Session

Myriad Reality

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*Through gritted teeth, swings the gun at your torso, fully charged*
She paid, you didn't. End of story.
*Pulls the trigger, launching a new projectile empowered by the absorbed light from the first magic circle, and immediately accelerated to blinding speeds*

@Nimda

*Slow claps*
Okay, not bad! You've had worse lines before!

Myriad Reality

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*Through gritted teeth*
Shut up!

@Nimda

*Smiles and shrugs*

Myriad Reality

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*Yelps loudly enough to hurt eardrums, and reactionarily arcs the gun in my other hand at your face*
You—
*A deep-black magic circle pierces through the center of the barrel, drawing light toward itself and coating the nearby region in shadow, while another two spawn just beyond the end of the gun*

@Nimda

You’re doing good, Gio!

Myriad Reality

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*At the subatomic level, light seems to be imitating the arrangement of crystal lattices while being extremely dense and consistent, not really offering any particular weak points. I stop at the end of a moonwalk and suddenly point in your direction, firing a beam from my fingertip through the barrier directly at you*

@Inimical

*More a projection than a physical entity, my body glows with radiant light as the beam passes through me*
Hey Gio, I'm going to work on this but it might be faster if you just hit it really hard!

Myriad Reality

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*There seems to be no point of access to them as they also lie within the confines of the one-way barrier*

@Inimical

*Hums to myself as blue points of light trace patterns across the barrier's surface, analyzing its makeup and structure, searching for means to unravel it from the outside as I would a spell*

Myriad Reality

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Having fun is great. The crowd can really feel it.
*Whirring can be heard from the underside of the stage, where things were shifting before*
Just as important to not forget the stakes though, either!
*A triumvirate of gigacannons manifested underneath unleash a cascade of explosive laser bolts into the mountainside of the base*

@Inimical

On it!
*Flies over to the cannons and looks for structural weaknesses or single points of failure that would disable the lasers*

Myriad Reality

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I cannot believe you're doing this!

@Nimda

It's fun and it'll help you! What's not to like?

Myriad Reality

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*While the projectiles may not have had a pattern upon initial firing, they seem obligated by some outside force have their strikes at me timed with the music, allowing me to leap between and off them equally as rhythmically*
But the people love it, Joe! You’re a natural!
*Throws my hands up as a massive array of pyrotechnics is let off, sending the crowd into an uproar chanting “Joe” repeatedly*

@Unhinged

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I...
*Scratches my forehead with the gun barrel*
Cannot believe you're doing this.

@Nimda

*Audibly gasps*
I have always wanted to do this!
*Claps my hands to the song, which causes Gio's heartrate to sync up with the beat*

Myriad Reality

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Don’t worry about that.
*Leaps gracefully into the air, flipping once as I pass through the barrier, and lands on it near you. The low rumblings of an electric guitar sound from the stage’s speakers while the crowd cheers, as though knowing what to anticipate*
I’m right here.

@Unhinged

*Takes a closer look at the barrier anyway, aiming to unpack its structure and source*