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Myriad Reality

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*Heads through*
If that's cool, then what's at the end should be even better!

@Revolutionary

*Follows behind you*
I guarantee we're the first living people to walk here for thousands of years. This is amazing!

Myriad Reality

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*Snaps*
Look at that!

@Revolutionary

*The stone wall crumbles, and I stare at it, mouth agape*
That just— this is— wow!

Myriad Reality

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*Pulls out a notepad and scribbles an identical inscription to the one outside*

@Revolutionary

*Takes a few handfuls of dirt and uses them to sculpt the word onto the stone slab*
Let see if that—
*The stone begins to glow*

Myriad Reality

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I can. What do you think we should try? Would "open" work again?

@Revolutionary

Yeah, let's try the same thing again. I just need a reference to look at.

Myriad Reality

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*Taps my chin*
Well, I won't do it unless you also think it's worth a shot. Damaging these items without a proper payoff wouldn't be so great.

@Revolutionary

I have an idea. Can you draw up that pictograph for me on a scrap of paper?

Myriad Reality

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It does feel wrong. But there has to be so much more to see here than a dark, empty tunnel, right?

@Revolutionary

Unless they plain didn't finish. But based off of what I've gathered from their pottery, they would have finished something as elaborate as a secret entrance last.

Myriad Reality

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Or intentionally left unfinished. What if we were to add a word in their language ourselves? It's the only thing different about this one from the one before.

@Revolutionary

I'm no fan of vandalizing the remains of ancient societies, but... I think I'm at the point of suspending my disbelief for the day.

Myriad Reality

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I wonder if it's like a blank canvas?...

@Revolutionary

A canvas? As in, they didn't finish it?

Myriad Reality

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It's symbolic of something, maybe?
*Shines the light at the wall and around the area to look for anything useful*

@Revolutionary

You said it was "open," right?
*Clicks my flashlight on and off*
When water poured over that word, the passage opened. For this one, water poured onto an empty square, and we're still at a dead end.

Myriad Reality

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Well, it's not even a word, actually. At least not one I recognize.

@Revolutionary

Just a square, then? Why would the other one have text, but not this one?