" - let's do that right away, then. What does Scion block?"

"Access to certain worlds. We suspect he protects the worlds where he keeps his body, we've never been able to find it in any worlds we've seen or visited."

A door appears behind her, leading to a grassy field.

He walks in, tries to teleport to Warp. "Not this one."

Doormaker makes another door appear in front of him, and another, and another... a huge corridor of worlds extends ahead of him much farther than even Elf eyes can see.

He giggles and nods and steps through them and tries again and again and again -

Nope, nope, nope—

And again and again and again.

"I approve of the commitment to empiricism involved in running countries as military dictatorships to see what happens to work best. What was the plan once you decided what worked best?"

"Apply it everywhere. Alexandria actually has a large binder with details..." Doormaker opens a door next to Doctor Mother to another room and she grabs the binder from it. "Thank you. Here," she says, handing it to Maitimo.

"Oooh. Thank you."

    "It may be a bit too generous to say we're testing the dictatorships due to commitment to empiricism; the only organizations we're actually responsible for are the cape ones. The various dictatorships in South America already existed and we merely ensured we would have a say in them."

(Legend looks distinctly uncomfortable with this.)

    "The short summary of our long-term plan is for most or all of humanity to be parahuman-led and ready to mobilize against Scion as soon as we need to, and for being more numerous and the varied natural triggers are also part of it."

"Parahuman-led why?"

"A combination of the usefulness of having Thinkers in charge and keeping our influence everywhere."

Nod. 

Epic continues not to find a Warp neighbor.

Eventually he gets bored. "Edda doesn't have this many neighbors," he complains, teleporting back. "Ballpark five hundred."

"Oh we have many, many more than that," Doctor Mother assures him.

"Maybe it's worth me making another necklace so someone who isn't a demon can do that full time."

"Can a necklace find neighboring dimensions?"

"It can be used to give out the teleport and the teleport can find neighboring dimensions. We don't have anyone who can do portals, Doormaker'll be amazing if he doesn't have an adjacency limit."

"Either he has an adjacency limit or Scion and Eden block him some other way. A necklace sounds like a good idea, though."

"I can probably work on it and do arbitrary material objects if you have a list of ways those'll be useful. - and I wanted to put Sāo Paulo back but the Brazilian government is probably really confused at me by now."

Legend speaks up at that: "What did you leave them with?"

" - uh, I left a basement-dweller in my bed and then I know they saw me teleporting people to the new monster."

"...yes, they'll be very confused."

Is that amusement? That's probably amusement.