After they got over the fact that the only thing I could think to make was Thin Mints, I finally got to try them. They tasted exactly right, likely because I had once memorized the ingredients when I was feeling bored a few years before.

“Are you actually going to make something useful?” Set asked.

“Sure,” I said, imagining a rock, and when it appeared in my hands, tossing it to him.

“And what is this supposed to be?”

“The first rock in the world. I’m sure that it will one day be some kind of holy relic.”

“How about something more immediately helpful?”

“Okay,” I said, waving my hand and causing a much, much, larger rock to appear, “Now we have our first planet. What do we do now?”

“Maybe we should make it inhabitable?”

“And what is needed for that?”

“Start with an atmosphere. That will help with everything else.”

“Next?” I asked, creating it.

“A star for it to orbit would likely be helpful. Also, add a moon while you’re at it.”

“Then turn the outside into actual soil, instead of solid stone.”

“Next after that, you can add plants!” Dr. Larkens interjected.

“And animals!” said Dr. Stanton, making sure his voice was heard.

“And—”

“Whoa, slow down, I can only do one thing at a time,” I said, interrupting Dr. Bastien, “And maybe I should add an ocean before I give it plants? I’m no herbologist, but I don’t think that plants can survive without water.”

“Technically,” Set said, “you can do two things at once. You’re just really bad at it.”

“For these purposes, no, I can’t do two things at once,” I responded, before proceeding to ignore him as I did everything that was suggested.

“Are you going to have humans on this world?”

“Yes, It makes sense, since I know them the best. I will have Humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, and beastkin in this tier of worlds.”

“Tier?” Set asked.

“Oh, yeah,” I said, stopping what I was doing, “I never fully explained my plans. I plan on having nine tiers of worlds, with nine worlds each. In each world, the world will be best suited for a specific species. As you increase in world tier, the species grow more powerful, ranging from humans and elves to angels and dragons.

“It will be relatively easy to travel between worlds of the same tier. I am planning on installing 6 sets of portals on each world, one set on each major axis, and using those as transports to the corresponding circle on each of the eight other worlds in that tier,” by now, they were all staring at me with their mouth gaping open. Rolling my eyes at them, I continued, “If someone has completed an important quest in each world, then they will be given the ability to, once per week, respawn if they die from unnatural causes.”

“That’s rather well thought out,” said Set, regaining his composure.

“Why do you sound so surprised?” I asked, feeling slightly offended at his tone.

“Well, I am your closest relative and one of the most disorderly gods of all time. Do you even really need me here?”

“Really, all I need is to know how to fold space so that people can’t easily skip between tiers. That would just put weak people where they couldn’t survive, and strong creatures where they could easily dominate those around them.”

“That’s easy,” he replied, laughing, “You know that demonstration that they had on your old world that used a sheet of paper to show how a warp drive would work? How it would bend space in front of it to make the distance seem shorter? You ever notice how it creates a valley? Imagine folding it the other direction. Nothing’s getting past that without a lot of effort. Toodles!” and then he disappeared, still laughing.