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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 02:11 am (UTC)
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... Are you a copy?
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pathopen
2023-02-07 02:25 am (UTC)
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I look like the other homunculi. But I'm not sure we're copies of each other.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 02:51 am (UTC)
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A homunculus... an artificially-constructed human, then?
[That's what he comes up with after a couple seconds of consulting his mental Dictionary of Magic Bullshit.]
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pathopen
2023-02-07 03:05 am (UTC)
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Yes. Though we're not considered human.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 04:50 am (UTC)
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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
[People sure like to gatekeep the idea of what counts as "human."]
You said there are others like you. Are they not conscious, too?
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pathopen
2023-02-07 04:53 am (UTC)
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[ Mages are especially stuffy about it. ]
Not in the same way. Usually... Usually we can only do what we're told.
[ Their "set programming", so to say. ]
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 05:21 am (UTC)
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[There's a thoughtful look. He can think of a few things this might remind him of...]
Any idea why you ended up different from the rest?
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pathopen
2023-02-07 05:23 am (UTC)
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[ He looks down at his untouched drink and wonders about it himself. ]
I really don't know. It could've been a glitch?
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 05:25 am (UTC)
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Must've surprised the hell out of your creator.
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pathopen
2023-02-07 05:32 am (UTC)
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When I broke out of my holding tube, I was supposed to be captured and sent back.
... I tried to fight against them. That's how I died.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 05:48 am (UTC)
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[......
A sympathetic look. That's rough, buddy.]
... In the end, how long were you even conscious?
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pathopen
2023-02-07 05:59 am (UTC)
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I think it was less than a day.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 03:16 pm (UTC)
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[.........
Zelgadis downs the remainder of his beer in one, long swig. Then, he reaches over and takes the other beer away from this three-day-old homunculus.]
You're not old enough to drink this yet.
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pathopen
2023-02-07 03:31 pm (UTC)
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Oh.
[He watches it get taken and doesn't make any attempt to take it back.]
If you say so?
[Not that he can get any older.]
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 08:56 pm (UTC)
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[He takes a sip. His booze now. You can drink when you're twenty (days old).]
So what now? You're not exactly free, but you're out. Anything you were hoping to do once you got out of there?
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pathopen
2023-02-07 09:07 pm (UTC)
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I didn't have many plans. I just... didn't want to die.
It looks like that failed.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-07 10:24 pm (UTC)
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... Yeah.
You're in good company, at least. I think we all failed in that regard.
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pathopen
2023-02-08 03:14 pm (UTC)
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That's true...
It's hard to know what I want in hell.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-09 03:02 am (UTC)
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Makes sense. It's a sort of cruel irony to only get to begin your life after you've already reached the afterlife.
... Have you given any thought to a name you want to go by?
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pathopen
2023-02-09 07:32 pm (UTC)
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[Such is the cruelty of the afterlife?]
I've been given the names Micah and Cosmos. I like both of them.
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hardrocklife
2023-02-09 07:50 pm (UTC)
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Not bad.
[At least neither of those sound like a name he'll regret forever.]
... My name is Zelgadis.
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pathopen
2023-02-09 11:08 pm (UTC)
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Zelgadis.
[Quietly nods to himself. He will remember this.]
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[That's what he comes up with after a couple seconds of consulting his mental Dictionary of Magic Bullshit.]
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[People sure like to gatekeep the idea of what counts as "human."]
You said there are others like you. Are they not conscious, too?
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Not in the same way. Usually... Usually we can only do what we're told.
[ Their "set programming", so to say. ]
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Any idea why you ended up different from the rest?
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I really don't know. It could've been a glitch?
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... I tried to fight against them. That's how I died.
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A sympathetic look. That's rough, buddy.]
... In the end, how long were you even conscious?
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I think it was less than a day.
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Zelgadis downs the remainder of his beer in one, long swig. Then, he reaches over and takes the other beer away from this three-day-old homunculus.]
You're not old enough to drink this yet.
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[He watches it get taken and doesn't make any attempt to take it back.]
If you say so?
[Not that he can get any older.]
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So what now? You're not exactly free, but you're out. Anything you were hoping to do once you got out of there?
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It looks like that failed.
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You're in good company, at least. I think we all failed in that regard.
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It's hard to know what I want in hell.
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... Have you given any thought to a name you want to go by?
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I've been given the names Micah and Cosmos. I like both of them.
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[At least neither of those sound like a name he'll regret forever.]
... My name is Zelgadis.
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[Quietly nods to himself. He will remember this.]