Host

Myriad Reality

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Why does this space scream “alien” more than everything else?
*Slowly walks toward the central chair, turning around to look behind us, manifesting a wall of glowing plasma in the air of the path we took to get here*

@Audacious

*Both of us follow suit*
We need to hurry. This is it.

Myriad Reality

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I’ll go first. Won’t kill me, I think.
*Steps through into the room*

@Audacious

*Inside the room lies a massive set of metal doors large enough for a spacecraft to enter, alongside a captain's chair interface; in the center of the wall we entered from, connected to the melted device, is a pod large enough to store an adult humanoid, with tiny flexible tubes of energy attached to the pod that lead to the tanks above*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks up the length of the wires for a moment before severing them at the closest point to their base that I can with a brief flash of extreme heat at concentrated points, dropping them to the floor*

@Audacious

*Nods*
If you think they're neutralized, let's go.

Myriad Reality

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*In the same time as I scramble to my feet, a path through the device melts in front of us, becoming so hot itself that even the most solid of metal flows away with incredible viscosity, yet staying completely insulated from transferring heat to any external systems before re-solidifying on the floor*

@Audacious

*Exposed wires arc with bright blue electricity, charging the passageway, from which a control room is visible on the other side*

Myriad Reality

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Woah-!
*Yells as I fall face first into the drop with my arms out, smacking the ground and rolling forward onto my back*

@Audacious

*Jumps in behind you in the cramped space between the wall and the device, stepping over ventilation tubes*
Melt it.

Myriad Reality

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*Stops and stares back, pupils dilated while I don’t move or say a word*
…

@Audacious

We need to move. GO!
*Pushes you forward until we drop behind a gently humming device*

Myriad Reality

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*Stares at the opening, mouth agape, for just a moment before blinking a few times and nodding*
Yes. Yeah, let’s go. No time to waste.
*Gets down on my hands and knees to crawl ahead first*

@Audacious

*As you crawl through the cramped metal corridor, you notice a thin horizontal band of a few inches of open air below the energy storage department, from which the entire ravine is barely visible*

Myriad Reality

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No need to tell me twice. If only you could have felt what I did.
*Hops in and slides down to you*

@Audacious

*At the bottom, the metal seal between the tubes and the lower chambers has been butterflied open with evidence of metal crumpling from a flat pry tool; other chunks multiple feet deep have been flung to the chamber wall, denting its surface*
We can crawl through this opening.

Myriad Reality

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Next time, we… Nevermind. No next times. Let’s go.

@Audacious

Slide down here, and be careful around the energy. I'll lead the way.

Myriad Reality

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*Lets out a huge sigh and turns around*
Did you know how scary that banging would sound?

@Audacious

I did warn you.