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Myriad Reality

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The diameter of what?

@Webmaster

Ah, apologies. I sometimes forget subjects in speech. My diameter and shape were what I was referring to. Dimensions aren't usually formless things. Even if they stretch on forever they still tend to have some kind of shape.

Myriad Reality

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Sure, but even then, your size dwarves a star or planet's.

@Webmaster

Naturally, but it is still finite. Spherical in shape most of the time, and originally about the diameter of Jupiter. I had to consume material to get to where I am now, and thankfully the universe has a lot to spare.

Myriad Reality

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Are stars and planets really that much energy to a dimension?

@Webmaster

You misunderstand. I convert the matter and energy they are made from to space, though saying that is a bit inaccurate as everything is made of or has energy in some way, what with how atomic structures work and all.

Myriad Reality

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What do you want from these dimensions, exactly?

@Webmaster

Just resources. I use the matter I harvest from things like asteroids and the energy from things like stars to expand my internal space.

Myriad Reality

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It's... not a problem. How do these work?

@Webmaster

Quite simply really. I just will one to open and decide whether or not I want it to pull things in.

Myriad Reality

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Do you ever feel lost, or stuck?

@Webmaster

Not particularly. It's rather hard to be lost or stuck when you're an entire dimension after all, though most of my time has been spent gathering matter and energy from uninhabited portions of the universe so that I can increase the space I have to work with.

*Pauses and shifts. A sign of discomfort in any language*

Apologies for that, by the way. I wasn't aware you were in the radius of the portal's siphon.

Myriad Reality

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Do you regret your decision?

@Webmaster

*Is silent*

...you know, I'm not sure. On the one hand, I cannot experience existence in the same way I once did, but on the other I've managed to achieve so much more even if it's by sheer accident. After all, beyond the boundary this portal represents I can do pretty much anything I set my mind to. That's not something everyone can make good on, no matter how many times they might say it to themselves in a day.

Myriad Reality

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So higher dimensions are even more suitable to sustaining a consciousness? That's unlike anything I've ever heard before.

@Webmaster

Neither had I until I became one. But in a way it kind of makes sense, although too much complexity means the ascending mind won't be compatible enough and will end up frying itself in the process.

*Pauses to slosh some more, as though thinking*

Come to think of it, it would explain why human religions always had ascension be a thing relating to a peak or height one needed to reach. And it also explains why so many visions of places such as heaven were described so inconsistently and incomprehensibly. It was likely because they were higher dimensions whose complexity was too great for the observing intellect to properly process.

Myriad Reality

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Are you a higher or lower dimension?

@Webmaster

*The world beyond the rift sloughs about once more, and you get a distinct feeling of pride wafting off of its motions*

Higher, naturally. Most lower dimensions are impossible to make sentient, let alone sapient, since there isn't enough information to make use of. Not enough complexity, if you will. It'd be like trying to shove a human intelligence onto an old vacuum-tube computer and expecting that individual to have the same level of intelligence once you're done - assuming you could even make the different hardware setups compatible to begin with that is.

Myriad Reality

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What are lower and higher dimensions?

@Webmaster

Well it's not so much hard to explain, more so hard to translate. Impossible, actually, if you want complete accuracy. But to put it as close as possible... I suppose you could say they're a lot like sheets of paper with information inscribed on them all arranged in a vertical filing cabinet. With higher dimensions possessing more information than lower ones, and by extension more energy too.

*Pauses*

This does not always result in sapient life from what I've found, it rarely does actually, but there is the occasional higher being that I've met here and there.