A Slice of Cadence: A Coda
It pumped, pumped, pumped but the Realms threw it all back, no no no. But even as each broken effect was caught, it would be some time before it was fixed. Even when audio tracks for Cell and Particle were switched for three days. Even when Pterry’s wings seemingly fell off his back, held together only by wires and hydraulic tubes.
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Strain upon the core computers was weakening the very wires of OmniPark’s nervous system. Each flow of impulses to the Realms felt less like the ebb of the ocean and more like straining of a milkshake through a straw.
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Someone at the main console of the computer central bitterly cried that the place was ‘fatigued without Teague.’ Someone else laughed. Briefly. Before there was a bitter quiet.
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It ached.
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A ride vehicle would stop short, and it would lurch, the banks hollowing in pain, the buttons flashed in alarm. Cranks moaned with heaving, electrical grins as it continued to be the heart. Supplying life to things close to lifeless. It had to push itself harder, had to pump harder or else everything would fail. Circuits frying, monitors distorted to the point of eligibility but still it pushed forward. It could not stop in its purpose.
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Even if this was a sham, a mockery of the life it was meant to sustain, it was life nonetheless. It could still bring joy nonetheless. It could still do amazing things even if they were stunted. It did not matter, not at all. It was still alive. OmniPark was still alive. So long as it still had electricity flowing through its various circuit boards then it would continue to sustain the life of the park.