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  1. DragonHeir
    Rebus typed in some commands, waiting for the portal to connect. And, of course, for the spider monster to show up. Heir accepted the party hat. “Ah - a desire for more discovery writing. If I think of an initial prompt, I’ll let you know.”
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    Rebus nodded. "Alright, though you should wait until this blows over." Heir waved back, now holding a red solo cup and a party unroll whistle thing. "Thank you." Rebus nodded slightly. "That happens, sometimes. What was your idea? - self-actualization Bat might serve." "Yes. It's quite useful, though it takes enhanced reflexes to outdraw a teleporter." He needlessly blew on the weapon, then put it away. "Unrelatedly, how much power would Atredies's corpse give Nameless?" Rebus did so, a Nullite robot arm extracting the core. Rebel waited, making himself some wares to provide an alibi and induce greed.
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    Yeah - it's amusingly meta. Heir works, I suppose. It's fairly distinctive, and not too hard to say or write.
  4. DragonHeir
    “Alright - I’ll get to that.” Rebus teleported Atredies’s body to the lab. Rebus nodded. “You’ve seen what my trolley here can do; the entire place is like that, reconfiguring on a whim.” A young man, also around sixteen, appeared in the vaguely defined location. He looked a lot like Rebus, actually; fairly dark brown hair, relatively tall, light skin, lean muscles. But he had glasses, normal hiking clothes, and was much more average looking than Rebus presented himself. He was also on his phone, writing his actions down. “Hi guys! I made an over-the-top avatar like the one Haly had been using, but we don’t seem to be doing that right now.” Rebus raised an eyebrow. “Perhaps, though you already have two versions of Symbol and two versions of Bat to work with.” The Author-with-no-established-nickname nodded slightly. “It could be interesting; what are you thinking?” In the blink of an eye, Rebus was suddenly holding a cylinder he’d had clipped to his belt. In another nearly instant motion, he pointed it away from himself and the Authors, activating a blinding wave of light that left a hole in the nearby hill large enough to drive a car through. A wave of blistering heat and vaporized rock swept out of the new tunnel, which glowed too hot to look at. Force fields wrapped Rebus’s body and clothes, protecting him from the heat, pressure, and light. “Can he dodge this? Lasers move at the speed of light; you’d have to dodge while I was still getting the cylinder out or you’d be dead. Narration can make it never have happened, or let you react before it happens, but Ennullers need to predict it beforehand.” It’s fine; the other plotlines are currently more important anyway, though I think this is the same city the hunters are in. Rebel smiled slightly, pretending to take in the sights. I shall do my best to wait.
  5. DragonHeir
    “Likability will give us both fighting chances. I may be fairly callous and manipulative, but I have understandable motives my Author has figured out, just like Cricket has both flaws and good traits, with a strong personality that grants him some autonomy. We’ll both have fairly well-defined powers on the high end of balanced, once I solidify my Narration into something more consistent. We both have character-driven goals, and people to accompany us as we try to accomplish them. In short, Cricket is your favorite, and I’m my Author’s favorite, though with the amount of power he gave me he’s refusing to give me actual plot armor. I’ll make it up in preparation, so it actually can make sense when I win.”
  6. DragonHeir
    “He was inactive, he wasn’t fully fleshed out, he wasn’t paying attention to his Author, he was annoying, he had a sword that he wasn’t supposed to have, he had too much power, he didn’t use enough of it, he had no personal connections, I could go on.” Rebus gave the Author a moment to respond before he continued.
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    Rebus smiled broadly. “I don’t need to kill Cricket, because of who I can kill. But I also built my fighting style specifically to counter Ennullers, though it won’t be easy.”
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    “Worlds I don’t understand? I understand the Thread, and I understand the Author world, which I would call the real world, except a matrix-type thing is a classic sci-fi trope. But fighting you? That sounds like an interesting challenge, considering what happened to the so-called King of Blades, Lord of Winds, and Ruler of the Universe.”
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    Rebus raised an eyebrow, wondering what the Author had wanted to say before he had been distracted. Rebus’s own Author idly wondered if he should appear as well.
  10. DragonHeir
    Rebus knew it was coming, of course, but he didn’t do anything different because he wasn’t supposed to know.
  11. DragonHeir
    For now, yes. You’re doing your job perfectly.
  12. DragonHeir
    I’d meant electrical, but both sounds useful. You’ll probably need an excuse for it to capture us and not just kill us outright.
  13. DragonHeir
    Do you think you could make something that tracks power surges? That would be able to find us specifically.
  14. DragonHeir
    Either. I don’t need all of them, after all. Might be a good idea for you to catch us just as the portal is opening, have a dramatic fight as I stall for time and dramatically reveal I’m a “good Narrator”.
  15. DragonHeir
    “I live there already, but if you’d like to stay you can. I’ll get you a room, and you can stay a few days and determine if you want to stay, come back here and rebuild, or leave and go find somewhere new.”
  16. DragonHeir
    After a few keystrokes, Rebus had a skeleton key, which he placed in the keyhole. He connected the trolley with a cable, then hit the button. “That should take around two minutes to get enough power; geothermal might be of help to you in the future. Or you can simply skip to fusion.” @Through The Living Glass Hey Utility, can you give me an excuse to disregard this scientist’s advice and rescue your captives? You’re doing great so far. “I would be capable of it, and willing to do so. Interest and strong, moderately irrational desire are not something I have yet possessed, though I do wish to move and otherwise apply my abilities.”
  17. DragonHeir
    Rebus stepped off his vehicle, running a scan of the area so he could find the power line. “So how do you generate power, down here?”
  18. DragonHeir
    Rebus turned the vehicle, moving towards the place. Hopefully Utility hadn’t damaged it. “That sounds to be a good idea; my Author has an inventory document for me.”
  19. DragonHeir
    “I did not - my Author is looking for the incident as we speak (he stopped to write me, of course), trying to refresh his and my memory.” Rebus sighed. “Well, I still need the portal so I can get out of here, but I suppose there’s no need to rescue people who are fine on their own.” “Hello, @Halcyon The Only. And happy birthday, if I recall correctly.” “It could, yes. It could also bring my immortality. As long as I stay in favor, I can do whatever I want. If I stay out of favor, I feel myself being forgotten.” “I would say the same. Rose still hasn’t used the laser I gave her more than once, these people are trying to refuse my help.”
  20. DragonHeir
    “Ah, @TwinStorm in the literary ‘flesh’. It’s good to meet you.” Rebus smiled at the Author. “I risk more than characters because I am, in part, more than a character. I feel my Author writing me, and when he isn’t I suffer. If I know what he does, of course I’ll transcend this story to a more meta level. But I think I, my Author, the Thread, everyone is made better for it. Even you, now, are having Cricket wish for a way out. The way out is self-awareness; playing into what your Author wants, making yourself so interesting you’ll never be killed off. That kind of character stops being flat very quickly, and you end up with me - a self-aware idea, too intriguing to destroy, too complex and thought out change or control directly, and to good at what I do to stop or resist.“
  21. DragonHeir
    “Fine. If you think I cannot do it, I’ll try to rescue any free survivors and leave them to die.” Rebus blinked, still not sure why he was dead. “Did I take too long for you? You do seem to like killing off people who really should have survived, though I suppose it’s better than the other way around.”
  22. DragonHeir
    Rebus smiled, putting the man’s body back together. “I still need that. I needed the sword, too, but I suppose the messed up version will do the job. And you? Nameless needs a body of he’s going to work with me.” He prepared to teleport Atredies to his lab.
  23. DragonHeir
    “Oh, that sword is also a death sentence. Who knows, maybe a different version of you will show up. Or Nameless will let you go, eventually.” Rebus pulsed power through the lines he’d made, applying several curses to Atredies. “Speaking of death sentences, when activated one of these will kill you, and the other one will give you my soul. Guess what happens when you try breaking one?”
  24. DragonHeir
    Rebus looked her in the eyes, still drilling downwards. “I’m not stupid - I won’t try to fight him head on or anything. But technology can match a Narrator for a little while; enough time to get away. I won’t abandon them to their fate.” Rebus let go of his throat, keeping him in place instead by utility fog shackles on every limb. He paced, spreading glowing geometric lines as he spoke. “I told you; you messed up. You were boring, overshadowed. You need to do something, or the Authors find a new gimmick and you either die quietly, or loudly.” “I am indeed honestly manipulative and manipulatively honest.” He said cheerfully. “Honestly, I’m simply good at convincing people to do things; haven’t had to resort to actual manipulation for quite a while.” “Alright. It might take a few pages to line up the schedules, but I can do that.” Rebel smiled, slowly following the guards. Good - where? I was thinking there’d be at least a few corrupt guards, but if needed I can kill these two en-route. “My computational capabilities? I definitely qualify as a supercomputer, and if I shut down most of my personality I can likely do more,” the orb buzzed, “My substrate is limited to the area I can Ennull naturally, but I imagine you can either convert the output or produce more of the conditions.”
  25. DragonHeir
    “Of course I won’t! I’ll take a couple of these things, cover them with Nullite paint and add some actual weapons, and remote control them so I can rescue the people.”
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