"Amriac has not been to med school and most likely lacks my theoretical ability to impregnate somebody at forty paces without missing and giving them an ectopic, but noted."

"What an interesting med school that must be."

"I was bored and took a lot of electives but that class was mostly about drug delivery, you need aim for that."

"Are there humans around to practice on or is it all with the mindless bodies?"

"All with those, no humans to be had unless you get a summon for it and people prefer angels for medical applications."

"When they learn magic there might be humans. - I'm not quite sure if you can get enough magic if you start out indestructible, but there might be."

"Oh?"

"Miracle can apparently do it. Wish probably can too. And I sort of want to test less powerful spells - it seems possible that you could do it with just Restoration or something -"

"...okay, that might be a problem. It's a nice place to live at the moment and most people would be very nice to whoever they got but there's billions of us."

"It seems unavoidable but maybe we can - buy ourselves a little time to think about whether there's anything to be done."

"I think it might be important to know whether those spells can fork people."

"- good question."

"They... don't locally, I think I'd have heard of that, I think if you've got two people trying to true resurrect the same target then whoever gets the spell cast first wins outright and the second person gets spell failure. But locally there's a soul somewhere in the afterlives to yank. We should get Promise to ask that fairy what it was like to be dead. We should try resurrecting daeva who used to be human. We should try resurrecting Amentans, a dead Anaander body, Annie, somebody Cor knows who died in a magic accident and was annihilated, both kinds of Elves in various death-related conditions, whatever Promise is, and Andalites. Twice."

"I think what we're doing, with Miracle, isn't a proper resurrection. It's just asking Abadar to make the body stop being magically not a person. So it might work even if the person wasn't dead, if Abadar felt like helping with that. - we should also try all of the same things with Wish."

"Good thing you have a warehouse full of diamonds."

"Can you skip the experiments with Miracle and just ask Abadar what he'd do, or what would happen if he tried?"

"I can but he might not know without trying."

"So we need examples of all these classes of experiment that would be good to have around, which probably isn't a huge additional constraint except insofar as most people probably don't want to fork."

"It sounds kind of fun."

"Then maybe we will wind up with an even more ridiculous number of you. If you fork, who's the pharaoh?"

"Whoever has the cleric levels, presumably. If we both do then I think we're just the pharaoh in more bodies. - I guess if one takes this too far they end up Anaander."

"She seems to think that is not her problem but why take that risk."

"I am in several bodies and I am fine!" says Rubelite. "I am sorry that took me so long. I fell down the stairs."

"D'you want healing -"

"I'm okay! You want me to summon Cam's friend?"