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.
"I have mixed feelings about this idea since I have fourteen perfectly good gods back home and these ones are strangers who haven't impressed my local alt!" says (apparently) "Tengwa".
"Already a cleric, evil, evil, holds elected office, needs to go home to the kids, I guess that leaves Cam's and Rirosseth?" says "Point".
Lean. "You all need to pick nicknames - if nothing else it'll make it a lot easier for me to tell you apart."
"Detect Alignment. Uh, you're evil -" pointing at Rirosseth - "you're not -" pointing at Cam's, who is labelling himself Number.
"Yeah. The alignment system is not necessarily going to be tracking whatever you personally consider yourself responsible for. And there's a certain sort of - I don't swing around to good or evil whenever I change tax policy in a way that affects millions of people."
He points at Rubelite - "doesn't register, probably because she's neutral but conceivably because she's not powerful enough to register, most people aren't." He points at Annie - "neutral good."
"Well, normal humans won't register because it's checking some combination of - what direction you're pulling the universe in and how much you're pulling. I suspect, being a spaceship, you are pulling a lot, so probably the universe doesn't just have a lot of data about which way you are pulling because you are pretty new."
"Also possible. We could tell with Anaander, though, and I assume she didn't do very much evil with this specific body."
"This body has never done anything but adjudicate local disputes on a boring backwater planet. I don't think I adjudicated them very evilly, either."
"True. I don't think Pharasma is exactly doing math but maybe she's doing something close enough to math that Anaander is getting sunk on sheer numbers. - which would be completely fair and just," he adds to Anaander.
"I agree that killing twenty-five billion people is twenty-five billion times as bad as killing a person."