"His alt asked me not to bring him."

"Really?"

"Yep. The also-traumatized one, so I assumed he knew what he was talking about."

"Okay."

"Might have something to do with the millions of Ardas thing."

"Yeah, that's pretty fucked up."

"It's hard to figure out how to engage with it."

"Fix them all? I guess? Like, it's intimidating, but it sounds like there are lots of different magics, so we'll keep accumulating stuff as we go..."

"Yeah, but like, with literally millions of them it's going to be hard to figure out the appropriate tradeoffs between not burning out and not abandoning people to Morgoths for a moment longer than necessary..."

"Maybe the space ones should just spam a million copies of themselves, they can do that, right -"

"...Yeah. You know I have no idea how magical power buildup propagates to forks..."

'Oooh, we should check that."

"I'll ask who wants to fork for the purpose. ...You know, I bet the personality alteration stuff's a lot less scary when you're trying to differentiate yourself from a fork anyway."

"...yeah, and when you can restore from baseline if you regret some way you changed, or just have it to compare against..."

"Yeah...I dunno, I can't really see myself as being frivolous with forking, but..."

"Did Edie say if she'd done any?"

"It was in the notes. She and Emily did it once apiece, the forks go by Ada and Amelia and look like Elves."

"Huh. ...why?"

"Why'd they fork or why'd'they look like elves?"

"Either but second thing's more surprising."

"Haven't gotten there yet but I can think of several possible reasons to look like Elves."

"Guess there's stealth. It's not as if you could get any prettier."

"You flatter me. But, you know, when you don't have a magic system as versatile and excellent as mine Elves have all sorts of advantages."

"I guess she wouldn't have any other way to get the eyesight and hearing and reflexes, true."

"Well, I had problems with the hearing too," she admits.