"Can't take it with you."

"Oh, you never know, that's on my list. You lot talk a good game about Axis being where you go to live a better life without scarcity but there's this noticeable scarcity of magical powers."

"Doesn't make sense for clerics to spend their limited blessings on those who don't need them. I guess maybe if the amount of cleric magic there is is the product of a negotiated agreement there could be more in sone kinda balanced way."

"You don't need create water, sure. But - what do clerics have - comprehend languages, you get that one, you're never gonna want that again? I am despite my extremely pathetic efforts aimed at an infinitely explorable wilderness, reportedly very pretty, which would have me unable to explore it via flight! It's a ripoff!"

Grin. "I mean, they'd be awfully nice. But the stakes are just higher here in the material world. I could use my cleric levels to flit around among the dead helping with translation or someone on this plane could save a couple lives every day."

"If there were some means for you to donate your spells to worthier causes I'd imagine you'd use that responsibly. They're not exactly efficiently allocated, you don't get more in emergencies or fewer when you're planning to be distracted when it's coming up on bedtime and realize you haven't even used them all, there's no refund if you prep something just in case and it doesn't come up."

"I would donate my spells to worthier causes but I think most people'd find it awfully annoying to spend all of the next life trying to push less useful levers back on this world."

"It'd suck to have to spend all your time researching where it helped most, I guess. But if some people published recommendations it'd be fine."

"Leave them to your grandkids or something. They could sell them in raw form, that'd be very commerce-y. I'm imagining little electrum coins with level numbers on them. That glow. And then every now and then just like we can now we could keep some back, I can fly, you can... do something fun, do you have anything fun? Do clerics get to have fun besides linguistics related fun? You can have linguistics related fun."

"I don't usually use Abadar's gifts to have fun."

"Waves of Ecstasy is a cleric spell."

"Did you look that up at some point?"

"Born knowing it. Actually."

"I'm not knocking the cleric shtick. I'm honestly very put out that I can't heal, I would absolutely make a routine of swinging by some tolerable temple to dump healing spells on people at the end of any day I didn't use them up. But I don't think I'd be good at casting from wisdom and I'm not clear on how to manage the profession without finding at least one deity somewhere north of 'tolerable'."

"I think you need to trust them. Not agree with them about everything but expect that in their following you're put to your best use."

"Should I stop whispering hubris in your ear lest you lose the ability to strike people with waves of ecstasy?"

"I don't have that ability! It's a seventh level spell! I don't even know where he heard of it!"

"When I was in disguise as a body double of the princess of Iblydos -"

"Silence."

He writes, with very neat handwriting on a piece of paper he shows Belmarniss,

That was fun. 

She laughs. Silently.

"That was going to be a good one," he complains when the spell wears off.

"They usually are, or I'd have stopped asking you personal questions a long time ago."

She makes an encouraging gesture. "Well, you were in disguise as the body double of the princess of Iblydos, go on."

"Her father had arranged the body doubles being disguised high level Osirian adventurers because they kept dying and no one wanted the job. But we'd all take it if he'd cover the insurance, and most of the assassination attempts were distinctly nonlethal to high level adventurers anyway. - unbeknownst to her father the princess had a secret lover and unbeknownst to the body doubles he liked to pop in and surprise her. Took a while to figure out that he wasn't an assassin and then a while after that to communicate that he had the wrong person but I'm not complaining."

Giggle.