Fractured

Myriad Reality

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*The message repeats periodically, like a looped broadcast*

@Nemeses

How obnoxious.
*Teleports on top of the base*

Myriad Reality

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You'll want to come.

@Nemeses

Mm.

Myriad Reality

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*It seems to radiate a message telepathically once close enough*
You'll want to come.

@Nemeses

Speaking to?

Myriad Reality

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*After a brief moment, the anomaly stretches and contorts, then begins to grow in size very rapidly, and begins getting much closer to you and the base*

@Nemeses

*Frowns*
An unfortunate development indeed.
*Lifts my hand and creates a large barrier above the base*

Myriad Reality

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*There is no apparent reaction*

@Nemeses

*Summons a rover that shoots an energy beam into it*

Myriad Reality

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*Nothing else changes*

@Nemeses

*Picks up a rock off the ground*
...Roughly half a kilogram.
*Throws it into the center*

Myriad Reality

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*Much more quickly than one would think, a much larger beam returns from that direction, enveloping yours and aim at you*

@Nemeses

*Spreads out my palm and a small barrier blocks the beam*
...
*Looks up and smiles*

Myriad Reality

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*It makes it farther, but not much so, before suffering the same fate*

@Nemeses

Hm. Interesting.
*Steps outside, points to the sky, and shoots a beam of energy out of my finger into the center*

Myriad Reality

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*It is crushed well before reaching its destination, seemingly spontaneously*

@Nemeses

*Smiles*
Fantastic.
*A dragonfly bio-drone flies to the center*

Myriad Reality

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*The anomaly suddenly begins to pan out much more rapidly now, though not toward you. From here it is forming a large ellipse in the sky at this point*

@Nemeses

Hm.
*Flies a drone into the center*