This might as well happen. In he goes.

Inside is an elderly person with white eyes who speaks only in sign language. Blue sparks trail her fingertips through the air.

"Onin welcomes you," says Pecker, alighting on Onin's hat.

"- thank you. Can you help me understand what the Oracle told me?" Here it is written down.

"Onin says her sight is clouded by how much of your life takes place within a fog of uncertainty. Perhaps the Oracle has noticed the same thing."

"Oh. I'm from a planet where prophecy doesn't work. Is this something I can help with by - answering questions about myself, or... anything?"

"It is worth a try. Onin would like to hear about your plans and your goals."

"Iomedae is worshiped as a goddess of war but considers it one of the most tragic mortal endeavors. I do not know if it will be possible for me but I would like to broker a peace that can serve as the foundation for lawful institutions that serve the people they encompass."

"A peace with the metal heads?"

"Yes. - I've spoken to them already."

"Onin says they seek to destroy a great artifact that is necessary for the safety of all life on this planet. Onin says they would have failed if you had not come here. Now, she does not know."

"How is it necessary for the safety of all life on this planet?"

"Onin says she sees a darkness approaching which has swallowed many planets before." He pauses and squawks a bit as she keeps signing. "She says there is one who must save us, but many who must save him. Without the Precursor stone, he cannot be saved."

"Who is it that must save the planet?"

"There is a hero who has already done so and will again."

"...does this hero have a name?"

Squawk. "Many and more. One of them is Jak."

"- should I find Jak and bring him here to talk with you?"

"No. You should not follow where he is now."

"Why, where is he now?"

"Do you think we tell anyone who asks where to find anyone else? No, we do not."

"I don't expect you to do that as a matter of universal policy but I didn't expect you to have a universal policy against either."

"You are welcome to read our policies and disclaimers." Pecker can dig a sheaf of papers out of the miscellany in the tent.

"Oh! Thank you." What are the policies and disclaimers.