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.
He probably isn't going to take summons anymore, precisely because they suck. He couldn't say who is teaching the other worlds how to summon. Maybe it's whoever did Revelation, or something.
If people switch to that gag design then they can successfully gag demons who have gone out of their way to state they don't consent to being gagged. He is not sure this is a great idea but it definitely is an idea.
There's kind of a tension between the rhetoric of "most demons are great! let them talk!" and "I died in a summoning accident! vague threats!"
"I died in a summoning accident with a fairy. And that's not a threat! I don't mean that the demons you would gag without consent would hurt you, I mean that gagging people without their consent is wrong and that therefore you shouldn't do it for the same reason it wouldn't be okay to gag random humans!"
Kinda sounded threatening.
Maybe they should gag fairies too? No that doesn't make sense fairies can't take souls.
But it counts as paying them if you let them do it, you can send them home after that.
"If anyone tried that with a fairy or an angel it would work with them too. And if you tried to offer me your daemon or your spirit animal or something else that isn't tangible, that'd count as paying me too, payments don't have to be tangible or even exist, they can be things like 'permission to take the blessing on my magic necklace' when the necklace is just a piece of plastic."
Well. Demons can't steal souls and everyone's been gagging them for no reason. If there were souls being stolen Minor would obviously do something about that, that'd be the most not-okay thing in the world.
It's kinda hard to imagine him more worked up about anything than he is about gags.
Well, that is because there aren't any other massive terrible-incentive-producing pointless violations of the rights of people going on that he knows of, if anyone can think of some he guarantees he will be just as worked up about those!
People can think of all kinds of things. Animal rights, lunar arcology oversight, human imprisonment, stupid people being allowed to breed, the would-be Titan colonization movement, the state of children's education in the African Union, dying languages, domestic violence, people with stupid religions...
He doesn't seem to have a comparative advantage at any of those things but he'll see what he can do.
"Like, if two people were working on problems in the world, and one of them was a grownup and one was me, probably the grownup would be better than me at improving lunar arcology oversight and I would be better at teaching people about demons. Maybe by enough that even if lunar arcology oversight was more important, it'd be a waste to have me working on it. I could make lots of stuff in exchange for money and pay more experienced people to work on those problems, that might be the most efficient way for me to help on them."
Demons don't usually take money. Some will, but mostly long-term ungagged ones.
Does he in fact want money, there's a website for bids mostly frequented by summoners themselves but....
It's a thing. City governments and charities use it a lot but so do private individuals and orgs.
He'd have to pay one of his brothers to tag along but maybe he could still come out ahead by enough to be worth it.
He will find a fairy and make some money for lunar arcology oversight, then!
And this concludes the livestream.
He snoops on Richard Moon's writing mentioning Minor or demons or souls.
bumbleb: did you seriously summon that minor kid
rixx: no, I let him continue unabated to endanger everyone, sounds very like me
rixx: cops found out somehow, made me dismiss him
rixx: came back in a legal enough binding with his "brother" and bothered hubby
bumbleb: what are you gonna do
rixx: dunno
rixx: hands are a bit tied now
rixx: are you going to diana's thing
bumbleb: nah
He finds Timothy so he can run an experiment with the new gag that allows clothing. He makes Timothy a circle with it and goes back to Hell.