"They vary slightly by locale, but in general they include something making it impossible to impinge on someone's life if they don't want you to and a system to make sure that if there's some kind of emergency Jane is notified - in particular we don't like having people torchable if they can't contact her to have someone come and help should they get trapped."

"Those sound great. Does the brainphone do for the communications?"

"It's the minimum. I believe Pattern also has something that notifies her if someone torches at a worrying rate and they're not a member of my husband's template, in case someone has something going on that makes it difficult for them to use the brainphone. My world has few torchable people so far and my entire culture wears tracking devices that Jane can monitor as a matter of course anyway," she taps the opal in her arm, "so I haven't installed anything that sophisticated myself."

"Those might become popular here as well. 

It sounds like the most pressing priority at this point is ending mortality for the races that don't go to the Halls of Mandos?"

"Yes. Which normally we would do with torchability - but this may not be a one-size-fits-all solution. Coin resurrection might work, it depends on how greedy their afterlife arrangement is. We'd need to watch out for forks; naive coin resurrection in a Downside-attached world resulted in a fork of one of my alts once. Coin wards and unagingness are easy."

"Forks as in two different instances of the person being alive? And I can't imagine what'd kill them if you can do unagingness and presumably also malnutrition and disease."

"Yes, as in that. It happened to another person too, same reason, he was from a Downsided world before we discovered Downside and his boyfriend resurrected him naively by coin. That particular problem has been patched now and Downside will yield up anyone we try to resurrect if we do it that way - such as when Jane's been down. It might easily be that nothing in Arda would kill them," Angela says. "They could have a problem if they wanted to be interdimensional tourists."

"Unless you're enhancing durability a lot some of them will occasionally die of having tried to invent heavier-than-air flight or something."

"Wards would handle that. If they're not having tremendous fun with the experimental phase we could also just tell them how heavier-than-air flight works."

"My father'll probably feel slightly cheated but not for very long, not as long as there still are some open engineering problems, magical or otherwise."

"We brute force a lot of things that could probably stand to be investigated with more finesse. My alts do that with heavier-than-air flight, too, I'm the only one who was born with a solution to the problem."

"I noticed it! Pen gave one of my brothers a ride around. Arda's native magic is suited to lots of useful things - we can dramatically enhance memory and recall and reflexes, I don't know if you've mentioned if your magic does that - but it doesn't move things much and isn't suited to flight."

"Bells've all got wished-on perfect recall. We don't have a reflexes wish per se as part of the standard introductory package for new arrivals - although we do have grace in there because one of our template features is being disastrously clumsy - but it would not be hard to wish on as an as-needed."

"I don't know anything about the wish process so I can't estimate comparative effort per item. Getting those to everyone on this planet'll be a peacetime priority of ours, once we have cities built."

"How much of your postwar reconstruction effort do you just want to do yourselves?"

"Having non-war things to do will be useful for us, but everyone'll feel insulted if they could have been done with the twinkle of a coin or something. Things that you can do for us with difficulty, we'll do ourselves with difficulty. Things that you can do for us with ease, please do. And books. If there are lots of universes there must be lots of books; we would like them."

"In general magic does not speed up anything best described as a design step. Does your world have computers in any form?"

"Nope. This war was fought with swords and bows, if that gives you a sense of the approximate technological level."

"Paper books are a little harder to curate and Jane can't help, but you can certainly import books. Milliways is actually a good place to do that, Bar has literally all of the books."

"We can also invent computers. The name itself might be enough for my father to go off. What sort of help would you provide if you weren't worrying about cultural sensitivity or obviating us?"

"I'm not the ideal Bell to ask that, because on my own world I'm very worried about both. But the fully openly magical, well-established Belled worlds are thoroughly post-scarcity imposed top-down."

"Goal sounds great, process would reopen old wounds. We did top-down imposed post-scarcity and we were desperate to escape it. Maybe those worlds deal with the problem better."

"The worlds I'm thinking of are mostly terraformed and colonized neighboring planets that take immigrants from the original populated planet in the world. Although one of us did have to conquer her entire planet, it was just that badly run."

"That might work. The problem was that the Valar were so much more powerful than us, interested in keeping us small and easily contained, and warped our culture and our values in a way that I think occurred even with some values that were good. And we felt meaningless. And they had an endless litany of excuses for keeping us so. What would work best here would be a paradise with no overlords - beyond the ground rules, those can count as laws of physics - and no restrictions on local leaders beyond that they permit emigration."

"Since we don't even have a worldless Bell free to install for full time management that sounds mostly fine to me. Permitting emigration as the sole limit can get complicated with children, though, we tend to be more affirmative of children's autonomy than most people we run into."