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Cam is watching a new recording of Atriama, tail swishing in the gap in his couch, and doesn't stop to pause the show when he feels a summons go by.
wormcan
"It's for a good reason," he explains on arrival. "Gabriel Vega, I'm with Oceanic Trans-Pacific. Our scheme involves you a bit more directly than most.
You've demonstrated range, while raising Kyushu if nothing else; is there a reason you're exporting things at all instead of creating them already arrived?"
You've demonstrated range, while raising Kyushu if nothing else; is there a reason you're exporting things at all instead of creating them already arrived?"
from_scratch
"Don't want to accidentally drop them on things or what have you, need to know where they're going."
wormcan
"Those both sound easily solvable. Long-distance communication does exist, and is much easier than sending things across oceans."
wormcan
"Exact distance measurements, then? If all ordinary information fails, OTP has been known to contract with parahumans. Speed is valuable, even more so when the things being sent include otherwise-unavailable hepatitis cures."
from_scratch
"Exact direction and distance would do, but that's going to vary with things like tidal forces pulling the continents around by enough that I might put something through a warehouse wall, or someone who was unwisely anywhere near the premises when I appeared the things."
wormcan
"Last problem is easily solved with communication. The former could be handled, maybe with getting a margin of error by making objects appear afloat. I'm almost surprised no one has suggested this kind of thing yet."
from_scratch
"I suppose I could appear things with parachutes if I knew enough about the air traffic and bypass most intersection problems that way. It's just fiddly and most of my help is firmly Japan-based."
wormcan
"We're setting up operations here too, more typical ones as well as the long-distance conjuration.
The local government is happy to have us here, I suspect mostly as a sign that Japan is economically relevant again. Though sponsoring a police department fundraiser may have helped. Is there anything you're hoping to accomplish here that we might be able to help with? We aim to have our presence always be an improvement for the relevant cities wherever possible, and I like what I've seen of your goals so far."
The local government is happy to have us here, I suspect mostly as a sign that Japan is economically relevant again. Though sponsoring a police department fundraiser may have helped. Is there anything you're hoping to accomplish here that we might be able to help with? We aim to have our presence always be an improvement for the relevant cities wherever possible, and I like what I've seen of your goals so far."
from_scratch
"Oh, jumping everybody's tech level until the only remarkable thing about me and it is that I can conjure it up at the drop of a hat, relieving all forms of material scarcity for the entire population of the world, I really want to terraform Mars but don't have the gap in my schedule yet, that sort of thing."
wormcan
"Not things I'm much of in a position to speed up very much, then. Good luck, I suppose, for what that's worth."
from_scratch
"I would definitely appreciate sufficiently precise intel about where to drop the hepatitis vaccines and so on, though, that's definitely somewhere you can help. I don't even mind if you profit off of it as long as every vaccine finds a patient etcetera. You will want to be sure nobody outcompetes you on the profit margin - no exclusivity contracts."
wormcan
"That can only go to other cities where we're already established—mostly the American West Coast—but distribution is easy enough.
As for what to appear where, can you do variety or is it one thing at a time? If it would help, our people on the receiving end can assemble some of whatever's needed at the arrival stations at the time, so you can simply duplicate it."
As for what to appear where, can you do variety or is it one thing at a time? If it would help, our people on the receiving end can assemble some of whatever's needed at the arrival stations at the time, so you can simply duplicate it."
from_scratch
"I can do variety. Having a thing to duplicate onsite doesn't help, but I can do a big care package of thirty different things off a list with only a little more trouble and time than lots of one thing."
from_scratch
"Have you been in touch with the Prime Minister's office about what sorts of things there are on offer or do you need a list?"
wormcan
"I know what you've been making. If there are things you've been holding back for any reason, no idea about those."
from_scratch
"Well, it's a start, I probably haven't thought of everything I can make that would be a good idea yet simply because there are so many things. There isn't anything that I have thought of, have decided not to give the Japanese, and do wish to offer you."
wormcan
"Endbringer core is in high demand at the moment. That's probably going to be short-lived; there are only so many who have something to try. Miraculous cures and other technology will be more typical. And you've been supplying tinkers with what they need, but have you tried copying their results?"
from_scratch
"Not yet. I'm not sure it'll work, because it seems like it maaaaay run on magic, and so far all the tinker tech I have met falls into at least one of the categories 'I don't know why I'd want even one of it', 'if something went wrong in the duplication the materials involved mean I would accidentally nuke Tokyo', or 'glaring intellectual property conflicts I don't want to touch'. Do you have candidates?"
wormcan
"There are things I'd suggest, but not being a tinker myself I can't speak to the materials question. Maybe after getting in touch with some of the creators."
wormcan
"It sounds like you mean that literally. Do you expect your power to interact with it differently in either case?"
from_scratch
"I can make things that run on physics. I cannot make things with persistent non-physics-behaving properties of any kind. No fountain of youth, no philosopher's stone, no ring of Gyges, etcetera."
wormcan
"Powers in general do seem to ignore physics, and tinker products are probably no exception. But if it works, it could be incredibly important. I'll see what I can do."