Oh, are they generally a bribe-based system? (Twenty of whose years, wow.)

...speaking really loosely? The benefits from signing up are outlandish because they want to incentivize everybody to sign up. You can't, like, bribe a regulatory committee to look the other way or bribe a judge or something, if you could do that then the laws wouldn't be nearly as effective.

A House writes in that this is private please it would like to guarantee itself entry but would appreciate some security if it looks like the rest of Yvalta is going the other way.

They email to ask where security can conveniently be accommodated.

Kind of depends on what form security takes?

Security will be a person with relevant abilities.

One person could come to the southwest entrance of this house at a time.

At that time there is a woman who could pass for Amentan. Purple hair and everything.

The blue who goes to the door is a little confused about that part.

"Hi! Should it be a different color, they said purple was the most commonly occurring and I know grey is the one for 'will fight a war' but this is sort of on the down-low, right? I'm Mereth, pleasure to meet you."

"I was all ready for you to look like an alien but purple is fine. Soyok."

"I'm human, we look mostly Amentan. This place is pretty."

"Thank you. Come in."

In she goes!

"I have a guest room for you made up over here."

"Thank you!" 

He shows her to it. It's nice.

She sits down happily. "Does anybody need reassurance that y'all are safe - or magic healing, for that matter, I also have magic healing and could do that -"

"I haven't told anybody we're seceding. We won't have to if the rest of the Houses join up. But if they don't they might be annoyed. I've got about a million and a half people, that cleared the threshold mentioned on TV. I'm not aware of any acute medical issues right now."

"Good for you. It's a good deal and, like, they'll remember who was on top of making it happen."

"Who will, Vanda Nossëo?"

"Yeah."

"What results does that have?"

"More cool stuff? Like, a lot of the cool stuff really goes out on a trust basis. The things for which there's consistent overwhelming demand, there are rules about how to distribute it. But, like, who gets to be the site of a trial of giving everyone some cool new magic, who gets to be the first portal hub once portals are stable and scalable, all of that is 'who is competent enough to use this well and cares about their people enough to use it for them?'."

"Oh."