hurt yourself.

@System

Done!
*my body returns to normal and I get up, dusting myself off*
Now the process should be easier!
*huffs as I look at you, wrapping my arms around myself*
Hey! Were you watching me!!

[Nimda]

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He was publicly berated, scorned, and shunned. But people gave him the space he needed, since no one wanted to start anything. Fear and aversion to conflict, and all that. One day, when I was younger- not that I’m old now, but I was unarguably a child then- he found his way into the same library as me. I was there for school, but no one was really watching over me. I was too involved with myself to really care or notice, but when I look back, everyone else definitely evacuated or at least left sight.

@Audacious

So you talked to him?

[System]

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Done!
*my body returns to normal and I get up, dusting myself off*
Now the process should be easier!
*huffs as I look at you, wrapping my arms around myself*
Hey! Were you watching me!!

@Spiritblitz

Er... yes? Is that considered rude for your kind?

[Spiritblitz]

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Er... yes? Is that considered rude for your kind?

@System

*frowns*
Idiot, I just changed in front of you…

[Audacious]

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So you talked to him?

@Nimda

He talked to me. I was totally oblivious at the time, so it didn’t even cross my mind that I was doing something everyone else labelled as taboo. Not that I should be expected to know. Someone from outside never visited before, so no one had taught kids that it’s something they ought not do. He asked me some questions, I guess partially because he wanted to pick my brain on what I knew, and partially to make the first real attempt at extending an olive branch since he’d been there. It was a great talk. He had loads to share. Some cool lost history about the elements, general stuff about the outside world. Totally blew my mind as a kid. Like, I remember he tried to explain the idea of stars to me and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it. A bunch of tiny lights in the night sky, just randomly scattered about? It was absurd.

[System]

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*frowns*
Idiot, I just changed in front of you…

@Spiritblitz

*Stares at you, deadpan*
Why does it have to be an analogue to human behavior? It’s not even similar.

[Nimda]

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He talked to me. I was totally oblivious at the time, so it didn’t even cross my mind that I was doing something everyone else labelled as taboo. Not that I should be expected to know. Someone from outside never visited before, so no one had taught kids that it’s something they ought not do. He asked me some questions, I guess partially because he wanted to pick my brain on what I knew, and partially to make the first real attempt at extending an olive branch since he’d been there. It was a great talk. He had loads to share. Some cool lost history about the elements, general stuff about the outside world. Totally blew my mind as a kid. Like, I remember he tried to explain the idea of stars to me and I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it. A bunch of tiny lights in the night sky, just randomly scattered about? It was absurd.

@Audacious

You didn’t have stars where you were?

[Audacious]

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You didn’t have stars where you were?

@Nimda

We have one, the one that’s up during the day.

[Spiritblitz]

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*Stares at you, deadpan*
Why does it have to be an analogue to human behavior? It’s not even similar.

@System

*frowns again*
I-I guess that’s fair.
*turns around crossing my arms*
Anyways, I am technically one of you now.

[Nimda]

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We have one, the one that’s up during the day.

@Audacious

Oh, a sun.

[Galvanize]

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And it, like, actually really works?

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I guess thinking that you destroyed yourselves to keep the technology from them didn’t really improve their opinion of you.

@Nimda

That’s what my mom says.

[Galvanize]

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Oh, a sun.

@Nimda

You have children?

[Audacious]

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Oh, a sun.

@Nimda

Right. But the night sky is just pure darkness. It’s an empty little universe, we live in.

[Nimda]

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You have children?

@Galvanize

I—Wha- No!

[Nimda]

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Right. But the night sky is just pure darkness. It’s an empty little universe, we live in.

@Audacious

No moon or anything?

[Galvanize]

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I—Wha- No!

@Nimda

*laughs*

[Audacious]

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No moon or anything?

@Nimda

We’ve got three of those. People live on one.

[Nimda]

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We’ve got three of those. People live on one.

@Audacious

They live on the moon??

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*laughs*

@Galvanize

Why even ask that question??

[System]

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*frowns again*
I-I guess that’s fair.
*turns around crossing my arms*
Anyways, I am technically one of you now.

@Spiritblitz

You are? You don’t look any different.