"Yep. Just means we had better get that part right. Alright, can I have ten of me and ten of Curufinwë and some computers -"

"How long would it take to get his consent before forking him?"

"He's on another ship mid-leap, how are you planning to accomplish that? All of our people are risking their lives - more than their lives - in this war, they'd do anything that ends it."

"Mid-leap, alright. If the answer had been, 'thirty seconds, we can communicate with the ship he's on easy' it would have been worth asking first. Cam?"

"...I'll get you one of him on your say-so and he can confirm then if he wants another nine. Bar, do you take counterfeit -"

Yes.

"How much space do you want to rent?"

"Everything I need should fit in a room - I suppose we might need to eat and sleep occasionally -"

"How big a room, should I expect more than one of you to sleep at any given time, I can rent you a place upstairs."

"Are the places here pretty enough, if it's going to be subjectively a couple of decades or centuries -"

"I'm sure you can have it decorated however you like. Are the supernovas pretty, you could get a room with a view of the supernovas."

"Supernovas are pretty," he confirms. "we should get a Macalaurë if it's looking like it'll be centuries..."

"I really am pretty dubious about forking people without having a chance to ask first."

"Is there some dimension where this is widely known and we already have forks and can be assumed to be okay with it? Can you conjure off that?"

"In my Arda you do not already have forks, I've been occupied bringing back dead people."

"Good for you! Not having Mandos as the constraint on that will do wonders for us as a society."

"Yeah."

"No one who chose to take part in the war is going to be bothered by being forked so we can win the war. Really."

"I will get you one Curufinwë sight unseen and we can talk about a Macalaurë if you decide it's going to be centuries."

"Alright."

And Cam rents them a nice big suite with a view of the supernovae, and himself a room with enough space to put a read-write machine in, and he goes and makes forks.

And Curufinwë's delighted to have ten of him, thank you very much, and here are three promising approaches let's split into groups and get at them.

Cam supplies the additional Curufinwës and the computers - would they like the chiplocked kind - here they go -

Yep, they are familiar with and very much concerned with demon security measures, chip-locked it is. And if Cam can just make them some food that won't go bad, in the corner or something -

They could also go downstairs and get food from Bar off a counterfeit tab, but sure, shelves of shelf-stables in the corner.