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[wholeheaded]

Ah... hey everyone, it's Ambrose. I was Milo for a while there but I'm back to being me and one hundred percent less tree-like. So, I've gotta ask do we uh. I mean, some other folks've gotta be wondering too so--

[ a slight pause, then in a rush: ]

What's the least harmful way we can test for immortality? Cuz I wouldn't put it past the Arcana to leave people stuck with that.

[ he's totally not asking for a friend, okay. ]

Speaking of Arcana: I'd like to meet with all the folks who've been Marked by the Fool - he calls himself Don Orlea - so maybe we can coordinate or. Something. Dunno if we want to do it all together or what but either way, I'll provide snacks.

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[ninjayeehaw]

Break the skin, see how fast it heals.

[Said with all the confidence of someone who's done this multiple times now.]

...maybe keep a healer on hand.

[wholeheaded]

Yeah, see, I'm trying to avoid unnecessary pain because...well, I'm not the only one it hurts.

[ being married to a First Law compliant robot is. a thing. ]

Though how much breakage are we talking? What about like a blood draw?

[ninjayeehaw]

I'm gonna say anythin' bigger'n a papercut's unnecessary. Blood draw'd work - basically yer just lookin' t'see if y'all got them silver streaks.

[wholeheaded]

Silver streaks. So you guys worked this out already? I shouldn't be surprised.

[claudiometer]

Blood draw should do it. If there's silver in there, con...gratulations?

[wholeheaded]

Okay, that sounds doable. Either way I'm pretty overdue for a screening so win-win?

[ assuming a proper blood workup is a possible thing. also gods knows what it would turn up by now. ]

[claudiometer]

No idea who can handle that part around here, if anyone. I can do the blood-draw part, but much analysis beyond that I don't have the know-how for.

The silver's just really, really obvious.

[highnoonsomewhere]

Hey, that's got me thinkin' - what happens if folks are killed here?

[happyhalloween]

The floor eats them and then they come back later all better and alive again!

thanks maria

[theflyingone]

It is a week of torture trapped in a soft, webbed space without light, flickering in and out of consciousness, and no one to talk to, not even on the Network. I understand it is a more crude, emergency sort of renewal. When one dies in a Jaunt land, the only pain is that of the manner of death itself.

[highnoonsomewhere]

... are you sure it's the floor, darlin'? I mean, we don't even always got floor here, not as such. [His tone has turned distinctly more gentle when he hears what sounds like a little girl.]

[wholeheaded]

If you die on a jaunt, you come back in Liminal Space. Happened to me twice, both while infiltrating.

[highnoonsomewhere]

Yeah, I heard that - I meant what happened here. Sounds like it's none too permanent, so I guess that might be a legitimate way ta test if you're immortal. Since if somethin' else than the usual happens when you come back, or if you can't die or somethin'.

[otomechapilot]

Haven't made a secret of Don Orlea marking me. We should really talk and get to know each other.

Sara Smith. I don't think we ran into each other while I was a Spartan. And yeah, the immortal people have kind of silver blood. I... sort of found that out on the Jaunt the hard way.

[wholeheaded]

Hello Sara, good to meet you. And... yeah, with how everything's going we should see about working together.

[ there's a little fussy concerned pause. ] How hard was the hard way?

[otomechapilot]

My overlay might have stabbed a god.

(There's a nice solid beat)

The one who was tossing the other gods down the mountain, so she deserved it, but still.

[fantasy_heaven]

Just assume you don't have it and live normally. As long as you don't die, it doesn't matter.

I guess I got marked by this Fool person, too. I'm not too interested, but if there are going to be snacks, I'll at least hear you out.

[wholeheaded]

Slightly more complicated because of the dying-while-Traveling-doesn't-mean-you-stay-dead thing but ah... that's generally a good outlook to have, and no matter what I'll probably go with it.

[fantasy_heaven]

That's probably for the best. Every immortal I've met has turned out to be a total weirdo.

[summerorange]

I'm all for figuring something out, especially regarding someone like him. Any idea where and when you want to meet?

[No need to discuss any other issues once she hears a few folks offering sound suggestions on resolving it.]

[wholeheaded]

[ good! good, that's efficient and appreciated. ]

I've got my own created rooms off the workshop but I'm open to suggestions if anyone has other ideas. Besides that... do we want to wait for the inevitable influx of newbies or get ourselves figured out first?

I am so sorry; I thought this tag went thru earlier

[summerorange]

Your rooms sound good, especially since they're attached to the Workshop.

And I'd rather not have it come down to that. It's chaotic as it is, trying to organize things whenever we first arrive in each new world.

[galvanizer]

Please don't start stabbing yourself to test for ichor.

[wholeheaded]

I promise I absolutely will not be doing that, pain's very far down on my agenda.

[galvanizer]

Good. Let's keep it that way.

So you think you might still be a nature god?