Valiance

Myriad Reality

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It’s possible, but I fail to see how it would be useful to the simulation to do that. Perhaps to trap us in an infinite loop, but that can be circumvented by other measures.

@Etcetera

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*Looks down*
An ancient presence significant to the Hidden Elements somehow has the means to show himself to us here?... I can't wait to ask Rythian to make sense of this for me.

@Multifarious

*Approaches from within the quickly clearing fog*
I heard my name?

Myriad Reality

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*Glances in the direction of the wind*
Show yourself! This is critical!

@Etcetera

*Streaks of solid black and solid white light flow in tandem with the wind as the fog seems to drop and settle, not resting any higher than a couple feet off the ground, revealing totally empty, dead silent plains*

Myriad Reality

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*Shouts*
Rythian!

@Etcetera

*The wind picks up a bit from the left*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks ahead and frowns*

@Etcetera

*One dark figure appears in the mist, walking toward you with more vigor than the half-formed figures from before*

Myriad Reality

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Only one. And then the control room. Of course, I won't request that you participate if you do not wish to proceed.

@Etcetera

*Heavy mist comes into view, rolling in from down the corridor*

Myriad Reality

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It seems as though your spirits will do that job on your behalf.

@Etcetera

I'm not sure how you plan to get out of this one.
*Sits on the ground cross-legged*
But none of us can directly interfere.

Myriad Reality

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I’ve desecrated sacred grounds. What would be more fitting?

@Etcetera

I cannot be asked to perform malicious acts of violence here.
*The strands of mist become highly electrified as they circle around you in an upward-traveling spiral, and the wind picks up to unbelievably intense levels, sporadically enough to start cutting you*

Myriad Reality

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Simulation or otherwise, the best option is for you to strike me down.

@Etcetera

Excuse me?

Myriad Reality

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Even foregoing that assumption, one of us has incomplete or inaccurate information. Although with the options moving forward, that may be irrelevant.

@Etcetera

*The misty figures all begin to move toward you once their forms stabilize enough, and strands of vapor begin to weave from them through the air around you*

Myriad Reality

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Which contradicts our information on the true state of reality.
*Stands up, with great effort*
One of us must be unreliable.

@Etcetera

Assuming you’re right about any simulation at all.