Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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That was a much more intense effect for ending the scene.

@Multifarious

It must have required an intense quantity of resources.

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*Drops onto the ground laying down*

@Unhinged

*Rushes to your side and kneels down*
Are you okay?

Myriad Reality

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*Shields my face with one arm and watches*

@Multifarious

*Strips of reality sling themselves in wild directions, several of the ribbons affixing themselves to us, as the lab chamber phases in beneath the crumbling façade of the dimension*

Myriad Reality

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You've already crossed a line, apparently. Best to avoid making things any worse just because we assume something is okay.
*Angles the book upward to hide the contents from your view more*

@Multifarious

*The world starts to shake as large chunks of the surrounding structures collapse and layers of reality violently peel away from each other*

Myriad Reality

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*Stands there for a moment, waiting for the discussion to continue before realizing*
... Oh, right.
*Sets the books down, taking one and showing it to Rythian*
The contents of the records here don't match what they are in the real one at all, and are borderline nonsensical.
*Flips a few pages and points at it*
I mean, do you really expect me to believe that this is the purpose of the physical manifestation of time?

@Multifarious

Are these pages safe to observe?

Myriad Reality

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The calming of the spirits give me the impression you definitely had some kind of experience.

@Valiance

One that makes it imperative that we escape this place.

Myriad Reality

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He just told me you weren't.

@Multifarious

I see. That’s likely for the best.

Myriad Reality

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*Approaches from within the quickly clearing fog*
I heard my name?

@Valiance

Hello again. Our time here has been... difficult, to say the least.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks down*
An ancient presence significant to the Hidden Elements somehow has the means to show himself to us here?... I can't wait to ask Rythian to make sense of this for me.

@Multifarious

You’re permitted to remember that encounter?

Myriad Reality

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... Would the simulation conjure up something that elaborate?

@Multifarious

It’s possible, but I fail to see how it would be useful to the simulation to do that. Perhaps to trap us in an infinite loop, but that can be circumvented by other measures.

Myriad Reality

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Did some guy appear to you as well?

@Multifarious

Unfortunately so.