Demon Edie and Demon Cam in Milliways
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"I'm going to see who's staffing the infirmary."

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He beams at him. "That's the spirit. Or something."

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"And I will ask if they'd have to come through the main bar for shift change," snorts Cam.

Off he goes.

...He comes back. "So, the person in there is competent to heal at least small injuries, but I could only find out by self-inflicting one, she wouldn't talk to me besides, like, stock phrases?"

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"Huh. Maybe throwing Mr. People-Psychic here at her will help."

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"I look a lot better than I am by virtue of having known pretty much everyone I interact with for centuries," he says, but he gets up and heads infirmary-wards.

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In the infirmary is a fiftysomething human sitting in an armchair reading what looks like a field guide to dragonflies. When he walks in she looks up, smiles, makes eye contact. "Hello. Show me where you're hurt," she says.

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This was not the answer she was expecting. She frowns.

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"Nimia."

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"Do you do complicated stuff, could you take someone's chip out?"

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"...I can heal injuries and diseases."

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"There's a piece of metal in my head that I don't want there, could you take it out?"

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She's confused.

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"...corpus of responses such that you need everyone to stay on script, or just a species that has really different default interactions?"

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"I'm a healer."

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"So the former. What were you before you were a healer?"

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"Not a healer."

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"What other things can people be? Fighters? Scientists? Researchers? Teachers?"

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"Tephramancers, sciomancers, sideromancers, antheomancers..."

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"Are those the local equivalents of the things I said or just occupations? What's a tephramancer?"

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"Conquest mages."

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"So sort of the equivalent of a fighter? What's a sciomancer?"

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"Some kind of mage," shrug.

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"Can you give me an overview of your world and its magic system, or should I keep asking questions?"

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