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Milliways may have recently been busy, judging from the confetti all over the place, the usual array of mug stains and dirty napkins and crumbs, and nacho cheese that ended up on the wall for some reason, but it's pretty slow right now.
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"A god. Powerful being, grants their favorite followers the ability to create water and heal people along with some other magic, reasonably often involved in afterlives?"
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"At least in my world, usually when people's bodies die their souls go to places. …usually places with lots of dead people. Not here."
"I... don’t think I’ve heard of anything like that? How do you know about it and, uh, are the afterlives... clean...?"
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"Sometimes they send visitors, or people get visions. And the nice ones are clean, I think?"
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"Strange and infrequent! I haven't personally spoken to any that I know of, it's more … sometimes you go to a temple and there's a lantern archon in the area who might give a speech at services or who might just be there on an errand, the Asmodeus Corporation office has at least one imp, that sort of thing."
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"I haven't personally gone on a quest to verify it but they're things I hear dead people can become?"
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"You can borrow books from Milliways about other peoples' worlds if you want to do a research project. Or buy them, if you can take things home, but the translation effect won't go with you."
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"The ones where I'm from tend to make people evil, but maybe Milliways offers better ones?"
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"They tend to make people do horrible things. They hunger for people's flesh or blood, or they lose all ability to care for anyone, or such."
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"Yeah, it's not great. I think to be those kinds of things you need to catch them like a disease, or do a ritual to transform yourself into one. Most people are just the sort of thing that dies and those are some of the easier things to become. What would you expect to be a non-weird thing?"
"...If... you had a drug that made your DNA go back to not being damaged? And so you didn't get cancer? And maybe if you genetically edited people with something you found in axolotls you could make a next generation that grows back limbs they lose? And if you had enough things like that you would just never die of natural causes?"
"It's the instructions that tell your body how to grow. You might not have it but everything that lives on my planet does."