"The idea of backing up my universe intrigues me. I would like to hear more on this subject. Elucidate, please. What the fuck are you talking about."

"We know this sorta death-god person who's like an enormous cosmic packrat, and if she hooks up to a universe she can recreate anything that was ever destroyed in it," Corona explains. "If we can grab somebody from this world to go show to her, she can check whether your world can be backed up like that. Some can't."

"Sure," Corona says cheerfully. He picks the one Micaiah was flirting with, and sends a view of him through the link, where Sue and War simultaneously bounce it to Jane.

Jane puts him in the office Downside.

"Jesus. Thanks. Spare a wish on fixing this headache?"

She fixes the headache. "Okay to have the admin of the Most Common Afterlife peer at you and use you to find your world? Promise the place is nice since we fixed it up. Maybe not as nice as mine."

"Thanks. Sure, fire away."

[Admin, there's a fellow in the office from a newly encountered world. Is it conventionally Downsideable?]

[Yes. It seems to have an existing afterlife, but one that is startlingly incomplete and did not interfere.]

[You already took it? What was in its afterlife, and have those contents noticed?]

[A subset of the aware life of that world, and no. Merely linking that world to my domain had no direct effects on it whatsoever, only on its availability to me.]

"Hm. Stay in the tastefully decorated waiting room, or go cower from the deity whose mere presence causes intense pain... I think I'd rather stay here. Any chance you could get Sally and Peter out too?"

"Jane?"

Jane brainphones the Jokerhive again (having already informed them of the results of the experiment). [Can I get a view on the other two humans? The one I took thinks they would like to also leave.]

Corona relays a view of the other two, and says aloud for the local god's benefit, "She backed up your world no problem."

Put, put. Peter is still prevented from doing anything.

But Amariah takes the liberty of fixing their headaches.

"Oh that feels nice. Thank you. I don't suppose you could put Peter back in working condition?"

"Angela put him out of working condition because he attacked her kid," says Amariah. "I am not a kid and my kid is not nearby, but I'd still rather skip being attacked."

"We keep saying he's not usually like that. You can make him temporarily unable to use magic or something if you want, we just want a third for Go Fish."

"Mm - if I let him talk and move that'll do the trick? Will it let him do anything unfortunate - not dispositionally, I mean practically will he be able to do much with that? If he manages to do anything unfortunate while allowed to talk and move your credibility goes down the crapper, FYI."

"He'll probably be irritable about the destruction of the Outsiders, the fact that a little girl attacked him, and the fact that we didn't do anything about the little girl attacking him," predicts Sally. "And the fact that we had to argue you into un-paralyzing him. He can't do anything meaningful without magic, though, unless you count 'try and fail to punch one of us in the face,' which is pretty unlikely anyway. And he can play cards while he's whining."