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rosieknightCongrats Immora! You're half way there!
I admit it, I didn't want to think about the potential repercussions of my actions in the Canyon of the Cresent Moon. I don't regret saving my dad's life - even when he's at his most irratating.
But IMMORTALITY?
Anyone who thinks about the idea for more than a few seconds can realize just heartbreaking living forever would be. You'd watch your friends, your family, and even the society you knew change and vanish before your eyes. To keep from attracting the wrong kind of attention, you'd have to constantly re-invent yourself. You'd have to learn new languages and dialects, keep getting re-educated in your career field, create new identies for yourself - complete with all the resquisit paperwork.
Not what I'd call a fun time.
My name is Dr. Henry "Indiana" Walden Jones, Jr. I'm a doctor of archaeology several times over, I've taught at various colleges around the world, and found some of the most sought after artifacts in the world.
Including the Holy Grail.
I'm also 108 years old, but look like I'm a lot younger.
I've seen two World Wars, watched humanity land on the moon, observed the dawning of the computer age - and have those things shrunk!, and survived the Great Depression, Watergate, and the 60's.
To put it plainly, I'm immortal. I have been ever since I drank out of the Holy Grail to make sure it wouldn't kill my dad.
So, 'do I fear death', as you so elequently put it, Captian Turner?
No. No, I don't. I fear living and leaving all those I love behind. It's a fear I'm sure you understand.
Look me up on your next day on land, Captian, and we can trade stories.
See you in ten years.
This looks like the start of a beautiful friendship.
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I admit it, I didn't want to think about the potential repercussions of my actions in the Canyon of the Cresent Moon. I don't regret saving my dad's life - even when he's at his most irratating.
But IMMORTALITY?
Anyone who thinks about the idea for more than a few seconds can realize just heartbreaking living forever would be. You'd watch your friends, your family, and even the society you knew change and vanish before your eyes. To keep from attracting the wrong kind of attention, you'd have to constantly re-invent yourself. You'd have to learn new languages and dialects, keep getting re-educated in your career field, create new identies for yourself - complete with all the resquisit paperwork.
Not what I'd call a fun time.
My name is Dr. Henry "Indiana" Walden Jones, Jr. I'm a doctor of archaeology several times over, I've taught at various colleges around the world, and found some of the most sought after artifacts in the world.
Including the Holy Grail.
I'm also 108 years old, but look like I'm a lot younger.
I've seen two World Wars, watched humanity land on the moon, observed the dawning of the computer age - and have those things shrunk!, and survived the Great Depression, Watergate, and the 60's.
To put it plainly, I'm immortal. I have been ever since I drank out of the Holy Grail to make sure it wouldn't kill my dad.
So, 'do I fear death', as you so elequently put it, Captian Turner?
No. No, I don't. I fear living and leaving all those I love behind. It's a fear I'm sure you understand.
Look me up on your next day on land, Captian, and we can trade stories.
See you in ten years.
This looks like the start of a beautiful friendship.
End
