"A bit, yeah. What kind of time investment would this wind up looking like?"

"I mean, I could just write or adapt something for two and Joy could learn it, practice once, it's a human audience..."

"Doesn't mean we should be sloppy!"

"We should be efficient."

"What amount of time would constitute non-sloppiness?"

"Couple of days of practice together, probably?"

"We can probably scrape that much spare time together at this point, I can just do things in known specific locations instead of leaning on Lúthien to do guided-teleporting. The pile of money is pretty big at this point and money is useful. Besides, the PR would be great."

"Yeah, yeah, okay. Two months from now, give me time to write something?"

"Sound good to you, Lúthien?"

"Yes!"

"Great, I'll try to avoid starting any really intense three month long projects."

"Bet we can find and fix a world in less than three months, if it's another one of the low-tech meh-magic ones like most of Edda's neighbors..."

"Well, we'd have to do it in less than two. Or at least get it stable enough for you to take a few days to do other things in that time. We can delay actually scheduling the concert just in case?"

"Sounds good!"

"Lovely." And Gem kisses her wife on the cheek.

"I'll keep in touch!"

And he sees Gem and Joy and waves at them. "Hey! Question - if I get a hundred people to wish-on new abilities for me, does that work as long as the wishes are all individually within tolerances, or could it be a problem?"

"I would not expect it to break the wish-granter. I can't necessarily vouch for how you'll be holding up after all that. And that's a lot of wishes to spend on the project, what do you have in mind?"

"Nothing in particular, but I have half a million subjects, some small fraction of whom have no desire to have magic powers or be a magic rock or be a resource in an emergency but who are happy to wish on powers for other people, and I haven't considered towards what ends this is best used because I wasn't sure if it was safe to try in the first place."

"Well, with the caveat that if the wish is just to add powers for kicks it does not get a high priority slot, trying's not out of the question."

"First try is wish-combinations that give a person immunity to mind-affecting magic, with powers for kicks being the backup if we can't get that one through. Everything else can wait and be a low priority."

"Yeah - I'd especially be interested in being able to batch that, do a large-scale solution - might get one of my alts to use their wish on that one, we could work up a solid five or six on it, I think -"

"I bet Kib could easily hit six."

"Yeah, probably. Not sure how being a magic rock might interrupt the reincarnation thing that he may or may not still have as emergency backup."

"Couldn't he make the wish and not turn into a magic rock?"