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So. That month certainly happened. As usual I'll be the contrary fool who points out that leaping directly for Jason's throat was foolish and hastily conceived. I hope at least some of you understand that outright murdering the one person that makes our own deaths a minor inconvenience would be ill-advised at best. When next this opportunity presents itself, I advise that quick planning should lead to a less half-baked idea.

[Deadpan as ever (or perhaps even more so), Waver appeared today in much better shape than he had been the previous month, though for some reason he was currently lacking the usual sunglasses. If not for the frown set deeply on his face and disapproving tone, one might dare think he might have been in a good mood.]

Now that that's been said--and without touching upon specifics--I'd like to hear how everyone else is faring at the moment. [It would be stupid to outright say HEY GUYS HOW'D THE COLLAR EXPERIMENT GO FOR YOU ALL, so Waver elected to be vague.]

If anyone should care to answer that, I have quite a lot of work to do- [He idly held up a number of sheets of what appeared to be parchment, the topmost one having runic writing on it.] -so I will most likely be found on floor twenty-seven in a half hour or so. [And for the next few days without a break, probably.]

[There followed a short pause, after which the severity in the cold and British accented speech lessened slightly.]

...My disapproval of the methods aside, congratulations. Ill-advised or not, you did accomplish something. Don't allow yourselves to think this a failure.

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Gilgamesh can deal with it, he was a shitty ruler and doesn't deserve it. Immortality isn't worth it anyway. It's a curse, not a blessing.

[That is the tone of someone with plenty of experience on this. :| ]

Why do it the easy way, I suppose...

[Wow, he wasn't going to pay much attention to this despite his name coming up, but then there were the insults. Surly as he currently is with his powers gone, he speaks up.]

Do not talk about what I deserve, fool.

[... Oh hey there. Let's not even talk about your policy decisions, Gil. :| ]

You wouldn't want it anyway.

I am certain I do not know what you are alluding to.

The immortality you were searching for.

Regardless of what you may have heard, I did find it.

In a way, I suppose. It was different in my world. Though I suppose technically you might be around. I haven't seen you, though.

Perhaps the Gilgamesh of your world did not go back after the snake.

[He just barely keeps himself from referring to that time as the snake incident.]

But it was a parlor trick, not true immortality.

[Much like the Noodle Incident?]

Of a sort. Though I shed bodies as a snake sheds its skin, so... who knows?

The difference, of course, being the matter of choice factor.

True. I suppose it wouldn't be as bad if I had chosen it.

Well now you've gone and done it.

[Sigh.]

Try not to send him on a rampage, please.

[He just laughs at that.]

I can handle him, I think. Besides, I saw the results of his rule firsthand.

...Come again?

I'm much older than I look.

Apparently. And dare I ask the explanation for that?

I was cursed with immortality, near the beginning of everything in my world.

...Why does that sound unnervingly familiar.

Oh?

[He's just gonna wait for it.]

[Give him a second. Myth And Legend 101 is pretty standard for anyone that's ever been in a Holy Grail War, but he'd been partial to Celtic myth in the past years.]

...You're fucking not.

[Then again, his family had been at least partially Protestant.]

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The first born outside the Garden... yes.

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Do you see me rampaging, magus?

[Hmph.]

You'll have to forgive me, the Archer I knew had an unimaginably short fuse.

So you mentioned before! He is an inferior version, of course.

Well, I'm certainly not qualified to make the distinction.