The Noldor get an announcement. Sauron has figured out how to try to summon Melkor back from the Void into Velgarth, from which they mean to conquer both worlds. (They do not actually have specific intelligence on this, but it seems like a safe bet.) The allied governments of the Noldor and of Velgarth have been planning for this moment, but in order to do it they need a lot of volunteers. To die, in order to fuel the spell that will bring a new good god into the world and stop Melkor. Mandos is supportive and there are plans in place to ensure everyone's return to life goes very smoothly. 

The Gates are at the following locations. If you have questions, don't ask him please ask one of these sixty other people depending on your date of birth. 

The teams double-checking the god plans take a vote every week, lately. If Sauron attacks now, should we go ahead? The vote has come out "yes" for two months but it's still a narrower "yes" than you'd like. 

Ten minutes after the official warning, Vanyel is in Velgarth, courtesy of Jisa. Ten minutes after that he's in a bed with a couple of Telumë's Healers attending him. Stopping his heart on purpose only hours after channeling massive amount of power to a godlet is not the smartest plan in the world, but it's the one he has.

Stef is with him, this time. He should probably lie down or something. 

Vanyel doesn't hesitate. 

"Herald Vanyel." 

"Sauron is starting." 

"We suspected. We will try to delay him. The Star-Eyed will attempt to negotiate with Vkandis but this is not quick as mortals reckon it." 

"We know that too. Karis will try to speak to Him directly. I have no idea if that would be faster, but..." 

"The actions of mortals generally are." 

Vanyel nods. "...Do you See anything ahead, now? Does it look like–" he bites his lip, "–does it look like we'll succeed?" 

The Shadow-Lover doesn't answer. 

"Well, can you offer us any other help?" 

And twenty-five minutes after the official message, as soon as Vanyel is sort of awake and coherent enough to get out some words, Jisa contacts one of Findekáno's staff in Arda; he's presumably very busy right now and probably Nerdanel is quite overwhelmed as well. 

<We need to get Fëanáro's math teams to Velgarth as soon as possible. Mandos has...offered us a very weird favour>

The math teams? Uh, okay. I'll tell them.

Jisa waits for that to be passed on so people can start getting organized. Probably she should explain a bit more. She's kind of frazzled. <When Vanyel talks to the Shadow-Lover, he gets a sort of extreme time-dilation effect, he can experience hours or days in a couple of seconds. With Mandos helping, the Shadow-Lover can do that for an arbitrary number of our people, well, up to several hundred but I think it's fewer than that? Buy us more time for checking everything over. It, um, technically involves a brief near-death experience but it's pretty safe> 

- so they can have another couple of years or whatever -

<That's the idea>

This is passed along. The mathematicians are incredibly delighted about it. ...are there any mages left who aren't too tired to Gate them.

They decided to add some redundancy by training more of Telumë's mages on inter-world Gates. One of them can do it as soon as everyone's ready. Is Fëanáro coming too? 

Then a hundred Quendi or so can be ushered through this Gate into Velgarth.

Velgarth is very ugly but they're supposed to be nearly dying, apparently?

Vanyel is busy trying to convey a detailed enough sense-impression of Mandos' current location in Jkatha to one of Telumë's people. He's very relieved that there are people with osanwë arriving and he can ask one of them to just bounce it for him, osanwë is much better at that and he isn't concentrating at his best right now. 

They don't really have room to comfortably fit a hundred Quendi in here, but they can manage temporarily and maybe Gate them elsewhere afterward, though non-exhausted mages are going to be in short supply for the next few days. 

Less than an hour after the announcement, all of the Quendi math researchers have rooms they can lie down comfortably in, if not actual beds, and Mandos is being Gated in. 

Mandos will make all of the Quendi in Telumë's facilities allllllllmost die and then, with the Shadow-Lover, he will keep them that way. 

Telumë isn't delighted about taking part in something that requires a god's help and where if said god decides not to cooperate he might die, but the Shadowgod seems very firmly on their side, at this point, and the offer is open to humans as well, though it's probably a bit more dangerous for them so only a dozen of his staff and Telumë himself participate, to answer questions. The time-dilation effect can be varied in separate pockets of the Shadow-Lover's space, which makes sense, the Shadow-Lover has to handle all the dying people in the Shadowgod's regions. So he can bounce around answering questions as they come up, and hopefully spend a lot less than several subjective years there.

A number of Healers have just been Gated in from elsewhere. The Shadow-Lover ought to be able to send people back but can't do the almost-killing them himself. Telumë has Healing, though, he doesn't need assistance with that part.