[OVERFLOW] Event: Healing Waters

[voidtreckermods]

This is an overflow post for the Healing Waters August event. Please feel free to continue threads here from that post, to avoid captcha.

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Senku Ishigami

[10billionpercent]

Edge

[10billionpercent]

Senku barked a bit of a laugh. "Yeah, I could see the valid argument, but that comes from within and less something humans invented with their ingenuity. Communication can change the tide of battle, especially if your enemy doesn't have it."

Re: Edge

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"So does determination! I'm telling you, we beat way more foes with determination than with communication!" Edge didn't think in terms of theory, as in what would have happened with better communication in that same war... though in the end, it all would have fallen out to the same end.

[10billionpercent]

"I won't argue with you." He said, still chuckling a little bit, determination wasn't a bad answer.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Trust me. I'm a legendary hero on my world, you know." That might be a little exaggeration, but not actually a lot.

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah?" Senku asked, his tone more curious than disbelieving. "What kind of a hero are you?"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"I just said, legendary! My friends and I traveled to the Red Moon itself, and put paid to the spirit of the foul Lunarian who'd caused our world endless travail and strife!" Boasting, to be sure, but a true boast at least.

[10billionpercent]

"I'm not sure I grasped any of that, but I'll take your word on that." Senku commented. "I'm not familiar with the Red moon or anything."

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Funny story. We thought it was a moon, but it turns out it was a vehicle for the Lunarian people to travel in, and they were sleeping in it the whole time." What could you do but shrug?

[10billionpercent]

He blinked a few times at that. "How was that mistake made? Does it look like a moon?"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Of course it did! Pretty much exactly like the True Moon, but red." Thus the name.

Dyme

[10billionpercent]

"That's an interesting question! The petrification has an interesting side effect. The process of being petrified and depetrified causes a regeneration in the cells meaning that any injuries or illness is completely healed." Senku grinned.

"Isn't that fascinating? It doesn't work for genetic conditions, like say, poor eyesight. I have so many questions, it's exciting."

[swansongs]

"Oh." That actually was fascinating. There were so many possibilities, so many lives that it might have saved. "So it's like...like a bit of a miracle cure?" But only for certain things. That was weird. If he was more into science, he'd be all over this kind of thing to try and figure it out. "Sounds like it could have been executed better, though."

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah, in its own way, which is just interesting. We'll move forward with the assumption it's meant to be an attack, although how that makes sense is also rather dubious. Why turn everyone to stone but not destroy them?" Senku asked, tilting his head slightly.

"It can heal mortal wounds, which is rather helpful, but I don't know what the upper limit is on that. I guess we're going to be testing that when I get back." He hummed. He certainly hoped it worked.

[swansongs]

"Uh. How...are you going to test that kind of thing?" he asked. That sounded kind of ominous. Or alarming. Or maybe both. It didn't sound like an easy thing to test, especially from a non-scientific standpoint like Dyme's.

[10billionpercent]

"I have a dead man waiting for me to bring him back." Senku responded simply. "He wouldn't be the first, but unfortunately his death was inevitable. He was attacked by someone he trusted and regardless of the surgery I performed on him, without modern medicine, he succumbed to sepsis, so I put his body on ice. It's a gamble."

If it didn't work, then Tsukasa was dead anyway and there was nothing he could do about it, but if it did? They'd have their strongest warrior back.

[swansongs]

"Oh." That was...a lot different than all of the things he'd been imagining. It was at the same time better and worse. It was morbid, for sure, but there was a chance for hope in there, too. Imagine if the dead could be brought back to life...

"I hope it works, then. Being able to bring someone back to life would be something else." An amazing something else.

[10billionpercent]

"The science is sound, it's just, I'm not sure what freezing his body is going to do or how it's going to affect it." He mused thoughtfully.

"I've experienced the power of the petrification to reverse death, but it was maybe a half an hour tops. It healed Mirai's brain death, and saved Ginro from fatal wounds. It's a very strong force I'm fascinated by."

[swansongs]

"In the movies, freezing people like that almost always works," Dyme said. "But...I dunno how that translates to real life. I'm not even sure if that kind of thing exists for real back home."

It was sad to think that he'd probably never find out how things went with the petrification thing because to find out, Senku would have to be back home and...Dyme wouldn't be there. He wasn't much of a science person himself, but now he was curious about how all of this worked out.

[10billionpercent]

"It does, it's a very science fiction solution. It was fine, I needed to do something about food preservation anyway, so a refrigerator was an important build." Senku hummed. Built on a deadline, but weren't most of his projects in some way or another?

"It's the only move we had. He's been dead about a year."

[swansongs]

"You don't have a dead guy next to your frozen foods, do you?" Because that was what he was imagining, and he wasn't sure if it was a funny or horrifying mental image.

"And that's...a long time. But I guess not as long as everyone was stone." So maybe it would still be okay?

Rose

[10billionpercent]

"I'm intending on going from the stone age back into space, so I don't see how that's a lot different." He chuckled, wildly amused. "I'm still intending on getting into space, it's just a matter of time."

"Motivation, huh? That's kind of...something I'll leave to someone else. I'm not always good at that, unless people tell me." Senku hummed. Despite admitting that he wasn't terribly easy to trick or gullible, but he tended to take people at their word. That was just always a calculated risk.

"I don't have one millimetre of interest in traveling in time. Sure, there's a lot of cool things I could experience. I could meet some of my heroes, try and change history which wouldn't work anyway, and even if you tried chaos theory would take over. The smallest changes can have the greatest unintended effects." Senku explained, without thinking about it. "I could see my dad again, only it wouldn't be real. Time travel isn't for me, but I'm more interested in everything else you could get from that knowledge."

"Understanding other aspects of the universe always leads to more discoveries, more knowledge, some of the most amazing things come from one thing or another." Senku smiled at that.

"There's technology knowledge I have now that I have no intention of using, or telling people how to use." Senku admitted. Nothing mundane, but there were certain weapons that he wouldn't be interested in.

"But-" He held up a finger. "No matter what I do, no matter what I don't teach people, humans will probably find their way back to the discoveries. Human nature is fascinating like that. I might be the most knowledgeable guy around in my world, due to a lack of population, but basic knowledge has let Chrome run wild. The things he comes up with, they've been done before, but he doesn't know that. Innovation is easy for some people."

[burntlikethesun]

"Moving out of caves and into space is a fairly linear progression when it comes to technological advancement. Time travel is a whole other level, and the only one liable to unravel the very fabric of reality if you're not careful."

What an uncomfortably accurate example, though she supposed daddy issues weren't exactly uncommon. "Well, you're half right. Timelines are both more rigid and more forgiving than what you're thinking."

This guy was really doubling down on his love of knowledge. Well, he wasn't wrong in his reasoning. She wondered if she could offer up just the theoretical side of things.

Rose shrugged. "It's not surprising. You see it all the time in nature: when faced with similar problems, different species may find similar solutions.

"Yes, your civilization may develop time travel all on its own, but that's probably millennia away. I'm not asking you to stop or undermine your own society's progress or anything, but I do have a responsibility to everyone that you would cross paths with if I pass you the secrets of time travel."

[10billionpercent]

"It's only linear because I know the path. If I didn't know the path, who knows how technology could develop? Although, the answer is not very far considering in 3700 years, they hadn't progressed much." He was already messing with world history in his own way, but it was organic enough.

"I suppose that's true, although what is a measure of reality is apparently subject to recalculation considering I hadn't thought I'd be alive this long." Senku commented wryly. "By all rights, I should've lived a natural life, but here I am."

It wasn't so much as doubling down, but Senku was truly and honestly fascinated by the world around him. He found every aspect of science, math and engineering endlessly fascinating. What he had been doing wasn't a challenge, exactly, except he was coming up with alternate ways to get to the end result. It was a constant puzzle. He loved it.

"Selfishly missing my dad is no reason to mess with time anyway. I don't know what I'd even say to him. There's nothing I could say, that I didn't say when we knew each other." It was less of an issue and more that he was still in mourning, as someone who'd actually lost his family permanently. There was no waking up Byakuya in the future. "Seeing him wouldn't bring him back to life, since he died some 3700 years ago, give or take."

"I suppose it's alright. Knowing it's possible is enough, I could shift my focus to figuring out time travel. I have a good mental resource on what the latest theories were when the world ended. Maybe that's something I can do in a decade or so when we're done bringing everyone back and defeating the threat that petrified us in the first place." He wasn't offended she didn't want to part with the knowledge, exactly, but he was disappointed.

Eva

[10billionpercent]

"I want to see that." Senku agreed eagerly, as if skeletons and scans were the most interesting things to look at it. What could he say? He had strange interests.

He hummed at the thought of bioenergy. "I'm not entirely clear what you mean by that." He admitted, but it would be interesting to learn more, he figured that he might pick up more as time went on.

He looked at the new pokemon. It was huge, which was something unexpected and he leaned back, looking wide-eyed at it. It also looked like a reptile maybe? With plants? Fascinating.

"What makes it a grass type, exactly, the plants?" He gestured at the hologram with his fingers.