Disdain

Myriad Reality

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Can you please bring clarity to me?

@Dynamics

I don't have much clarity, myself. She thinks I'm this "Progenitor", and that somehow I know or can get to where every Codex is, so that's what I'm doing, because there's a 98% chance we'll die if I don't. That's all I know.

Myriad Reality

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Onwards, then, to victory! How are we to find the rest?

@Mammalia

This Codex thinks I somehow have a 100% chance of finding every Codex. So I'm teleporting randomly across Existence until I find them. Are you coming with?

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How long will that take?

@Dynamics

Hopefully an average of three portals per Codex, and however long it takes them to agree.

Myriad Reality

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@Threads of Fate

I hope you're satisfied, at least with this first one. Aphrodite, this is a Codex with the power to manipulate probability, and she is making the bold claim that if we don't all unite, we have a 98% chance of dying.

Myriad Reality

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Aaaa! *Rises quickly from a bench, looking across my garden* Ma'at, you mustn't frighten me so.

@Mammalia

*Frowns* Hi, Aphrodite. Um, I didn't technically mean to.

Myriad Reality

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Of?

@Dynamics

Her probabilities.

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If your hypothesis is incorrect, then we must revert to my original statement. You have done something with them, and now they cannot be found. Regardless, you are the only one with a one-hundred percent probability of being able to find them.

@Threads of Fate

One more try. *Opens another portal, this one outside of a large mansion*

Myriad Reality

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Not if it's something you would have done anyway.

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*Follows*

@Dynamics

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*Follows you through*

@Threads of Fate

*There is nobody here; bubbles of atmosphere surround us, fed by tiny portals, and I take us through another portal through which no one can be found* Still sceptical.

Myriad Reality

@Dynamics@Threads of Fate
*Creates a portal to a random location in Existence* Come on through, everyone.

Myriad Reality

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I'll be thanking you by allowing you into the conversation once we're all together.

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Very well. If that's what it takes.

@Threads of Fate

*Reaches back through my connection to the stasis chambers to locate Aphrodite* David, will you come with us?

Myriad Reality

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That would be a waste of power. Power should be used sparingly, not for petty reasons. My ability to know probability is passive, controlling it is much more active.

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Yes. And if they are out there, then they are going to die. Ninety-eight percent chance if we are not united.

@Threads of Fate

That's a probability that I'm willing to be worried about. My express goal is that that doesn't happen. Maybe I can try and find Aphrodite right now, if you really want to, and we can collect them one by one.

Myriad Reality

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Then do so. Now.

@Threads of Fate

What, do you want me to just teleport randomly around Existence searching for, I don’t know, Jibril? Aphrodite? Why should I take any commands from you?