Host

Myriad Reality

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*Shakes my head*
We’ve had a lot of setbacks…

@Audacious

*Clenches my eyes shut*
I'm sorry... I wish I didn't come to this nightmare.

Myriad Reality

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I don’t think there’s anything I can do about that, unfortunately…
*Arbitrarily glances back to the door I came in from*

@Audacious

Is... it over?
*Tries to look over as well, but the only thing that changes in the server room is the slowing whir of coolant as the temperature drops*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks, and frowns*
Broken?

@Audacious

*Nods and grits my teeth*
Very broken.

Myriad Reality

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Can you show me where?

@Audacious

*Motions to my ribs and sternum with a flinch*

Myriad Reality

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*Leans forward and glances up and down your body while staying next to and supporting you*
Are you hurt at all?

@Audacious

*Speaks between exhales*
Oh yeah.
*Inhales*
Bad.

Myriad Reality

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Take a second and breathe. Just breathe.
*Starts to gradually make the area I isolated warmer*

@Audacious

*My breathing starts to slowly normalize*
W-whew...

Myriad Reality

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Shh shh shhh.
*Pats you on the back softly*
Stay calm, stay calm, it's okay.

@Audacious

*Catches your eyes with a mix of confusion and fear*
V-vi?

Myriad Reality

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*Turns you onto your back, then hoists your upper body up as I sit next to you, supporting your back and holding your head with a hand each to help you breathe as much as I can*

@Audacious

*Launches into a fit of coughing and one eye flutters open*

Myriad Reality

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Artemis!
*Runs over and puts my hands around your hands, and immediately shifts the air in a bubble around us to a much warmer state that doesn't radiate to the air around us, while not spiking the temperature so high that it would put you into shock*

@Audacious

*After a period of unresponsiveness, my body eventually responds to the treatment and triggers uncontrollable shaking, trying to self-regulate temperature*

Myriad Reality

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*The key dissolves and I walk through*

@Audacious

*Is balled up against the wall next to several heat exchangers and not moving, with my body temperature near the same temperature of the room, which is much lower than the server room but several orders of magnitude higher than the temperatures within the exchangers themselves*