[video - ask a gentern if zydrate is right for you.]

[purpleknee]

As backwards as this place is, at least you're not using coin. That kind of economy never made a lot of sense to me. You don't even really seem like you're bartering at all! That's more than a little strange.

[Or maybe he just thinks he deserves a lot, when he's this far away from his heart. Hmn. A possibility, to be sure.]

However, since that's the case, I really don't see what the point is in working for an organization like the clinic. Why would I want to go work for someone else when I've been doing just fine on my own for years? Where I'm from, I'm one of just two menders, and I've had plenty of practice.

[He never even completed his training, but shhh.]

Has anyone from your great clinic recreated half a brain before? I doubt it. I have. So feel free to stop by the better healer whenever you like. I'm usually around the library trying to find something that isn't garbage, if you've, I don't know, got your fingers chewed off, or something.

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[purpleknee]

I've been there.

[He's even dating one! That's new, though.]

Believe it or not -- some of you are weird about it -- I've been human, too. I'm good with most of it. Specifics take a little longer and more magic.

[skelebro]

[All right, so he'll just...tack this fella onto his list of "not humans," a rapidly-growing list that he hasn't expected, seein' as how many of 'em evidently look human.]

You've "been" human?

[purpleknee]

[Yay, a club!]

Apparently when you curse yourself out of mortality, it takes the humanity label with it.

[skelebro]

Sounds like a personal problem.

[He yawns, which is...evidently possible to do without opening his mouth, his sleepy tone belying his underlying interest.]

And you got, what? Some nice healin' magic out of it?

[purpleknee]

[...He's kind of jealous of the weird yawning trick, ngl. He's contemplating how to steal that jaw.]

No, that part was genetic.

[skelebro]

[Please do not steal his jaw, he will literally be dead thanks to only having 1 HP.]

Neat. [He says, like Warrick just demonstrated a cool yo-yo trick.] Kinda realized I never introduced myself. Name's Sans. Sans the skeleton.

[purpleknee]

Warrick Chopper the Warlock. Nice tibia'n acquaintance of yours.

[because you're a skeleton, see]

How hypothetical were you being about that anatomy question?

[skelebro]

[Sans's grin widens. Oh heck yeah.]

Nice to know you're as humerus as everybody else.

[Everyone loves a pun buddy! Well, no. That is a lie. Sans loves a pun buddy because he's got a soft spot for bad jokes that nobody can take away from him.]

Well, y'know. Brains are pretty complicated, as my understanding goes. Human bodies in general - [He flexes a hand, all the tiny metacarpals and joints pulling in and out in example.] - they're complicated.

html checking is for losers

[purpleknee]

Nice to know you Can take a ribbing.

[yaaaaay]

They are complicated. Anlise was never exactly the same, but I think that had more to do with the poppy planted in her skull in the first place, not my mending job.

twice!!!!! TWICE NOW

[skelebro]

You, uh...wanna explain that a little bit?

[Something about that is unsettling to him. So unsettling he doesn't resume the friendly banter they've got going here.

How does someone get a flower in their skull. Does he wanna know?

Probably not. But he asks anyway.]

but losers tho!!!

[purpleknee]

Not really.

[nnnoooot really]

Basically some power-hungry bat turned Anlise into a poppy-zombie even though she supposedly loved her so Anlise would kill my friend Emma. Other stuff, too, but that part was really annoying. The poppy punched through most of her brain, so when we got it out, I fixed it as best I could.

:T

[skelebro]

[Yeah, that whole shtick he gave Ushashin about context and psychological insight? He's gettin' hit pretty hard with that now, he thinks. And yeah, he doesn't really wanna touch that. Not with a ten-foot anything.]

Right.

[His grin is unfailing and, yep, he really doesn't wanna go here at all. So he doesn't]

So I take it you handled this latest slip-up well enough.

[purpleknee]

[more yay.]

The one here, you mean? The zombies? I didn't really have any problems.

[skelebro]

Yeah, those.

[You know, whatever you like to call 'em. Long as everyone don't keep asking if they were offensive to his people.]

Don't suppose you were one of those professionals all bent on pickin' those things apart?

[purpleknee]

[zombies =/= skeletons??? get with it, hadriel.]

Ha! No. Lit a few on fire because it seemed like fun -- [It was!] -- and like they deserved it -- [They did!] -- but I mostly stayed out of the way. I wasn't going to waste my time with it.

[skelebro]

[I know right]

No? 'S good to know.

[Every single one of those responses is getting stored away in his mental compendium of knowledge regarding all the residents in the city. Lit zombies on fire because it was fun and he felt like they deserved it.

Don't exactly indicate the guy's headed down a dark and ruinous path. But not terribly promising anyway.]

Sounds like you kept yourself outta trouble. [That's sarcasm, but it might be hard to tell with the lazy grin.]

[purpleknee]

[i mean they did call him wicked back home]

It was a lot easier than I thought it would be. They didn't attack me at all.

[skelebro]

No? 'Cause they were after me the whole time, and I don't even have skin.

[Or meat. Or brains. Or any of those things he'd call "desirable" for a carnivorous undead creature.]

[purpleknee]

Huh.

[Interesting...]

Guess there goes my theory about recognizing a fellow corpse.

[He sure hates not being right.]

[skelebro]

[He grins at the guy, outwardly unconcerned. But, uh. Rude.]

'Cause I ain't a corpse, buddo. I'm a monster. Big difference.

[purpleknee]

[okay but...skeleton]

...Theory back in action, I guess. You really do look a lot like a magically-driven corpse.

[skelebro]

Yeah, I get that a lot.

[A surprising lot, really, since he got here. He's come to expect it. Undead. Zombie. You know, whatever. But he's gotten used to deflecting with a grin and a wink. It's way more work to get offended.]

[purpleknee]

[Yeah, people here suck. Never mind that Warrick was just one of those people.]

I can't imagine biting you would do much of anything, if that infection or virus theory going around was true. They break any bones?

[skelebro]

Nope. Guess I just got lucky.

[More like he knew a bite wouldn't matter one way or another - infection as a concept kinda requires you to be able to survive the mechanism through which you get infected. Given the fact he's got 1 HP and no buffer, the chances of that are pretty damn slim.]

[purpleknee]

Huh. Maybe.

[But if they had been after Sans the whole time, he either avoided conflict with shields and running or is a hell of a fighter. It was a lot more likely that luck had very little to do with it. Hmn.]

And how about your human friends?