Audacious

Myriad Reality

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Okay, sounds like a great first step! I believe in you!
*Zooms over to the broadcast device*

@Legend

*Kneels down and plants my hands palm-down against the ground, clearing small circles of prions as I touch it

Myriad Reality

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Okay, so first thing is try to get the machines working again?

@Legend

Well, first-first thing is for me to try and get all the gunk off, I think.

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, let's at least try it!
*Runs through a short-lived portal to that world*

@Legend

*Takes my phone and logs our current location, then looks back for a quick glimpse over my shoulder and then runs through behind you, purifying my every step from the first one I take*

Myriad Reality

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If they're broken, it might just be one is all I mean.

@Legend

We can go back and clean up the one we saw, see if it helps in any immediate way. Can’t hurt to try, right?

Myriad Reality

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I'm just... so scared of getting this wrong.

@Legend

He did say we'll get multiple tries, I remember. Messing up once or twice shouldn't mean game over just like that.

Myriad Reality

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I'm just nervous to mess this up for ourselves. If that's all we can do it's all we can do.

@Legend

That's true. Doing something is better than doing nothing too, at least.

Myriad Reality

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Do we have time to break them all either?

@Legend

*Shrugs*
It’s faster to break stuff than fix it. But if you really want to, I can try to undo the damage on that one world.

Myriad Reality

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Both of them, right? Because if it doesn't work the way we hope it does, then no signal gets out and home is lost.

@Legend

Is it less risky to try and fix all of them? Actually, do we have enough time to?

Myriad Reality

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It really would be a do-or-die move. If we're wrong, we run out of options.

@Legend

In both cases?

Myriad Reality

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I don't know about all that. But if you can fix the machines, maybe we can look and see the last universes they were talking to like we did here?

@Legend

Here’s another couple of options, Nd I just want you to hear me out on them because one sounds crazy. What if we went through and destroyed the ones that are still intact too? Or secondly, what if we just went and “fixed” only one of the stations? In the first case, it could maybe just turn off the whole system’s ability to hide anything? That may or may not be too extreme, but the second one… What if there being only one working facility out of all the ones that got destroyed means signals are forced to route there?