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Myriad Reality

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*A small group of gunships stop in their flight path and slowly descend on the very springs you reside in as this happens, hovering slowly over the ground as massive, hulking soldiers in mechanized armor leap from stories above the ground to their feet with innumerable loud bangs, deploying automated weaponry and various gadgets over a small patch of land*

@Crew

*As the ships descend, the projected nature energy does as well, carrying the people's burning metaphysical energies with it deep below the face of the planet, except those with the will and desire to resist, and particles spray up to fill the void left in each person's life energies and render them in the same comatose state as the trial patient*

Myriad Reality

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*As you move, more and more ships seem to be deploying and spreading in different directions across the horizon, some of which grow closer to you very rapidly as they rocket overhead with incredible speed relatively close to the ground*

@Crew

Showtime, everyone. Make it count.
*Flings myself into the deepest point of the lake, sinking like a weight and into the planet, and the natural energy of the world visibly bulges outward high above its surface, starting at the lakes, then lowering gradually as it spreads across the entire world*

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Things are already in motion.
*In the distant sky where the large IA flagship rests in orbit, smaller ships can be seen deploying and descending to the earth below*
I hope you’re right about all this, because as of this moment we are putting real boots on the ground down there.

@Crew

I'll see you on the other side, then.
*Drops the transmitter in Rea's car, and then makes a mad-dash for the pools, this time the ground quaking with each step while I move at lightning speed*

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: It won’t be, but we need to make it that way.

@Crew

Whatever you say, boss. You're not going to be able to reach me until it's all said and done, so I'm going to need you to move quick as soon as you get the signal.

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Give me five minutes to deploy what real forces and gear we have to the hospital.

@Crew

Only if you're sure the hospital is safe.

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: How big was the swarm you mentioned?

@Crew

Enough to blot out the sky.

Myriad Reality

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*You’re met with a moment of silence before the next response*
Curtis: How about we get you out alive first and then we’ll talk about the afterparty?

@Crew

Trust me, Cap, it ain't a party, as much as I want it to be. Now we're going to have a split-second window before they catch on. You think you can hold off the swarm on a hair trigger?

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Being?…

@Crew

Probably most of their leftover magenta stew, a few natural disasters, and a lengthy vacation stay for me.

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Worldwide?

@Crew

As of about an hour ago, yeah. It's gonna come at a cost though.

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: That was awful fast considering the assertion of radio silence.

@Crew

It worked better than I actually expected it to. We just need to break the stalemate, right? What if I told you I had a way to shift the long-sleep fire into a problem future us can deal with?