Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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*Blinks and looks at you*

@Unhinged

If this is reality, then it worked.

Myriad Reality

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*Cuts my way into the next room with a swift x-shaped slash with both my hands*

@Unhinged

*The wall collapses, and the next room appears to be a duplicate of the previous ones, with different patterns aligning the walls*

Myriad Reality

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Let's do it!
*Heads over to the edge of the room*

@Unhinged

*Follows, small wrinkles of light trailing me*

Myriad Reality

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What if we go into the next area?

@Unhinged

If it's a simulation, that would likely be its expectation. If it shut down, then we would be able to proceed as normal.

Myriad Reality

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Assuming that you're right, then this is definitely not real.

@Multifarious

Unless it shut down the system entirely, that would be correct.

Myriad Reality

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... If it did decide to put us in a real reality instead of a simulated one, and the real reality it chose is exactly where we were, are we considered trapped by its influence still?

@Multifarious

*Looks up for a moment*
...Excellent question. My hunch is that its projection would have to exclude this room if it were projecting us into reality.

Myriad Reality

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What's outside? Is this a simulated version of your facility, or some other kind of place?

@Unhinged

*Looks outside of the holes we broke into the walls*
It appears to accurately simulate the mountain outside of the lab.

Myriad Reality

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Well, yes. But the machine isn't giving us a lot to work with at the moment.

@Multifarious

*Taps the metal of my chin*
This is true... We're rather starved for resources.

Myriad Reality

*Taps a wall*

Myriad Reality

*Continues to analyze the environment*