>>5850905You know you’re going to need to bring out your best for this. On the one hand, it can converse, it can talk, and you might be able to have some kind of dialogue with it. You’ll take the chance given here. But you’re also not going into this without some protection. You bring out the Mahou Knight, mute its speakers, but make sure the others can hear what’s going on.
“Why must I leave? Help me understand.”
‘{YOU ARE NOT LIKE THE OTHERS. YOU MUST LEAVE, HUMAN.}’
Basilea, Piccolo, and the twins slow a bit as you make sure they’re aware of the conversation. Still not really getting an answer, though. “That’s not helping me understand, that’s just a command. I’m not going to be influenced by your commands.”
The red tint in the area glows a deeper crimson slightly, then pulses almost like a heartbeat. ‘{IT IS NOT TIME FOR ONE LIKE YOU. YOU INTERRUPT THE GROWTH. LEAVE.}’
A pressure can be felt around you, around everyone, and the twins seem to feel it the most, flinching at it. You’re able to hold it off though, and you press on. “What growth? What… even are you? Are you like the other thing up north?” You try to get a picture of it, but you when you do, you realize there’s nothing physically there ahead of you. It’s… more of a mirage off in the distance. Still, you bring up a reference of the other machine from the palace.
https://youtu.be/CISWq0uo7dE?si=vUCFSD77NHC-knzBA new, ethereal form appears in front of you, though it seems to be more a psychic projection than something truly there. It’s huge, something at least as big as your mech, yet it appears to be dressed in almost priestly robes, styled slightly reminiscent of Nemurian outfits you’d seen prior, just way more ornate, and yet also sorta showing an armor… based on that machine over it, yet dressed up and almost regal in a way. It’s humanoid, but doesn’t have a human head, instead a sort of dome with spikes coming out the sides and a three part beak for a face. Its arms are large and end in three-fingered slightly bulbous hands, and across its back you notice the hint of rows of crystals.
‘{WE ARE KIN. WE ARE NOT KIN. WE ARE MORE. WE ARE LESS THAN THE WHOLE. WE ARE I. I AM WE. A MULTITUDE YET ONE. WE MUST GROW TO BECOME WHOLE. WE ARE OF THE MACHINE, WE ARE OF THE STARS, WE ARE OF THE HUMANS. I AM A FRAGMENT, YET MORE.}’
“You’re talking in riddles.” you grumble.
‘{YOU SEEK TO INTERRUPT OUR GROWTH, MY GROWTH. THE RETURN TO THE WHOLE. THEREFORE YOU MUST LEAVE.}’
>A. I’m not leaving, none of us are, until we know there’s no threat lingering in this place>B. And just what does this growth, this “becoming whole” entail for you?>C. Why are you showing us that form? Is that… the true you, or what you’re trying to become?>D. What do you mean by you being “of the machine,” “of the stars,” and “of the humans”?>E. Something else? 