Ectobiology: The big. Fucking. PROBLEM.

[brainChild]

So my friend is THE SESSION ECTOBIOLOGIST, FINE and dandy, right? Well, NOT QUITE. SEE, I'M a clone of original ME AFTER HE GOT shot in the face.

The problem is simple HERE, HE CAN'T CLONE me. If he sends A BABY CLONE OF me, minor degeneration will OCCUR, AND SINCE THIS is a loop, fuck ME I'M EVENTUALLY GOING to end up too DUMB TO BUILD MY own cloning device prior TO GETTING SHOT IN the face, any suggestions?

The Voices! are no help here.

[cursedGardener]

I've never heard anything about degeneration caused from the session's ectobiology, and can you explain a bit more about your cloning machine and getting shot?

[brainChild]

Not the Ectobiology clone DEGENERATING, ME DEGENERATING. I AM what is generally called A "MAD SCIENTIST". WHEN I was first alive, I MADE A CLONING machine in case I GOT KILLED FOR SOME reason. I programmed it TO MAKE A CLONE slightly less smarter and SLIGHTLY LESS GENETICALLY STABLE than me in case I DECIDE TO CLONE early, but I didn't EXPECT SBURB TO MAKE me have to clone BABY ME INTO EXISTENCE. I got shot during A ROBBERY (FUCK THAT guy, with the laser I KILLED HIM WITH afterwards).

The idea for degeneration SEEMED GOOD AT THE time, since I didn't HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT the clone being smarter THAN ME EVENTUALLY AND taking me out. 0r1g1n47 m3 t47k3d 71k3 th1s, wh1ch 1 f1nd k1nd 0f s177y. And I was pretty SMART, I MADE A cloning machine that activates SHOULD I EXPIRE. SADLY, my lab did not COME WITH ME INTO the session.

[agonyembraced]

I think this is just one of those cases where fate tends to take care of itself. It won't use the current you when trying to create the info for the ectobaby, it'll just take the info from past, not-clone you. Because otherwise what you were worried about would have already happened, since you were already created. As you pointed out, it's a loop, so anything that could have taken place in the past already happened, so the fact you already stand there is testament that something went/is going/is going to go right.

And if you have a hand in the biology, you guarantee your own existence. After all, if you don't clone yourself, you wouldn't be in the session, thus unable to ectobiologize. Ergo, every timeline with information taken from your current self would lead to a massive paradox, dooming itself.

[brainChild]

Thanks for the input, but I figured that this game of Sudoku was printed wrong and used white out and put the 9 where it was supposed to be. Then I went and solved it with a w.

Preemptive edit: What the hell am I SAYING HERE? SOMETHING about Sudoku? I just IGNORED IT AND DECIDED the other guy can HANDLE IT.

[brainChild]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand I just sent A NOT PERFECT ECTOBABY on a meteor. Yep, IT JUST TOTALLY BURNED up with most of THE ASTEROID. THE LITTLE bit of asteroid headshot ORIGINAL ME AND CAUSED clone now actual me TO EXIST. GUESS FATE does sort itself out! ^-^

AND I STILL GOT shot in the face! IT WAS JUST A METEOR and not a bullet!

...

Time player threw another TIMECORPSE AT ME. SHE does not like splinters.

[agonyembraced]

Um, I might be missing something, but it sounds like that leaves the problem of the person you were originally a clone of still hasn't been made into existence, though your personal existence has been assured.

As for the sudden metaphorical speak, that's a Rain thing, you get used to it.

[brainChild]

This may be frightening TO THINK, BUT I think original me might HAVE BEEN BORN LIKE a normal person. Weird.