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[bloodbathing]

Nice upgrade. 👍

[ … Yup. That's it. His plain-looking rock turned into an ~iStone~, and that's all Maine has to say. ]

Comments

[eudaimonikos]

Looks like it.

[bloodbathing]

The fuck.

A fish?

[eudaimonikos]

I think it's an eel.
Those ones that have a second, smaller mouth inside their regular one.

[bloodbathing]

Weird. [ Then: ] Why?

[eudaimonikos]

For grabbing.

[bloodbathing]

[ He's trying to picture that and mostly failing. ]

Can't use normal mouth?

[eudaimonikos]

The second one shoots out very fast
Good for catching things

[bloodbathing]

Neat. 😀

Any eels here?

[ He wants to see this for himself! ]

[eudaimonikos]

Maybe in the ocean? I haven't been there

[bloodbathing]

Could check.

[ His armor should be waterproof. ]

[eudaimonikos]

Do you think we could keep them in tanks?

[Michael doesn't even want one, he just thinks they're neat]

[bloodbathing]

Probably. Have tank?

[eudaimonikos]

Nope. I could make a magic one, but it would only last a day.

[bloodbathing]

[ … Magic tank. Sure, why not? ]

Why?

[eudaimonikos]

This place really screwed with my powers. It's very inconvenient.

[bloodbathing]

Sucks.

[ Agent Maine: expert in commiseration. ]

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah

But what else is new here?

[bloodbathing]

Point.

[ That said: ]

Io's nice.

[eudaimonikos]

You know, it actually is!
I love the fireworks

[bloodbathing]

Same. Pools, too. 🏊‍♂️

[eudaimonikos]

I haven't actually tried those.
I think I know how to keep this body afloat in theory, but I've always just gone down to the bottom before.
Didn't need to breathe.

[read: Michael has never gone swimming and is also uncomfortable at best with like, swimming clothes]

[bloodbathing]

[ Give Maine a moment to process that. To remember the way he'd brushed off Michael's mention of "mortal people" back when they first met as something a crazy person would say. To think about the other person who said they'd been dead for ninety-six years… ]

You dead?

[eudaimonikos]

Immortal.
I can't technically die-die, which is less convenient than it sounds when your own kind wants to destroy you.
Some real elaborate punishments out there.

[bloodbathing]

[ Oh. Well. That sure is something. ]

What are you?

[ Besides "immortal," he means. ]

[eudaimonikos]

😈

For the record, I do not look like that.