[video] First Experiment.

[teslitricity]

[When the phone clicks on, it is sitting on a table in one of Abax's upscale clothing stores, at about waist high, and tilted slightly upwards to show a wide shot of the rear of the store. Tesla is standing just off of center from the camera, in front of a floor length mirror, turned sideways from the screen. He's dressed in a pair of black dress

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[fortheoptics]

[The irritated, bunged up voice of someone who's too sick to deal with some human who thinks he can accomplish in a night what she hasn't in over a month. She is not usually this grumpy, honest. :c]

I've never heard of you - but I'll be sure to think of you when I'm still here come breakfast.

[teslitricity]

I can't decide what bothers me more, the uneducated masses admitting they don't know someone as famous as me, or the fact that everyone seems so very intent on being as pessimistic as possible.

It's a sad essay on our world today.

[fortheoptics]

It's hard not to be pessimistic when all your best attempts fail. [She coughs suddenly, and cuts the audio for a moment as she recovers from the fit.] And when you're coughing up a lung every time you try to breathe.

What exactly are you famous for?

[teslitricity]

But you can learn a lot from failure. Or so I've heard.

[He grins.]

Inventions, mostly. Little things like...pretty much every interesting leap forward when it comes to electricity. And frankly, I discovered it, regardless of what else you might read.

[fortheoptics]

[There's a little of an amused grin in her voice - she has honestly never met a human this arrogant before.] So you've heard.

Actually, I should confess - I'm not human. Electricity was discovered three millenia ago for my people, maybe more. We don't even have records of that time anymore.