Host

Myriad Reality

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…
*The metal of the screwdriver sublimates virtually instantaneously from the handle harmlessly to the rest of the environment, and the impromptu cell conjured around you shrinks to the point where all you can touch is the floor*

@Audacious

*With a completely deadpan expression and monotone voice*
This is your last chance. I will survive this. I can make sure you don't.

Myriad Reality

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*Glares at you, then summons a small, narrow dome of plasma around your person*
You stand right there and watch.

@Audacious

*My expression falters and I hold a screwdriver up to one of the energy tubes emanating from the device*
Drop it or I blow this entire place to smithereens again.

Myriad Reality

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And for all I know, you’re putting on a front, and would still love nothing more than to do that all over again. You are fine where you are.

@Audacious

That's a really weird thing for a risk-averse person to say. Are you sure you're not a fake? Maybe you forgot.

Myriad Reality

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*Resummons the plasma dome around us, with you in the outside*
With all due respect, I don’t trust you anymore.

@Audacious

Look, I was just doing my best. Carrying out orders. How was I supposed to know that the Panda defenses were also on the pod?

Myriad Reality

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*Is frowning softly, arm outstretched as if expecting to have been hit in some way, then lowers it after you speak*
… I get it.
*Finishes reaching out to interact with the screen with my other arm*

@Audacious

*Drops from the same shaft we took last time*
I wouldn't do that if I were you~. These things share the same defense lines. It's all rigged to blow.

Myriad Reality

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He just spoke to me a second ago. At least, I’m confident it had to be him. He knows what’s going on here now, if he didn’t before. I’m not ripping him from that cage, especially now, if there’s a chance it hurts him at all.

@Audacious

*My face goes completely deadpan, and I stare over the chasm*
Then we really are in a race against time.
*Leaps off the edge as well*

Myriad Reality

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*Maintains my straight edge, flat tone*
He already knows.

@Audacious

H—what do you mean he knows?

Myriad Reality

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*turns and follows Violet while looking around at the void*

@Extra

So you're coming along, then?

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*Picks up my pace into a jog, then a run*

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I need you to trust me. I don’t want any decision we make to ruin our chances. If time runs out and I end up needing to face Dynamo myself, then that’s what it is. Horrifying as it may be, whether I’m ready or not. Time’s already on his side. Letting it panic us only does him more favors.

@Audacious

You're turning down the chance to have an actual scale-tipper on our side. How else am I supposed to feel? You think I want to die? I don't want to die!

Myriad Reality

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Trust me, I’m not going to be forgetting that part. Hurry up.

@Audacious

*Follows after you, silently*

Myriad Reality

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I’m not even judging you for it. But let’s be honest with everyone, at least. I need all of us to not make any rash decisions again.

@Audacious

We're still under a time crunch. A massive one at that.