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"Okay. I need to clear this with my superiors, but what I'm inclined to do is take anybody who'd like to go to Endorë to see that we're serious and able to offer this, then let you as a community hold a vote, maybe with the threshold at like 80%, on whether to give Tapa robots and thereby secure their cooperation in arranging for you all to emigrate."

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"I can only speak for my neighborhood. There's some of us everywhere."

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"Yeah. We'll do it country-by-country. The robots we're placing can't be reverse-engineered, so we don't have to worry that if we've given it out anywhere everyone everywhere has to be prepared to evacuate."

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"You do if somebody thinks they could be reverse-engineered. I also can't speak for reds in other Tapai cities, or the rural ones."

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"One hopes they would try to reverse-engineer them first. What's the best way to contact the other reds?"

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"There's some online groups. Won't get you complete coverage, some of the rurals don't get online much."

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"Can you send me links?"

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She can. Here's a bunch. Some of them are even international.

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And she makes messageboard posts! Hi, she's an Elf and the designated Elf representative to red communities, here's why Elves are thinking about maybe helping all the reds emigrate, here are the standards for membership with Vanda Nossëo, here are some examples of what that looks like in practice (there aren't any good ones from Elven society but in other member states there have been some important politicians arrested for crimes against random poor people, and some police officers arrested for excessive use of force, and of course occasionally some angry people will march into the office of the Crown Prince to yell at him and here are the things they've most recently yelled about and here's what has been done in response.)

Here are some pictures and maps and descriptions of the advantages and drawbacks of various refugee hosting sites. 

And then she explains that they will probably hold a vote, by country but if that's complicated for some reason they could also do it by district.

 

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There is a mixture of suspicions - outright lies, some kind of trap, some kind of prank, legit as far as it goes but kind of a join or die proposition, implausible because magic, implausible because benevolent aliens...

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It is kind of join-or-die and they're sorry about that, they are also pursuing other avenues to improve the treatment of reds but people are really stubborn about that. She is happy to meet people who think it's a prank. She's happy to demonstrate the arbitrary-matter magic; you can write a message to Almarë c/o Ambaróna open channel on a physical piece of paper, or on the floor, or on your computer, and in an hour she'll post a file dump with the messages, filtering ones which contain personally identifying information, threats, or obscenity. 

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Some people challenge her to come meet them. A few try the writing thing but there is a lot of stuff that needs filtering.

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Aaaaargh. She calls up some friends from university and they sit on the floor and filter and get up the file dump only eighteen minutes after she said she would. 

 

And then she looks through the challenges to find someone who gave enough information to teleport off and goes and knocks on their door.

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The door is answered by a small child who says AAAAAAH and slams the door and runs away.

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...okay? She waits.

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Peeking out the window.

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This Elf has black hair in a very intricate bun and is wearing a dark red uniform sort of thing that is awfully pretty for a uniform if it is in fact a uniform, and actually awfully pretty no matter what it is. She has a bag with some weird laser pointers in it and a necklace.

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This is an apartment building; the neighbors are also peeking into the hallway. They seem nervous.

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Sigh. Next time she will suggest people meet her somewhere where she won't scare their neighbors. She waits.

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The messageboard says I believe you I believe you go away!

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...okay. She leaves.

 

Elves will as a rule not report you to the police! If someone were to murder her that'd be super annoying but it still wouldn't get reported to the police! Reporting people to the local police sounds kind of like handing them over to an injured grizzly bear, and that is not an appropriate way to handle real grievances let alone stupid purity-taboo grievances! That said for future visits please have in mind a way for her not to scare the neighbors.

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This one person says he lives alone in a little cabin in a ski resort and she won't scare any neighbors if she bothers him.

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Great! Off she goes.

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He lives alone in a little cabin at a ski resort! He takes a picture of her.

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She extends a hand to shake. "Thank you for doing that, I hope it helps reassure people."

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