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"I don't exactly have her contact information but yeah maybe."

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"Huan has been howling in anguish for seven years, 'track down a Maia with a vague crush on Cam' really looks like the easier problem," Maitimo says. "At least in the short term."

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"Yeah. She said in spoken language she's, what was it, Thuringwethil, what a name."

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"Never heard of her. I'll put someone on it once I get home, though."

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"And then she can explain Iobel Maiar, although it might not matter until we have super-mnemonic spellbinders."

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Everyone is very optimistic about this. 

It is a crazed few weeks. Technological development starts being put into place. Mitros gets his improved recall, though it's not going to bootstrap readily up to the kind of memory Elves can achieve. They roll out plans for universal education and literacy, the newcomers having thought that was a good idea, and share healing fountains with all nearby countries that aren't having wars and don't own slaves.

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This wouldn't be Iobel's first choice of a thing to withhold from countries that are having wars. Can't they just bribe them to stop having wars with less essential things like electricity?

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Well, he can only do one a day, and doesn't really want them propped up in war zones so teenagers can be dipped in them and thrown right back at their enemies. Once there's enough to go around anyway maybe they can be set up in the places with wars, too, with some kind of protection against that. 

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Sure, prioritizing by "not having wars" is fine.

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He assures her he's not under the impression that the people dying in the wars had it coming or something.

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Cam is happy to churn out bribery and infrastructure and such in large quantities. Also there should be a worldleaper around somewhere, where do they want that.

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Will people using it to anchor on this dimension appear wherever it is or something? If so, they should probably build a special spacious nicely guarded building for it.

 

The Elves have aesthetic suggestions.

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"We could also put it in space if we ought to worry about vandalism or something from unhappy locals."

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"I suppose that'd add at least some constraints on who could come through," Mitros agrees. "It might be worth it. ...can arbitrary demons use the worldleapers as beacons the way you all do, once they learn that worldleaping is possible?"

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"Yeah. If security and not convenience is the priority we could put it lightleaping distance away and hope that none of them binary-search the planet's location."

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"I am not sure how likely you think it is that someone'd find it funny to feed this planet into a black hole, or extract any concession they pleased by threatening to."

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"Not very. Can't categorically rule it out."

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"Then making it a week's extra bother to do so might be worth it."

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"This does have the disadvantage that the locals can't get out on their own if they need to."

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"I don't suppose there's a way to make a one-way version?"

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...Cam pulls up the latest in Fëanáro's work.

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It can be done, but isn't operative yet.

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"Theoretically, not yet practically. I guess we could just wait until he manages that."

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"It would be nice if we had a one-way in the city that took people to some nice unoccupied planet. Then anyone who'd rather go try a nice unoccupied planet could do that."

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"Yeah. An unoccupied planet in this world? I can do some survey drones."

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