I think House is planning to catalogue my symptoms by the hour or something equally insane. If it turns out I'm just turning into Skeletor again, we'll stop.
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[ Concern from a man who pushed it far too close for comfort last month. His motivation had been pride and fear rather than research, but he knows exactly how easy it is to think you're doing fine only to turn a corner and abruptly find yourself blind, something clawing with blunt fingers at your insides, looking for a way out.
You do strike me as the type of guy who just gets called in to fix a situation.
Generally I'm pretty confident in Danny's ability to kill me, but if things go really badly and you get called in as reinforcement, don't bring my body to town, I can come back on my own.
"Generally"? Does he need to kill you often? [ Light, believe it or not. Though that doesn't exactly seem out of the question here. As to the rest... ] Noted. Perks of being a necromancer?
[ It's a proper noun, so like any name it doesn't auto-translate, but Stephen might know it's the Māori mother earth figure. ]
Since we're talking about existential terror; Zlatka spent a few weeks figuring out how my immortality works and I'm pretty sure she can turn it off if she wants to.
[ The main reason he's recused himself from local politics. ]
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[ But the encounter's been evoked, so in the name of clarity - ]
It was dangerous of me to go there when I did. I won't be doing that again if I can help it.
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[ So he can wATCH— ]
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[ No he won't, but it's an easy redirect. ]
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What kind of change?
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And you're following it through to transformation?
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[ Between them they have the two possible solutions to transformation pretty covered. ]
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cw: references to temporary blindness, body horror
[ Concern from a man who pushed it far too close for comfort last month. His motivation had been pride and fear rather than research, but he knows exactly how easy it is to think you're doing fine only to turn a corner and abruptly find yourself blind, something clawing with blunt fingers at your insides, looking for a way out.
He should be straightforward. ]
I'm on call if things go sideways.
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Generally I'm pretty confident in Danny's ability to kill me, but if things go really badly and you get called in as reinforcement, don't bring my body to town, I can come back on my own.
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"Generally"? Does he need to kill you often? [ Light, believe it or not. Though that doesn't exactly seem out of the question here. As to the rest... ] Noted. Perks of being a necromancer?
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[ It's a proper noun, so like any name it doesn't auto-translate, but Stephen might know it's the Māori mother earth figure. ]
Since we're talking about existential terror; Zlatka spent a few weeks figuring out how my immortality works and I'm pretty sure she can turn it off if she wants to.
[ The main reason he's recused himself from local politics. ]
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I'm sorry.
cw: vague suicidality
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[ When it sticks. ]
How old are you?
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I recently hit my myriadic anniversary of being forty. That's ten thousand years.
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At least you stopped at forty. Some of us get to be beyond our years and aging.
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[ The grey streaks are particularly hot. ...This is definitely why he's sleeping his way through old man poker night. ]
And how old are you, Doc?
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I couldn't tell you.
[ Which sounds exactly like a cop out when he's just set himself up for the question, so - ]
Most of my extra living's been done outside of time. Or within time that never happened. But there's been plenty of it.
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