Deeper sigh.

"Also nothing about the movie is artistically more impressive than fully realistic hallucinatory sensoriums and it doesn't have to conform to any known personality."

"Elf movies are much nicer as art, frame by frame, than our VR but I don't know what I'm comparing to."

"Several of those words failed to translate."

"VR is our - the hallucinations thing, but under your control and for entertainment and with technology. Frame by frame is - the way movies are made, they're really just a hundred twenty high resolution pictures a second but your brain can't parse changes that fast so it parses it as motion."

"Maybe I just don't have the artistic discernment."

Helpless shrug. "I don't know anything about the show you're watching, or about human artistic discernment, or... I've never met a human before and my current pool of experiences with humans suggests that interactions will be a nonstop relentless horror show so I might have to build up my tolerance before we go do trade negotiations with the temple-guild world."

"Have you considered meeting humans who have been tortured less and working your way up?"

"Timothy was a nonstop horror show and he hasn't had anything at all traumatic happen to him personally. Daeva summoning was and I think most daeva have lovely lives."

"What's the matter with Timothy besides the scary truth drugs?"

"His entire world? Dement- should I not say this, will he think it's setup -"

"We just execute escapees of Angband, I'm not exactly an expert on their handling."

"Nothing that has any way of getting into the bar and affecting you, but lots of horrible things affecting the people in his world."

"I'll look forward to it becoming relevant, shall I?"

"It's not going to become relevant."

"Hallelujah."

"He put them all in deep space and Miranda figured out how to kill them. They're never going to be relevant to anyone or anything ever again."

"How to add color to the setup without following through on the special effects, lesson one..."

"Timothy or Cam could bounce the memories to Midnight and he can send them to you, if you really want them for some reason."

"I don't see why I would want that."

"If you're going to make comments about how some thing is evidence we're Melkor it's going to be hard not to suggest ways to verify the thing is not actually the case."

"I'm pretty sure you're Melkor. I'm drawing inferences about who he's got plotting this one."

"Who? Since, given that we're Melkor, we can read your mind?"