Audacious

Myriad Reality

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*Zinnia holds a finger to her lips and tip-toes toward the sound, peeking around a corner*

@Legend

*Stands still, mostly watching but occasionally glancing around our surroundings*

Myriad Reality

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*The banging slowly reduces to a tapping sound, and you sense a single humanoid at the source of the sound*

@Legend

*WHispers*
Where should we go? I don't want to mess with signs of creepy people.

Myriad Reality

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*When she opens her mouth to respond, a banging sound echoes from nearby in the lab*

@Legend

*Snaps my head in the direction of the sound*

Myriad Reality

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*Zinnia pops the bottom off a flooring tile of the lab overhang and motions to join her*

@Legend

*Follows her and whispers*
Why did we separate?

Myriad Reality

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*Neither of us pop up in the near vicinity, but you detect two heat blips moving extraordinarily quickly several floors up in the lab*

@Legend

*Scrunches my brows, exhales through my nose, and keeps going*

Myriad Reality

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*Throughout the small expanse, there's no visible sign of either Isis*

@Legend

*Uses my heat sense to try and find either of them at range through obstacles while I keep moving*

Myriad Reality

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*The cliff face is part of a longer, narrow trail wedged between the metal base of the lab and the slippery terrain winding around and below it—Zinnia in the distance ducks under the visible part of the lab, jutting into the spacious pocket and supported by a thick metal pillar, and kicks a snowball into the icy expanse below*

@Legend

*Pulls myself to my feet and walks carefully yet briskly to catch up*

Myriad Reality

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*The liquid strongly resists the force like thick bands of rubber, but eventually gives way; a few moments later, the pipe makes a gradual 45 degree turn upward, ejecting you from the liquid and flinging you halfway through another break in the tube perimeter until half your body dangles above a cliff in an undeveloped subterranean ice field*

@Legend

*Lets out a couple of subdued, panicked breaths as I stare along the height of the cliff before pushing myself back up over the ledge*

Myriad Reality

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*The liquid is murky, only allowing a touch of faint blue haze to shine through to your position, and not delivering any oxygen in its flow, but not moving aggressively quickly*

@Legend

*Furrows my brow as I move, extending my arm outward for a moment before retracting it*

Myriad Reality

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*The liquid moves in a near-perfect laminar flow, clinging tightly to the position you entered with and pushes you forward like an all-encompassing escalator*

@Legend

*Looks down to try my best to see ahead of myself*