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[alittlegreedy]

So, immortality. Tell me what you know about it and everything else worthwhile-- how to get it, for what price, if there even is a price, what side-effects there may be in getting it, what side-effects there may be in keeping it-- everything. And I already know it's gotta be possible, so don't try to tell me it isn't

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[autodidacticone]

You...want to be immortal?

[Hey, maybe he's a freak like me!]

[alittlegreedy]

That's right.

[autodidacticone]

Why?

[It's suspicious, not disbelieving]

[alittlegreedy]

Because I don't want to die. I've got things to do.

[autodidacticone]

Well. There is one way. But it's complicated, and it hurts, and you have to give up most of what you are right now. But it is immortality.

Not exactly cheap.

[alittlegreedy]

Go on.

[autodidacticone]

Are you familiar with the concept of transhumanism?

[alittlegreedy]

If it's anything like human transmutation? Yeah. If not, then no-- haven't heard of it.

[autodidacticone]

Eh...sort of? I'm not certain we're talking about the same thing.

What doe 'human transmutation' mean, exactly?

[alittlegreedy]

It's where alchemy is used on humans or deals with the soul. Bit of a messy business, to be honest, but it is what it is. It's what I was trying to achieve before I got here: bind my essence to an object of some sort.

[ Audio, btw ] fffffffffffffff it never gave me a notif

[autodidacticone]

I think the concept is the same, but there's certainly no alchemy involved. It's generally a series of surgical procedures. The end result is something that isn't technically alive, but is still by every reasonable definition a living thing.

A transhuman could be killed, but theoretically wouldn't age normally. They'd just keep going and going for as long as they wanted to.

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[alittlegreedy]

Huh, interesting. How could you kill if it isn't technically alive?

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[autodidacticone]

Depends on the exact makeup, but destroying the main processor should work. Maybe a concentrated EMP?

Nuclear weapons kill just about everything.

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[alittlegreedy]

"Nuclear weapons"?

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[autodidacticone]

An explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. They destroy just about everything, and poison everything else for centuries afterward.

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[alittlegreedy]

[Not sure about half of what was just said, but gets the gist!] Wow.

That's amazing.