"I think the point about explicitly time bounded obligations was a good one, though I'm a bit unsure how best to apply it otherwise. The Galtan National Assembly took... years... to produce a constitution, and certainly I don't think we ought to tie up a bunch of random people for two years. I'm tempted to suggest a guaranteed break for the main harvest season in three months, but of course it'll delay having a constitution if they haven't got one by then, and either increase the time we go without most of our nobles or increase the time they spend traveling. Perhaps it's less of a concern if the sortitions can continue to say that they're done each month. We did also compensate the families, so there ought to be some ability to hire help for the harvest.

....should maybe give people the option to request that their families be relocated to Westcrown, if it drags on and they don't want to leave."

"That seems like a reasonable step. I do think that ...the nobles who are counts and above mostly went through some scrutiny, right, and are the only people responsible for holding accountable all the barons and minor lords, who mostly did not go through any scrutiny? It seems like it would do an enormous amount of harm to have them tied up in the capital for years."

"I don't particularly disagree. On the other hand I think it's also quite corrosive not to really have laws, and that our convention is so far moving along at a frankly alarming pace. Who knows, maybe we'll have a constitution much sooner than previous examples suggest. I believe Cansellarion is coming up with a skeleton for one. Possibly shouldn't be, but he's welcome to use the demiplane for it if it helps."

"I will inform him he should take you up on that. It's - quite the experiment you are undertaking. I hope very much that it works."

"So do I! 

The staff who slept here are going to spend a good half-day helping me determine how to move world resources towards Cheliax before the children wake up. I will probably scatter them to the four winds on diplomatic missions around one in the morning, after we've determined what exactly their diplomatic missions ought to be. Would you care to help us hash it out, or should I be getting you home? I do think you'll be better at it than most of us, we haven't really very much experience with asking governments for things."

"I would be honored to help. The Church also has a designated liaison in Oppara who asks that all our Oppara-related endeavors go through them, I don't know if you were planning to interact with Taldor at all."

"Oh, probably, though I haven't decided how. I try to be nice to Taldor whenever I'm nice to the Keleshites, and we're about to be very nice to the Keleshites. Sort of. I am sure we make the Pharaoh very nervous all the time."

"Mmm," says de Luna in the manner of someone who wishes that his country's biggest problems were allied archmages doing independent international diplomacy and also is not capable of being nervous because he is a paladin. "Well, I'll see whether I can help."

Oh, excellent.