Demon Cam meets the Cthulhu Mythos
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"I hear Thomas Jefferson made terrible macaroni and cheese, do you want to try it in a better incarnation?"

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"...Yes, I think I do."

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Mac and cheese for everybody! Bacon wrapped asparagus on the side.

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"Yes, this is immeasurably better than Jefferson's slop."

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Cam giggles. "Delighted to hear it."

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"So," he says, after the meal is finished, "how would you describe your intentions?"

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"Promoting the flourishing of all sapient beings?"

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Little smile. "How? What's next?"

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"Well, I don't want to go nuts and start resurrecting a thousand people a day, but we could stand to have a bigger sample size since you appear to be fine. It'll be more efficient to cut down on causes of death - material scarcity and diseases and so on. I already triggered the process that will lead to the extinction of the malarial mosquito, everything else is going to need some social engineering probably."

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"--The extinction of the malarial mosquito?"

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"They suck! Literally!"

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"You just eradicated malaria!?" 

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"It takes a few mosquito generations and it's possible I undershot or missed a spot but yes."

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He opens his mouth. He closes his mouth. 

 

"Thank you." 

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"You're welcome!"

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"Do you have anything else similarly momentous under your hat?" 

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"Tell him about vaccines," Lucy says gleefully. 

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"He knows about inoculation, he has surviving writing on the subject. Vaccines get very popular, safer, and more effective, and work great. - Smallpox in particular was eradicated from the face of the Earth. Formally declared in 1980, last case in 1977."

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"--Which would mean that smallpox has been eradicated from your Earth but not ours," Lucy says, noting the dates. "How did that happen?" 

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"Really aggressive global vaccination and quarantine campaign! It was before daeva were even common knowledge."

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"So this is one of those things that requires--social engineering?" 

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"Yes. I can skip a lot of steps because I can travel anywhere in the world very fast and make arbitrary material objects, and it might be I can shortcut a lot of things if it turns out to be a good idea to teach everybody how to summon more daeva. But I can't just eradicate a carrier species for every ailment."

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"It seems to me that in testing your resurrection apparatus you have stumbled across a competent social engineer." 

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"I'm not sure how we do the part where we announce you're alive."

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"--How am I remembered?" 

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