"Won't work."

"If he's in your neighborhood yeah I'm getting that sense."

"If he's around here you're probably going to have to do it with local magic and definitely going to have to do it without powerful imported artifacts."

"...okay, maybe I hope there is an alt of me, we can whisk them away and provide them with cocoa and Iobel's cat and a physics textbook and when they've shaken the mothballs out of their brain we can get a good rundown on how things work here. No offense I'm sure you know what you're doing but Bells synergize really well."

"I imagine so but it'd also be deeply unwise of him or her to have gone into wizardry, most of my family took the chance but being royalty gives you a little latitude to think highly of yourself and it's not a career with a great life expectancy."

"Oh, yeah, I don't expect them to be a wizard, I expect them to be able to figure out exactly what the gaps in understanding between a Bell native and a Bell visitor here are, explain wizardry and the necessary margin of safety on the hubris and science things in two paragraphs or less so that we can move confidently within those parameters, guess what imports might or might not work, tell us what to look for to find the wizards we need, etcetera. After some quality time with Iobel's cat and a physics textbook. - I think I skipped Iobel. Iobel's from Hex which is the only world with a native your-family and a Bell both. Magic is called spellbinding, they can do six spells a day or one big one, in order to do any magic you have to turn your imaginary friend who isn't actually imaginary into a real solid critter-person, Iobel has a cat who hates virtually everyone but likes Bells and is very soft."

"Sounds lovely. Okay, until we have an alt of you or a productive avenue to searching for one:

Experimenting isn't safe, trying something and noticing it works and then continuing to do it is safe, most things do work reliably enough for us to have the ethernet and crystal balls but trying to derive regularities about what the universe will break is itself a bad idea. You can experiment more on things with no combat applications, most of our world's defensiveness is about people finding exploits to get more powerful. Likewise most things that'll break will be things that make you powerful, things that were developed using science but that couldn't be used in a fight are probably fine. Hubris isn't generally a thought-crime thing, you'd have to do something like challenge someone unreasonably powerful or go around proclaiming the universe can't touch you. Planning how to break or evacuate or radically alter our world should happen outside our world.

What else would you need to know?"

"I don't know, that's the thing, I would expect another Bell to be able to tell me what you just told me but in a - clickier way? This is good enough to be going on with though. So it'd probably be safe to make my own paper and food and stuff, but not weapons, and definitely not direct interpolation?"

"No weapons. And direct interpolation?"

"I can make stuff inside other stuff. If I do this finely enough..."

"That will certainly be broken as combat-exploitable, yes. Logistics are a gray area - if you make food for yourself you should be okay, if you make food for an army I'd have a hard time predicting what'd happen."

"Loki can hit things with sharp objects - I mean she'd still need the grace spell to work, it's a template feature that we're really clumsy until we get that fixed - but she has hitting things with sharp objects experience, she'd have way better luck than me if dropped into a fight under these conditions. I suppose I will have to avoid being in fights."

"If you stay in public well-lit areas on the paths you are likely to be safe. If you wander off the paths there are things that'll eat you, particularly at night. That's not even considering the evil god problem, obviously. Palace is fine and we can send you out with an escort as needed."

"I flew here and nothing bothered me... and my wings didn't spontaneously stop working..."

"You are unfamiliar and look like you might be frighteningly powerful! Wise people and monsters will not mess with something unfamiliar and possibly extremely powerful."

"Little do they know I am but a vestige of my usual glory?"

"Little can they count on it, anyway. Do you want magic systems next or a rundown of the local powerful things?"

"Let's start with local powerful things."

"Gods! We have dozens, some of them more or less powerful than others, people can ascend to godhood through sufficient combat exploits but the majority of gods are not former people. 'God' is a power level and a way the universe looks at you. They can grant their clerics divine magic, some of them can also do other things, all of them will kill you if you mispronounce their names, to the point where 'can enforce name pronunciation' is a perfectly good heuristic for godhood. Except for your Melkor their names all have the sound 'Kh' - Khersis is the most popular with humans around here -"

"...guesses on how that interacts with translation magic?"

"Probably safe but why risk it, there won't be much need to discuss them by name."

"Well, it'd come up because I don't want to touch my translation magic including by turning it off or fiddling with its settings, so if right now the name of a god is garbled in some way the way it's set up... but I'll just avoid naming them."

"Probably safer. Dragons. They come in two kinds, 'noble' and 'ignoble' - the noble dragons are the metallic ones, gold and silver and bronze - none of them are good, they'll all kill people for petty reasons, but noble ones will keep their word if they give it, so - evil but trustworthy."

"...okay. Oh, uh, Valar and Maiar have that too, if they say they swear something that binds them, but you have to be sure they literally actually say it out loud, if they do it by telepathy or illusion sound or something it doesn't work. - And speaking of the telepathy, they're telepathic, so are the Elves - Space Elf telepathy only works with themselves but the others work with anybody - and by default they can read thoughts unless they're designated private, generally by some kind of metaphor you sort your thoughts into."

"Palace has a subtle artist shielding us right now, but that'll be good to know if we go off-world to meet them."