"Why?"

"I don't get reasons. Sometimes you get a feel for it over time but not so much on questions like 'this country first', might be they riot at the end of the week unless we prevent it or might be that it'll be a good scale to start or might be there's a guy there who should be president of the new Vanda Nossëo member state we're building, or -"

"Is that what we're doing?"

"I don't know."

"I wish you would stop."

"Why? Do you value some kind of experiential authenticity about world-saving so highly it doesn't matter if we get a tenth as much done -"

"No. You are absolutely right that it is insane to give up this amount of optimization power and that we should make it known to every potionmaker in the world that there's a market for as much Felix as they can produce and go around impulse-fixing things we might otherwise never have guessed were problems, at least if the fixes hold up in the long term and if it doesn't throw absurd results as soon as it's given to a teleporter with a much much bigger scope of stuff to get lucky over. But - not the same person, not more than a day at a time - this can't be healthy -"

"They'd need to have the right priorities, no matter how committed they are to fixing the universe if what they want deep down is for the pretty girl they saw on television to like them then Felix'll arrange that and it won't be obvious what it's doing in the middle -"

"That seems like an advantage to spreading it out across people, we can notice which things it's persistent about and which it -"

"Other way around. There's a cap on how many personal goals luck can get you, first few weeks it smooths out all your relationships and so forth and then it'll be reliably bigger -"

"And let me guess, a few weeks is long enough that coming off it would be awful -"

"Yup. Come on, let's go to Grenada."

The Caribbean's pretty small. They Apparate. Fredrick thinks the north end of the island is the lucky one. "Your alts think you should take a month off and decide afterwards what you want."

"Including the ones who aren't an Elf because I think I feel urgency more acutely than the Elf ones and that might affect it."

"Including Finankar and Ferardrin, Finleran was less sure he was qualified to comment."

He studies Timothy. "And said he'd probably do the exact same."

"They all said they'd probably do the exact same but if they didn't stop of their own accord post-crisis they would want to be made to take a month off."

"We're not post-crisis."

"By that definition we never will be - infinite multiverse -"

"Loki might develop spells that can be cast on worlds and solve all their problems at once and then we can just have an expanding ring outwards of fixed worlds and a small internal organization to clear people to cast it and then the crisis would be over."

" - okay, yes, that will probably eventually happen, but the development time on a spell like that would be upwards of a millennium."

"So it might take a while or maybe we'll figure out more powerful acceleration options or a shortcut to Loki's spell design process and it won't take as long either way there's a big difference between that and forever -"

"I don't think you should be on Felix for a thousand years pending utopia escape velocity."

" - can we just get this done, first. Once everyone's free and we can hand it off to Vanda Nossëo -"

Nod. Hug. "Where to from here?"