Unhinged

Myriad Reality

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*The machine falls apart and the lights in the building turn off*

@Etcetera

*Exhales slowly and goes to check on the people from before*

Myriad Reality

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*It brings up a login interface*

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*Frowns, and gravity in the center of the machine grows massively at a singularity, collapsing the machinery around it*

Myriad Reality

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*Above it is a large computer with a variety of doors connected to the same room*

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*Tries to use the computer*

Myriad Reality

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*They travel up to the next floor*

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*Takes the floor apart and goes up with them*

Myriad Reality

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*The wall melts away, leaving nothing but a rat’s nest of wires and small computer chips daisy-chained together*

@Etcetera

*Tries to trace them to a source*

Myriad Reality

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*The wires all lead into the walls behind their heads*

@Etcetera

*Holds the tip of my finger out towards the wall a concentrated, superhot flame sparks to life, which I use to cut through it and get to the other side*

Myriad Reality

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*One of them mumbles something unintelligible at you*

@Etcetera

I don’t know if you guys can hear me, but if there’s even a remote chance this is a real place like Data said, I can’t just ignore this.
*Tries to look for where the wires come from*

Myriad Reality

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*The floor gives way, collapsing into a stone dungeon with barely-living humanoid creatures chained to the walls, which have a variety of multicolored wires attached to their skulls*

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*Glances up to the hole in the ceiling, then around at the people several times, grimacing*

Myriad Reality

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*It makes a hollow sound*

@Etcetera

Hm.
*Leaps upward toward the ceiling, then propels off it to impact and punch through the floor*

Myriad Reality

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*Behind you is the route we came in through, and the room is otherwise empty*

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*Walks to the wall opposite the route and pecks on it with my knuckle*