Lúthien in Rewind
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She'll remember that. Okay, who do you want to talk to and what do you want to learn?

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I want to know where to find people with the strongest possible emotions about defeating the Enemy and/or helping you-and-you-by-proxy-through-me with intermediate objectives like fixing our reset.

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Do we have a feel for how strong 'kill the Enemy' is going to take? Everyone wants him dead...

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I can only get ballpark readings and feel like it would be really dumb to undershoot.

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Fair enough. Okay. I bet my parents would wish us a reset point in Doriath happily but probably couldn't muster something that's just generally useful like a settable reset point.

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Why not?

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Because the thing they care about is my safety, not my ability to achieve my goals.


That sounds mean but I think it's the basic thing at work.

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Sounds like a thing, yeah. I'm hesitant to spend someone's wish on something we'll upgrade as soon as we have a chance, but we could just get one of them to wish that and then, well, upgrade when we have a chance; it's a better standpoint from which to do it than back on Earth.

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And this world doesn't need as many wishes as yours, and my parents can ask wishes of their people if there are other things that they want for our kingdom.

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It doesn't need as many wishes but it doesn't have as many people to make them, either.

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True. I could ask my cousin if she'll do the good reset-point version. I am really not sure if she could or would but I can ask her.

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Which cousin is this?

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Galadriel? A quarter-Noldo, very sensible but very bitter, not that I blame her.

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Seems worth asking unless she's also likely to be the best emotion-source for something else more important.

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If we wanted to do something about the Kinslayers, maybe. I can't think of anything easily wishable about them - that they could never hurt anyone again?

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I'd hesitate to allow a wish worded like that, seems too likely to leave them dead.

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I don't think she'd be too disappointed by that outcome. Can you think of a wording that'd get the effect without the potential lethal resolution?

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Not off the top of my head, not that doesn't demand a hell of a lot of bandwidth for the detail handling...

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Me neither. 

 

She'll want to wish something like that, though, she might be hard to bring around to wishing something useful to us if we don't at least express sincere intent to make sure the Kinslayers are brought to justice and I don't think that was really a priority for us.

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Not a huge one, no.

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Are we willing to make it one in exchange for a reset point of our choosing?

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Not if we can get a static Doriath one for nothing, I think, I'm used to working with a static reset anyway.

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Okay. Then let's talk to my father. 

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Okay. Bella follows her. Will you explain or should I?

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I should. He's not a very trusting person and he doesn't trust you yet. 

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