Two wizards and two soldiers appear in the desert, a few feet away from a tired slave caravan.
They nod at each other and disappear again.
"Is the thing where she wants to kill and resurrect another fairy repeatable? When?"
"Whether taking prisoners off her hands makes sense probably depends a lot on whether they're fairies or not, but if they're not is there a good place to put them?"
"We have supervised monasteries where people can work on lawfulness and goodness, but they have to be cooperative. We don't have prisons."
"Well, we don't know why they're prisoners, maybe they're just incorrigible liars."
"We can definitely ask for more details. - the other thing we should do at some point is get in touch with the neutral good gods. Nirvana has an island for people they manage to squeeze into their afterlife who are super evil, and presumably they have some kind of arrangements to go with that."
"Well in principle you can just pray to them but in practice I think it helps to find a cleric of theirs."
"Gods do not have infinite attentional capacity and are not guaranteed to hear you just because you are talking to them, and might be annoyed if you start actively trying to get them to pay more attention to you when you're not even a follower of theirs. They usually pay attention to their clerics, though."
"Sarenrae's church is in good standing. Helped with the war for independence, actually."
"What specifically would you be saying to Sarenrae? - also we all need nicknames and nametags -"
Now everyone has a blank peelable nametag in hand, except Cam, who just is wearing one on the outside of his jeans pocket reading "Concerto".
He writes "Pharaoh" on his.
"I guess we'd tell Sarenrae that we've made contact with all these other universes and if there are lots of secret goodies reserved for the forces of good then it might be good to know about them. More formally than that, of course, but that seems like pretty much the shape of it."
"It would not surprise me at all if she's willing to make some clerics if that helps us - assuming one can do that with people from another world. It wouldn't surprise me if they'll take, and keep an eye on, prisoners. It'd surprise me if there's a lot more going on, I think Abadar would have told me."
"Do we... want... to be clerics?" Annie asks. She picks the nickname Glossolalia.
"I guess it's possible he wouldn't know about them? But that limits whatever it is to something limited enough the rest of the gods aren't aware of it, which makes it unlikely they'll tell us. I... would assume you want to be a cleric if you're not going for some other kind of magic? It's pretty useful. I guess maybe some people might want to hold out until Belmarniss is ready to try for godhood but you can change who you're a cleric of even if it's very rare to."
"I mean, like, does this get more attention and interference than we necessarily want from powerful inadequate beings, though separately we did get wizard textbooks."
Rubelite's nametag says SPACESHIP. "If this is a cleric is the rest of me too?"
"I have no idea. Even if all of you are wizards I don't know if that means all of you would be clerics."