"Well, there's summoning as a stopgap, if it works from here. Mind if I check?"

"Go for it, I'll pay whoever you get for their time."

So he draws a safe summoning circle for an angel. 

An angel completely fails to appear.

"Well, no fallback for these humans," Findekáno sighs. 

"No daeva-based fallback, anyway, could have something else."

"Let's hope. Complete written works of this universe's humans, post-mortem?"

"...nothing."

"Well. We've got a lot of people on the research project. I'm optimistic about a decade from now, even if that's not really soon enough."

Eventually the computer will render translations of some things! Without any known plaintext it's pretty tentative about a lot of it but it's legible.

"I think this world has native magic," Maitimo says after translations arrive.

"Ooh, cool, what have you found about it?" Cam asks, looking up from an attempt to help the computer figure out which labels on a wildlife guide pertain to which specimen drawings.

"The flowcharts? That's how they organize magic, somehow. It requires... some concept the computer's really struggling with but that seems to be adjacent to a lot of words for animals..."

"I've noticed they have a bunch of stuff about animals. Keeping exotic ones as pets."

And a while later, "yeah, every accomplished magic-user seems to have an associated animal. I think maybe you pick one and do something with it to be able to use magic."

"Weird. I'm gonna tell the computer to translate this word as 'familiar', then."

"World's stable," Findekáno says, "a few countries at war but no Enemy to drop down on. We probably want to start in a not-at-war country."

"Agreed. This one has canals everywhere, that's cute."

"What's its government like?" Maitimo says.

"Monarchy," Cam reports.

"Let's drop the Second Age on canal country first. What's it called?"

"You think I know how to pronounce any of this? There's no audio recordkeeping," Cam snorts. "It is called this sequence of letters."

"Alright. In four days that sequence of letters is getting - hmm, what's a good priority ordering here?" 

"A spy drone to pick up some phonemes," says Cam, "and correlate them with things, and then tell us when a good time to visit the royalty and consult them about their needs might be?"

"If local magic's not likely to notice it and decide they're being invaded. I'd like to know more about local magic. But yes."