"Changing format instead of switching to a completely unrecorded protocol means it's not that good, or did they do that?"

He pauses. "Looks like - stopped sending written communications over telegraph, shut down audio and video monitoring of key centers, didn't stop writing things down. Big decrease in volume."

Nod. Sigh. "Not monitoring their key centers is smart, I hope they take some security losses for it in other departments though..."

"I'm sure if it becomes known then it'll cost them." He pauses. "They kill the orcs who won't swear. I imagine you'd guessed that. Freedom of religion indeed."

"I figured it was either that or torture them into it."

"Probably not worth the effort, given the numbers. Or maybe they do that elsewhere and no one's stumbled across the documentation yet - making sure the right stuff gets escalated to me is actually a very interesting logistical challenge -"

"I wonder if you could usefully adapt the hell library curation and tagging system. It'd be a big frontloading of effort to get everyone using it and it's designed for a demon population of workers and users though."

"If there's a good explanation somewhere I will hand it off to Macalaure and ask what it'd take to start using it. Though if for example we figure out uploads I really really don't want demons in general stumbling across that piece of information."

"You wouldn't have to submit to the library to use their system. You are still vulnerable to a demon conjuring the complete works of this enti-" Pause. "Confidence level on other inhabited planets existing somewhere around?"

"Valar say there's none. I'm nearly certain the Valar actually believe that and - eighty percent sure they're right?"

"...I will try this experiment in space too, in case the answer is 'why, there are a trillion kinds of aliens and in the last twelve seconds they have produced ALL THE WRITING'."

"Good call. You can do 'the complete written works of this universe' or 'the last twelve seconds of written works' but not 'the first written works of every species with writing'?"

"There could still be a trillion of them," Cam says.

"Does your home universe have aliens?"

"Nope, we checked. I think the check may only have been for living aliens in the human world though, we could have missed somebody else's universe sharing our afterlives and just being very far away."

"Every work written by Elves in Limbo?"

Cam tries it. "Nope."

"Didn't think so. There aren't any Elves that aren't backed up, anyway... Dwarves in Limbo?"

"...Also no."

"Dwarves in their afterlife? Would that be sufficiently specified?"

"They have one? Probably..." Cam tries it. Posthumous works of Dwarves.

Nope. "I didn't think they had one," he says, "but it seemed worth checking."

"Poor Dwarves."

"They live about two hundred fifty, three hundred years, and then just wear out and die. It's really weird. That is the sort of thing which we can almost certainly fix as soon as we know more about it, though."

"Hope so. Be nice to fix that for humans too, Limbo being the disappointment it is."