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May is an esper and Lucy is dealing with my magical girl brainrot
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"Uh...well, I was joking, but I do actually apparently have a ritual to make approximately arbitrary food. Which I had not realized when we were discussing groceries." 

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"Oh, nifty! Not a big gamechanger in a first world country but if it takes less time than baking it sounds convenient."

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"Also it means I can make stuff I remember without worrying about whether this world has the ingredients."

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"Ooh, are there ingredients we definitely don't have, I wanna hear about those."

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"Um...there are ingredients I don't know this world to have, but I don't know of any that it definitely doesn't. But, like, a bunch of vegetables, some spices--actually there are some animals I'd bet they don't have here, I don't think Earth comes with six-limbed vertebrates."

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"Well, except for stuff like Cricket, but monster-eating is not popular."

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"Well if we're counting stuff that comes out of dungeons there is absolutely nothing I can definitely guarantee this planet doesn't have."

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"It's actually kind of - concerningly narrowed to things that are recognizable and interesting to humans. Most of the universe is empty space, most of the rest is stellar plasma, most of the planet is molten, most of the surface is ocean, and there's lava dungeons and ocean dungeons but - in proportions far closer to 'how often do humans think about these things' than to 'how often do these things exist'. There are cats with wings, there aren't snakes with elephant trunks, it's the kind of remixes that a human would not just toss off but find ongoingly interesting."

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"Yeah but I don't get the impression that anybody knows enough about dungeons that that means there won't suddenly be one or more dungeons based off stuff I know."

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"Can't guarantee it, no, but you don't usually see a dungeon themed around, like, some specific child's imaginary friend, it's more like - mythology, mass market genre fiction. I wouldn't particularly expect you as one person to start theming dungeons. It'd be really interesting if you did though!"

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"I don't expect it, either, but--yeah. Anyway, there are definitely going to be forms of meat I have experienced not previously seen on this Earth."

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"Is it any good? Cricket's making intrigued noises."

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"Oh, there's this one that's sort of like a cross between a cow and an anteater--I mean, not really, but it sort of looks that way--it tastes more like venison, but not a lot like venison. That's good! Oh! Also, woolly mammoth, that's been eaten on this planet but not for a long time."

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"Any chance you can deliver live specimens or just entrées?"

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"I, hm. No live specimens yet, although I wonder if the thing to pursue wouldn't be some means of cloning...I can make raw ingredients, not just entrees..."

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"I don't think we have cloning at quite the requisite level of functionality yet but I don't actually know, maybe somebody can whip it up if they'll get a mammoth out of it."

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"Yeah, I dunno. Actually, if I were going to figure out how to make critters directly, I think I would want to start with some things that are, like, direly endangered, but their whole ecological system hasn't been replaced by one that doesn't have them in it? After talking to some conservationists and ecologists."

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"I think with a lot of those just generating new baby ones wouldn't necessarily help that much because there aren't enough adult ones competent to raise young. A mammoth would have a guaranteed spot in a zoo, I wasn't even thinking of releasing them wild."

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"Well, I think that at least with some populations a small gene pool is a bigger immediate problem than there not being adults to raise babies? But, like, this is why I would talk to conservationists. The zoo is a good point but I would rather stabilize a collapsing ecosystem than make some zoo exhibits, if I have to prioritize."

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"Valid! I haven't looked into this very much so I don't know where to point you but I bet the Internet has you covered."

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"I bet it does...hm. I bet reversing genetic damage from inbreeding is more on-theme than making new critters..."

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"Your powerset has opinions on which genes are damaged as opposed to just the set of genes an individual happens to have?"

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"...I mean, some genes...are bad? Like, hemophilia is genetic, or at least some kinds are, I think, I don't think my power would take a whole lot of convincing on 'hemophilia is bad and genes that cause hemophilia are worse than genes that do not cause hemophilia,' f'r instance. I figure that probably generalizes? But, also, I have not in fact figured out how to do that yet."

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"I think a lot of inbreeding just means multiple copies of genes that would be okay if there were only one? But again this is not my area of expertise, I am just unable to shut up, feel free to steer me onto whatever other topic."

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"Oh, no, it's fine--so, as far as I understand it, the genes that are fine if they're only one is, the gene is broken, but as long as there's one unbroken copy it's okay, because you only actually need one copy to do the job? So, like, in theory, it would also work to repair these genes in recessive carriers, there's just not as much need to. Assuming this is a thing I can do at all."

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