Legend

Myriad Reality

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Is it okay to mold from this form? Won’t ruin the material anymore?

@Audacious

PaMDA: Material must be evenly dispersed within a primer base and subjected to several augmentation cycles before it can be used.

Myriad Reality

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I almost didn’t even make it that thick. Glad I decided to be a little more careful.
*Picks the bowl up and shakes it around*
You think this would be enough to mold into a polearm?

@Audacious

PaMDA: Material quantity is sufficient for basic operation.

Myriad Reality

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*Tiny fragments of the metal explode outward from the suit, many of which get lodged in the dome itself, cracking it, and some of which glide across the dome and skate to a stop in the lip formed at the bottom. I raise an arm and flinch as some shard crack the dome right in front of my face*
… Should have expected as much.
*A layer of the dome melts away, allowing the lodged fragments to skate down the side into the lip as well, then the dome disappears, leaving just the lip as a ring around the suit’s remains. I lift one side of the ring up with my hands, collecting all the shards to one side, before letting the ring dissolve as well, dropping the metal into an appropriately sized bowl made of frozen oxygen*

@Audacious

Okay, note to self: make the dome twice as thick next time.

Myriad Reality

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*Nods*

@Audacious

Okay, Mierno, it's up to you!
*Pauses and waits for the explosion*

Myriad Reality

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You can step out. I’ll join you.
*Steps through the dome, which evaporates at my approach before mending itself*

@Audacious

*Nods and backs out of the bubble*
Fire in the hole?

Myriad Reality

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Hmm…
*A thick dome surrounds us in as tight a space as I can fit around all of us, this time made of the air itself reduced to absolute zero in perfect shape*
And…
*Blinks and adds an additional lip at the base to catch and hold any shards that slide around the curvature of the dome*
Something like that?

@Audacious

I also don't really want to be swiss cheese, personally.

Myriad Reality

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They’re gonna be launched in all kinds of directions, or something?

@Audacious

That's the impression I get.

Myriad Reality

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Right… Panic gets people hurt too. We shouldn’t waste any more time.

@Audacious

Okay, do we have a way to capture the fragments?

Myriad Reality

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Do we need to worry about the population freezing over if we take too long?

@Audacious

Okay so I actually did the math on this once and we're pretty much fine as long as we don't try to wait him out. But I'll bet all those poor people are panicking.

Myriad Reality

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Hm?
*Opens my eyes and looks up immediately*
Oh…

@Audacious

*The lab activates red backup lighting*
I really hope dad knows how to fix this.