"I am having a lot of trouble envisioning the appeal."

"If you found out there was a script, and you were stuck on it, and it was inherent to who you were...wouldn't you be, like, at least sympathetic to someone whose script eventually had 'sadistic mass murderer' in it but at the moment just had 'light the fucking script on fire' on the agenda?"

"Sympathetic maybe. Not - appealed to. Probably. I don't know how detailed these scripts are."

She bites her finger. "Fair enough. Anyway, thank you. Doubt you hear it much. Doubt you hear it from us."

"...You're welcome."

"Like I said, I could've stopped you. I didn't. Five hundred fucking years. After he's nibbled the planet's population down to like fifty million he has them all tear themselves apart in civil wars. Doriath kills their entire Dwarf population, the Noldor kill Doriath -"

"Write a tell-all book," Cam suggests, "and wait a long, long time to publish it."

"Worried I'll give people ideas? Melkor knows it all in even more detail than I do, he's probably already shared select details."

"More concerned that it'll foment resentment over things that haven't happened and aren't going to."

"If you say so, honey. Lips are sealed."

"And here I was assuming you knew my name."

"They call you The Destroyer, like Sauron's The Abhorred. Didn't think you'd be super appreciative. And here I was trying to perk you up and everything.'

"My name is Cam."

"Cam, destroyer of worlds?"

"It was only the one."

"Yeah, I know, I was showing off my Earth history references."

"Congratulations. I am unfortunately a bit more oomph than a nuke."

"You put it back, didn't'ya."

Cam sighs. "You're not perking me up, in case it was hard to tell."

"Yeah, sure. Have a sweet ethics conference." She dissolves into fog.

...Cam declines to inhale until he's a ways away from the fog, because yikes.

He flies most of the night and then caffeinates and returns to the conference site and checks his mail.

Interdimensional travel: works. Don't have targeting up yet, so no way to go anywhere in particular. Want to hop into a random dimension, summon enough to figure out who lives there, go say hi/end scarcity? 

- Fëanáro

Blink, blink. Cam texts him: Sounds fun.

Blueprints filename worldleaper. Take an instance of Maitimo, I'd like to establish diplomatic contact with aliens too.

If you don't have targeting up should we expect the place to be habitable?