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Humans are safe in about two years, some faster. She's not really qualified to judge safety but she can precog "what happens if they have an entire lunch" when somebody thinks they might be safe and that should suffice.

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Okay. 

 

...seems like Melkor is quite opposed to the existence of psions, given how they can murder her, one might expect she'll try something sooner than that.

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Well, Isabella's keeping an eye out but if the Valar are just going to sing there's no way to tuck all the eclipsed Elves into Earth virtualities or anything.

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...it's not looking like Fëanáre is super inclined to take over the rule of the Noldor, so her sister'll do it, and send some people to Taniquetil to try to shake the Valar out of it and get some actual help. On the other hand, tucking all the eclipsed Elves into Earth might be good for their own survival rate but - well, they do, actually, need some psions to figure out how to kill a Vala, don't they -

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Yes, but, well, they need those psions to be alive.

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They're trying to reach out to the Valar.

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If they have high-variance Vala-attention-getting strategies Isabella can check those without adding much cost to the routine sweeps she's already making.

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Sending people to Taniquetil will take several weeks - Alqualondë same, though it's only a few days - the obvious high-variance strategy would be 'die and see who's currently minding the dead' but I don't think the situation warrants that -

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I can talk to dead Elves again, I checked, Marion didn't even notice Mandos had died.

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Huh. Okay. Does the Enemy know you're alive -

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...probably. But doesn't know I'm in Arda, I could have done everything she knows about from Earth.

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Then you're on Earth. You were there on an errand when things fell apart - maybe we should claim Fëanáre's on Earth too -

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Can't hurt.

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To do what?

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Time. Ideally time I'm not spending learning to do other things like lockdowns, or actively doing other things like checking eclipsed for safety - Earth access would be great -

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I'll ask them, but as long as Melkor has effectively freedom of motion Earth access might not be worth the risk - can you export some of that, have a precog Earthside reporting to us about eclipsed safety -

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I'm the only person here who can talk to Earth, so it doesn't save me all that much time, but yes, until the money runs out - Macalaurië can keep some of it coming, at least, and maybe under the circumstances the handful of activists who'll be stranded now will help.

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They will. And aren't there some psions Earthside who can talk to us - 

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A couple. Leaning on them will also cut into the money, but less.

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Any altruistic humans, or selfish ones noticing that eventually Melkor will figure out how to do portals on her own -

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Maybe, but let's not count on humans being unusually smart today.

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Anything I need to know on what apparently happened -

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Isabella recites the facts - the Valar did not tell her Melkor escaped, she noticed incidentally while checking something else that her vision cut out dead a ways out and she tried a few things before applying to Ulmo who protected her, etcetera -

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