Nimda

Myriad Reality

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-Yellow- An emergency that, apparently, started as soon as you plugged in that device.

@Realmatic

That's not my problem—maybe it just fixed the sensors. I don't know the technical details, but I trust technology's ability to make their devices work as intended.

Myriad Reality

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-Yellow- An emergency for who? You get one chance. What are you doing here, Aliorsa?
-Give us the mark when you're under attack.

@Realmatic

For everyone here, I assume. I'm here to do my job—are you actually surprised that when I was sent here to deal with a server emergency, you were told there was a server emergency? Really?
*Telepathically*
It's close to that point.

Myriad Reality

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-Green- *Taps my waist* What do you mean, something's happening to this server building? Everything is fine. Aliorsa is fixing an—
*All seven guards turn to you*

@Realmatic

I told you that it was an emergency. Took them long enough to get the message to you.

Myriad Reality

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-Have you plugged it in?
*Nothing happens for a couple minutes*

@Realmatic

*Telepathically*
It's plugged in.

Myriad Reality

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-Yellow- Curse this mess of a clearance system. *Gestures to the console*
-Blue- Plug the device in here. *Stands next to a set of receptacles and points to the relevant one*

@Realmatic

You're telling me.
*Plugs it in*

Myriad Reality

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-Yellow- *Cocks my head* I've heard nothing about an emergency, perhaps for the same reason.
-Stay close to the truth. Part of my transformation is helping thwart their sense. When I arrive it'll be easier.
-Yellow- What's the emergency?

@Realmatic

Tech didn't tell me. Believe me, I wish they would have.

Myriad Reality

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-They'll be lie detecting. Careful.
-Green- Increasing levels of access.
*The door opens to a gold, circular room with five other guards marked in five other colours, surrounding a round console with several interfaces and dozens of buttons. The guards turn to you and nod*
-Yellow- What brings you here, Aliorsa?

@Realmatic

An emergency.
*Holds up the device*
The server isn't behaving and I was told by our technology friends to personally deliver this to the access terminal. We even experienced communication errors on the way here that we said may be related.
*Rolls my eyes*
Or just technology ignoring us.

Myriad Reality

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-Red- *Blanches and turns away*
-Green- *Leads us down another winding path to more stairs, which lead to one more retina and hand scanner*

@Realmatic

*Sighs*
Always so much arbitrary effort.
*Scans my hand and my iris*

Myriad Reality

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-Red- Sorry. I always thought women deserved a better method than that. *The door opens to a maze of corridors*

@Realmatic

*Nonchalantly*
Maybe one day they'll be considerate.

Myriad Reality

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*We travel through a small corridor in which a laser field sweeps over you harmlessly and come to another door with a small receptacle into which both guards spit*

@Realmatic

*Spits into the bowl*