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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.
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"It's the easy kind of collective action problem where everyone gets an individual benefit whether or not participation rates rise high enough. Any demon wearing a shirt with writing on it won't get a random summons if the random summons has a gag. Before, you didn't have much choice if you wanted to take summons, practically all of 'em had gags. But now that Godspring and Sanity and Singularity have summoning -"
"Otherwise you could just wear a shirt that said in big letters 'I WILL MAKE YOU ANYTHING FOR A PHONE CALL' or whatever."
chanuphis
"...right makes sense. Is anybody relying on demons for emergencies?"
"I will ask Cam. But if I can get it to happen then at minimum I solve the problem where there aren't enough demons for summons even in places that treat them better, and maybe I get people used to not doing gags here."
Squeeze.
He goes downstairs and asks Cam what would happen if demons started avoiding random summons with gags.
from_scratch
"Uh, response time would plummet since they'd have to wait for scabs but nobody's relying on quick turnaround with gagged randoms or if they are they should be fired. It'd get harder to pay angels and fairies..."
from_scratch
"It would probably not get anybody killed except insofar as the scabs might be disproportionately evil."
from_scratch
"...I think so but if you can keep hold of the movement well enough to abort if necessary might as well play it conservatively."
Nod. "- Timothy I want to go thank the police officer who got me freed, it'll make a good video, want to take me there under an adequate binding -"
And so a while later they find themselves telling the Imbrium police department's web form that they want to thank an officer in person for his handling of a recent incident.