The villagers confer for a moment, and then settle on "Known rules", "Wish results", "Risks", "Risk management", and "Other". The points that have been raised get divvied up into the different categories. People are mostly pretty enthused about Eeferi's pictographs, but Penþa does start weaving a net with some of the less-pictoral specifics for their own reference.

Once things are drawn out on the chalkboard, everyone thinks for a moment.

"Are there other rules that usually come up?" Anþasta pipes up. "Other than 'no wish may directly constrain a future wish'?"

"To my knowledge, there are quite a few!  I'll list some here, but we already know my knowledge must be incomplete, so I will not strive for completeness.  As the difference between knowledge and inference has been called into question, you may choose to doubt my words on the following, but it will be truthful to what knowledge I have.  I've never seen a successful resurrection of a full person except preemptively.  No Wish may change the rules of Wishing or Genies.  Each Master is owed three Wishes, though they may squander their chances at using them.  Wishes almost always cannot change the figurative hearts or minds of anyone except the Master or the Genie.  To gain the full power of a Genie is equivalent to becoming a Genie, and so turns the subject into a Genie (This comes with a lamp.).  Wishes that violate the rules fail silently, no Wish is expended, though so far I've been able to identify why in each case.  Wishes don't seem to include extraneous changes, but they can be fulfilled in a way more complicated than the simplest possible interpretation.  Wishes are not definitionally instant, though that's more a lack of a rule than the presence of one.  A Wish can free a Genie in theory and any Genies freed this way lose the majority of their power in the process.  Wishes to directly kill so far have not succeeded."

Everyone thinks about those rules for a moment, working through the implications.

"... okay, those seem to make sense, except the wishing to directly kill thing," Satenag muses. "You've mentioned wishes indirectly killing people, so that means that there must be some wishes that are possible indirectly but not directly, for some reason."

Anþasta waves her hand for attention.

"Wait wait wait — you said that you'd never seen a successful resurrection except preemptively. Has anyone ever tried for an indirect resurrection? If only indirect deaths work, maybe only indirect resurrections do."

"Some have Wished for variations on 'The power to raise the dead' and this Wish has sometimes succeeded, but the results are not resurrections in a useful sense.  Is there a known method of resurrection here, such that a Wish could facilitate a resurrection without performing one itself?"

She shakes her head.

"No, not that we know of," she replies. "Sometimes a prophet will get a shade of a close friend or relative who died, but they usually don't retain all their memories."

She clenches her fist. "But if there are really other worlds, and enough of them have magic like that that it makes sense for you to ask, then it's only a matter of time."

Egresta reaches across the bench and pats her on the back.

"That raises a good point, though — can wishes affect other worlds? If so, do you know of any that would have affected our world?" she questions.

"Sometimes Wishes reach across worlds and sometimes they don't.  It seems to depends on factors beyond the Wish itself- how connected can those worlds can ever be, how connected they are at the time of the Wish both seem relevant.  Not only do Wishes seem to default to only the world they are made within, if there is a world where magic is impossible, no Wish could ever change it, but if there is a world where magic is merely improbable, perhaps some Wishes could reach?"

"Well, any Wish that has impacted me is now at least indirectly impacting this world, but other than that .. few Wishes I know of are ever made to stretch beyond one world and into the next.  I recall at least one Wish made to grant my Master at the time 'the power to travel between worlds in full health rather than perish' - so perhaps they have already been here.  Another Master Wished that 'any treasure beyond all reckoning from any world be brought to my side immediately!'  They did not survive very long after that, though I recall little else of the aftermath- it was also their third Wish."

"Would you put 'inter-world portals' under 'wish results'?" Egresta asks. "I don't know that it will end up being the best thing to wish for, but if it's possible, it seems worth thinking about in more detail."

Satenag nods.

"Can I ... wish for more information? Like 'what would the effect of wishing for X be'?" she wonders. "I don't know if that's useful, either, because it cuts our number of wishes in half. But if we have to make a risky choice it might be worthwhile."

Eeferi draws a stick figure looking through an oval to observe a forest.

"You absolutely could Wish for more information!  You could get it on tablets, scrolls, books, memories, dreams or perhaps stranger thing still.  I don't recommend Wishing for it as memories though, large changes to your mind can be overwhelming."

"However .. Wishes don't always know the future.  You could maybe Wish for information about likely results, rather than certain information about what will result?"

"Okay, that makes sense," she agrees. "Hmm ... I'm not seeing any other questions about rules. Maybe we could shift to thinking about possible goals, other than going to other worlds?" she suggests.

There's a general shrugging and refocusing.

"And then we can figure out which goals can be combined, and how to order them," Egresta agrees. "... except I think that does leave me with another rules question. Can someone wish for two things at once? Like 'a flying boat and a blue dress'?"

"As far as I recall, to make it more likely a Wish will be granted, my Master should format their Wish such that it has the least things to do.  'I Wish for a grand statue and for everyone who sees it to experience awe at its majesty' seems like a Wish that would fail while 'I Wish for a grand statue that shrouds itself in an aura of majestic awe' seems at least more like a Wish that would succeed.  This is not to say conjoined clauses never succeed, but that they can be tricky."

"In the case of 'a flying boat and a blue dress', while I would expect it to work, I would perhaps suggest a phrasing similar to 'a flying boat carrying a blue dress' instead."

She rubs her chin in thought.

"So we're going to need to be clever about finding ways to fold things together," she muses. "Which will be tricky with your advice about keeping things direct and wishing for what you actually want."

Satenag, who has been ignoring this little back and forth, nods decisively.

"Eeferi, would you put 'no involuntary hunger' and 'no involuntary death' under 'results', please?"

Anþasta glances in the direction of the hills.

"... and 'no sickness'?" she suggests.

Relevant pictograms are added.  "What about voluntary sickness?  What if people disagree on what counts as a sickness?  Is a missing limb a sickness, or an injury?  What if someone just thinks differently?"

"Uuuuuuugh," Anþasta replies, slumping back against the wall of the house that her bench is sitting against.

"Can we just ... take 'no involuntary anything' as a given?" she asks the others, although she's mostly focused on her mother.

Egresta laughs.

"I'm willing to bet that our friend Eeferi will ask what we mean by 'voluntary' at some point," she guesses. "After all — people can sometimes make bad decisions when they're stressed or don't have all the information. And that doesn't even get you out of defining what you mean by sickness, anyway."