He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
"I'm indestructible. But yes, I'd like warning before instantiating potentially dual-purpose magic circles that might summon unfriendly critters."
"If you're indestructible and can make arbitrary objects it's probably not a disaster but if you end up with one while on a planet kill it before it can get loose. If you show me a picture of a circle to summon a demon or an angel or a fairy I can tell you whether I think it would be dangerously dual-purpose."
"I can do that but I'm a little concerned that if summoning is somehow odd here, dismissal may be too. And the only way we could check that before risking stranding somebody here would be to dismiss me and I haven't even eradicated the malarial mosquito yet."
"Parasites they carry, but it's easier to get the mosquito and they aren't an important kind of mosquito."
"Bugs are pretty simple. I think you can put them through enough tests to distinguish a demonic and a regular mosquito, but this is how we got malaria gone on my Earth, so they're good enough."
"Is malaria really bad? Compared to, like, polio, or typhoid, or--I don't know much about diseases, we don't get sick."
"Those are also bad but I have to fix them with vaccines, which is a social engineering problem as opposed to a unilaterally releasing clouds of mosquitoes over the Earth problem. Malaria is arguably worst, though, just in terms of body count - some less conservative estimates suggest it is responsible for as many as half of human deaths to date."
"Yup. It's very convenient. Well. Wilbur, you want something to eat and maybe a night of sleep before we attempt resurrecting Benjamin Franklin?"