"The church inside Osirion is organizationally separate but I'm sure the Abadarans in Absalom would be overjoyed to assist."

Nod. Well, that could be pretty straightforward, Joshel can prepare the Abadar truth spell this time, to skip the whole proving-they're-not-making-up-up rigamarole (assuming it's not already known that Osirion took a bunch of clerics off to another world), and then just show up there with Tantras tomorrow morning and probably to have it all decided on by noon. The church of Abadar is great. 

:I may approach you again if one of our Farseer-Fetchers is interested in the, er, tomb raiding: he adds. :Assuming that doesn't involve taking sides in conflicts between other parties.: 

Why are 'tombs filled with treasure' a thing??? Whose tombs??? Joshel is pretty sure he would not be getting that particular advice from Cicerone Raad if raiding the tombs for treasure was a crime, so he's not worried about that, he's just really confused why this is even coming up as a notable way of earning money in Osirion. 

"There's some paperwork, and some tombs may have extant mummies but if they have stayed put this long they are not likely to emerge."

Might have extant what - why is this enough of a thing that they have a bureaucratic process for it— not the top priority to ask questions about right now. 

:Er, taking a step back - because I think I'm not doing enough of that - is there anything else obvious - about the interworld contact , not the current emergency - that I'm not thinking to ask about or plan for?: 

"You could be accepting payment from your own neighbors here for transit to Golarion if they have their own trades they'd like to undertake."

That! Is in fact! Really obvious! 

...Well, kind of, it would still pretty much have to be a joint venture with Leareth's organization, because Brightstar can't personally do all of their interworld Gates, and Joshel will probably continue to feel weird and uneasy about the exact status of that alliance until he has a chance to talk it over with Leareth personally (which, incidentally, is a spectacularly intimidating prospect that he's mildly dreading.) ...Also Brightstar is not, technically, Valdemaran or a Herald or in any way in Joshel's chain of command - and isn't one of Leareth's people either, obviously - and somehow that hadn't occurred to Joshel to mull over either.

Should they be paying him??? They should pretty plausibly be paying him, and this only hadn't occurred to Brightstar because the Tayledras barely have money as a concept and he hasn't yet thought through that one thing he could use money for is "saving up for the super-expensive Resurrection and getting his parents back". And, like, Joshel could probably let Randi continue taking advantage of the fact that Brightstar is personally loyal to Jisa and probably feels like he can’t ask anyone for anything after his - participation - in Leareth’s death. They could keep acting like he clearly owes them all this free labor, for quite a while, but that doesn't seem very Abadaran!

:Thank you, that makes a lot of sense: he says. :...I actually just thought of something I want - Abadaran theology? Advice on? …The man who solved the Gate -routing first - who dropped me in Sothis - isn’t actually from Valdemar or in the Heralds’ chain of command. He took very significant risks to speed up the research, for - personal reasons - . …I don’t think it’s going to occur to him that he could ask Valdemar for payment at all and I’m not sure how to figure out what’s fair if someone isn’t going to negotiate for what they think they ought to be paid? He wasn't the only one who worked on it, but it's entirely on him that it was possible in time to save the people dying, or to get Gentle Reposes inside your time limit for Raises. …The people he’s from live in small communities of a few hundred people and don’t really trade with outsiders or use money. I'm not sure he has much way to know what Valdemaran money is worth.: 

"...well, what were his personal reasons? If he gets what he wanted in the first place out of the endeavor, if he would have done it for that payment, then that would be a fair price. Or, does he have a use for any of the myriad things that can be bought with money, even if he'd rather have someone else handle his budget for him?"

:He was - complicatedly partially responsible for Leareth’s death and also got some other people killed, on his Goddess’ orders, though She later…apologized? Apparently? I think he was sorry it had cost us our chance at timely interworld contact, and - wanted to make it up to some people close to him who felt pretty betrayed by it. …Also his parents were killed along with all but one of the members of his clan, their Goddess exploded the Vale to set off a war with Leareth. And your world has resurrection. Though it would need to be the most expensive kind and Valdemar can’t pay for it.:

Joshel feels kind of…embarrassed? about all the Velgarth gods exploding their own countries and things like that? even though on reflection this is stupid because it’s not like he had anything to do with it.

:It’s possible Leareth’s organization could: he adds. :But that’s not up to me and I’m not sure what they consider themselves to owe him and - I guess it should go on the list of awkward conversations to have with Leareth once he’s functional again about our messily shared finances while he was dead?:

Joshel did try to ask Nayoki about it! And got a polite brush-off, so she apparently didn’t feel like it was in her authority either. Either that or she was dealing with eighteen more urgently-on-fire problems, which is unfortunately plausible.

:I don’t know. I hadn’t - really had a chance to think about it before now.:

"It does sound like you have a lot of irregularities that need to be regularized, yes, hopefully in such a way that everyone feels they've gained by it. Insofar as you have influence over this it sounds like you could... prompt people to tell him they forgive him, perhaps? If that was what he was after. And if he's a mage he will have plenty of his own opportunity to earn money for a True Resurrection grade diamond."

There are so many irregularities that need to be regularized! Joshel is glad that at least one person understands why this is an uncomfortable situation that would ideally be rectified sooner rather than later! Like, it’s not that he objects to Leareth's people funding the whole endeavor and generously contributing some of their diamonds toward Raising Valdemaran casualties, he just...wants a clearer understanding of the relationship here. 

:He's a mage. Also a trained Healing-Adept, though that's only useful if Golarion has any magically-contaminated land that needs cleanup to render it habitable. I...should definitely make a point of telling him that he could earn money in Golarion, he may not realize that either.: 

Brightstar is definitely alongside Jisa on Joshel's personal list of people who, while brilliant and talented, seem especially likely to manage to create some kind of bizarre diplomatic incident if sent off to visit Golarion solo. But Brightstar isn't a Herald and they don't, in fact, have the right to order him to stay where he is. 

(He will consider using the Companion-backchannel for a very gentle prompt that if Vanyel or Jisa consider themselves to have forgiven Brightstar but haven't said anything, they could consider saying it, but - whether they do forgive him is not really up to him.)