Audacious

Myriad Reality

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If only we had time to explore instead of saving the world.
*Steps onto the microlab, which contains a series of holographic screens all playing unique content*

@Host

*Continues walking past you, watching the screens as I pass them*
Is that all this is?

Myriad Reality

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Not sure. It urges you toward interactbale things in this world though.
*Holds the staff up to a pillar and the side explodes outward into marble voxels before being pulled seamlessly back into the main structure like a reversed tape*

@Host

*Stops and stares for a second, then hurriedly catches back up the few steps I get behind*
It would be an awesome playground…

Myriad Reality

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If you swipe down in front of you with two fingers, you can access the menuing system.

@Host

And then you summoned the magician's rod that did this. Do you know where it's taking us, though?

Myriad Reality

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Some kind of playground, then?
*The staircase twists and turns toward a floating microlab with no rail leading to it*

@Host

Maybe. What did you do, by the way?

Myriad Reality

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I'm not convinced this makes work any more efficient either.
*Starts to ascend the staircase*

@Host

*Scurries over behind you and climbs up behind you*
It's definitely not.

Myriad Reality

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*Retrieves an item labeled Control Staff from the inventory, which digitizes in my hand*
We talked about theatrics earlier...
*Taps the scepter against the grid, and large marble columns rise up on either side of us as an ascending staircase rises from the terrain*

@Host

*Stops and watches*
Right. Case in point: wizard's staff.

Myriad Reality

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*Opens a digital inventory, full of scientific equipment*
He's going to blot out the sun and use it as a small fuel source for himself.

@Host

Yikes…
*Walks in arbitrary directions throughout the grid at our feet*
Talk about overkill.

Myriad Reality

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I was thinking about the sun comment, really.

@Host

Oh. That was more so me just choosing dramatic words… Will it actually be, like, a huge laser?
*Stops and stands behind you, looking over your shoulder at what you’re doing*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks impressed at the comment*
How did you figure that out?
*Searches through the menus for anything useful*

@Host

He wouldn’t be wasting his time if he could help it. We know he’s here.

Myriad Reality

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Agreed. But you never know what might come in handy.
*Kneels down and traces the crosshatch pattern, and a basic menu appears when I drag down with two fingers*

@Host

I’m sure a lot of it could be handy. Until the full, focused power of the Sun comes raining down on our heads when the defenses give out.