Malevocholy

Myriad Reality

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Do you have to use Codex resources to take them out, or can you rely on allies outside that bubble?

@Etcetera

Any and all help will be appreciated, I just don't know a lot of people who can keep up, especially when someone with a NS power is fighting to kill.

Myriad Reality

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That really is tricky, then.

@Etcetera

*Sighs*
Yeah.

Myriad Reality

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And I don’t imagine there’s anything else we can do to boost you above them?

@Etcetera

It's not really something you can just "get good" at.

Myriad Reality

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Can you expand it somehow? Make yours the superior version?

@Etcetera

*I shake my head*
No, they don't work the way they did in our memories. It's based on our connection to the NS, and our inherent potential with them. It's infuriating, but I'm just slower at it. And we don't even know where the person who's faster than me stands in all this.

Myriad Reality

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*Holds up my hands in front of my chest*
Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. Is there really no “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” approach you can take?

@Etcetera

Overwhelming a weakened opponent is the closest I know of to that. If Ulthar's right, we have to go through someone with a better version of my own power anyway. Apparently I'm only the second best at it now.

Myriad Reality

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You and some other codex can't combine forces to make... I don't know, supervectors or something and keep them contained?

@Etcetera

... Oh, yeah, I didn't think of that, that's really brilliant and NO. That's not how it works at all.

Myriad Reality

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Except escape prison, apparently.

@Etcetera

Equal power levels. She's stuck because there's a huge portion of the Borderline power being used to keep her there.

Myriad Reality

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As in... she can just make whatever she wants show up?

@Etcetera

That's one part of it, yes. More as in "she can do basically anything by making it real that it's happened."

Myriad Reality

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What is her rival capable of?

@Etcetera

From what we know, she's basically as strong but the big difference between them is her power is "actualization." Which is cheating by the way, and we don't know much about her personality other than that she also has a fanatical following just about the same size.

Myriad Reality

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Sounds like the perfect time to strike. Maybe if we introduce enough problems, she'll use up all of her power.

@Etcetera

That's the plan. If we release the prisoner, she'll keep her occupied enough to slowly drain both their power. The key thing is Ulthar keeping them from fighting outright where they'll... basically destroy everything. Then if we take out their followers, it might be possible to beat them both. We're a little afraid that beating her alone will just release her rival too and then we're in the same position.