"Cheating?" Meghan asks Ellie. "This isn't a test. I was hoping we could game the system a bit with a more controllable Assimilation, but it doesn't sound like we can."

"Anyway. Do we want to buy Magic 4? It sounds like we could get most of the benefit of both Species 2 and Metahuman Population, as well as what Meghan wanted to do with Assimilation. Personally, it would be nice to be able to make my whole family immortal if they want, but also let them visit me without being immortal if they'd rather not." 

"That was more or less what I was thinking. Well, I just wanted to figure out how much control over Assimilation we could get to avoid future headaches. I would rather if the entire process was entirely controlled and consensual if we could swing that way."