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THANK you
that's exactly what i was thinking!

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terrible.
wait do you still keep one?
which might be a stupid question here

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not a stupid question, it's hard to find here
but yeah, i liberated some real paper from someone who definitely did not need it

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an artist AND a heistmaster who knew some psychotic warlords
Sam was right, you're definitely not boring

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"not boring" is a ringing endorsement, thank you, i'll take it

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[Definitely a cool dude, Nathan.]

Well, I promise I will never, ever laugh at your sketchbook

[Please show her.]

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well, maybe i'll show you if you want.
it's not fancy but it's a hell of a lot better than drawing digitally with the implant.

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I'd really like that.
I've tried the implant thing and it fucking sucks and I can't get over how much it fucking sucks because nobody who made the fucking thing has ever held a fucking pencil and it SHOWS

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holy crap, right???
it's just not the same as actually holding a notebook and using a pencil
i don't care how good your digital software is, it's not the same

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What kinds of things do YOU draw?

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this is going to sound super vague but
just about anything?
back home i used to travel a lot and would take a sketchbook with me, either for general stuff or because i needed to solve some giant ancient puzzle in a temple somewhere and it helps to have notes

what about you?

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same stuff you do, sounds like. people, animals, landscapes. helps get the thoughts out.

ancient temple puzzles, huh?

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yeah, that's exactly it. sometimes you just have to write something down to really get it.

i used to be a treasure hunter. seen a lot of crazy places, and the crazy ways they tried to hide their wealth. booby traps, giant contraptions, puzzles, you name it.

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Right. It's a journal, not a diary.

Okay that sounds BEYOND awesome but holy shit imagine living in a place like that
Having to dodge falling rocks just to get to the kitchen

What's the best thing you've ever found?

[Not favorite, not biggest. Just the best.]

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swinging across a moat on a rope to get to your bathroom sounds like the ideal living situation

this is gonna sound weird but the best thing i ever found was the dead body of a sixteenth century explorer

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careful, now I'm getting nostalgic for all the abandoned places I used to fuck around in as a kid

you are right about it being weird BUT
now I gotta know, so please tell me the rest of the story

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you and me both.

so for a long time i had this theory that sir francis drake, the english explorer, didn't actually die the way people said he had? that he faked his death.
he was supposedly buried at sea in a lead coffin in 1596 after dying of dysentery
but no one ever found his body

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I mean a lead coffin at the bottom of the sea seems kinda hard to find to begin with

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Until...?