It's a hot day, and the awning stretches out invitingly to passers-by. Great posters invite and exhort people to publish their works:
"Reliable, Accurate, Prompt"
"One stop for all Licensing, publication, censorship, and permitting"
"Would it help if my friend provided a reputable Chelish lawyer to come here to Osirion? She has one on retainer."
"How do you treat advertisements of major adventurers of no fixed abode? and what the usual fee for expediting this sort of thing?"
"Does Cheliax have at this time any means of certifying lawyers as qualified, or is there anyone here who would have interacted previously with this lawyer and can attest to their capabilities?"
"My Friend's Lawyer had passed the bar under the previous regime, is a delegate to the constitutional convention, and argued in front of the Queen at trial- and won her case, in front of a judge Geased to consider only Law"
"If you bring the lawyer here and pay whatever the legal review office's fee for an expedited review, and the lawyer is qualified to answer the relevant questions with respect to the law of Cheliax, then I would anticipate review could be done immediately."
"I will then notify her. It will take some Moments for her to get here. If that is Everything, I will perform the hopefully- final edit."
Maybe he won't get murdered by a lich today but it's too soon to be optimistic. "I'll refer you to legal."
Margarítē spends ten minutes casting [Sending] in the corner, and performs her final update.
The legal department is also not happy about taking this case. They would charge hazard fees for lich-related business except they're not sure they'd survive charging hazard fees for lich-related business. They review the whole document carefully to ensure it does not describe anything that is illegal in Osirion. It doesn't.
They don't have to approve it for that reason. They have absolute discretion to deny publications even if the guidelines permit them. It's just that if they don't they'll make an insane lich angry.
Margarítē fans herself ostentatiously, and happily speaks to the legal department. She's very mortal and very cool.
After everything is taken care of, she teleports home.
Well, not home home. She teleports to a smaller place, that's actually in the sewers. Not too far above, things are happening.
Right. Can her lawyer review this submitted advertisement and confirm that all of the described behavior is legal in Cheliax, and that being a lich is legal in Cheliax, and that the advertisement does not seem to the lawyer to be obviously injurious to public morals in Cheliax, assuming it to truthfully describe magical services genuinely available for sale?
Well, there sure aren't many laws in Cheliax!
It is not contrary to law to:
It does not seem obviously injurious to public morals, the badger-lich who is apparently her client or affiliated with her client or... something is a beloved local Westcrown character.
She lives in the sewers, reportedly, where many of Westcrown's most esteemed denizens live. Like her colleague Delegate Kicharchu.
The children reportedly love her. No, their parents don't appear to mind this at all.
Well word has it that Cheliax has decided on saving its people from Hell by sending them to the Abyss but it's none of Osirion's business. If the author of the pamphlet will certify its truth and her client's law-abidingness under the current regime, and the lawyer will consult on Chelish law, they will approve it with the following note, which much be displayed prominently:
This advertisement for magical services has been approved by the Osirian Censorship Office as it reflects a real offer of magical services by a law-abiding proprietor who has paid the relevant taxes and fees. It is beyond the scope of this office to advise on the wisdom, morality, or efficacy of purchases of magical services in this case or any other. Customers are responsible for knowing the law in their own jurisdiction and for ensuring their safety and that of the people around them. The ritual by which lichdom is attained is prohibited in Osirion without special permission of the Ruby Prince Khemet III, Pharaoh of Osirion, &c&c&c&c.
No, Osirian censorship office lawyer, I don't know what the fuck either.
Eriape comes in, certifies the truth of this, offers Lluïsa a tiny crochet badger, gives her a thumbs up, and leaves.
Half of Lluïsa's brain | The other half |
burn the badger token and the engagement letter | keep it, it's a one-of-a-kind lich souvenir and this is apparently a very free-spending lich |
She'll keep it. Pleasure doing business. There is a teleport back, right?
At least when Cheliax was infernal its problems stayed on its side of the Inner Sea. Except that time they exacerbated the situation in Thuvia to acquire it as a colony, and that time they unleashed the four Pharaohs of the Ascension, and that time they declared war on Osirion because of Inquisitor Shawil .... okay probably it's still good that Cheliax is run by confusing radical Galtans these days.