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Adjacency is annoying. Edda is next to Elentári (formerly Flat Arda) and to Space Arda which yet lacks an improved name; Space Arda is next to all three daeva worlds and Hex, but not to Limbo; all the daeva worlds are next to Limbo and Revelation, which are also next to each other - it takes four hops to get between Elentári and Revelation.

There might be shortcuts, but since their current greatest ability to address problems - especially Enemy-scale problems - in other worlds is the Tesseract, it seems efficient to go places that are adjacent to Edda and therefore within its jurisdiction. It is still grouchy and won't help with anything Loki can't do her own fact-finding work on, so it's worldleapers. Cam goes alone first - it's unlikely that he will land in a star, but not genuinely impossible, and he can then find somewhere comfortable to land and go fetch Loki and whoever else is coming along.

For a while, the worlds they find are more or less equivalent to finding new civilizations within Edda. They have to be discovered differently but they're just places, with people, no alts, no Ardas. They are investigated and put on file for their resources or needs; if there's anything really pressing (planet about to collide with its moon, that sort of thing) Loki fixes it before moving on. Maybe eventually someone from one of these worlds will turn out to be really interesting and they'll be delighted to discover alts of them too but they'll have to distinguish themselves some way in some world first.

Then there's another Arda.

"Another one?" Loki asks.

"Complete with mutually intelligible Quenya," Cam says.

"Enemy an ongoing problem?"

"Yeah, but..."

"Yeah, this time I will have a conversation before I destroy him, wouldn't want another close call. Let's go meet the local Noldor."

Where are you, local Noldor? Loki and Cam are there now too.

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neither-power-nor-glory

Loki Odinsdottir ↾ "Loki"

"It's not that I want my existing oaths back, they were all coerced from me the morning he murdered my parents. It's that I'm thinking ahead to if you run across a universe with another Maitimo like mine but a magic system that plays to his strengths, and outside the range of your Tesseract, and - if I'm going to be a prisoner I'd much rather be one who can swear to stay within ten miles of Himring than one who can't. But that kind of Maitimo'd have developed a way of doing it."

purposeful_glory

"I'm not planning to hand you over to Evil Maitimo The Second, but noted. You don't have to keep your free will if it's inconveniencing you." Sigh. "Okay, I need to find someplace to put the orcs, I only want to pick this thing up once -" She disappears.

(Cam checks his mail.)

neither-power-nor-glory

"...has she actually met any of me or are the other ones different?"

Maedhros

"Maybe I got the most virtuous one because I needed it most."

(Cam has a letter that says 'sure' and a location.)

from_scratch

"Elspeth, can you make sure no evil is perpetrated in the next coupla minutes, thanks -" Pop pop. "Long story short: evil Maitimo."

neither-power-nor-glory

"Huh, really? I'm surprised Arda's still standing."

from_scratch

"Evil, not careless. This time instead of one of me showing up it was my alt's daughter, she finessed some stuff, he is currently sworn to be markedly less evil, but, like I said, the you is not in great shape. Oh, and please don't drop a heavy object on his head, Maedhros did that and I don't think it helped anything."

neither-power-nor-glory

"Will I be tempted to?"

from_scratch

"It is an understandable temptation. At least put it off until Loki's given your alt free will."

neither-power-nor-glory

"Okay. Let's go."

from_scratch

Here they are.

her_imperial_radiance

"You didn't miss anything evil. Hi, I'm Elspeth."

neither-power-nor-glory

"Hi. It wasn't actually clarified why I'm here -" he looks at his alt, hovering protectively in front of Maitimo - "just that you're - in bad shape - and I shouldn't react violently?"

her_imperial_radiance

"...does your kind of Elf not read minds, mindreading is so convenient -" She fills him in. Evil Maitimo is evil.

neither-power-nor-glory

"We can read each others' minds, but not arbitrary peoples'.

Wow, okay.

You know, mine did something he knew I'd never, ever forgive him for, and he knew he'd be alone until the demon-delayed heat death of the universe, and he managed to restrain himself to 'wishing he could have a version of me who didn't hate him, not asking for this because it'd be fucked-up'."

her_imperial_radiance

"It's really nice that not all the Maitimos are evil! I had to punch this one in the face once."

from_scratch

"Really? Why?"

her_imperial_radiance

"He started a sentence with 'if you tell them anything, I swear'."

neither-power-nor-glory

"I wanted to punch mine in the face when he lied to me so he could kidnap me so I wouldn't stop him from committing genocide, but that's a fair bit different."

"...yours is going to be alone forever?" says the local Findekano.

"Maybe not? The thing I couldn't forgive got fixed, and we're trying to see where we stand. But maybe, and if he is, that's sad for both of us, it's not a premise for kidnapping."

"You just said he kidnapped you."

"He didn't touch me. I don't think he was even tempted, and I'd have told him to fuck off, and then he definitely would have."

"Sounds nice."

"I'm not saying you need to dump yours but you obviously need to dump yours."

her_imperial_radiance

Sounds like a plan to Elspeth!

neither-power-nor-glory

"Everyone has yet to come up with a proposal for there not being a civil war, and I'm happy to trade someone if anyone thinks they'd be better at this than I am but I don't actually want to leave my Maitimo a shattered wreck and I think I'm doing pretty well."

from_scratch

"In the most absolutely degenerate case if a civil war threatens we can put the sides on separate planets."

neither-power-nor-glory

"I think you're imagining a much neater kind of civil war than'd actually happen. Also that'd leave both of them without the relevant infrastructure to support their human populations - Elves can mostly live off the land, but the Men really can't -"

from_scratch