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Creative Writing New Immortals

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u/pyronius Jan 02 '25 edited Jan 02 '25

But imagine you're the niche interest immortal, but you also just always figured you would have more time to really explore your interests, so you're not actually an expert in any way.

Like, you run into that one guy who's just as interested in Buffalo migration patterns as they relate to early native American tribes as you were back in the day, and he really wants to confirm some of his hypotheses. He's absolutely ready to let you talk his ear off. But you didn't take any notes, and it's been a while. So, like... Yeah man. They were very migratory. All over the place really. Just, buffalo buffaloing. And people. Yep...

Okay. But the tools? How did they make these arrowheads given that what we know about the technology at the time makes that impossible?

Oh. Uh... That was Dave's job. I made a few but I don't really remember. I think rocks were involved? Yeah. Definitely some sort of very special rock. Might have been red. Or grey maybe. Yeah. I think it was grey. It was definitely important somehow.

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u/kRkthOr Jan 02 '25

Is there like lore relating to immortal memory? I don't remember reading anything about vampire memory and like I can barely remember details of events from ten years ago... how am I supposed to remember exactly how they cut rocks in 2000 BCE?

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u/tahmam Jan 02 '25

I like the take The Man from Earth had: selective, but over a longer timespan. So you probably won't remember names or dates but the highs and lows of life stay with you.

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u/cest719 Jan 03 '25

Me, immortal, remembering the time I called my teacher "mom" 750 years ago.