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Andi is annoyed by all this not having alts she's doing. Bella comes in singlet, so maybe she does too. They should look. C'monnnn. It's not, like, urgent or anything, but she thinks she is pretty neat and there should be more of her.
Eclipse peals
her_imperial_radiance
Oh look! An Elspeth! She is not going to try to convince the new Maitmo that she is not in Angband because that is known to be disconcerting but she can distribute spells.
her_imperial_radiance
Naturally. This will take a while. But less than an hour or Sibyl would not have been able to meet Joy and Andi when they landed in Eclipse. Other spells can be after the teleport. Here are 209 conceptual letters! Here is a shitton of gibberish!
"In that case - who's been in contact with the multiverse longest, what's the dimension with the most people and the dimension with the least and how rapidly are we turning up new ones and what are the bottlenecks there -"
her_imperial_radiance
"Space and Hex were the first deliberate interworld meeting. The others branched off from that except Boots and Epic and Scroll found Warp independently. Warp is most crowded, followed by Edda - we think, those are estimates - and the least is a Shadow neighbor with what appears to be a population of exactly four fused hivemind things two of whom are considering a merger, but if you don't count that it's an Edda neighbor with Stone Age humans who have a population of a few thousand and so far refuse to talk to any visitors. Uncontrolled worldleaping is now considered unsafe so we're only looking for worlds by parameter now and that slows us down, but it's still about one a month, mostly around Wish, and the bottleneck is how quickly we can feel reasonable about moving on from the typical new one having done some reasonable first-pass interventions and mined it for useful contents."
her_imperial_radiance
"A majority of worlds have at least one or two natives who know at least a little about the multiverse because it's usually more accurate to supplement conjuration and reading with actually talking to somebody, but in most it's nothing approaching common knowledge. There's ongoing projects in or confederated status of polities in fifty-three."
her_imperial_radiance
"Develop stuff. The ones who do music have to be in Flat Ardas, it doesn't work if composed outside of them, but Cam made them a dwarf planet in Elentári so they don't have to be on the usual one. And distribute things, and Elves are usually a first choice for getting and using wished-on powers if Gem doesn't find people from Wish to do it because on a population level they're very trustworthy."
her_imperial_radiance
"Yours might be an exception since you're from early and didn't have the specific Valar failure mode of Telperion, but mostly the Noldor are very sick of the Valar. Which isn't entirely fair since I can make Valar much more reasonable but still inspires a lot of not-living-in-Ardas."
her_imperial_radiance
"Kicked Boots back to Materia because they panicked about her doing too much too quickly and inspiring Epic likewise. Be almost completely useless during standard trajectory wars for multiple centuries. Exhibit excess social conservatism and use that to decide who should be dead. Doom the entire Noldor over a fight for some boats, in standard trajectory." Elspeth comes with magical footnotes.
"Yikes. And here I was about to rule ours 'not actually that bad' - should I be convincing my people to come here, is there an efficiency loss having them all still situated in Valinor -"
her_imperial_radiance
"No need to move if they don't want to. Shine retains a lot of its Noldo population too - so does Telperion, the Boots incident mostly offended only people particularly close to her. And I've already swung by to explain incarnates to your set, it helps a lot."
