Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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If that's the case, then I'll be right back!
*Opens a rift and leaps through it, attempting to head to Rythian's Studying Grounds*

@Unhinged

*You travel to the grounds unhindered*

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I hope it is that easy.

@Multifarious

We should also verify for ourselves.

Myriad Reality

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It knows less about us than you, to boot. We could probably go nearly anywhere we know to confirm it.

@Multifarious

Precisely. While that still leaves the question of why the room failed to generate, it would confirm the nature of this reality.

Myriad Reality

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We aren’t contained within a certain sphere of reality? So we could really try and go just about anywhere?

@Multifarious

*Nods*
When the device is active, it is either projecting or generating. There is no standard containment procedure, since its security features are simply an adaptation of its main directive.

Myriad Reality

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We still need to make sure it is, somehow. I think.

@Multifarious

The system shouldn't be capable of generating outside of its ambit of information. If we each go somewhere it has no reference point of, then we should be able to ascertain whether this truly is reality.

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.