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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

Comments

[brosbeforeprose]

That's how it works in Thedas - where I'm from. Monks or anybody paid well enough with hand muscles of steel writes copies of books. Even mine, although I would bet money that no monk ever copied a book of mine. My publisher handles all that and she would probably spontaneously combust if she walked into a Chantry.

[He likes her, but she's literally in a criminal gang, so it's true.]

You don't know what it feels like? A lot of people would be jealous of that.

Let me see... Pain is your body crying out to you to stop doing what you're doing. It has a lot of tones of voice depending on what you're doing and how intense it is. Sometimes it just grumbles dully, or nags you with its whiny voice. But there's pain that's like scraping a sword on stone, you know the way the sound makes you wince? It can throb, stab, wash over you like acid.

Sometimes it grounds you and lets you think clearly enough to act when you need to.
Sometimes it's so intense your body doesn't know what it's feeling, it just screams at you to stop.

[cleaningsolutions]

You don't have the technology to replicate text quickly. That sounds difficult. Your books must be rare and expensive.

[which also, to her mind, means he's probably a bigger deal than she'd assumed when she expected printing presses or woodcuts. Whichever came first. She is not at all sure.]



That's very poetic. No, humans - cured humans - don't experience pain. I have something like a dull pressure or tightness. Sometimes, like when an organ ruptures, I also feel my heartbeat throbbing around the area, but it's not exactly precise. My uniform was designed to log damage and inform me or I wouldn't know most of the time. It doesn't feel very important.

It's a tradeoff. As far as I've heard pain exists to tell you not to do something. I've known people who walked into fire or with broken legs and hurt themselves further or died. It's part of why we're so feared as fighters, though.

[brosbeforeprose]

They're not cheap, that much I can say. But then, I've seen copies in the damndest places, so there's probably a thriving secondhand market I'm not seeing any take from.

[He's not complaining. Today's secondhand buyer might be tomorrow's firsthand buyer.]

Your uniform tells you? How so?

You'd have to be very aware of those throbbings and pressures, and of how much your body can take, to be able to go into dangerous situations with permanently damaging yourself.

I guess it depends on how desposable your superiors find you if you ever find yourself in battle

[cleaningsolutions]

I don't really know how the technology works, but my uniform has a network of tiny sensors. Whenever one senses a puncture, for example, it automatically seals and sends a signal to my monocle, which even without Doc can make sense of all the signals and tell me how bad the damage is. If I had my team here and all in uniform I could have Doc monitor all of them.

It does take training. Infantry and anyone else going out in the field wears combat uniforms too. Those have more robust systems of detection and monitor our bodies more precisely than SHS - that's Shipboard Hygiene and Sanitation.

It depends on the officer, but the Admiralty keeps us in mind and reprimands the ones who don't care. Some things are worth the risk of death, and in any case we're hard to kill.