[Rodney makes a face. Too soon? Maybe too soon. He snorts, though.]
I was just thinking that if I'm going to be a frustrated in my dreams of becoming a Nobel Laureate [(ahem)] and artificially restricted by knockoff-Ascended, then I'm going to branch out to an entire new area and become the best there is at something I'm not going to be looking over my shoulder waiting for the ruler to come down across my knuckles.
And it would be nice to, you know, do magic.
[He sounds a little wistful at that. And he's absolutely oblivious that his shielding spell carried over from the simulation. Technically, he's already doing magic. Sometimes.]
Alright, you know that turning into a jet plane is ridiculous, and I know that turning into a jet plane is ridiculous, but have you actually seen or heard someone do something like that here, because this is magic and I'm not going to rule anything out.
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Yes, yes, technopathy. Like...Apocalypse? That's. Appropriate.
[Rodney makes a face. Too soon? Maybe too soon. He snorts, though.]
I was just thinking that if I'm going to be a frustrated in my dreams of becoming a Nobel Laureate [(ahem)] and artificially restricted by knockoff-Ascended, then I'm going to branch out to an entire new area and become the best there is at something I'm not going to be looking over my shoulder waiting for the ruler to come down across my knuckles.
And it would be nice to, you know, do magic.
[He sounds a little wistful at that. And he's absolutely oblivious that his shielding spell carried over from the simulation. Technically, he's already doing magic. Sometimes.]
Alright, you know that turning into a jet plane is ridiculous, and I know that turning into a jet plane is ridiculous, but have you actually seen or heard someone do something like that here, because this is magic and I'm not going to rule anything out.