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[megatheorem]

As many as it needs? I'll let you know when I'm done.

I suppose I can survey for other languages that aren't Earth-based.

[umbraportation]

So this is your first book? Huh, I'm surprise that you haven't written more.

It'd be cool to learn an alien language.

[megatheorem]

I've never written a novel, no. I've published a comfortable amount of papers back home.

As soon as I've catalogued an entire alien dictionary, I'll let you know.

[umbraportation]

Papers about necromancy?

If you're interested, I could teach you Greek.

[megatheorem]

And medicine, but most people back home are interested in the necromancy.

I would absolutely like to learn Greek.

[umbraportation]

I'm interested in medicine. I don't know as much as Will, but some weird, unconventional stuff has saved my life before.

Okay, how good are you at multitasking? I can teach you while we do other things.

[megatheorem]

I invented a few medical devices, myself. Respirators adapted to necromancy, and so on.

And I am very good at multitasking.

[umbraportation]

Cool. Do they run on thanergy?

Then we can start when I'm over at the Sanctuary next time.

[megatheorem]

Not all of them! Thanergy coming straight from the necromancer wouldn't aid the healing process, and it doesn't exactly come in bottles.

Sure thing. I'll start a new notebook.

[umbraportation]

Okay, but how hard do you think it would be to bottle thanergy?

I'm going to make you write the title in Greek.

[megatheorem]

Impossible, I'd say. Unless we start considering living bodies an untapped thanergy bottle, but I'd have to object on the grounds of not being a serial killer.

Is the title something that will make me groan in pain in a month when I can read it properly?

[umbraportation]

I wasn't jumping to killing people, but I am kind of curious about how your use of thanergy would go if I were doing death-things. Like killing flora.

Nah, I'll let you pick the title, you'll just have to write it in Greek.

[megatheorem]

I could pull from dying plants, if that's what you mean. In theory, if you kept doing it indefinitely, I could keep going indefinitely, too. Hydration and food breaks implied, of course. But that would also kill a lot of plants.

Generous. I'll come up with a good one.

[umbraportation]

Good to know in an emergency.

Does it have to be something that's dying for you to draw from it? I know you said thanergy was limited and all the necromancers use it, but I don't play by those rules. Do you think our forms of death manipulation would be compatible?

Looking forward to hearing it.

[megatheorem]

Don't know; I've never tried other forms. Ordinarily I'd say no, but I'm also some kind of mystical blood wizard now like everyone else, and our darkblood does bend the rules of normal reality. A strong maybe?

[umbraportation]

Something we could work on? Sure, I could kill things with a sword to get thanergy going, but I dunno, there might not be anything to kill.

Also, does your universe have zombies? Still fleshy dead.

[megatheorem]

Let's think of some ideas. Maybe one without killing too many things will pop up.

And sort of, but not the way the rest of you conceptualize them, I think. A flesh magician, myself for example, could puppet a corpse around in a pinch. There's also the notion of the Beguiling Corpse, which is an incorruptible body (read: it doesn't rot) with a bit of spirit attached that allows it freer movement, if not proper sentience. Counter to that would be what I'd call a 'hideous corpse,' where the body is rotting but the spirit is whole-- a haunting in that case, a revenant.

I think both of those qualify for 'zombies,' by what I've understood a zombie to be around here.

[umbraportation]

If it does come down to killing, you can use the thanergy I'd create from it. Just so we're clear.

[ Since Palamedes' cavalier isn't here to kill things for him. ]

Huh. Yeah, those sound like zombies. Guess Jules-Albert would be kind of middling, then.

[megatheorem]

[Hmm, yes, he totally wanted to think about Nico killing things for him today. It hits different when it's not just plants implied? Presumably beasts, but the danger levels? Nico isn't a cavalier, and that isn't a bad thing— mmph.]

I'll allow it-- in an emergency. Still, let's fiddle with the workaround idea in the meantime. No emergencies to speak of yet.

Jules-Albert?

[umbraportation]

[ It is what baby demigods do, and possible grown ones. He'll do his best to not kill humans or pthumerians, animals and animal-beasts would be the most likely target. ]

In an emergency.

The zombie my dad gifted me. In one of his "getting to know my son" moments, he apparently thought I should have someone to drive me to social places other teens hang out. Jules-Albert used to be a racer, was disqualified despite taking first. He's a restless soul, always looking for a chance to drive. He isn't a whole soul, but he's not rotting anymore.

[megatheorem]

[Baby demigod, do that a little less, beasts are dangerous.]

'Gifted' is a terrible word for that, if you ask me. Can he still think and act on his own? Jules-Albert. You can have a conversation with him?

[umbraportation]

[ But he's good at it, and it's necessary. ]

It's not the word I would have used, either. Zombie chauffeurs do not get a guy some mortal friends. No, I just kind of know that he's sticking around for one last race. Even my demigod friends think it's weird.

And some of them have been driven around by weird individuals.

[megatheorem]

[don't do it son]

If you're here, what is he doing now? Does his contract expire while you're away, and he can have his race and go back to rest?

[umbraportation]

[ He can't help it. ]

He's probably hanging out in the Underworld. That's usually where he is when I summon him for driving. I guess I could probably send him to a race with mortals, the Mist would make him look just like anyone else. I don't usually keep using the same undead, unless that's what they want.

Hm, not sure how dad would take it if I let Jules-Albert have his race and rest.

[megatheorem]

Well, I think you should let him try. But then, you can probably guess how I feel about this latest in a series of weird things your dad's done.