"We could go home and report this and more important people could talk to Abadar about the war."

"If we lose the ship, think we'll find it again?"

"If it keeps its same course we'd have decent odds."

"Presumably all the important people in Osirion talk to Abadar all the time anyway and don't need prompting."

"If you know who you wanna report it to you could do a Sending."

"- yeah. We barely have twenty five words to tell them anyway."

"Who do you report to?"

"Bishop Saifullah of Sothis."

"Abadar likes Fazil better."

"I have more cleric levels but this is not the only thing that matters."

"How do bishops get picked if it's not so straightforward?"

"Any cleric who has a good track record of service to the church is eligible for an appointment - ah, any male cleric, at least. In practice if you never picked up a level past your first that'll probably be prohibitive, but fifth, sixth, that's not very notable, and only a few of them are ninth or tenth. There aren't very many clerics of eighth level or higher. Seventy clerics of Abadar in Osirion are eighth level or higher, last I heard, and some of them are women or retired. It'd be very restrictive if you had to pick all twelve bishops and four archbishops from that."

"Not even female clerics can wind up in any authority position, huh."

"They can run a place like Saint Hadassah's. They can't be a bishop."

"I suppose the fact that I do not find running Saint Hadassah's appealing is not useful market research about how the people who wind up doing it feel."

"I imagine some people feel really passionately about reforming criminals."

"Or just helping them escape the disproportionate consequences of their behavior, sure."

"It's really important and it's - personal? Most really important things are done in dusty rooms and affect people in ways you can only detect mathematically."

"Or on the high seas."

"Well, adventuring's great, but it's not for everyone."

"I probably wouldn't be doing it if any of the other ways to become a god were straightforwardly accessible at level five."

"I've been looking forward to retirement. But - maybe we can warn Andoran or whoever about the war, first."

"Get Mahdi into one more fight."

"Aww, am I gonna have to find a replacement party?"

"I'm not retiring!"