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[ex_sink985]

Is anybody else here older than 100?

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[eudaimonikos]

[Michael doesn't super relate; he's spent most of his life around others his age, so it's not that special to him. Also he hated pretty much all of them? But, still.]

Well, my name's Michael.
I run the tailor's shop near Willful Machine. It's got a big cactus outside. Drop in whenever, I keep food here.
I don't need to eat, but people like it.

[martyrofduty]

Duty.
I'll do that. How durable of clothes can you make?

Food's sentimental.

[eudaimonikos]

I can make whatever. I've kept enough of my powers for that - just nothing too big or very complex, like a machine.
It's just easier to specialize than to have a store where you just make whatever.

[Also he likes clothes!]

I like some of it fine.
Don't need to eat myself, but I usually do it when I'm with other people who are.

[martyrofduty]

You may be my new best friend.
Fair.

I work construction. If you need something bigger or very complex, like a building.

Some of it's hardly food.
Noted.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, yeah? I was an architect before this!
That means something a little different where I'm from, but I know how to do the human kind too.

[He probably could've made more money going into architecture here, but frankly, he's having fun with what he's doing and it's never more work than he wants it to be. It would be annoying to see buildings he designed get destroyed every month or so anyway.]

We used to eat stuff like the concept of envy or anti-matter. Can't really get that here though.

[martyrofduty]

I'd like to see your portfolio.

[ Duty's held many careers and positions, but construction is one of the most... constructive. ]

I wouldn't rule out the first. We eat plenty of emotions.

[eudaimonikos]

I could put something together.

[Not like any of his files came here with him, of course.]

What, here?

[martyrofduty]

I'd appreciate that.

Drinking grief. The concept of farewell. Adrenaline. Wafting regret.

[eudaimonikos]

Huh.
Well, plenty of those going around.

[martyrofduty]

They aren't new but sometimes pungent.

[eudaimonikos]

Honestly, I miss antimatter more than anything else. It was invigorating.
I've started sleeping lately - very weird experience. I don't love it. Some antimatter to wake up with would be perfect.

[martyrofduty]

Have you checked out the other Trench? (Accessible via the new city).

Alternatively, Never Mind might know.

[eudaimonikos]

I've been there briefly. It sucks over there.

[hated it!]

Maybe he could put something together.
Though it can be pretty reactive if it comes into contact with actual matter.

[martyrofduty]

Better reactive there than here.

How'd you control that back home?

[eudaimonikos]

The plane we existed on wasn't really made up of matter. You wouldn't know it to be there, but it was a little adjacent to any of that.

I did spend some time on Earth before being here, though. It was actually pretty fun!

[martyrofduty]

Convenient. I've been somewhere like that. Terrible neighborhood.

Earth gets a bit banged up in my time.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, we had our fair share of those.

That's too bad. Pretty impressive it's done so well for so long, though. Got that nice big moon, I guess.

[martyrofduty]

Horrible residents. Mouthy potholes. Terrible weather.

Humans really ran away with things. We adapted living environments on/around all the other planets or their moon(s).

[eudaimonikos]

All that stuff's their business, for us. We're on the plane they go to when they die, so there's not a whole lot we can do about keeping them alive.

[martyrofduty]

How it went down, it fucked with that dimension too.

[eudaimonikos]

Yikes.

[martyrofduty]

Impressive (negative).