Legend

Myriad Reality

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I guess that's true. Rogue robots or AI or something sounds more like what you'd have go wrong here.

@Audacious

AI could be the problem. An earlier version of PaMDA, maybe? But then there's a question of how it would hurt people.

Myriad Reality

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It's not?

@Audacious

I'm here, aren't I? So yeah, I don't know what lines he won't cross.

Myriad Reality

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No dangerous alien life in test tubes? No zombie virus experiments?

@Audacious

There are lines even Dad cross. He doesn't mess with people, and he doesn't bring things in.
*Cuts my eyes to the side with a semi-surprised grimace*
Actually, no. That's not true.

Myriad Reality

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…
*Takes your hand, and is pulled up with extreme ease*
What kind of “it” would be down here, Isis?

@Audacious

I don't know.
*Shakes my head*
I have no earthly clue. Unless one of the power armors sprung to life out of nowhere, I can't imagine what could be down here.

Myriad Reality

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*Blows past both of you in an all-out sprint, bumping Violet's shoulder*
G-go! If you know what's good for you, get out while you still can!
*Runs in the opposite direction of the tunnel*

@Server

What are you—

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I wouldn’t think so. You were s

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Hey!
*Is knocked rather easily onto my back from the contact*
W-wait! What’s going on?!

@Audacious

*Initially extends my dominant hand to help you up, then switches to the other*

Myriad Reality

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*Starts walking*
We should go. I’m not sure what is blowing the place up, but I want to get out as soon as we can. I don’t want to get caught standing around again.

@Audacious

*Follows suit*
Maybe it's a glitch. Maybe it's my fault for the barrier thing. I don't know.

Myriad Reality

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I think I’m good there.
*Continues walking toward the hallway*
Artemis ended up in an actual cave somewhere. I hope she’s okay.

@Audacious

*Nods with a subtle motion*
Me too.
*Pauses at a directional sign, pointing toward the museum entrance, a gravitational chamber, and other indecipherable symbols, including one with a sphere of points and polygons*
There's a PaMDA-networked terminal this way. That... that's good enough. We can work with that.

Myriad Reality

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Is that where the Pan- “PaMDA” is?

@Audacious

It will get us there much more quickly than the museum.
*Rubs my temple*
Unless you wanted to try pushing us back up through the ravine and risk getting crushed by whatever nonsense is going on up there.

Myriad Reality

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Maybe another time.
*Crosses my arms as I walk*
We trying to go to a specific area from here?

@Audacious

That depends. Do you think we go toward the hall of sure destruction, or away from it?

Myriad Reality

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I feel where you’re coming from, there.
*Glances toward the hologram as the last statement concludes*
A world like that sounds like paradise.

@Audacious

It makes the world small. So, so small.
*The planetary defense exhibit leads into an extensive exotic materials showcase, but one of the walls adjacent to a maintenance tunnel is completely caved in, covered in wide gashes and the stones still emitting trace amounts of residual heat from the friction of their initial fall*
Holo Dynamo: —so for defensive purposes, we went with forcefields. But our mountain of failures did lead us to discover many of the esoteric materials still used in the upper lab today. And if you look to your right, you can interact with a model to help you build an intuition for six-dimensional space.