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Ambela leans in, mentions the portals and that they might want access to Kib's world without opening a door into Angband.

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The flat Valar can do portals, and are happy to, though they would need something from the world in question to portal to.

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...Kib doesn't count, does he.

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Kib is not from the Arda, as they understand it?

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Right. Inconveniently he wasn't even wearing clothes from it when he stumbled in. Can they triangulate any other way? He would have been eating food from the Arda for decades, he might be mostly made of matter from there by now?

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They can try?

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Kib returns to Lórien on the shuttle.

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They try! They get a portal!

 

It's to Kib's world of origin.

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There are Elves in Kib's world, though -

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Oh, yes, we can go ask them for a portal to the Arda!

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Kib can tell them where to expect Elves to be in his world.

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They will go and find some.

 

They come back a little while later to say that, yes, they can get a portal to the Arda that way. It's closed for the time being because they don't want time passing in that Arda until they can handle its Melkor, but Kib does not need to worry about being the only route to his world.

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So he goes back to Milliways. He gets lunch. He puts on a movie.

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No one bothers him. 

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It's a cozy scenario like that.

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He goes to ask Security if they'd like a portal between their world and Sanity.

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Maybe? What would that entail?

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"It'd be possible to go back and forth between them without involving Milliways, we could trade and things."

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"What's the catch?"

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"Uh, usually trade makes both parties better off but not universally so, there's some literature on it, is that the kind of catch you mean?"

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"I mean is somebody going to want to conquer us or dismantle temple-guilds or anything -"

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"No. I don't know that we glowingly approve of temple-guilds but there are octillions more important problems and maybe we can figure out a way to help you cheat the tradeoffs somehow  - and anyway if we had a reputation for meddling with people such that they didn't want portals to our world then we'd be really messing up - "

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"So you think everybody'll be glad it's there?"

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