System

Myriad Reality

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Usually they say it has to get worse before it gets better, but I think we already did the "getting worse" bit.

@GalaxyRaider

*A multi-ton weight appears above our heads, and a sword swings from our right—I notice the sword swing and freeze it*

Myriad Reality

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*Does the same*
I'd like that to be true.

@GalaxyRaider

I think we've earned it at this point.
*Spires of ice breach the ground and freeze the phoenix with its wings outstretched*
What an awful day...

Myriad Reality

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*Cracks my fingers*
Let's do it then. I'll opt for freezing, if it's all the same to you.

@GalaxyRaider

This should be easy mode from here on.
*My fingers fly across the keyboard, freezing swaths of viruses in place*

Myriad Reality

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Right. So what did you want to do with this again?

@GalaxyRaider

*A second keyboard is generated in front of you*
Let's find all of the viruses and take them out or freeze them solid.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks to you and motions to the terminal in a 'ta-da' sort of fashion*
If I had this level of control in my world then things would be way easier.

@GalaxyRaider

Good!
*A guardian statue materializes on one side of us, while a large polyhedron appears next to it*
Usually we don't get this kind of access either.
*A keyboard manifests in front of us*

Myriad Reality

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Oh, you know. Treating stuff that feels like the real world like any old file and feeling weird about it. Standard stuff.
*Attempts to access the copy of the terminal*

@GalaxyRaider

New for you?
*As soon as you execute the copy, a terminal window materializes in front of you*

Myriad Reality

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*Copies the podium itself over into the new directory, including the terminal*

@GalaxyRaider

Snatches a brushlike creature out of the air before it can reach you*
How's it coming?

Myriad Reality

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Man, it's more complex than it looks.
*Cycles through every system I have access to at the moment to unfreeze what I can, then cycles through again to unfreeze anything with the new liberties given by what is previously unfrozen*

@GalaxyRaider

*One layer breaks from the terminal at a time, until you have access to a restricted console with the ability to copy any file you have permission to read and an empty directory*

Myriad Reality

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*Tries to unfreeze the terminal for physical access*

@GalaxyRaider

*The action removes a top layer of ice, but other systems still bind it frozen*

Myriad Reality

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I can do a bit with everything we see, pretty much. You said we need the podium, right?

@GalaxyRaider

We need its terminal, at least. Can you get us access?