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[aeturnus]

so hey i'm Asking For A Friend ;) but how many other immortals are here in the quarantine? any?

also! important question!! what did everyone get told when they got here? what questions did you ask? i wanna know what we're working with! Let's Work Together!

p.s., if you want to answer the first question without a name there are burner phones available at [ small list of locations ] to make unattached accounts. i'm just looking for at least numbers! names would be radical too of course!

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[aeturnus]

[ Which is fair. Cain is interested but he can tell that pushing right now just won't fly, and he knows better than to try. Even if he acts like he doesn't sometimes. ]

It's fine that you don't want to talk about it. We tangented anyway. I'd be interested someday, though, that sounds like something I'm never going to get to figure out otherwise.

Where were we? I mean, if you have questions for me, I guess, that's fine, too. Kind of one-sided otherwise.

[spellslots]

I'll write you a fucking voidfish dissertation.

[Honestly he would because then he could cut it down to the bare bones without actually mentioning the fact that someone he loved like family stole his memories.

As for the rest, he just kinda shrugs. Taako's used to these things being one sided because honestly, he rarely cares enough to dig into other people's shit. He asked Clark a lot of questions because it was his first time (he thought) meeting an alien, and that was neat.

But no, he can do this.]

Alright, riddle me this, my man, why are you so cagey about the immortal thing? Does anyone actually give a shit?

[aeturnus]

Voidfish? Really?

[ That one's entertainment. What a simple name for what sounds like a terrifying creature. ]

Yes, unfortunately. There's some pretty bad circumstances back home because people can't leave well enough alone.

[spellslots]

Don't look at me, I didn't name it.

[I hope. Don't fucking joss me Griffin.]

Are you the only magical thing? [a beat, and:] Assuming it's magic immortal, maybe it's a science thing, I don't know your life.

[aeturnus]

[ Just watch it be a stupid group effort and everyone names it that. ]

Uh... I actually don't know what it is. Apparently it's "natural" but really, if there's any magic involved it's the only part of me that is. People where I'm from don't get magic, the spirits do.

[spellslots]

[Taako has a feeling that if Kravitz was here, he'd have an opinion or two on how that immortality works, but right now it's just Taako, and this isn't really his area of expertise.]

How do spirits use magic if they don't got a body and shit?

[It could be like a lich, but you can't become a lich without being magic while alive so. yup.]

[aeturnus]

[ To be fair, his brother is in a similar profession and will fuck up anyone who tries to mess with Cain's immortality... ]

I imagine it's easier to reach out to the magic when you don't have flesh and bone in the way. If Abel were here you could ask him, but I'm not exactly in a position to have ever tried it myself.

[spellslots]

That sounds super bullshit.

[Not that he thinks Cain is trying to bullshit him, necessarily, just that the reasoning doesn't make sense when it comes to... any understanding that Taako has of magic.]

I need my hands and shit to spellcast, that's why I don't wear armour.

[aeturnus]

[ He considers that duly, perhaps more than it deserves. ]

You don't use words or any kind of internal commands?

[spellslots]

Oh, well yeah, for some? But ghosts can talk too so it didn't seem as relevant.

[Well... they can talk when they're inhabiting shit? He's not sure if they can otherwise, his ghost experience is limited.]

[aeturnus]

[ His eyes light up and he shakes his head. ]

They talk just fine where I'm from. Maybe their power comes from words.

[ ... not that he's ever heard Enforcers using their spells aloud, but he's spitballing here. ]

Either way, whatever they reach into for it is something the living can't touch without some pretty bad circumstances.

[spellslots]

They'd be more like bards than any other magic users, then. Maybe.

[Despite being a wizard who technically has an acolyte background, Taako doesn't really dig into a lot of magic theory.]

Or it could be some kinda necromancy based power? It just seems real weird.

[Barold would have a better idea of this probably.]

[aeturnus]

Ugh. Sort of? I know necromancy and it's just a perversion of what they do.

[ Don't ask him about the time he had to deal with fucking zombies. ]

I won't argue on the weird, though. Not my wheelhouse. Deathsight is more my thing. Or even the immortality.

[spellslots]

What the fuck is deathsight?

[Despite the cursing, he sounds more curious than anything else.]

[aeturnus]

[ It's a tone he understands. ]

The ability people are sometimes born with where you can see dead people. Or... when fate says they should be dead.

[spellslots]

[Kinda like Kravtiz's book, then, which seems to amuse him.]

Oh man, so you have that shit?

[aeturnus]

[ That gets a curious little smile on his face, not sure what to do with that reaction. ]

Yeah, I guess so. You've seen it before?

[spellslots]

Kinda, yeah, and uh, I bet I'd give you a real bad headache, my man.

[Considering how mad Kravtiz's got about their deaths.]

[aeturnus]

Well now I'm curious.

[ They're probably lucky he can't see this stuff through recorded means. ]

[spellslots]

You might just have to keep being curious, I gotta keep some secrets.

[Now he's just being a shit.]

[aeturnus]

Oh, I see how it is. Get all the immortal's secrets and keep all yours to yourself.

[ He's teasing back. It isn't actually a back and forth unless the person wants it to be, he doesn't care that much. ]

[spellslots]

Excuse you, I told you all that shit about the portal!

[Or does that not count because it isn't personal.]

[aeturnus]

I get the feeling any person with actual magical stuff could find that out.

[ Totally doesn't count, duder. ]

[spellslots]

Only if they've got the spells I've got, and as far as I know, I'm the only one.

[Tom is a "wizard", but he isn't high enough level for the spell Taako used.]

[aeturnus]

What spells did you use?

[ As if it will mean jack or shit to him. But hey, it's something to ask. ]