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[manifestering]

Hello
If we have not met my name is Octavian
I am an alchemist and as always I am accepting small amounts of blood for a personal project

But that is beside the point

[Just, you know, getting it out of the way that he's always on the hunt for blood samples to save, anyway—]

The point is during our mutual excursions to maintain the integrity of this world
In the ruins I was set upon by a manner of vision
Very abrupt
not entirely welcome
In the water I experienced memories that were not my own
Something about a breed of serpentine people
Where are they
?

The recollection suggested they were not always serpents but perhaps once like us
A group brought to this place and changed
Was this previously known
and
has anyone else experienced these visions
?

[ooc; totes encourage threadjacking for sharing purposes!!]

Comments

[laserguy]

[just going to put another person in the 'everyone he knows is dead' category.]

dude tell me that you're haunting him forever.

[manifestering]

Oh fear not I will desolate him yet
Until then
Here
I am rather liberated

[laserguy]

uh, that's good??

you really don't seem like a vengeful ghost right now.

[manifestering]

Not much of a traditional ghost
That is to say lore-compliant
Maintaining an emotional affect is difficult actually

[laserguy]

[that's... good as well??]

cool.

so. what stuff do you like focusing on here? you mentioned feeling liberated.

[manifestering]

That was literal
Previously I was confined and now I am here
That said
Alchemy for the most part

[laserguy]

isn't that a bunch of old stuff? turning lead into gold, finding the philosopher's stone??

[manifestering]

You are not the first to suggest as much
Firstly
Yes
Secondly
What year do you beleive it is
?

[laserguy]

in aldrip?? or for you?

because no idea about... well, either, actually.

aldrip used to be a small town village and now it's this weird city. not to mention the whole simulation thing.

[manifestering]

Unconcerned with the year in this place
That said it is 2214 by my estimation
Where I am from
Many of you are from a place where alchemy is a lost art
Not me obviously

[laserguy]

it's 1983 where i'm from.

so everyone's kind of busy talking about nuclear weapons.

maybe we'll go back to alchemy early if we live in nuclear armageddon after.

[manifestering]

Highly possible
My memory for history is not that good
Or I would tell you

[About... nuclear war... Well, he would if he could. Alas.]

That said it is the same alchemy more or less
Different materials here and there
Newly discovered since your ancient history

[laserguy]

okay since your alchemy is newer and whatever

what sort of stuff do you research now??

[manifestering]

Well for myself it is reviving the dead
Of course
In life I was an inventor actually but my priorities have shifted

[laserguy]

seriously??

i feel like that never goes well.

don't start a zombie apocalypse back home.

[manifestering]

Every one of you should watch fewer films
I am the only dead I care to revive

[laserguy]

well it's a good thing we watch films, because now i can tell you that it always starts as 'trying to revive one person.'

then everyone's eating each other's brains. that's how it works. obviously.

[manifestering]

Watch better films
In any case I am doing nothing to my corpse as your films imply
It is long gone
I am building a new vessel
Ideally

[laserguy]

like a robot body.

or going all frankenstein?? except you're like, both the creature and the scientist.

[manifestering]

Not if you are being too literal about corpses again
I have no intention of collecting others' parts

But fundamentally yes

[laserguy]

and you're completely confident that things will go okay for you

[manifestering]

Permanently no
The work is incomplete and I have only my optimism to keep me going
In the short term however
Yes I have completed a temporary vessel prior to coming here
Unfortunately it broke down

[laserguy]

okay if your vessel broke down before coming here

i feel like the answer should be 'no' to both short term and long term.

[manifestering]

Why
I completed a vessel as proof of concept
A prototype
A first draft
I would say each of these terms is short term by definition
Unless I am meant to give up lest I instantly succeed on the first attempt

[laserguy]

just saying. you haven't had a successful body yet.

but guess you're really determined huh.