"Well, the kind of god who carefully hides all evidence of his presence when checked is probably the kind who won't interfere with Amentans invading, right, if he cares so much about ensuring there's no evidence he exists."

"Oh, I don't deny He's not getting in your way one bit, but it's a bit of a leap from there to 'not true, we checked'."

"Sure, sorry. All the checkable claims of the local religions are false but they also make lotsa uncheckable ones."

"Our gods would be hard to miss."

"I don't know how you'd think of trying to check if Melkor was a god but it'd have gone badly for you."

The door opens. "Hi! Wow, I knew something was up but this is certainly a heck of a something."

"Pelape," he says to his alts.

"Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too. If you want to take over finding colony planets with otherwordly magic for a few days, I can be contracted out."

"Where's Kefin?"

"He'll catch up."

"What all does the luck magic let you do? If we let you into our world will a bunch of random desirable things just happen? - we probably shouldn't, lest the gods intervene, but -"

"Things don't just happen. I have to be interacting with the situation, but I know where to go and what to do to find and cause useful coincidences. It helps if I have an aim in mind, even if what I'm doing doesn't always look like it's serving that aim - well, finding a planet does tend involve flying a spaceship, but in between trips I notice things like that."

"Our gods would not intervene if you were to spend a while doing random things."

"I'm actually thinking maybe the Andalites? They've got a war and various complicated stuff going on, and no gods..."

"Felix says no go visiting Andalites proper. Guessing based on the contents of my email it can't finesse the xenophobia. Might be able to do something on another front of their war, not sure."

"There's reportedly a front on Earth?"

"That I can probably work with."

"We have luck magic but it's not nearly so - agentic."

"What does it do?"

"Mostly specific things that work sometimes work more often."

"I think Felix actually can't do that on stochastics, just things that work sometimes because of variation in timing or implementation."

"Huh. Well, I'd say you can double up but I don't know if that'd have unintended effects, apparently the Felix withdrawal is rough enough on its own?"

"So I'm told, I've yet to endure it. Doubling up might be fine, I think Felix'd stop me if it wouldn't be."

"All right. I don't think I have anything on hand but I can call for it. Are you leaving right now?"