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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]

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.

[aeturnus]

yeah, it wouldn't take

and don't worry about it, it's been fun! other half as in the people "lucky" enough to be immortal where you're from?

[greyjane]

nah, i do public relations for a paramilitary peacekeeping corps. means a lot of media interaction. they like to pin me down for an absolutely excessive amount of questions.

[aeturnus]

ouch

but hey if you're having fun asking questions, keep going! not like it's all super identifying or anything

[greyjane]

[-- well, that's fair enough.]

so why the anonymity?

[aeturnus]

bad stuff going on back home, so it's way better safer than sorrier

[greyjane]

my sympathies, sweetheart. no easy thing, i imagine, regardless of experience.

[aeturnus]

sadly you kinda get used to it eventually

[ You don't. You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't but he can't talk about it. It's... too much. Whatever other experiences he's had similar to this, something about this one is just too much. He doesn't want to think about it, couldn't possibly bring himself to talk about it. This shame is its own kind of torture. ]

[greyjane]

[Whoever's on the other side of this line doesn't strike her as someone who's succumbed to apathy, but she isn't about to point that out or push. No one has a right to someone else's secrets. She's asking questions, of course, but those at least have been answered freely. This is a misdirection, and she'll respect it.]

goodness, what a macabre subject we stumbled on.

favourite earth tea? :)

[aeturnus]

thank you.

early grey. hot.

which is actually a real answer and basically anything that goes with it is also a favorite

to be fair i mostly drink coffee nowadays though!

[greyjane]

i've tried coffee before, not quite to my taste but i'm glad you enjoy it of course!

no idea what earl gray is though. sounds like it'd taste like dishwater. presumably not?