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lost!fëanor in wormverse
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Meeting room five!

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Eidolon is there, as is an austere-looking lady, two men in suits, and two people at the door holding guns and standing at attention.

Well, they were standing at attention, they level their weapons at Fëanáro as soon as they pop there.

"Easy," the woman says, and they lower their weapons. Uneasily.

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"Should I pop to outside doors and then knock or something?"

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"That would probably be best, yes. I am Chief Director Costa-Brown. You have met Deputy Chief Director Guerra," she gestures at one of the men in suits, "and this here is Mr. Prescott."

She takes a seat, and everyone else takes her cue.

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They keep not preparing chairs for his wings. He makes himself one.

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"We unfortunately do not have a nice itemized list of every problem you could solve," says Costa-Brown. "You shouldn't go anywhere near Sleeper, but we know his whereabouts so we can keep you away from him. Glaistig Uaine and Gray Boy might be better targets, as far as uncomplicatedly American parahumans go. And when it comes to non-parahuman problems—I believe you've expressed a desire to eradicate malaria?"

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"Yep. You get rid of polio soon too but that's harder. I can give you modern medicine."

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"What other diseases and similar problems have been solved where—when—you're from?"

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"...all of them? Not all the solutions are tech so I can't make them all work here - Warp's post-material-scarcity and people don't have kids by accident anymore and most diseases have been eradicated and once you get magic then we can do resurrection, make mortals unaging, that kind of thing."

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"Post-scarcity would be difficult while we still need to rely on you but I understand there are people with the ability to find you?"

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"Yeah. It might be decades, though, it's a big multiverse and I only think I even know how I got lost. I think giving you a tech boost will work better than trying to end scarcity, probably. 2030's just much nicer than 1994 even in worlds without demons."

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"Indeed. If we were to give you a list of current technology we'd like updated, as well as potential advances and directions we think technology ought to go, will you be able to produce the materials needed for their specifications, like blueprints or the necessary physics and mathematics knowledge to back it all up?"

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"If anyone's done it anywhere I've heard of, I can give you what they had."

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"Would you be able to provide us with things we wouldn't think of that you might know?"

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"Yeah, if I think of it - I was going to look at how Cube did a tech jump, that should help with thinking of things I might not think of on my own - I can also make you some people but I don't really want to do that unless we need them pretty badly."

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"Making people—I expect copies of people, yes?—does sound somewhat dubious."

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"Yeah. Usually we only do that if the original died or if they want to fork for some reason. Some of them probably wouldn't mind but if there's a list it's on the network and I can't access it."

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She nods. "We will send you such a list of things to produce, then, so we can properly reverse-engineer them, and we might ask you to conjure tools and facilities that can produce them at scale."

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"Yeah, no problem. And I told Legend and Library of Alexandria earlier that I could put New York back if you want. And I can do old lost historical stuff."

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"Yes, they mentioned your suggestion of bringing the actual Library of Alexandria back. We have people working on that as we speak."

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"Okay. ...also factory farming. You should stop that, I can build you the vat meat factories that replace it."

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"Are they as nutritional and do they have the same taste as the real thing? Lots of people will care about the former and a surprising fraction about the latter."

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"Yes and yes, took a while but they got it exactly right and cheaper."

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"Then we would probably like that, although displacing the farmers altogether would be undesirable and some thought will need to be given to that."

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"I'm happy to pay them whatever they're currently making phased out over twenty years or something."

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