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Post by Raven8 on Aug 9, 2020 19:28:27 GMT -8
...this is not a normal network by any stretch of the imagination.
This network is dark and mechanical, filled with gears and gargantuan machinery that stretches as far as the eye can see. The sky is a clockwork expanse of pulsing energy and metal wiring that produces a strange, off-yellow light that flickers at a constant and rapid pace throughout. Titanic structures of mechanical origin rise to the sky in a methodological grid as if buildings in a city, each pulsing with unique energy and giving off strong electromagnetic signatures. In fact, staying here too long has the potential to cause severe damage to any digital being without proper magnetic shielding.
A set of red "W" marks bracketed in L shaped designs mark the main "road" through this industrial hellscape, leading to a central hub area that has a set of blue beams rising into a port-hole in the clockwork sky above. These beams veer off in multiple directions before leaving the network entirely, and as they do so they reveal a single, red beam towering straight upward, towering like a monolith among the rest that bow silently around it.
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Post by Zane on Aug 9, 2020 20:36:03 GMT -8
"Being here as long as I have, with a glance I can distinguish how foreign this place is compared to the rest of it. Reminds me of Immortalis."
"See? It's not so foreign as to be beyond your vast comprehension."
They had arrived uninterrupted, though not without noticing how different this was than the rest of this world. The world usually made an effort to appear as more than artificial, as its own living and breathing world. This one held no such illusions and merely showed exactly what it was for. More than simply a network, it was more akin to as if they were inside of something that was larger than life. With the electromagnetic energy surging, Glint and Verde themselves were fine in the face of it. They imagined many who would lack the same capability that they themselves were possessing of, moving down the road toward the central hub. The blue beams were all leading to what looked to be outside of the network with the one red beam that stood out among them all. How curious...
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Post by Raven8 on Aug 9, 2020 20:53:22 GMT -8
The network seems outright indifferent towards the invading force. No alarms, no guards. The entire area seems stark and lifeless. The only sign of change comes as they approach the main hub area and the blue beams begin to drop off one by one, shutting down their connections at a fairly rapid pace. This continues as they reach the central area and enter the titanic machine within.
The hallway leading inside is absolutely tremendous and surprisingly long. The entire shaft is sheer metal, so it's obvious that the entire unit is solid. That is, of course, until they finally reach the central area. A single upwards shaft that covers a roughly 50 foot wide, completely rounded area. In this central area, about 20 teleporter pods sit around a larger, central teleporter that is the obvious source of the red beam. This teleporter, however, is encased in multiple layers of a glass-like shielding, making its access particularly difficult.
It's here that MagicMan frantically works. On a second level balcony that's covered by a single barrier of glass that guards a single teleporter, he is closing the connections one at a time while the pod that he'd taken down with himself is situated in the single teleporter.
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