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Wing-wrap. "Thought so."

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He leans in. "I didn't think of anything. If there's no one within shouting distance of the door what are you even planning to do -"

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"I can make things farther away than shouting distance. It just becomes much harder to control who knows what's going on."

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"Could get the kid to hold the door and have someone run and get people - and we should ask Maitimo, the adult one, how his parents at this point in the time period would take the news, they were really young themselves..."

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"His world is running at a crawl, but maybe if I hold the door to Hell it'll pull Revelation along with it?"

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"Maybe, yeah - there's obviously something enforcing consistency between the daeva realms and Revelation most of the time..."

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"Worth a shot." He kisses and then unwraps Timothy and goes over to the door to do that.

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They summon a fairy and ask for a ride out to somewhere near Jupiter. They are on their way to Jupiter when he gets the note.

 

That they'd disable summoning in their world and in mine - I guess we need disambiguating names, now - is a risk. No convenient way to check if summoning works in mindreading Arda at all in 1225 or thereabouts, you'd have to go over to Endorë and track down the Dwarves. Easy enough to check if it works in my world but it'd require sending a message to Endorë and then having the door open until someone dies. Vengeance-wise I don't actually think they'd kill you but they might Doom you, ask [a list of names] if they can figure out what if anything the Doom actually did. 

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"...Doom?"

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"Did the Doom not come up? The Valar were pissed off about the ship theft massacre, they cursed all the fleeing Noldor and all who followed them, I went and pointed out that this was very irresponsible if it could extend to other worlds, they narrowed it to a hereditary thing...?"

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"Didn't come up. What was it supposed to do -"

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Cam has the text of it, here it is! Thank you Milliways translation effect!

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"What the fuck."

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"Yeah, don't tell tiny you but my guilt is almost one hundred percent Maiar-based, the Valar sucked."

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"And will probably go right back to sucking - is the Doom still in place, is there a way to check -"

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"No idea, it didn't make them glow ominously or anything so obvious."

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"Huh. Well, I'll go get the people he asked for -"

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Cam steps away from the door but declines to follow Timothy into the yard.

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Tiny Maitimo is sitting on adult Macalaurë's lap and gazing at him adoringly.

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And the designated Elves come in to the bar. "The obvious way to check, I think, is to try to pull the data off a bunch of chips of doomed and non-doomed people, see if there's a difference -"

"Minds're big, you wouldn't be able to tell by looking, but you could probably run a machine learning algorithm on it -"

"With a couple hundred thousand people as samples -"

"Yeah, it won't run overnight -"

"- if you could get the same people, before and after the Doom, that's a simpler inference problem -"

Timothy looks very confused.

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"I can do that if you think it would have directly affected the chips, yes - Timothy do you want me to explain or just round it all to 'magic'?"

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"It seems like it might be a little high-context."

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"If it affected our minds it affected the chips, and the 'bloodlines' thing suggests that it follows specific people, so it'd almost have to affect minds - instead of being some kind of ambient environmental effect -"

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"Given certain assumptions about how magical curses work, sure it'd affect the chips - I'll run some machine learning on it and see what there is to see, anyway."

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They will compare computing systems and methods of doing that while Timothy continues to blink confusedly in the background.

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