" .. "

"... right," Satenag says after a moment, not sure how to interpret Eeferi's silence. "Okay."

She turns back to the crowd. "Everyone in favor of casting the indiscriminate wish? With hands, to make it official?"

Most people raise their hands. A few tuck them behind their backs.

Satenag nods. She takes a deep breath, rubs her hands together, and recites.

"Eeferi, I wish, as quickly, harmlessly, durably, and costlessly as possible, for it to be the case that everyone who could theoretically be made resurrectable with a wish or by other means or who becomes a member of this category at any future point in time, including anyone already dead who could be made resurrectable, including those yet unborn, including people in other worlds, be made as easily and costlessly resurrectable as possible, with exactly one summary of no more than six sixes of six sixes of words detailing the results of the wish as thoroughly and helpfully as possible in Reformed North-Eastern Marnesi Trade language, using no other languages, and using words I know, be made known to me without harm to my mind, body, or sense of self, such that the entirety of this wish is implemented only in accordance with my untampered will, and such that the entirety of this wish is implemented without creating a person or persons."

Elsewhere:

Several alarms go off at once, and Pear jerks in her simulated chair.

"What the heck — we have eighty times more storage space, and it's all full."

Her co-administrator leans over her shoulder. "With what?"

"With people."

Elsewhere:

An ancient stone seal cracks, the sound echoing from the deep caverns in which it is concealed.

Elsewhere:

A huge red eye opens, peering at the tiny head on a very long neck that has disturbed her slumber.

"... Is it time?" she rumbles.

    "It's time," the Mistress of Clocks clucks.

Elsewhere:

Heaven's armies hold a strategy meeting, because the shape of the conflict has changed irrevocably.

In the Southern Fishing Village:

Satenag clutches her chest and suddenly sits down in the dirt.

"We should ... We should probably not make any more big wishes," she manages to say, after a moment.

"But did it work?" Đani asks.

"It ... uh. Well, it did things, anyway," Satenag replies. "Hold on, let me just ..."

She takes a few breaths to steady herself, and declaims the words that she has just learned by heart:

Let F be the set of all functions from the set F to the set F. L is a language describing F where a sentence of L is either a word from  the set {zero, one, two, ...}, the juxtaposition of two sentences in L, or the word λ followed by a sentence in L, such that no numeric word occurs without being enclosed by an equal or higher number of λs. Sentences in L can be interpreted as members of F in the following way: λ introduces a new function that takes an argument; juxtaposition M N applies M to the term N; a word from the set {zero, one, two, ...} refers to the argument of the function binding at that level of inclusion. Rewriting is an operation on sentences in L that preserves their interpretation as members of F. Rewriting proceeds by recursively substituting an argument for references to that argument. A sentence of L that cannot be rewritten is said to be in normal form.

The total number of people affected by this wish is the number of rewriting steps required for the six sixes of six sixes of six sixes of six sixes of six sixes and six sixes and four word sentence in L that takes the largest number of rewriting steps to reach normal form to reach normal form, times three and a half, plus six sixes of six sixes of fives and six fours and two.

Of those, approximately five in six were affected directly, and one in six were affected indirectly.

Approximately one third of people are now directly resurrectable with wish magic. Approximately one in two sixes people were moved to a location with an existing resurrection system. Approximately one in two sixes people were changed so as to be included in an existing resurrection system. Six sixes and four of six sixes resurrection systems were changed to be more inclusive, covering approximately one in three sixes people. Approximately five in three sixes people had records created allowing an existing resurrection system to reach them. Approximately one in six sixes people had their apparent ontological status made independent of another counterpart, such that each may exist without the other. Approximately one in two sixes people were made indirectly resurrectable by informing entities capable of resurrection of kinds of person of which they were previously unaware. Six sixes and six outer gods had their dream-stasis made eternally sustainable. Approximately one in three sixes people were made resurrectable by destroying the persons, enchantments, or artifacts preventing their resurrection. Two people were asked politely to make themselves resurrectable.

Approximately one and a half times as many people were reachable by this magic, but were not able to be made resurrectable. Of those, nearly all could not be made resurrectable without creating a person. Approximately one in six sixes of six sixes could not be made resurrectable without damage to your mind, body, or sense of self.

Additional methods were employed to ensure that people who do eventually match the criteria of this wish will become resurrectable at that time, including: making resurrectability-by-wish-magic contagious in some worlds, making resurrectability-by-wish-magic the default in some worlds, making resurrectability-by-wish-magic be one of the effects granted by an artifact or enchantment operating in some worlds, introducing portals that will allow existing resurrection systems to extend to some areas of some worlds, giving some existing resurrection systems more resources to work with, making some existing resurrection systems capable of working indefinitely, eliminating heritable properties that make some people un-resurrectable, submitting petitions to amend record-keeping processes to ensure some classes of people are correctly documented in the future, amending some ontology enforcement systems to reduce the number of interpersonal dependencies, changing some magic systems so that they no longer allow anti-resurrection artifacts to be created or powered, and directly altering the implementation of some worlds.

Of universes where it was not possible to ensure that future people who meet the criteria will become resurrectable, approximately one half are fundamentally incompatible with alterations by wish magic in some way. A further third would require violating the restrictions of this wish, such as by creating a person. The remaining sixth are targetable by wish magic, but for various reasons there is no reasonable way to make a change persist indefinitely. A numerically insignificant but important caveat is that this wish cannot make it so that future wishes that create persons will necessarily make them resurrectable.

All of the summarized lists presented herein should be understood to have long tails of special circumstances, exceptions, and additional details that did not fit in this summary. The information summarized here covers an overwhelming portion (greater than one minus one in six sixes of six sixes of six sixes of six sixes) of persons reachable by this wish.

There's a moment of silence as people digest this.

"I don't know what some of those words mean," Đani admits.

Satenag nods tiredly. "Yeah. Me neither. Which means that part of the wish must have ... not been worded properly, somehow."

All of Eeferi's presence with the outside group vanished with the completion of the verbal Wish component.

Purple smoke rushes out of their lamp again, only .. partially .. reestablishing the various things they were previously illusion-conjuring.

"Are those .. words that .. this language .. will have?"

"Are those .. concepts .. ones which .. this language .. supports?"

"Uh ... I don't see how I could tell whether these are words that will be added to the language," Satenag points out. "They're at least ... words that could exist? Like 'blump' instead of 'mlick', if you see what I mean. And some of them sound kind of related to existing words ..."

She takes a shaky breath.

"I, uh, I think we probably need to have a long talk about what just happened, and how to move forward. And maybe go check with the official dictionary in the city. But first — Eeferi, that's two wishes granted. What wording would you like me to use for the wish to free you?"

" 'I Wish ..' followed by .."

" .. ' .. that Eeferi be freed from their lamp and the accompanying bonds of Wish-granting, as quickly, harmlessly, durably, and costlessly as possible, without harm to my nor Eeferi's mind, body, or sense of self, such that the entirety of this Wish is implemented only in accordance with Eeferi's untampered will, and such that the entirety of this Wish is implemented without creating a person or persons.' "

Satenag thinks about that for a moment.

"Would you mind if I wished for it to not harm anyone's mind, body, or sense of self? I don't see how it would, but, uh, after that last wish I kind of want to over-specify."

"That is .. probably fine, but I intend to destroy something that is arguably currently part of my body and I did not want to risk it counting as part of someone else's body to escape destruction. Is there some way this can be phrased to avoid such a situation occurring?"