<My understanding is that it is all in the files. What are you doing there?>

"It has Flat Elves and they are not making immortality doodads and I do not think it is because nobody asked them."

<By all means ask.>

"Will do."

She goes and acquires Butterfly and then goes to Shadow and would like to make an appointment with whoever's handling their interdimensional stuff, she can come back if this isn't a good time.

It's a perfectly good time; she's free in an hour.

...so Tireh will be back in an hour, then? (slooow peeeople)

Sounds good!

She is back in an hour!

"Hi! How can I help you?"

"Hi! There are some people using the sort of artifact creation magic you have here to turn out immortality necklaces and I want it done faster. What is the best way to make that happen here?"

"Uh...convince Gem to let people here wish on capabilities, probably."

"Has she been asked before?"

"They're only doing it for people who'll contribute to their projects, at the moment."

"The immortality necklaces are."

"You give them to the peal and never see them again. My coworkers, my neighbors, my daughter-in-law is human. We'd want to keep them."

"How would you feel about splitting them?"

"...it's better than not having them at all? You have to be really enthusiastic about it to get the power at all, the way I understand it."

"Yeah. My species has no telepaths and a ten year life expectancy is the thing, I could try to get it fixed up so humans here would be all set but I'm trying to solve my problem first."

"And the peal suggested you come here?"

"Coming here was my idea."

She pauses as if consulting with someone. "If Gem will be persuaded to let us wish on the accelerator I'm sure people'd be happy to make necklaces for your planet. They haven't given anyone here wishes; they come in a little non-standard, depending how the wisher imagined it, and they let you make any necklace, not just immortality, and our expectation is that the peal will be opposed to giving us the means to make more eidetic memory necklaces in particular. But if they're willing some people who are sufficiently excited about the compromise could probably be found. What do they want if in their opinion our people are failing to repay the investment fast enough -"

"Seems to me the thing to do is find a way to make it a good enough investment prospectively that they can agree to write it off if it's not."

"....I think you're assuming they trust us a lot more than, uh, they could possibly be persuaded to."

"If they think you're gonna do something awful with artifact stamping powers you're not going to solve that by making quota, so the problem isn't 'what do we do if we don't make quota', it's 'how do you make it clear your motive here is your daughter-in-law being mortal, scaled up for the whole society'."

"Until a couple years ago our human societies had pre-industrial standard infant mortality rates and we're in range of Materia and there is a healing spell that would have ended that and they wouldn't teach us. That changed when the King stopped the Yeerk invasion, but I do not know if it reflected a broader change in their willingness to give us resources or just a pragmatic one."