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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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[greyjane]

combative little bunch, are they?

oof, no. sorry, train of thought jumped tracks on me there. went straight from horrible fiery existence to the babysteps of space exploration. was thinking more... a reasonable possibility for wherever earth might be along its timeline of tech for you.

[aeturnus]

that and scared for sure

oh yeah in that case space stations are kind of where we're at, some prep for when we may or may not inevitably destroy our planet and may need to vacate because that's a totally lovely thought

i'll give everyone points for preventative measures though in case it might actually happen

[greyjane]

[welp.]

ever thought about putting yourself in a position to affect the outcome? surely you've seen enough civilizations fall before on a scale such that you can imagine that manner of 'inevitability'.

[aeturnus]

i'd consider it but at the speed we can gather information nowadays and the time it would take to really set anything long-lasting in motion it'd definitely put all my secrecy to bed for the rest of eternity

not that i want the earth to die but it'd suck if they were going to get out of the way on their own and i'd do all that for nothing, right?

[greyjane]

[Orpheo manages it. But Orpheo is also the most awesomely overpowered telepath she's ever met. Sight more useful about changing folks' minds (ha, ha) than imortality.]

fake moustache. male or female. gets 'em every time. bonus points for a foreign language (general assumption: you savvy on a few?)

[aeturnus]

(lots)

and i mean i could always grow one instead of making a fake but ??? maybe i'll take that sun option if it goes south

[greyjane]

suppose it's worth considering. shitty luck, living forever. can't say i envy you.

there are a few immortals where i'm from. don't know them personally and can't speak to their temperments but there you have it.

[aeturnus]

yeah it has ups and downs

do you know why? like if there's a reason they're immortal or more than one or any of that

[greyjane]

>insert complicated answer about culgenic abilities here.

simpler terms: far as we know it just Happens. Has for thousands of years, far back as we've ever been recording, garden variety 'superpowers' of which immortality qualifies. couldn't tell you if any of them are that old though.

[aeturnus]

so you're saying there's an immortality gene in humans that can just go off sometimes where you're from? or is this like lab accidents and cosmic happenstance?

[greyjane]

sort of like having blue eyes. something along those lines. no lab accidents or cosmic happenstance that i've ever heard of.

i can control electricity with my mind, for instance. perfectly normal for me and where i'm from. lots of folk have something extranormal. manifests in different ways.

[aeturnus]

so a random gene mutation, got it

that's actually pretty cool! does it extend to fine workings of tech or is that getting too detailed?

[ Electrokinesis is cool. Technopathy is cooler. Sorry it's just fact. ]

[greyjane]

i can short it out ;p but not much for turning it to my nefarious bidding.

[aeturnus]

hey! still pretty useful in a lot of scenarios! and way more than i can do

though i guess not dying is pretty useful too sometimes

[greyjane]

i've never had any complaints.

[Then again, she OP as fuck. She usually leads with the electrokinetic thing because it's a concept most forward-thinking folks can grasp. As to the rest, well. She isn't shy, but she's rarely in a rush.]

suppose it depends on how you define usefulness! you'd definitely be the guy i want on my team during extreme paintball.

[aeturnus]

good, they'd deserve what comes if they did complain ;D

oh yeah i would DOMINATE that. real guns too i guess? but you know pain still hurts and all

[greyjane]

what exactly do you take me for, here? a purveyor of senseless violence??

'pain still hurts'. truer words have never been said. i guess we can dial it back to actual paintball... but then i'll have to think up another scenario for usefulness.

linguistics? history? i think both those things are quite useful also.

[aeturnus]

nah but i bet you're good at comebacks

back home sure! but here where those places and times and cultures probably didn't exist to most people it's esoteric at best!

[greyjane]

oh i'm not nearly as witty as i am dashing and charismatic, sadly. one can only be so talented.

seems like there's a lot of folks from earth, i'm sure someone would appreciate the esotericism nonetheless.

alternately: new career as an anthropology professor?

[aeturnus]

you've still got time to pad out some more skills! i believe in you!

there's an idea. if you can't do, teach right? but i CAN do... so... maybe on the backburner

[greyjane]

oh, i'd say i've got a few good years left in me, at any rate. always strive for improvement, and all :)

this is the first i'm hearing on the matter of 'doing' much of anything! beyond the prior nod to linguistics, at least. what do you do with yourself, sir/madame immortal? what is it that staves off the drudgery?

[aeturnus]

exactly! reach for the stars! or whatever is metaphorically past that now that the metaphor has no meaning for your people i guess

the internet is a new and wonderful place! all sorts of things to try and do! lots of studying and learning and making sure nobody notices you in old facebook photos and how you haven't changed at all since then

[greyjane]

i will endeavour to think of an equivalent and get back to you on that.

do you have regenerists? [there has got to be a better word for it than her specific instance with people who can reshape flesh at their will.] surgeons that restructure appearance?

[aeturnus]

you'd better, i'm on pins and needles here

plastic surgeons? yes but that's complicated

[greyjane]

you can't rush perfection, my dear.

heal over it sort of complicated?

[there's a bit of a pause, and then she sends another message,]

golly, i'm sorry. i'm talking your ear (presumably you have those?) off. usually it's the other way around. seeing how the other half lives is interesting, at least.