Robert Wilson
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Derivan didn't particularly have the time to figure out what the new spell or the new stat could do. It was easy enough to guess that the spell wouldn't be anything good, with the way the Patchers had twisted Misa's He had a rough idea. But this wasn't the time to try it out — he had A half-formed insectoid arm whiffed past his helmet, so close he could hear the whistle it made through the air; Derivan jerked his head away from the near miss, glaring at the Patcher attacking him. One part of him kept…-
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The problem with his plan, of course, was that Derivan only knew a single glyph of his own design, and that glyph was a shield — not something that could be used to attack. Not as far as he knew, anyway. But it was one of the only tools he had to work with. There was always the chance that he could hurt the Patchers through whatever protection of Health they had, but that method relied on physical damage The System Patchers were an amalgam of limbs patched together with the colors of the system. He…
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In hindsight, Derivan reflected, the result of what he'd done was perhaps something he could have anticipated. He'd spent a little more time trying to understand his stats, in the week they had spent waiting and then traveling towards Elyra. He'd been trying to understand how it was that he acquired new stats, and why he hadn't gained any since gathering Shift; there was the chance that he'd simply hit his limit, but that didn't seem likely. Yet was so little in common with how he'd gained each of them.…
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Derivan hummed in consideration. There was an oddity of magic here. He'd spoken with Vex on their suspicion that the magic performed by the system was artificial, after a fashion — there was something in the way he'd cast that one Barrier spell without the assistance of the system. Vex had tried, on a few occasions, to copy what he'd done — to guide the magic into the spell, instead of forcing it — and had never quite succeeded; the closest he'd gotten was that their time together that first night,…
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"It still doesn't make complete sense." Misa frowned. "Everyone here's had a completely different history. They don't even know what "It's not a perfect theory," Vex agreed. "It's definitely incomplete. But I think it's somewhere close. It explains why people in both places have the same names, kind of. It just doesn't explain who's stealing the mana crystals, or what exactly the link between the two places are." "But if this place is real..." Misa muttered, then she shook her head. "What if it is not…
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"There was a lot there to digest," Vex said with a slight frown. He'd been thinking about what the other version of Noram had told them throughout the journey here, and he was churning with ideas. He just hadn't put them all together yet. "The names are one thing, but I think what stood out to me is "Infolocked," Sev supplied, and Vex nodded. "Probably," he agreed. "But it all lines up too well. Which means there's gotta be something we can figure out about what's happening based on what's "If we…
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"This is everything we know," the otter-mage said. His name was Noram, because of course it was. Vex had exchanged worried glances with the rest of his friends when the mage finally introduced himself, but none of them had said anything. They needed a better picture of what was happening, first. Otter-Noram led them up to the second floor of the tower, where two other mages were seated around a glyph painted on the floor. Mana swirled around both of them, coalescing into an orb at the center that glowed…
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"You said their name is... the same as the innkeeper's?" Sev frowned. "It might not mean anything," Vex offered hopefully, though he didn't really feel like that was true. "Maybe it's just a coincidence." "I think we have the experience now to say that it's "Probably," Sev said with a sigh. "It's pretty convenient that the first shop you wandered into happened to be a shop with a shopkeeper that gave you the tools you needed to learn magic... But I don't know. Sometimes people are just nice, you…
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There was a small part of Vex that knew there was something bigger here to worry about. They had some of the answers, but they didn't have all of them. The idea that a dungeon had tried to copy But it didn't explain everything. It explained the mana acting strange, and the appearance of magical creatures that acted as though they were simply part of the town. There was still the question of the strange behavior in the townspeople, the sudden appearance and disappearance of people in the inn... And none…
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Vex followed along behind Derivan, glancing cautiously at the walls of the tunnel around them. The system messages from the dungeon had been their cue to leave and meet up with Misa; they exchanged a few messages to make sure they were all on the same page, and Sev had been thrilled to finally have an excuse to extricate himself from all those interviews. Noram wasn't here, and neither were any of Misa's people. Without the overlay of the system, there was no easy way for them to gauge how powerful the…
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