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This might be informal, but I suppose I should ask: would anyone here be willing to try a prototype skin-care product for anti-aging and wrinkles? More details can be given upon request.

[ Better people here to try it out too. Because her world isn't supposed to have the ~magical~ stuff that would be in this cream anyway. :| ]

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I have something for you.

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How does it work?

[Not that he needs it. He's just curious.]

It's a topical... medicine, more so than a cream. Simply apply it over the areas that have shown wear and aging.

Hm--that's certainly interesting.

I have already tested it on other animals' skin. While I have a number of human volunteer lined up in my world, I believed extending the offer here would be not unreasonable.

[ Also she would rather make a post herself than being accidentally recorded. ]

My apologies, I'm not of any help--I do not exactly age anymore, so it would not be of much use to me.

You don't age, either?

I'm something of a complicated existence, I'm afraid. It is a rather blurry distinction between 'dead' and 'alive' best explained as 'a spirit that can take tangible form'.

A spirit, mm. [ ... ] No, I suppose this product would not have much use on you.

I'm sorry. I do wish I could actually help you with it, I was merely curious as to how it worked.

Ah. Well, that is a rather tedious explanation, but it only thanks to the community that I was able to make it at all.

I hardly mind tedious explanations, if you've the patience for it.

[ ...She'll spare him the technical stuff. ] Eventually it boils down to 'I harvested cells from an immortal on this community, extracted what appears to be a factor in their maintenance of youth and health, and incorporated it into what is nothing more than a cosmetic. Since that industry is always in demand, I hope to sell this product and use the profits as funds to experiment more and develop more treatments that use this factor for other conditions. Ultimately, the delay in senescence and an application to cure and prevent diseases is what I hope to accomplish.

[ She falls silent after that because, well, she doesn't know how much time she'll have left to even work on this. She might pass away before she makes any major breakthrough. Funny how it's easy to develop things that kill, but ten times more difficult to make something good. ]

...

[He's trying to comprehend that. Really.]

I...think I understood that.

[For the most part.]

I'll have to give a lecture on it eventually for something like this; you're welcome to attend that if you wish. Maybe immortals don't understand, but something that may delay aging would be quite the breakthrough. If my data is correct, this current product would remove any superficial wrinkles and scars to some extent.