((Oh man, I'm already lost as hell.))
((If you want the quick version, just read my posts, the others are not very important. If you want the fun version on the other hand...))
((Meh, all this backstory and revelation of powers and ethics and payment discussions and suchlike are all meaningless compared to the important message here. I'm not a lizard.))
((I've got a sigpost now, so I might as well use it to collect this. In short, sigged.))
"Excuse me, green crystal lady. May I call you Scion? And what is this... compound, that we will be attacking?"
"Scion..." she seems to contemplate for a moment.
Guardian. Descendant. Heir. You vaguely feel the meaning of those three words have for you more than you hear them.
"That is what I can see in your language about that word. It sounds... acceptable. Though ill fitting to truly describe a being of my magnificence."
"I also see another meaning there, special for you. I hope that your feelings for the being that shares that title with me do not cause confusion.""As for your quest, I cannot say. He is the one responsible for this trial and he has shared nothing with me. By his description I would expect a military installation with technology from your era.""Right. Right... So, what's your statement on his account?" Jordan looked at the shadow and the entities.
((Well, only the shadow is here. The others are voices in your head. Kinda scary if you consider the possible implications.))
The shadow looks calmer now. Too calm actually. Talk about mood swings...
"I do not know about those entities he talked about. They do not sound like one of us and he doesn't come from anywhere near a universe I control."
"You have to understand that the multiverse is a very large place, some consider it to be infinitely so. If you imagine your universe being a starting point, then there are hundreds of adjacent universes I can jump to. And each of these universes has hundreds of adjacent universes one can jump to. And those numbers further multiply in relation to the number of-""This is getting tedious. Can we stop with the cosmology lesson now? Some of us came here for the challenges you know.""Anyway, despite what you might think, we are a very young race in the scale of the multiverse. I am only 5 cycles old, the oldest among my brothers and sisters. Most of us are barely a cycle old."
"Even though we have explored countless universes, we have significant influence over little more than 5000 and of those we are in complete control of no more than 500. As such, we can't know everything." "Then again, for a mere human like you, even these small things would feel enormous if you could understand them and see how dwarfed you are besides them.""However those entities and universes he described do sound worthy of study. Perhaps I could even work with some of them. I can see why she chose him. Maybe I will take a trip there when I have the time, so that I can see it for myself."
"It looks like we're ready. Let's begin.""Coordinates received. Preparing for synchronization. Locating hosts..."You can't see, you can't move, you can't speak, you can't feel your body. It's like only your thoughts exist. There is only darkness.
((Sorry for the delay, I got a bit carried away with the worldbuilding. Perhaps we'll have another mission in this universe and all that stuff I wrote will prove useful.
Heh, look at me, haven't even started the first mission and I'm talking about other missions...
Please wait while I write another post describing where you popped up and what you're currently in the middle of doing. This will take a while.))
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