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Lorica (post 'ward of the state') in the esperverse meets a Lucien and a Lia
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"Sure, I can bring you pictures. I miss my old power but this one seems okay."

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Lucien can tag Lorica again, just in case.

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She will go on a jaunt to see what else there is to see, counting her steps as she goes.

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After another void ana of the moon earth she can finds a world that blurs the lines between being composed of broad steep mountains with deep valleys or a rocky biome crisscrossed by slopey canyons.

Another two steps ana and she finds a place with an ankle deep ocean literally boiling around her - her suit informs her that it's 120 degrees celsius outside. What look like bundles of snakes flop around with remarkable speed and intent through the boiling water. 

(The sensation of having a muscle she is only briefly tensing to step between individual worlds remains.)

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Yes, well, she doesn't want to get lost or pick up habits that without Alternate Universe Lucien would get her lost.

Naturally the outfitting procedure included waterproofing her camera but the heat can't be good for it; she pops back.

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"What'd you find?" Lia asks while bouncing.

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"Maximum terrain ruggedness," photos, "and a boiling ocean, I didn't stick around in that one but I'm glad I got an environment suit first."

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"Oooh, I want to climb that one - it looks great."

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"The suit should handle the boiling ocean fine for several minutes - also those snake things look pretty far off from anything we've got here."

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"They are unfamiliar to me too. Is the camera rated for 120º C, that's what my suit said it was. - should I be returning to a location that isn't your apartment in case something sticks to my suit boots."

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"That might be a good idea?"

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"Oh, camera, I got one of those!" Lia can return with a heavy duty GoPro. 

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"...again, the specific condition I asked about was a hundred and twenty degrees Celsius."

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"Yeah I've taken this into an oven dungeon that was way hotter than that and it was fine. It's a custom model."

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"Okay, do you want more pictures of the snakey things right now?"

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"Yes please! Or, well, video is what it's designed for and would be even better."

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"Sure." She equips the GoPro and returns to the hot place.

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Snakeballs! It's clearly when she has longer to look at them that they are single organisms and not composed of individual snakes, with holes that might be mouths near the center.

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So more like anemones, maybe. She doesn't wander too far, she doesn't want to pop back into Lucien's neighbors' place.

Back she comes.

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There's a towel placed on her landing spot now.

"Oh wow, those look.... like I could imagine seeing them in a dungeon but they look more natural and less imagined by a person than dungeons do."

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"Dungeons look imagined by people?"

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"Yeah, you can get dragons and clockwork and dildos and all sorts of imagined by people sort of things."

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"Huh. Weird. ...of the three Endbringers I think only the Simurgh looks especially person-imagination-derived."

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"I am not enthused by either class of creature looking person-imagination derived."

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"One theory is that the Endbringers are capes but they are similar to and coordinated with each other and no other entities in a way that makes that seem unlikely."

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