Heroic

Myriad Reality

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Mostly. We occasionally run machinery, but only the kind that we bothered to adapt to the current these trees produce. Like the rare refrigerator.

@Realmatic

Huh. Well, you don't really need much else, so that sounds fine to me.

Myriad Reality

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*Holds up my right arm, which has a metal bracelet* This. It's a full-colour holographic projector that we use for everything computer-wise. It feeds off those tendrils, which are everywhere, but fainter.

@Realmatic

Is it just for those computers?

Myriad Reality

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I'll try not to.

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They are, sort of. These trees and their magically created nervous systems are so large that there's a bloody enormous amount of electricity running through them at any moment. They take it from the sky and give whatever they don't need to us.

@Realmatic

That's really cool. Clean, nature friendly power. We need this everywhere.

Myriad Reality

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*We walk through a relatively long corridor pulsing with a soft blue light that streaks across the walls; the streaks change every time they fade in and out* As I said, this is the most important tree of all. It is the heart of the city. *At the end of the corridor is a large, round, domed room with a large, blue, glowing orb in the centre* Don't touch it. You might get slightly shocked. *Tendrils of the same soft blue light snake from the orb into the floors and walls, making those streaks*

@Realmatic

Don't tempt me.
*Watches the tendrils as we walk*

Myriad Reality

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It is. It has good sides and bad sides—just like everything else in nature. You've got to use it right. We tapped into this network of trees. We gave them life and in return they gave us a home perfectly suited for our magic. Follow me in.

@Realmatic

*Goes in behind you both*

Myriad Reality

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Heh, not all of them. Granting sapience to beings that weren't already Tier 3 is something to be done rarely. All our trees just might, though.

@Realmatic

Now I'm insulted... Kidding. But that's a really cool concept.

Myriad Reality

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They do at that. And this one has the biggest—but don't tell it.

@Realmatic

*Chuckles*
Because trees have egos too?

Myriad Reality

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*Eventually lands on a platform that circles all the way around a massive tree with arches for openings on eight sides*

@Realmatic

*Works my way over to you, leaping from my vine and landing next to you*

Myriad Reality

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-Aron- ... Hmm.
-*Swings back around and yells at us* Come on!

@Realmatic

Well, I guess that's all the time we have to discuss that right now. We'd better follow your uncle.
*Smiles and takes my vine, swinging away*

Myriad Reality

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The last time I did this—a couple years ago—I was just a kid. I'm... I guess I'm not anymore.

@Efficacy

Maybe so. But you don't have to be a kid to enjoy yourself. And one thing I've learned, is that when you're trying to save the world as you know it, the thing you want to do least is punish yourself on the road there.