GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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You know...
*Looks up at the starry backdrop, filled with nebulas and galaxies*
I’ll give you that one. It may also go without saying, but the bandwidth here is awful.

@Techspert

We took our trip just a little bit off the trodden path, so I get it.

Myriad Reality

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With the kind of interplay between the two worlds, I don’t think you’d have to stretch to convince someone that they’re more like two parallel dimensions. The real question is: are humans the guests? Or are we?

@Techspert

I don’t like looking at it from one sided options like that. Two kinds of beings, from two worlds that share a bond, living side by side. They’re different, but that doesn’t make one a “guest” and one not, you know what I mean?
…
That said, I think we’re both guests here.

Myriad Reality

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Yep. No telling what would have happened if humans never made the cyber world. Or what they really tapped into.
*Kicks a stone off the virtual path and watches it fall into the endless void, but then smiles*
With everything you’ve seen, I’m glad something about our world surprised you.

@Techspert

I guess I don’t have a good metric for variation in universes. Like, I grew up in a rural country house, then we left as my dad reintegrated back into the IA but I just kind of stayed out of it. The average place I know is either super into the future compared to here, or not pretty well behind. And especially no cyber worlds in any of them quite like yours that exist in tandem with the physical one.

Myriad Reality

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Eh? Oh, yeah, it never really came up. There are some foreign cyber worlds out there, but nothing biological. Seems that in the expanse of the universe, digital is the norm.

@Techspert

So it’s not even digital colonization, but digital aliens?
*Shakes my head as I wrap my head around it*
That’s unheard of.

Myriad Reality

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*Smiles and takes your hand, providing the only warmth in the dead silence of the maze*

@Techspert

*Starts back on the path again*
Is offworld activity common for your universe? I didn’t think it was but this is just something else.

Myriad Reality

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Thanks... I couldn’t have done this without you.

@Techspert

*Smiles and holds out my hand*
You give me too much credit. But, you’re welcome, Rhythm. Let’s see this through to the end.

Myriad Reality

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...Hey, Isaac?

@Techspert

*Stops and turns to you*

Myriad Reality

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You're in great company. Let me know once you get answers.
*Looks between the sprawling paths, uncertain*

@Techspert

Choose one, I guess. Don’t see any reason one’s better than the other.
*Starts down one arbitrarily*

Myriad Reality

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There must be some kind of server sending transmissions back to the planet. So that explains the digital realm.

@Techspert

But… I have so many questions.

Myriad Reality

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...Huh. Well that's... something.

@Techspert

I don't even want to try and process the how on my own right now.