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In the dead of night [video]

[it is pretty much the dead of night, since Law is doing his best not to sleep if he doesn't have to. It'll catch up to him eventually, but he's fighting it as best he can. Wearing this shirt no less, but it's less for irony and more for a need to do laundry. He's not here to talk about weird dreams, though, since without outside input he hasn't yet figured out that it's more than just...nightmares. Plain old nightmares that now feature people in Hadriel since he's been here long enough for them to enter his subconscious.

No, not dreams, although his query is related.]

Has anyone ever proposed an idea to find our benefactors an alternate food source?

It wouldn't help them with their Null problem but I have to wonder if it's even possible, and if so, how one would go about experimenting with the possibilities.

[this is where his mind goes on four hours of sleep]

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Has anyone actually proposed such an idea? I can't say from any personal experience, but one would assume so, given the way others seem to carry on about it. Or, at the bare minimum, the deities know of it through the grape vine.

In either circumstance, there has been no sufficient alternative given.

[Not that Yukari minds too much. So long as there's not another copy of him running around and flirting with people. ...Or worse.]

Though, I believe it would be rather intriguing to see what you come up with, Hat-chan.

[A smirk. Someone's clearly trying to pick some sort of fight.]

[excuse you his hat is amazing...

As weary as he is, Law's a little easier to provoke than he should be. He bristles a bit, scowling.]

I won't simply make assumptions, I deal in facts and evidence. If someone has thought of it or even tried it, fine, but lack of success doesn't mean it isn't possible. You just didn't have someone of my capability around before.

[Eh, by Yukari's standard, it's poor taste in a fashion statement. But he's in it much more for the trolling rather than the facts.]

Now, now, I never suggested it was impossible. I merely suggested that your attempts, and sequential failures, would be rather amusing to watch. Certainly you anticipated that there have been many inventors and creative minds the preceded your arrival. What could you possibly offer that has not already been given?

Unless it's a thorough translation of the public library here, I don't think you're going to get anything more accomplished than others.

Well, we have the shops, the river, the orchard... I would welcome more options, thought, I just never really bothered to ask or check if something was possible.

[and of course right now Law is wide open to trolls. Not that he ever isn't...]

That depends on what has been tried already. And if there are no records on it, then I'll just have to work through the failed experiments to determine the parameters on my own.

...that isn't what I meant.

[slow, patient rub of the bridge of his nose]

The beings you call gods feed off of us. I want to know if anyone has tried helping them find something else to feed off of so they don't need us.

[Rey has been doing her best to avoid sleep as well. She's haggard, exhausted, and no amount of caffeine has been any help. It isn't the first time she's had this rodeo, but it doesn't make it any less unpleasant.]

Would be nice of Hope to maybe resurrect some of their original hosts the same way he revives us and his own. They were evidently capable of controlling what they felt and when to provide them with more than enough "food".

Well, if it's records you want, I know someone who keeps up with the information found in this world. Surely any efforts tried would be found in his care.

[Pause for dramatic effect.]

Oh, my apologies, I was only half paying attention.

I'm not sure if it's possible, you'd still probably need to find a similar source of energy that covers their needs and our gods all seem to feed on something different. I suppose it could be worth giving it a try, thought.

That would be useful.

[pointed stare of demand]

That's all I want, is to try. It was sort of an idle thought I had while I was working on something else.

Don't think I hadn't thought of that. But I don't see any remains here, unless it's in the caves or somewhere else unexplored. Maybe he needs matter from the once-living to do the resurrecting.

The remains are in the lake. Or, at least, that's where some of them seem to be.

[She recalls very well seeing Nathan getting an earful from Hope about digging up one of the corpses.]

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[WELL THEN]

...that's what's in the lake? The warning against going too deep...

Well, that and the killer octopus-sharks. Am fairly sure that there were things in there pre-dating those fuckers, though. Just know that there are some dead down there.

Oh, that's nothing. [he has worse on his crew]

That's...shit. Well, I suppose that shoots down that theory. I'd better think of another one.

They might be afraid that their old hosts will just end up getting offed again, either by the Null or by some of us. Or both. We don't exactly have very many well-adjusted people here-- [like Rey is totally all well-adjusted herself, lol] --and the Door can't just pick and choose to send back the ones who pose a threat. And while it'd be easier for Hope to just not bring those types of people back to life when they die, he's claimed that he's unable to.

[Even if the reason for that conversation she had with Hope was for a much different reason, it's still good to know.]

If it's true that the Null are able to create constructs that could be one of us, any of the previous residents might be at risk if they decide to go that route.

This is all just... guesswork, by the way. Based on shit we know.

[yes, good. This is good weighty conversation for a night when sleep needs to be put off.]

I stalked as much of the network discussion as I could. It sounds like we could spot one of their cyborgs a mile away, which is good. But that's more than I knew before about the mechanics of their...well. People. So, thanks.

If the previous race wasn't strong enough, that's a solvable problem. But in searching for a new source of emotion besides ourselves, I have to wonder. How did they even realize humans - assuming everyone here is more or less human - are compatible?

The problem is that we have a few mechanical people already here. It'll be difficult to tell whether or not they're one of the new arrivals or one of them. The gods might be able to tell the difference, but that doesn't mean we might.

[Considering that she lives with one of those very obvious "mechanical people", it's a concern that has weighed on Rey's mind as of late.]

Don't think their Door brings in people based on compatibility for what's convenient to them. That thing is supposed to draw chaos to this place.

...

Whatever the hell that thing defines as chaos, that's another story.

Hm. That's a little more tough but I'm sure we can come up with something.

[the idea of chaos bring a bit of wry sarcasm to his tone]

That makes a lot of sense, given what I've seen and experienced. I need to make note of this, it could help if I get ambitious and decide to experiment.

Maybe.

[Rey falls silent for a good moment, carefully considering her words.]

Was able to tell the difference between synthetics and organics in my world. They must've had a unique genetic or some identifier of a sort that set them apart, because the synthetics have all been different. Can't sense them the same way as the synthes back home. [Considering that she did sense the one that did show up briefly, it does tell her something.] But... figuring that shit out would probably require an uncomfortable amount of tinkering with my head.

[And Rey isn't sure if she's up for that, if it's even possible at all. Too bad Rage was too busy pissing her off for her to make the offer right then and there-

[Wait.]

...What sort of experimenting are you talking about?

[is that so...?]

There is a lot medical science can do, and where it falls short, I have my ability. Nothing obtrusive - I don't test on the unwilling. I have some standards, I'm not some shitty government scientist. [long-distance fuck you, Caesar] Other people wouldn't even come into it unless they offered an ability that I don't have.

[aha, now he places the voice.] ...you're from the bar. That first night I was here. I didn't speak much to you - or anyone, really.

By "ability", am taking it you are referring to something other than a medical skill that a professional can just learn?

[But hey, good on not being a shitty government scientist. Rey has had more than her fair share of those to just be Done.

[She pauses.]

Um, yes. Didn't speak to much of anyone, either, so... [No hard feelings, bro.]

People have tried to reason with them before. It turns out they're just as stubborn as we are.

[He's looking at you, Sorrow.]

Yeah. Some people here might consider it a 'power.'

[no big deal, really.

Now that he can at least put a face to the voice...]

I don't expect that anything I attempt would mean experimenting on people at all. But if there's something you know, or would assist with if you could, it might help in the long run.

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