A Supermagnet, A Doctor, and A Twin Walk Into A Bar

[iamnotpolaris]

Milliways. Oh, bless.
Dr. Xavier could have finished her shift, made it home, and buried her head in a pillow if she had to. But this is much easier.
"Hi, Bar, can I have a stimulant that won't interfere with my judgement or dexterity or anything like that?"

Comments

[roc_on]

"That's fair. If you want to go home and take a nap I won't stop you."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Unfortunately, my shift doesn't end for another couple of hours. I'm using Milliways time-folding to take a break and get off my feet for a bit."

[roc_on]

"Makes sense."

[iamnotpolaris]

"And acquire a better stimulant than coffee, which I will consume when I'm ready to leave so I don't waste any of it," she says, gesturing to the pill and the glass of water.

[roc_on]

"I'd been wondering what that was but it did look like it might be a pill so I wasn't going to ask in case it was personal."

[iamnotpolaris]

"It is a pill, but it's just a stimulant, nothing personal."

[roc_on]

"Hey Bar, do you have anything good enough to let me sleep less indefinitely?"

No.

"Drat."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Lovely idea, but a bit difficult to manage."

[roc_on]

"But sleep is such a waste of time!"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Your body does important things while you're sleeping! And dreaming is fun."

[roc_on]

"My dreams aren't that great, and I could squeeze all the dreams I want into an hour every day or two."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, if you manage to figure out how to reduce your need for sleep to an hour every two days, kudos."

[roc_on]

"I can cut down the need for sleep with meditation, but then I have to meditate. Which I'm really supposed to do but it's so boring, that is literally the point is to be boring."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Why are you supposed to be doing something the point of which is boringness?"

[roc_on]

"Because it's a vaguely spiritual activity and it is supposed to help me do other vaguely spiritual things. But hey, I managed the controlled Avatar State without going into the uncontrolled version first, I think I'm doing all right."

[iamnotpolaris]

"And boringness is spiritual. Got it."

[roc_on]

"Boringness is the most spiritual."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I'm glad my powers don't have anything to do with spirituality, then, I have a religion but it doesn't require gratuitous boringness from me."

[roc_on]

"Yeah? What kind of spirits have you got that are not boring? Nor, I hope, supervolcanoes."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Not spirits, exactly. I'm a monotheist."

[roc_on]

"There... are some people who principally worship the sun...? Like that?"

[iamnotpolaris]

"Sort of. 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me,' is the First Commandment."

[roc_on]

"...This is not the kind of religion with which I am familiar."

[iamnotpolaris]

shrug. "Different universes."

[roc_on]

"Yeah, I'm getting that. So instead of spirits you have one god. Is it nice? Spirits are mostly kind of orthogonal to human morality but some of them are pretty nice."