Demon Cam meets the Cthulhu Mythos
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"Cam didn't want to perform the initial resurrection experiments on an inhabited planet." 

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"--Wilbur John Whately--"

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"That's why Benjamin Franklin went first!" 

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"So what was the concerning failure mode?" 

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"Ambiguously overriding desire for human flesh, plus anything the documentation he put it together from didn't warn about." 

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"Well, I don't experience anything like that, thank God. Although I suppose it would have been merely inconvenient, given the ability to generate arbitrary material objects." 

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"Yes. I would have still tried it if for whatever reason it were inconvenient to get into space but it wasn't at all."

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"Even with the ability to supply unlimited human flesh that had never been a person I've certainly met people I wouldn't want to allow wandering the Earth with an appetite for the stuff." 

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"There's also that, though you come with character witnesses."

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"I'm sure--God, have you two gotten bigger?" 

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Wince.

"It's been almost two years." 

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"...Well, I suppose I'm glad it wasn't longer." 

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"--Does the body have to be identical to the real corpse immediately after it died? My father--he helped raise the twins--he was very old--" 

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"It does not have to be identical - I fixed Mr. Franklin's lungs and pulled your state from right before you were hurt - but I don't know the exact tolerances and in particular I'd worry that using a younger body would risk losing some memories of the later life, though there's nothing in the literature about it either way since the spell's authors didn't have my affordances."

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"...If it's informative, I do remember being--hurt."

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"That is informative. If you want, I can try for your father with a younger body."

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Nod. "He wouldn't mind being an experimental subject, he'd think it was marvelous." 

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"I will get on that then."

He sets up.

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Mom Whately retreats somewhere private with Kids Whately to discuss features of how she died and the intervening two years that they would rather not immediately air in front of a Founding Father. 

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A Founding Father would like to know more about the process, if Cam's amenable. 

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"Sure! Here's my procedural writeup, I cobbled it together from a chain of sources - some of it's Arabic and stuff -"

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If any of the stuff is French or Italian he can read that. Anything else he'll need translated. 

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Cam has not rendered anything into French or Italian that was not already that way. He can translate the Arabic.

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Ben Franklin is fascinated. 

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