"I guess it could stand some more testing. Good thing we can tell without actually forking people."

"Yeah. Maybe just check from Milliways and also from some other dimension - have any of you stepped into one of the flat Ardas - make sure it's persistent -"

"We know it's persistent in Milliways, that's how we found out about fork protections in the first place."

"We know you cannot fork in Milliways someone who has never left Sanity. If the way they prevent forking is something about Sanity, then it might be chip writes when the chipbearer is in Milliways aren't secured."

"Fair enough." Cam makes a list of tests to try.

He goes back to potion-planning, except for the tests that involve wizardry-chip-duplication and wizardry enchantment-cancelling (neither do anything).

Cam asks Bright if he can think of a forking-risking volunteer to check the thing - not that the tests require actually instantiating any forks, but forkability will be a consequence given certain possible results.

He totally knows somebody! She comes through an hour later, blinks at Milliways - "Wow. Cool, okay, what do you need me to do?"

"I'm going to conjure copies of your chip and see if it has the fork protection notice or more data than that on it. Then I need you to step into a different world for a moment and see if it sticks there."

"Uh, okay, lemme change my permissions first because right now you could do that anyway -"

"You're just really into forking?" he wonders.

"Into dying, actually - I know it's weird - anyway, my forking permission set is 'sure, go ahead, but be aware that if I end up somewhere I don't want to be I'll just stop' and then if I ever end up somewhere I don't want to be I'll just stop."

"Huh, okay. Say when."

"All set."

Test!

He gets a chip that politely informs him he does not have forking permissions.

"Cool - okay, now we get someone to hold the door -"

Test 2?

He still does not have forking permissions.

"Awesome, thanks, can I get you anything for your trouble?"

She looks confusedly at Bright; he smiles encouragingly. 

"Uh, my mom had an album full of pictures of me and my little sister from way back, film ones, no backups, and she lost them when she moved, she was really broken up about it..."

Cam hands it over.

Would he like a spontaneous hug from a gleeful Elf because she is so so delighted!!!

Awww! Wag wag.

And off she goes.

"I might convince the Valar to relax a bit on summoning, Midnight's been doing it constantly and hasn't had any problems."