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Demon Cam in the Space Silmarillion
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The grownups are all very busy, but the children are all bored. 

 

Bored or having nightmares. But Tasárinon was not on a ship and did not see the people dying and has only heard it thirdhand and can't exactly have nightmares about the look in his mother's eyes - well, he probably could, but he hasn't - so he's bored, and he is drawing on the floor. It is an absurdly intricate drawing. He has been embellishing it for three days. 

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"Do they have mental properties like Silmarils or could I just make myself an inertia thing?"

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"They shouldn't be a problem to duplicate at all."

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"Are there multiple design options or are they all the same? What do they look like?"

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He pulls his collar loose and pulls off a necklace. It is exquisitely pretty. "The only necessary bit's this here in the center," he says, "if you want it harder to remove from you than a necklace or something."

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"How valuable would it be stolen?"

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"The Enemy has as many as he wants - well, no, that's probably not true, but he has enough one is not a marginal advantage. In Valinor one could easily amass thousands."

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"I'll just wear it then - are there any others I should accumulate, put 'em all on one string?"

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"You could pull up the list of what I have, this one has a couple hundred on it. There's one for vastly improved recall and working memory that I find particularly useful, but I don't think it comes in non-chip variants."

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"Now that's tempting as all get out," sighs Cam.

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"One of my brothers is working on a chip that doesn't transmit anything. It'd mean no osanwe, which is half the fun, and only local backups, which is dangerous, but might serve your purposes."

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"Might take it," Cam agrees. "I can define things that are sufficiently attached to me as part of my body and count them in the indestructibility but I don't know how that'll do against read-only attacks." He produces a list of blessings.

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Balance (chip), reflexes (chip), autonomic control (chip), deflecting projectiles (area-effect), grounding electricity (touch), wireless charger (area-effect), eloquence (chip), working memory (chip), recall (chip), temperature (area-effect), better osanwe range and precision (chip), sense magnetism (area-effect), improved visual acuity  (chip and surgery), improved auditory acuity (chip and surgery), ability to see ultraviolet and infrared light (chip and surgery), temporary strength (area-effect), temporary inertia (area-effect), healing (touch)...

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It's on his computer so he can grep it by whether he can actually use it or not. He totally wants most of the area effect ones though.

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"We can also develop new ones for you, it's a two-month development process even if you're really in a hurry for people who aren't the King or Curufinwe but it can be done."

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"What kinda stuff wouldn't have to go on a chip?"

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"Things in the vein of what's already out there - I know breathing underwater's in the development stage now that we all live underwater, but I assume you can just make yourself air - withstanding water pressure's also in the development stage - flight, which again you already have, is perpetually being attempted - the temperature blessings all have safeties on them which stop you from changing your vicinity to Elf-unsafe temperatures, we could make ones without the safeties if you wanted the ability to make the area around you absolute zero -"

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"Hm, not obvious must-haves... Anything that'd make me better able to track the locations of things I wasn't looking at would probably be the chiploading kind..."

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"There are some sensory ones that aren't chip-loading, if they hijack existing senses - like magnetism you sense in your fingertips, sort of, though once you get used to it it just feels like having an intuition that something is magnetic. I bet something like that could be done for spatial awareness."

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"That'd be cool, I have decent accuracy hitting stuff I can't see but it's not perfect."

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"I'll tell a team to start developing it. We should probably at some point have sat down and gone over all our capabilities and the ways they might be useful to you but I have a lot of people under my command and it'd be a very long sit down."

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"Yeah, I'd imagine. Do you need any more of these trinkets conjured up for your people?"

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"Everyone has them. We could do them for the locals."

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"Lemme know when you've assessed demand."

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"There'll be demand, it's constrained by concern about whether this is escalation."

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"Yeah. I'm hoping there's a line between stuff you couldn't do and stuff that'd take you a while."

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