do: make introductions; don't: usurp the government

[giftedandtalented]

Tab goes home by door, right into Aelise's office. "Hello again."

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[pythbox]

People more or less fail to panic. There is definitely some more and some less, though.

[queensidecastle]

Kers says, [You remember those presents you got me?]

[giftedandtalented]

[Yeah. Why, did Toronto just absorb some of them?]

[queensidecastle]

[All four, actually.]

[giftedandtalented]

[That is an interesting coincidence. Thanks for letting me know.]

[queensidecastle]

[No problem.]

[giftedandtalented]

After people have had an hour to read the pamphlets and talk amongst themselves, there is a second flurry of notices, this one inviting people to list any people they would like to have back who were not in Toronto at the time of the nuke and therefore will have to be fetched separately, in writing on the back of the notice. This will magically copy to Jane, who will then put these people into some sort of sensible order, vet them, and send them up. They may also issue other requests, statements, or complaints on the back of the notice, which Jane will also take up and sort for Tab.

[Hey, Luhan, this is Tab - I'm the resident version of the person who teleported over to you a while back.]

[areyouabeer]

[Yeah?] says Luhan.

[giftedandtalented]

[I thought you might want to know that I have recovered and instantiated Toronto as it was before it was nuked, minus the causes for said nuke, on another planet.]

[areyouabeer]

[Huh,] he says. [Which planet?]

[giftedandtalented]

[Named it Arborea. I don't think it's in the Milky Way.]

[areyouabeer]

[Seriously?]

[giftedandtalented]

[Yep. I have a guided teleportation magical thingamajig and I let it pick me a place and it found me this great planet that already had breathable air and plants but no animals and water in almost precisely the right layout to plop Toronto on it, so I nudged what needed nudging and plopped Toronto.]

[areyouabeer]

[Wouldn't mind seeing that,] says Luhan.

[giftedandtalented]

[I can come fetch you if you like, are you by yourself?]

[areyouabeer]

[As usual.]

[giftedandtalented]

Pop. "Hullo."

[areyouabeer]

"Hi," says Luhan. He picks up his beer and gets up out of his chair.

[giftedandtalented]

"I was hovering over Toronto when I left; do you want any particular non-hovering vantage point?"

[areyouabeer]

"Top of the CN Tower, of course."

[giftedandtalented]

Pop.

[areyouabeer]

It's empty of people up here, which is mildly unusual.

Luhan looks around, inhales, and nods.

"Yeah," he says, "you brought back Toronto, all right. What are you gonna do with it?"

[giftedandtalented]

"Well, I'm taking requests on who else to bring back and will be making places to put them, since I imagine plenty of people from here had friends who died later - or earlier - in unrelated ways. So I'm using it as a jumping-off point to populate this planet with. It's possible the actual structures here won't be inhabited for that long; I mean, Toronto comes with its own micro-economy, I'm not going to interfere directly with it except to ensure that there's food and water incoming despite the lack of farms, really, but I'm not planning to build anything that requires rent paid or what have you. Anybody dead you want back?"

[areyouabeer]

"Not especially."

[giftedandtalented]

"Okay. And the people here can know what all has happened since they've been gone," she waves at the cityscape bordered by its alien trees, "but if you want to go back to Earth please don't spread it around. Aelise knows, obviously."