Balance

Myriad Reality

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Automated? Automated how?

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Infamous for what?

@Fractured

Intelligent probes to scan for all the data, magical scans to look back in the past for corroborating information, things like that. They have scientists working on this type of technology round the clock.

Myriad Reality

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I’d say infamous now.

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How public they made it all is the icing on the crap cake.

@Heroic

Yeah, that's really a stupid situation. Tabloids are bad enough, but when the actual news gets their grubby hands on it—sorry, not to rain on what could be a good day.

Myriad Reality

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About what?

@Fractured

The history of those universes, the abilities they have, their cultures and interactions, all of it. A lot of it is automated, though.

Myriad Reality

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Oh, you do research? My dad does that too.

@Fractured

Yeah, it's like the kind of thing an archaeologist would do, but with the present. We're gathering information and getting it all into articles and databases.

Myriad Reality

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So my fame does precede me, sometimes. Usually I’d be glad to have someone recognize me, since it doesn’t seem to be common here. Usually.

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Seems at least slightly contradictory, but whatevs.

@Heroic

Usually? Are things not going too well—oh. I think I saw something about it in the news.

Myriad Reality

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Don't you meet other Tier Fours?

@Fractured

There aren't enough researchers to have more than a couple on any mission, so I don't see my coworkers often. Maybe I should hang out with them. But, like I said, we explore unaware universes, and there's enough planets on most of them that it's really unlikely to meet any.

Myriad Reality

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Were there none on your adventures?

@Fractured

Only as, like, one-time things. Most places we explore aren't aware of the rest of Existence, so we try not to give any hints.

Myriad Reality

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Why not find someone else you can?

@Fractured

It helps that I'm coming around here more. I think I'll start to find friends who can.

Myriad Reality

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Was she not helpful?

@Fractured

She is. She's helped me work through this. I just don't want to unload all my memories and everything on her.

Myriad Reality

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Let me know if you ever want to go back to it.

@Fractured

I will. It's nice to have another guy to talk to about this. All I really had was my sis.