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Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
sequel to maitimor
try-me-later
<Could you make bodies for Yeerks? I don't think they'd prefer it but it might be acceptable.>
try-me-later
<That'd be helpful. Ships are helpful, obviously. The presence of allies who will get annoyed about chemical and biological warfare is potentially helpful, though you want to be cautious about - incentivizing something better instead of just incentivizing loud condemnation of all the front-line commanders -"
from_scratch
"Is there a lot of that going on, Isabella - she doesn't go by Bella? If I were a girl I'd go by Bella, I think - she just mentioned irradiating the planet."
try-me-later
<We were sent with Earth with instructions to ensure that its populace not fall into Yeerk hands if we couldn't save them, and with the means to effect that in a few different ways. We managed to find one that was relatively safe for the local populace but a lot of backup options weren't. On some other planets commanders have resorted to killing nearly all of the locals once the war looked hopeless.>
keep_busy
"Is that a particularly imminent threat or just one it'd be good to have groundwork for set up in case? Finleran said you were winning."
try-me-later
<Finleran probably has more timely information about the strategic situation than I do. We are winning. Earth was a big deal.>
not_born_evil
"Anyway, it's like, kind of high opportunity cost but still very much doable for us to visit your world or transport people from it, if that would be useful. Are you never in a position to write a letter, because that's the way you can get our attention albeit asynchronously if you want it when we aren't looking."
from_scratch
"Any physical medium. You can destroy it afterwards, I can copy objects that no longer exist as long as they did for any length of time. I can also do format conversion if typing works for you, even if our computers don't match, but I can't naively decrypt, though that only comes into play if it's never set to recorded form decrypted."
try-me-later
<I do not have access to external computers but I can store text files on my translation chip.>
try-me-later
<Oh! Sure.> So he can explain how the Andalites encountered the Yeerks and how they became a spacefaring civilization and how they started conquering other peoples and how the war reached Earth and what happened on Earth and what fronts there were in the war last he heard and what sorts of weaponry and starships everyone has.
not_born_evil
"So the way to get from here to there is via a spell called Gate, which is about one resurrection's worth of opportunity cost and can't be repeated too many times a day but can be repeated indefinitely given those constraints, goes point to point, can filter for certain magically-simple conditions but I'm not actually confident given the shapeshifting going around that 'is in fact a Yeerk' qualifies as a magically simple condition, we know of a kind of spaceship that goes point to point anywhere no range limit in five days, we're working on getting access to more worlds that are currently not obviously in range of the gate spell and when we've done that Mirelótë brings friendly gods to the table, and there are lots of littler spells and the magic items made therewith to be had but allocating lots of little things is logistically hairy and all of the things I just mentioned come from different places with their own problems and there are even more worlds with even more of their own problems except Mirelótë's world which is perfect."
