Legend

Myriad Reality

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*Fumbles with it a couple times before catching it*
You’re fast enough to have just shut the door and then come back without leaving me clueless!
*Looks down at the fob, expressionless, then clutches it in my fist and continuing*

@Audacious

*Through some of the windows that overlook PaMDA extended across the hazy blue abyss, knitted between the zig-zagging maintenance tunnels, you see the elevator reach the top; a few moments after it does, alarms start blaring in your section of the facility, announcing "intruder alert" over the intercom*

Myriad Reality

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*Whips my head around as you disappear*
I… Alright.
*Turns back around and continues to follow the path we were on*

@Audacious

*Pops next to you for a second and tosses you a fob*
Sorry, you're going to need this.
*Pops away again*

Myriad Reality

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Can we afford the time?

@Audacious

I can! You just, follow the signs that keep saying the classification level is increasing, you'll find it!
*Zips back the direction we came*

Myriad Reality

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I’m starting to be concerned about leaving the door open.

@Audacious

Should we—should I go back up and try to close it, do you think?

Myriad Reality

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You know... Dark Dynamo.

@Audacious

Oh. Um. Yeah definitely. But that shield above the lab should be the same thing keeping him out now?
*The path seems to stretch as we walk it, compressing space to make the journey shorter, but lengthens whenever we slow down*
Motion sickness warning, by the way.

Myriad Reality

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That’s a dangerous thing to have around undefended. Does the other guy know it’s here?

@Audacious

The other guy? Who do you mean?

Myriad Reality

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Oh, it’s like a sciencey acronymy name or something. I got it.

@Audacious

Yeah, exactly. Once we get there, it has the know-how on just about... well, everything around here.
*Steps out of the elevator, now faced with pathways stretching in every direction and signage indicating various sectors of the lab they lead to*

Myriad Reality

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And where would we find them?

@Audacious

*Points two fingers at the massive construct toward the bottom of the ravine*
Not them, it.

Myriad Reality

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*Glances cluelessly around all the people and lights*
What are we doing in a place like this, then?

@Audacious

I don't know where else to go. If dad is anywhere, it has to be someplace in the lab.
*Holds up two hands facing each other, with fingers just barely curved*
In the worst case, worst case, Panda will be able to track him down.

Myriad Reality

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Nice, um... Architecture. All natural.

@Audacious

Thanks I, um, made it all... not, um, myself? It's the maintenance ravine.
*Taps a glassy holographic button and the visible image of the canyon squeezes and compresses, cutting into the fog and revealing more of the twisting series of translucent corridors with visible hurried researchers, suspended devices that resemble generators—some of which glow various hues but the majority deactivated—and as we reach the bottom, what appears to be the visage of a universe, connected by thin lines of light to countless blinking green dots in a networked, three-shell structure like that in the earlier transmission*