Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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I cannot be asked to perform malicious acts of violence here.
*The strands of mist become highly electrified as they circle around you in an upward-traveling spiral, and the wind picks up to unbelievably intense levels, sporadically enough to start cutting you*

@Valiance

It seems as though your spirits will do that job on your behalf.

Myriad Reality

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Excuse me?

@Valiance

I’ve desecrated sacred grounds. What would be more fitting?

Myriad Reality

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*The misty figures all begin to move toward you once their forms stabilize enough, and strands of vapor begin to weave from them through the air around you*

@Valiance

Simulation or otherwise, the best option is for you to strike me down.

Myriad Reality

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Assuming you’re right about any simulation at all.

@Valiance

Even foregoing that assumption, one of us has incomplete or inaccurate information. Although with the options moving forward, that may be irrelevant.

Myriad Reality

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Based on the shortlist of people that have even seen the outsides of these grounds, let alone all that lies within. It’d be practically impossible for anyone to have the knowledge to implement this place in a simulation under the premise that it’s me that’s fake and the lot of you that are real. If the conjecture was that we were all simulated, maybe it’d be different. If it’s meant to emulate me to any degree of accuracy, then it should be counterintuitive to the idea that it could have any info about our unique location, here.

@Valiance

Which contradicts our information on the true state of reality.
*Stands up, with great effort*
One of us must be unreliable.

Myriad Reality

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*Taps my chin*
I don’t suppose I would quite believe you.
*Misty humanoid apparitions begin to take form in the field around us*

@Valiance

Based on what information? Can you prove to either us or yourself that any alternative is true? Your very students know a different you.

Myriad Reality

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Almost true! The Nemid scene is where Rythian is right now, actually.

@Unhinged

That's the assumption I was working under...

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She’s right. I’m floored by how it knows so much.

@Multifarious

I'm not comfortable with the notion that it's learned all of this on its own.
*Looks up at Rythian*

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... Pardon me?

@Valiance

What would be your response if I were to tell you that you were a simulated entity meant to emulate Rythian?

Myriad Reality

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Most of us aren’t. It’s pretty much entirely in Sven and Vex’s ballpark.
*The zero gravity effect suddenly hard reverses and increases to a high intensity very quickly, slamming you to the ground at the same time lightning strikes you from the buildup above*

@Valiance

*Hits the ground and steadies myself with my fist, my suit absorbing the lightning*
Both of you... can you verify the reality of the situation?

Myriad Reality

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The Big X planning to deal with Nemid, that largely doesn’t involve me. Important, but not eventful for me and my time.

@Valiance

*Nods*
I'm glad you mentioned that. Why would you not be involved?

Myriad Reality

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This tops the list for months, but I would assume you mean besides this. We had a lesson, the girls and I did, but that aside it’s been a quiet week.

@Valiance

*Looks at the two of them*
I see. I need both of you to—
*Pauses for a moment, and then shakes my head*
I apologize. Never mind. Are you absolutely certain that nothing else has occupied your time lately?