[If Hythlodaeus is aware of contact with other worlds, such news hasn't yet arrived in Pandaemonium, and there'd be plenty of people who would certainly be keen to hear it. Theories and ideas had nothing on actual proof, after all.]
... I do. [He sees plenty of reason why there should be differences, major ones.] To think that life is so utterly limited as to merely duplicate more or less identical worlds across the cosmos is ... a disappointing thing to think about.
[Life in its infinite combinations should come up with more than the same generic thing over and over! It's not as if the average Amaurotine body plan is somehow the most efficient nature could devise. He's seen creations far better honed for this or that.
He shakes his head slightly when asked to reconsider. It's not that this place isn't surely chock full of interesting things to investigate, it's just that ... some things are more important.]
There are others better suited to learning about this star, I'm no researcher. I ... my duty isn't something I can set aside for naught more than the sake of curiosity, you must understand. The local creatures are something I'll simply have to contend with.
[There IS no escape. No going back of one's own will, there isn't a choice in the matter. He hasn't quite clued into that fact. Sure there's not aetheryte that he's spotted so far but there'd be surely one around somewhere.. he'd just have to find it! But there's a stubborn persistence that might be admirable in any other circumstance; all their kind were on some level driven by duty. His .. simply has a small white young man holding together a very dangerous facility all by himself and the idea of just abandoning him leaves Erichthonios feeling a bit sick.
Maybe that's the sun and hot work.]
Were circumstances different, and needs not quite so pressing, I would ... I'd like to think I'd be able to stay and look around. But there are those waiting for me.
And then work attacks. Sorry for delays.
... I do. [He sees plenty of reason why there should be differences, major ones.] To think that life is so utterly limited as to merely duplicate more or less identical worlds across the cosmos is ... a disappointing thing to think about.
[Life in its infinite combinations should come up with more than the same generic thing over and over! It's not as if the average Amaurotine body plan is somehow the most efficient nature could devise. He's seen creations far better honed for this or that.
He shakes his head slightly when asked to reconsider. It's not that this place isn't surely chock full of interesting things to investigate, it's just that ... some things are more important.]
There are others better suited to learning about this star, I'm no researcher. I ... my duty isn't something I can set aside for naught more than the sake of curiosity, you must understand. The local creatures are something I'll simply have to contend with.
[There IS no escape. No going back of one's own will, there isn't a choice in the matter. He hasn't quite clued into that fact. Sure there's not aetheryte that he's spotted so far but there'd be surely one around somewhere.. he'd just have to find it! But there's a stubborn persistence that might be admirable in any other circumstance; all their kind were on some level driven by duty. His .. simply has a small white young man holding together a very dangerous facility all by himself and the idea of just abandoning him leaves Erichthonios feeling a bit sick.
Maybe that's the sun and hot work.]
Were circumstances different, and needs not quite so pressing, I would ... I'd like to think I'd be able to stay and look around. But there are those waiting for me.