GalaxyRaider

Myriad Reality

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I did promise the truth...
*Takes a burdened breath and looks back at you, leaning on the pillar*
I can’t go back anymore. I can’t. Too many lies have fallen apart and I can’t keep going on like this.

@Webmaster

What lies? And why hide from them instead of expose or confront them?

Myriad Reality

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*The room contains a grid of short pillars extending infinitely in either direction, and the air feels as cold as a snowy day*
Okay?
*Grips the sides of the podium and looks down, as if I were staring at something far below it*
...No, that’s not true. If you’re here, Rhythm must not be far behind. You both need to leave this place.

@Webmaster

Not without answers. But I’m sure you expected me to say that.

Myriad Reality

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*The gate creaks open just further enough to squeeze through, and the text engraved in the plaque changes to “And you will know the truth.”*
...Isaac.
*Stands at the other end of a room boundless to your left and right, the way you came invisible from the other side of the gate, and I smile with sadness shining through my eyes, which pulse with a soft red light*
That’s not a face I thought I would see today.

@Webmaster

Melody?
*Looks around me to take in the features of the room*
So you are okay.

Myriad Reality

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*The massive gate looms before you, stretching several stories into the sky—a lock icon on the entrance is broken and the gate is ajar, a plaque reading "You have scaled a web of lies and stand at the curtain of ignorance. Would you like to log in? (y/n)"*

@Techspert

…
*Taps the “y”*

Myriad Reality

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*Once you lose contact, the data evaporates into blue voxels*

@Techspert

*Taps my feet against the ground, causing it to light up, then starts on a brisk run down the path, which lights up every time my feet hit the ground*

Myriad Reality

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*The fist smashes into the path, digging a deep crater into the digital dirt within sight of a towering black gate in the distance*

@Techspert

*Leaps from it just before impact, landing, sliding, and rolling a great ways uncontrollably along the path before stopping and slowly getting up, rolling my shoulders*
Oww…

Myriad Reality

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*Salutes with my good arm*
See you soon!

@Techspert

*Looks forward to the path I’m headed toward and braces for landing*

Myriad Reality

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Okay, here we go!
*Pulls my arm back*
Try not to stay mad at me for too long, kay?
*Winks and punches forward at an upward angle, and severs my arm at the elbow with a swift chop—the limb slices off cleanly and sends you flying across the virtual world*

@Techspert

*Yells as I go flying*
Hurry to catch up!

Myriad Reality

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Let's do it!
*An oversized chrome fist materializes over my own, and I pull you on top*
Once you land, don't wait for me. We don't know how long it's going to be before this place morphs beyond finding a way out.

@Techspert

Right. We have one shot.
*Braces for launch*

Myriad Reality

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Then here's what we're going to do. I'm going to launch you to wherever that thing came from, and you can scout out ahead. If you go the direction with the least viruses and leave me a glowing trail, then we can figure out a way through this without getting lost in the maze.

@Techspert

Sounds like as good of a plan as we’re going to get. Let’s do it.