Legend

Myriad Reality

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Cloning theory?

@Audacious

How did you get past the rock?

Myriad Reality

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How much farther is it, anyway?

@Audacious

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How far away is w—

@Host

*Nearly runs into you both*
H—bwhat?

Myriad Reality

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Why would they call him that?

@Audacious

*Lifts my arms up to my shoulders, palms up*
I'm just trying to make sense of it all, okay?
*With a great rumble, dust and debris fills the cavern, and once the visibility returns, a clean slice of the ceiling obstructs the path in front of you, itself pristine as if cut*

Myriad Reality

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Makes me wonder if I'm missing something. Maybe I just don't get it...

@Audacious

Do you think that maybe the superweapon is dad himself? Like if he kept his body in storage or something?

Myriad Reality

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I mean a lot of things. I just… They all mean well. It’s an unfortunate effect of how they operate, is all.

@Audacious

It sounds shortsighted to me. If you were a real visionary, you wouldn't put yourself in the middle of it all.

Myriad Reality

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Stuff falls apart.
*Holds my hands out, motioning to our surroundings*
Can’t just be left this way.

@Audacious

Oh... you mean the city...

Myriad Reality

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Big time. The process of picking up the pieces is… Not fun.

@Audacious

What do you mean by picking them up?

Myriad Reality

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It’s hard to say. All I know is it always makes things so hard.
*Straightens my posture and shakes my head*
I guess it’s not helpful to think about that now.

@Audacious

The planetary barrier works... at least. You said your family has the same problem?

Myriad Reality

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Hard to say.
*Crosses my arms as we walk*
You know, all these smart people with lots of power and influence in various ways talk a lot about minimizing points of failure, but the one point of failure they never seem to close is themselves. They design and plan so much around their own presence, and I don’t know if it’s because of paranoia or what, but when they are removed from the equation for any reason, everything falls apart without them. My dad does it, my brother does it. I’m getting the feeling this would be easier too, if that weren’t the case.

@Audacious

*Quietly*
Yeah... Maybe it's the nature of science. Arrogance that blinds them. But I don't know, maybe that's too sentimental.

Myriad Reality

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Superweapon, maybe? Is there some sort of weapon they made to fight… Something pressing?

@Audacious

*Shakes my head, but just barely*
I—I wish I knew. Maybe it's something dad made for this kind of disaster?