He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
"So demons can make any physical thing, which means cash is right out. But for everyday transactions you can make someone scan their fingerprint or their retina - and you watch them do it so you're sure it's actually their fingerprint or retina, not a disembodied thumb or eyeball - or their voiceprint, sometimes, and match up that pattern with a centralized database that someone's gone to the trouble of positively identifying everyone in, and you can be sure they're actually trying to make a payment and their centralized bank can hand it over. That's not foolproof, but it's inconvenient for a demon to help someone route around, and there's more secure options yet for really big ticket stuff."
"It's harder to have a machine tell that two signatures are by the same person and not make mistakes in either direction."
"Because the person watching doesn't know what your signature looks like, they're going to be a total stranger who works at a store."
"Oh, okay. It would be convenient if brains could be made to work more like computers, if they didn't lose anything important in the process."
"I meant that figuring out how to do something like that for me was several billion times less important than figuring it out for normal humans."
"It's a good thing I don't get sick as easily as humans, though, since human medicine would be moot for me."
"Completely? I'd expect a lot of things to carry over - disinfectants, maybe antibiotics if they didn't have weird side effects on you that are worse than for humans - certainly anything surgical would be different but I'd expect the least discrepancy in infectious disease related medicine."
"I don't think I will. I think if I were going to get sick at all I would have done so at some point when I was little and careening across the countryside eating everything in sight."
"And even if the worst happens probably I'll be fine and the only real problem will be making a summoning circle big enough for me."
"We don't have confirmation on that for local humans, let alone you, but I wish you luck on that." Sigh. "I'm gonna go see how Benjamin Franklin is doing."