Host

Myriad Reality

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*Continues to scan through the pages for mention of external control of the machine*
Any chance any of the Isis clones come through when you're alone?

@Audacious

*The documentation notes that any errors trigger a highest priority emergency dispatch team and that the device can be rescued externally, but in the worst case scenario, the participant may be trapped for countless millennia and unrecognizable by the time the team resolves the issue*
That's something I'm thinking about too. There's no perfect solution.

Myriad Reality

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That's... Yeah, good point.

@Audacious

I can stay behind, then.

Myriad Reality

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Well, I volunteer. It scares me, but as someone who's got the most experience existing in unstable spacetime, I might have the best odds of getting through a disaster. At least, I hope no one else here has that experience.

@Audacious

If you think that's best... but won't you need Zinnia to help you figure out where to go?

Myriad Reality

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If time goes awry inside, and we're all inside, that's just it.

@Audacious

You're right about that. Neither is a desirable place to be.

Myriad Reality

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Should we go one at a time?

@Audacious

If something goes wrong, we won't be able to help each other. But going together might make it more likely to malfunction. Your call.

Myriad Reality

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It says it doesn't cause aging. Not sure how that works, though.

@Audacious

I suppose I understand the warnings though.

Myriad Reality

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One instantly fails us.

@Audacious

That's true. Depending on how extreme, either can.

Myriad Reality

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Spacetime anomalies, and being in spaces where time is just different. At least this one isn't slower on the inside, it seems.

@Audacious

Both are nightmares in their own right.

Myriad Reality

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*Pauses while walking to the keypad*
That… That is a little too familiar, actually.

@Audacious

*Looks down at the lens we stand on*
Familiar how?

Myriad Reality

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*After skimming through that and trying to internalize the general idea of how to fix any major malfunctions, I jump back to parse the machine's actual function*
Still figuring it out, but apparently the machine, or whatever you want to call it, can be manipulated from the inside.

@Audacious

*The overview includes a description of how the device pushes the user into a spacetime distortion, in which they don't age and time passes several orders of magnitude more quickly than the outside world, in which at higher ratios, a fraction of a second could correspond to several hundred years inside the environment*