If you're going to stick around, I'm going to fix your hand.
[ just so they're not standing around. scien will look through some of the gathered materials, of which there are so many, to find some oil and a screwdriver to start ]
Anyway, no and yes. I don't believe in divinity or gods. There are certainly none in my world, if I am the closest thing to it. People just mistake my technology for miracles.
[ even though scien does deliver what are effectively miracles to people ]
[ paw!! scien will fix him right up then with a careful hand, putting on his "doctor in an emergency" hat ]
Of course I do. They formally put me in charge after the royal died because they wanted me to fix the entire island.
[ and his emotional vibes... vary. there is a vague sense of responsibility, but it's mostly exhaustion. he hates the paperwork and has no interest in lording power over others ]
It's another reason to avoid people. I take on projects that interest me, like curing genetic disorders or some cases like yours if I have a personal stake.
But I can't be expected to solve every problem in the world. What will people do when I die?
I'm trying to figure out how to fill up the time I already have. That's a strange question to ask someone who's trying to give you an even more mortal body.
Well, ain't that a normal thing geniuses out there try to go for? Some kinda road to immortality? Just 'cause I'm askin' for a short human life don't mean you might want it too.
I don't know any other geniuses. [ a beat ] Didn't, I suppose.
[ mumu and essek are very smart and scien likes that about them. nehan is also very capable even if he's not genius level. gale isn't bad ]
But Reliver technology already granted me eternal youth. This body was 23 for 60 years. If I wanted immortality, I already had it. [ frowns ] But I never wanted that. My interest is in plain, average humanity, nothing more.
[ he nods, but he's studying scien a little carefully. being familiar with long-lived races makes this talk about ages and looking younger seem within the realm of possibility. that's the only reason why boothill isn't asking what the fork is going on with that. ]
Lucas told me gettin' transported through those Reliver bodies kinda dulls up people's emotions. Or somethin' like that, anyway. That the same for you too?
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Are you actually some kinda god then?
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[ just so they're not standing around. scien will look through some of the gathered materials, of which there are so many, to find some oil and a screwdriver to start ]
Anyway, no and yes. I don't believe in divinity or gods. There are certainly none in my world, if I am the closest thing to it. People just mistake my technology for miracles.
[ even though scien does deliver what are effectively miracles to people ]
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So you're a genius then, more than the other people 'round. You ain't got people crowdin' you askin' for miracles all the time?
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Of course I do. They formally put me in charge after the royal died because they wanted me to fix the entire island.
[ and his emotional vibes... vary. there is a vague sense of responsibility, but it's mostly exhaustion. he hates the paperwork and has no interest in lording power over others ]
It's another reason to avoid people. I take on projects that interest me, like curing genetic disorders or some cases like yours if I have a personal stake.
But I can't be expected to solve every problem in the world. What will people do when I die?
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he smiles a little. there's some amusement, like he can already tell what the answer might be. ]
Ain't got even a little interest in livin' forever?
[ he's just curious, since that seems like the goal of plenty of geniuses. boothill doesn't care about it himself either. ]
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but his emotional vibrancy flatlines at that ]
I'm already 86.... I'm an old man.
[ who DOESN'T LOOK IT ]
I'm trying to figure out how to fill up the time I already have. That's a strange question to ask someone who's trying to give you an even more mortal body.
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Well, ain't that a normal thing geniuses out there try to go for? Some kinda road to immortality? Just 'cause I'm askin' for a short human life don't mean you might want it too.
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[ mumu and essek are very smart and scien likes that about them. nehan is also very capable even if he's not genius level. gale isn't bad ]
But Reliver technology already granted me eternal youth. This body was 23 for 60 years. If I wanted immortality, I already had it. [ frowns ] But I never wanted that. My interest is in plain, average humanity, nothing more.
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[ he nods, but he's studying scien a little carefully. being familiar with long-lived races makes this talk about ages and looking younger seem within the realm of possibility. that's the only reason why boothill isn't asking what the fork is going on with that. ]
Lucas told me gettin' transported through those Reliver bodies kinda dulls up people's emotions. Or somethin' like that, anyway. That the same for you too?
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anyway scien makes a motion to wave his hand, dismissive ]
It was. I fixed that a few years ago. I do have the full range of my emotions now, though I'm still just not a particularly expressive person.
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boothill seems surprised, but that melts into relief. he wouldn't have wanted his body back if it meant losing that. ]
Still would'a been funny to see y'all in that horse costume without your masks on.
[ that halloween party a long time ago was so funny.
anyway, i'm assuming scien has fixed his hands. boothill flexes them. ]
Thanks for that. I can still help ya' carry things as long as it ain't as heavy as that thing.