Audacious

Myriad Reality

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No doubt.
*Pinches the two points together that we left previously and ended up*
I hadn't anticipated a digital layer to this lab. Maybe that's where Dynamo is hiding.

@Host

Maybe another time-manipulating space that got borked somehow, and now it's taking forever for him to get out?

Myriad Reality

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And the broader question—
*Rotates the map in my hands*
Where we'll end up.

@Host

Zinnia probably knows.

Myriad Reality

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To be honest, it more of to get other scientists to stay out, not necessarily other outside people.
*looks around*
Welcome to the Augmented reality, or digital reality. Whatever fits your fancy.

@Extra

It feels like showing off. You could probably get it done other ways.

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What does that entail?

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I fully agree with you here.

@Host

So do we have to warp out of the digital space again?

Myriad Reality

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That okay cause I’m gonna get us in.
*spams both enter keys at the same time and the room flashes red with a loud error sound for a few moments before everything is broken down and we are back into the cube like digital space*

@Extra

I mean, it is nifty.

Myriad Reality

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Then you shouldn’t be here. Easy. Normally the system and personnel would notice and eject you from the program. It’s more of a stall rather than an actual security measure. And we aren’t in the machine room anymore, we’ve been digitize and in a more secure and safe environment. The alternate path to the Augmentation department.

@Extra

I don’t think I followed most of that. But I do get that we’re not actually back in that room for real.

Myriad Reality

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Well, yes, but I don’t really use those.

@Extra

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Access they intentionally gave to you?

@Host

So what if we had never been to this room before and got here a different way? We’d just not be able to know how to proceed? Memory testing the highly dangerous secret machine room is weird.

Myriad Reality

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Not much we can do then, other than our best.
*Follows Zinnia into a cube of a room full of floating abstract shapes with "initializing" written on the wall*

@Host

*Opens my mouth to respond, but decides against it after visibly hesitating, instead just taking in the spectacle of the new room as we enter*

Myriad Reality

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Suppose we find the device at the bottom of the lab. How are you going to stop him?

@Host

I’m hoping these answers present themselves as we go.

Myriad Reality

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He happens to be on his last life too.

@Host

Well, now if you want to talk about people who had it coming…

Myriad Reality

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The prime version? A different Source universe.

@Host

Right. We couldn’t have been so lucky.