"Can't I also do that if I keep the item to myself?"

"I think we would probably object to random people ongoingly altering our weather of their own accord but I guess if it was popular weather there'd probably not be a lot of motivation to do anything about it."

"It'd improve your rate of drow tourism, if it were cloudy during the day. Oh, uh, are drow going to run afoul of the transporting persons as goods rules if they come up with their sapient possessions? This applies not only to the non-drow slaves but also depending on how liberally you interpret 'as goods' also all male and child drow unless something highly irregular is up."

"The slaves will be a problem. I don't think we're inclined to force an interpretation on drow family structures that they'd probably not think much of themselves? If someone comes up here and murders their kid here they'll get in legal trouble."

"Okay, that de facto makes it impossible for anyone with a baby to move here. Drow just... don't... breastfeed, that's exclusively slave-based. You can encourage them to hire free wetnurses but I don't know how good the uptake will be and anyone who doesn't feel like navigating that and wants to do business here may actually decide to kill their baby rather than mess with hiring a nanny, you should be aware of that."

"Slavery's really a touchy subject here, I can't get different laws for drow without having to renegotiate a lot of other things that we're committed to not revisiting until there's more data in in a few more years. I don't - particularly care about increasing drow infant deaths, should I? Do they make the slaves carry it out?"

"I don't know if they do in Shazeun. You could reasonably not care about increasing drow infant deaths but I did think you should know it would be a consequence of the policy situation."

"I appreciate you making me aware of it, you should keep doing that, I'll mention it to the pharaoh. But I think - a lot of Osirian children die, right, and it's not a particular policy priority because they'll eventually be fine..."

"Yeah, the dead drow babies are also fine, I checked."

"And there's twenty million interest groups on slavery and very little room to maneuver. I hope it doesn't limit too much peoples' prospects of immigrating if they want to."

"It will not stop anybody who really wants to."

He nods. He has more questions about currency and how deep various markets are in the sense of how much demand there will be at various prices. He asks questions until he has filled up his little notebook.

She will tell him about their mining situation (drow find a lot of things to mine in the course of their general exploration and architecture) and the highest price she ever saw a sack of sugar go for (seven gold, and the sack was just this big!) and how they have pigs and fish down there and some underdark-specific animals but not goats or chickens or anything, and that magic's cheaper downstairs up until the mid levels but they don't have all the surface spells in common circulation but they do have some of their own, mentions as though it's her own observation what Hagan said about it being easier to deliberately be a cleric of a demon lord than of a legit god with lots of options.

"Huh. All right. I'm very excited about this, I think it has the potential to really be something great. Anything else I can do for you now -"

"This isn't really urgent but I'm curious how much of an incident it's gonna be the first time somebody offers to buy a teenage boy for her daughter as a husband."

" - if he is in fact for sale I do not think it'll be a very big deal. If he is not it'd be a rather ill-advised offer to make but Osirians are mostly lawful. NInety-two percent, at last count."

"It probably won't come up for a while, it'd be really weird to outmarry. Congrats on the ninety-two percent. I think that's all I had in mind."

"Well, some of them are still evil, right, lawful's only half the battle. But thank you. I wish you profitable future ventures."

"Thanks."

She heads off to the temple he mentioned with the high enough level cleric.

They offer resurrections for a thousand gold plus the diamond, and true resurrections for two thousand gold plus the diamond.

That's not bad at all, if you happen to have the diamonds. She is not quite liquid enough to get the both of them.

She goes and finds Hagan.

"Hey! Collected your winnings?"

"Yeah! I think it's probably about time I get my parents rezzed but I don't have the gold for both of them at once and I think I had better get both of them at once. I'm thinking maybe I shop around downstairs, since rocks are probably cheaper there and that won't last? And then I want to go get Sovi."

"You want backup?"

"For Sovi definitely, the shopping trip if you feel like it."