Meta

Myriad Reality

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*Slides through the liquid and sighs gratefully* Thank you! Damn! Just what IS this place?

@Interface

*Points to the narrowest part of the corridor, where only one person can shuffle in at a time and the torches have gone out, with smoke forever rising to the ceiling*
It looks like we're about to find out.

Myriad Reality

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I DON'T like this *Murmurs to myself but audibly enough* Hey Sprite of greed and magic and pranking your friends? What do you see here? And yes, you are a sprite to me... because you are mean and selfish, i will address you as a spirit when i feel you earned my respect.

@The Odeoron

Okay banana! It looks like this hallway is less for any sort of living quarters and more of a way to manipulate spacetime for whatever creatures live here to get them where they want to go next. A supernatural hallway.

Myriad Reality

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She knows she needs me—

@Source

—And he knows he can't get rid of me.

Myriad Reality

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Wait... you hate him? phhh.... curious characters you too... so what are they then if you already scanned them?

@The Odeoron

It’s some kind of password. If you pull the right levers, we get in. If you don’t, you lose your arm. Fun, right?

Myriad Reality

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You got your motives i guess. And it is valid enough sure. But to just lay your whole living on this alone when at least there could be cheaper ways to live somewhere else, like in a stable civilized world, and only use the Tavern for quests, is a better otpion in my honest opinion.

*Looks at you in disbelief*

Dude! Are you just doing that? Have you ever seen any movie about NOT plopping your hand in a creepy ancient ruin stone hole like that?

@The Odeoron

*Snickers*
I scan these things before he touches them. I don’t hate him that much.

Myriad Reality

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Phhh! Sure!

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I could say the same thing for you. All you care about here seems to be money and not relations. But i'll keep extending my hand out in friendship, should you stab it instead, well that should say volumes about you too.

@The Odeoron

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Okay, now things make sense. Let’s make our perspectives clear—

@Source

We do this totally for the money. Like, it’s all about the money.

Myriad Reality

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*Shoots you a lightning glare* You greedy sprite! I don't care about the money, i'm fully capable to live without the tavern currency! uuugh! Keep all your rewards for all i care.

I was talking about YOUR safety not mine.

@The Odeoron

Watch it! I’m a spirit, not a sprite! Totally different!

Myriad Reality

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*Telepathically* Yeah... i mean, i have multiple traumas about that place... who wouldn't?

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*Outloud* Different doesn't mean it is hunky-dory to just interact with the place just like that. Trust me... i know when something looks this crazy, it probably is deadly!

@The Odeoron

I guess we can spare a little magic if you don’t have any defenses, but then again, you not making it back would mean we keep all the rewards... hmmm, decisions decisions.

Myriad Reality

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*proceeds to communicate telepathically to Prism @Memory* Is it just me or does this place seem familiar to... you'know.... that liminal indentation space with senseless architecture?

*Communicates normally* And you are fine with it? You are not perturbed about how this might be tied to the collapsing of entire solar systems here?

@The Odeoron

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*Lily and I look at each other*
...Not really. It’s different.

@Source

But everywhere’s a little different when you think about it.

Myriad Reality

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Right... *Extends out my hand as to sense the aura of the place* This definitely feels like something that should not exist in this universe... nevermind how odd the universe is, it still has a natural flow about it... this structure opposes it somehow...

@The Odeoron

*The circles fade*
Who knows? Probably some rock house used by an ancient gemstone creature.
*The aura of the place is tinted with something supernatural, but distinct from magic; the stone we came from itself presents a large wall extending as high as can see, and a small shelf protrudes from the gray wall that we stand on, extending far into the distance*