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Belmarniss shows up early the next morning for her consultancy meeting, munching a pastry from her breakfast spread. "Hey - I was told to meet with a Luay?"
further adventures of belmarniss
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"My brother could but it'd be hard to explain why you figured he would. They're okay? The Abyss is dangerous, right -"
not_born_evil
"I wouldn't go through you, ideally, I'm imagining maybe I develop enough cachet as a cultural consultant to ask. For both of them and my sister too once there's parents to put her with, if I'm going for broke. I have confirmed that they both continue to exist within the last year, though obviously that could change at any time and it's hard to get a sense of how perilous their immediate conditions are given what there is to look at in the Abyss."
not_born_evil
"Lots of people in the Abyss, they're not, like, objectively special. Lots of people in Hell too."
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"Yeah. But - it's hard to work, when people you care about are in danger."
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"Spent a lot of time being really really glad I didn't have kids at home before I figured things out. But at least they'd've been, like, fine, pretty unlikely on the whole to be snacked on..."
not_born_evil
"Yeah, lotta things about it would suck but at least not the material comfort now and hereafter part."
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"Osirion sucks but they're doing - something it's really reasonable to be doing, you know?"
not_born_evil
"Well, afterwards we will need to return with a bolt of silk and exciting news, although if you feel that strongly about it I could sell you to a mushroom farmer."
the-snake's-name-is-snake
"Well they had better at minimum have detailed Pharasma-overthrowing plans."
not_born_evil
It's dark. Belmarniss starts mapping immediately, sometimes making a circuit of a cave she can't see clear across to note the number and directions of the entrances. There aren't a bunch of drow right by the aperture, though there are some signs that people have been through - signs of wear on the stone, a couple dropped items of no value.
not_born_evil
She picks directions without explaining herself and is generally pretty taciturn. She doesn't get out of his goggles' range, though.
They go deeper, and loosely southward, without finding much of anything, for a few hours.