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Lucien can mostly make a living off of doing divining for certain niche medical studies, but he can't do specific enough conditionals to get his grander ideas off the ground yet. Still, when portals start showing up he's well positioned to suggest to a few people that diviners like him could be useful for quickly figuring out what conditions on the other worlds are actually like.
Still, they're taking a chance on Lucien by approving his application to join the expedition, so he definitely really shouldn't be late for his first day of work. He also probably shouldn't be running along a poorly maintained trail in Bolivia, but between that and the possibility of being late he knows which he prefers.
Well, which he prefers right up until he's tripped on a branch and sent tumbling towards the portal.
"You don't have those? Zombies, skeletons, ghouls, ghosts, most relevantly liches? Stuff that runs on negative energy?"
"If somebody gets hurt and they go to a cleric about it the cleric can boop them with a healing spell, fixes that right up, and those use positive energy, whereas if a cleric is pissed off at you and wants you to shrivel up and die they'll emit negative energy, which harms, but for undead it's the opposite. Most of them are not good at, like, thinking, or anything, but some kinds can be."
"Yeah they're not super appealing as a species transition. There's probably other ways to be immortal I haven't heard of specifically."
"Mages can reverse aging. There are also some that can do healing but non-magical healing is so much cheaper."
"Not really - my divination is aimed at helping figure out better non-magical healing but measuring prior outcomes of different situations."
