Session

Myriad Reality

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She’s a traitor. We’re tak-

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*Glances to the side just as it hits me in the face, and I quickly shield my face with my arm as I glide away from the blast, looking annoyed despite the relatively little damage it seems to have done*
Got more of you hiding about, huh?

@Nemeses

Traitor to who? You didn't bother introducing yourself before you started choking out my host.

Myriad Reality

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*Lurches backward against the cavern wall as it's illuminated by the dim light of the metal*
Death lightning, death rain, flight, enemy detection, enhanced strength... Lily, I need you to sniff out anything else he can do and keep his eyes off of me.
*Dissolves another orb in my hand to convert it into a small gold spell, and I phase into the metal behind it*

@Nimda

*Salutes*
Aye aye!
*Flies through the stage and up to the surface*

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*Disappears for just a moment in between them, but then a streak of heat surges along the edge of one of the fists, as my hands pry them apart from the inside. I climb out from between them and tear a long, thin strand of metal from them as I do*
This one should make it very clear what exactly is happening to you.
*Hoists the red-hot metal up over my shoulder like a javelin and heaves it straight into the ground. It burns and drills cleanly through dirt and rock until it comes barreling through the cavern ceiling directly into your chest while still retaining blinding velocity*

@Nemeses

*Stares at you with a deep, but not obviously hostile gaze and picks apart any details not restricted from my supernatural vision, including underlying makeup, power distribution, movement patterns, and energy traces*
Hey! What do you say we talk? Why do you want this girl anyway?
*Materializes the familiar platforms the moment before each destructive droplet would hit the ground, taking the brunt of the force and shattering with a gonglike ringing*

Myriad Reality

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Then we live. What we're not going to do is let their deaths be in vain.

@Nimda

*Puckers my lips*
Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you.

Myriad Reality

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Leave? After he slaughtered all those innocent people?

@Nimda

So? You didn't even know they existed an hour ago. And a lot of good it does you if you get killed out here.

Myriad Reality

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*Emerges deep underground in a cavern shaken open by the explosions*
This job does not remotely pay enough.

@Nimda

Want to call it off? No time like the present.

Myriad Reality

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*Retrieves an ivory scepter from the void, laced with gold and reinforced with the same dense metal my gun is made of*
Give me a read on this guy. Strengths, weaknesses, everything you've got.
*Withdraws a small leather drawstring bag from the void as well and takes a ball bearing before slinging the bag around my neck, casting my gaze to the rocks hurdling toward us*

@Nimda

So, the good news is that you've got an omniboost. The bad news is that means he's—

Myriad Reality

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You’re only amused while you can talk. Your confidence will die fast when one of you has to live without the other.
*Swipes my thumb across my chin with a grin, and, outside the sphere of influence we’re currently in, a beam of light blasts diagonally through the mountain where the base resides, sending the mass of rock and rubble crumbling and falling toward where we are*

@Nemeses

I have outlived countless mortals, and I will outlive countless more.
*Snaps, triggering the spell and carrying us, the stage, and the newly-introduced rocks away from the universe that houses the base, and the between-space appears to us as a rushing tunnel of white and yellow light*
But today, I feel like the mortal I'm gonna outlive is you.

Myriad Reality

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*Stands up straight and rolls my shoulders back*
Everything you do from this moment on, is an act of cruelty against Gio.

@Nemeses

*Grins*
That works for me! After all...
*My expression morphs into an ominous half-smile*
I’ll be sure to make it equally as excruciating for you.

Myriad Reality

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It’s like we already said: This isn’t about that now.
*Grips your head and whips my arm to the side, snapping your neck almost entirely in a circle*

@Nemeses

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*As soon as you do, a white light envelops you, isolating you from everyone and everything else*

@Nimda

*Holds out my hands toward the light*
Advancing trigger spell: Greater Gate.
*The white light expands to include the entirety of the stage*