"On our planet, as you grow more powerful as a warrior or mage, it gets easier to throw off the effect of most of these spells. I would be able to throw off a Suggestion about half the time, and reliably more than that if I expect it as a possibility, by using protection spells."

"Well, that was disturbing. We appreciate the warning."

"What would you require as assurances before starting to disseminate your knowledge?"

"We would want to be reasonably certain that our actions won't have destabilizing effect on your planet, or cause some catastrophic event. We've had... certain experiences that make us reservant of taking action too quickly."

"That seems sensible, wizards and catastrophic events go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly."

'Jelly', 'Jam', 'Marmelade'. With peanuts? These people are weird.

"In your assessment, if we mostly stay within our city, and maybe trade for food, how long we would be able to stay out of trouble? Because the impression I get is that our arrival may be an event out of itself."

"Yeah, it was incredibly visible. I think you'll have all sorts of people coming to investigate. I don't think you'll be able to stay out of trouble for long, honestly. Being in the middle of a lake helps somewhat, but only on the short term. The invisibility you had up earlier also helps if it's not too expensive. We were able to bypass it because we already knew where you were and Marcitor can cast See Invisibility. Which actually makes me wonder. Could you move your city? That would help with avoiding people."

"Can we?"

"We can abuse some of anti-ice systems to drag us around the lake, but not much more. Stardrive barely survived the landing."

"If the cloak is helpful, we should probably keep it up for now."

Tap on the ear - "Hey, Chuck, can you turn the city cloak back on?"

There's nothing noticable from the inside, but Atlantis once again disappears from view.

"If our arrival alone was sufficent to attract attention, we cannot allow ourselves to wait. This isn't a contat through the gate, mister Woolsy, we are in the middle of events, and should act accordingly."

"Should we just go and beat up Evil people? People admitting they are evil sounds like a good beating-up target to me."

"While appreciate your eagerness to beat up Evil people, I have a feeling that it would prove ineffective. Some Evil people are annoyingly hard to beat up, and the strongest ones tend to not stay dead."

"You'd be surprised how many things can be solved with communication and subtlety instead of violence."

"We should probably discuss what our next steps should be. While I've been given a great deal of latitude for this initial contact, you'd still need to talk directly to my superiors to start drafting a proper plan of collaboration. We can teleport us directly to the outskirts of Vigil, while bringing three additional people with us, four if we have Gauntwood hop into a bag of holding for the trip. You would be considerably safer while there, as our guests."

"How far away is Vigil? We would gladly accept your offer, but I wouldn’t want to go away from the city right after the landing, and when less well-meaning parties can be on their way here."

"Oh, it's just one Teleport hop away - it's less than 200 miles. We can bring you back here in a couple minutes if needed, and most of that time would be getting out of the Forbiddance and then potentially traveling from the island to the city again if the Teleport happens to not be precise."

"Well, we can work with that, I think. We'll need some time to arrange things in the city, how about half an hour?"

"Sure, the sooner the better, but I'd be surprised if half an hour makes a huge difference."

She relays to her party that the plan is to get these officers to Vigil in half a candlemark.

"The party is in place and awaiting your command."

Today is one of those days. The days where she wishes she was already in Hell instead of being surrounded by idiots.

"I told you to send an infiltration party, not to organize a picnic. What purpose does it serve for them to be waiting for me, exactly? Tell them to act immediately!"

"It will be done, Most High."

"One last thing. When this is over present yourself to the east wing temple for your punishment."