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The Valar announce that they've done as much as they can in Singularity (they can't bring back peoples' babies in that critical period either, but they can get them earlier versions) and are setting up portals between there and Sanity as soon as they are confident they've cleaned up the plague. A bunch of Elf architects have this wild idea for a fivedimensional city where alternating intersections are interdimensional portals between various Valinors and they get eagerly to setting it up.
dismissal
through-the-free-fall
"I know it's a little bit cultural projection but that place is awful and I would be dead by now."
through-the-free-fall
"I don't think it's being an Elf that would make being unable to talk or write a problem. What do we lose if we just tell them they don't have souls and demons can't steal them?"
through-the-free-fall
"What's the supposed narrative here, what do they believe happens if a demon gets your soul...presumably someone has summoned a lot of demons and asked about rescuing souls in Hell, right, that's the absolute first thing one would do..."
from_scratch
"If anyone's done that they didn't publish. The mythology we're overlapping thinks souls in Hell get tortured for eternity."
through-the-free-fall
"And no one has tried rescuing them? Are there - are there people in that prison who were just playing a practical joke and are now serving hundreds of years of prison time for supposed torture -"
through-the-free-fall
"It's probably public record, right - let me write my Sanity alt -" will Valar cooperate with war crimes trial for Cam (+ me?) and with disproving local religion -
through-the-free-fall
"- do I have to explicitly tell you you can make things, you can make things to find that if you'd like -"
through-the-free-fall
"Are you not allowed to instruct me on what specific permissions to give you or is it just that you don't know what's good enough until it works or fails to work -"
through-the-free-fall
"It's fine. I'll ask someone else. Where do you want to go while we're waiting to hear back from the Valar?"
fate-away
"Hey," he says to Ambela, "how fast do you think the Valar could do a really good war crimes trial if it's really important?"
fate-away
"It would be useful for it to be persuasive to people in Revelation and they seem like a tough audience."
fate-away
"I was hoping they'd have a clever idea for having a day of the hearing not committed to recorded form or something."