Eclipse Bell in Arda
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Eventually she says if you want to sleep tonight we should probably sneak out.

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I do still sleep on a nightly basis. I could learn to skip it but I can lucid dream so it's not the waste of time it otherwise would be.

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Cána's been working on a song for it but I don't know if she has it yet. 

 

She asks.

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Yeah but I don't know if it'll work on humans.

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If it doesn't what else might it do?

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I don't know, songs don't have lasting effects so nothing that'd still be affecting you day after tomorrow but we've never had other species around before.

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Well, if it won't be a disaster either way you can plan to try it and I can check.

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Oh, right. Cool. Okay, next song is skip-sleep - with Elves it'd make you feel like you just woke up from a good night's sleep -

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And Isabella looks ahead -

Yep, does that to me too, nothing bad happens within my range.

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Cool. 

 

 

So she sings it.

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So awake! Wow!

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Super convenient! When the conversation turns marginally less technical she raises the possibility of establishing a immigrant kingdom in Endorë.

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"Halls yes, but I need to think of a solution for the lighting."

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"...the lighting?"

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"The Trees don't reach Endorë, it's completely dark, we'd need a way to get crops to grow."

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"...what's keeping this planet warm?"

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"...what sort of magic?"

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"On Earth we have a sun," it looks like this, "which the planet revolves around while also spinning, and it does warmth and light both for the whole planet. Although not continuously for any given part of the world the way the Trees seem to be on all the time. I doubt it's the best possible plan to install one here, though, even if the Valar could theoretically do it. Electric lighting would do to see by but I actually don't know if it scales well for crops - it doesn't categorically not work for plants in general, but it might be inefficient at scale or not work for all plants."

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"I can set up some tests."

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"...how are you going to test how well it scales?"

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"Uh, get a big dark area, probably in Araman, try growing crops there?"

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"I'd expect the scaling problems to have more to do with manufacturing enough lights and generating enough electricity."

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"Are you expecting doing it for a square mile to be different than doing it for a hundred square miles?"

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