This isn't where Raafi went to sleep. He'd set his bedroll up on a comfy patch of moss under a tree, and now - he still has the bedroll, at least, and his pack, but the tree and moss are nowhere to be seen, replaced by a strange metal room with still, stuffy air and an implausibly clear night sky out the window.
"Hello?" he calls, getting to his feet.
"Uh, seems up to you if you stay but you should at least be supplemented by more people."
"Well, adding more people from our world seems unwise, and finding clerics here is thorny - not that it's ever the best idea to call for new clerics for a problem that'll last less than their lifetime. Is there - some existing organization we could work with, maybe?"
"I don't necessarily think you shouldn't add more people from your world! I just think they need more consultancy than a blog comment moderator and some people trying to rack up a few million more views on their news show."
"There's me, but I'm not especially sociable so I don't have a stable of more all lined up. You could advertise for it, I can try to dig up appropriate publications to put out a call in local to Limbo and Fairyland and Heaven, I'm only up on Hell and the mortal realm."
"I'd appreciate it."
"About Ganymede, you mentioned giving an apology - what exactly did you have in mind there?"
"Uh... okay, is there any prayer of it coming from the fellow himself or will it have to be one or both of you on his behalf?"
"I might be able to get him to give a reasonably diplomatic explanation, but that's about the best we can hope for."
"Apologies aren't? Okay, well, Pelor'll probably do. Uh, I don't actually have PR training of any kind, you might want to engage a PR organization, those exist, lemme -" He looks some things up. "- okay, here's a list, do you need help narrowing it down?"
He looks it over. "Clerical relationships vary but they're often similar to familial ones; in general if you wouldn't ask something of someone's spouse or child you don't ask it of their cleric, unless you know differently in that particular case. If it was something he would apologize for and he simply wasn't available, that would be fine to ask. I think I'll need more information to get anywhere on this, do you have a recommendation?"
"Never hired PR people. Uh, looking quickly over who they represent, stab in the dark, Meeson Co.? And if you don't get on with them try, uh, Xinhuang."
"All right. Raafi, if I bring a diplomat here, can you show them how to do that?" (He nods.) "How will we pay for this?"
"I have some money, but-"
"I was selling spells, too."
"Ah. A loan?"
He nods. "That's fine, sir."
"Selling spells can be a touchy subject for clerics - there's a sense in which the spells still belong to their god, we don't like to see them misused and it's not really proper to treat the proceeds as personal money. Fharlanghn is very lenient about that, but it would still be in fairly poor taste to use it for this."
"...okay. I can also make some money for you but that'd get weird attention maybe."
"Better not to, then. I'd like to check your alignment, too, at some point - I'm already fairly confident about it but if anyone asks I'd like to be able to say I did."
"Good for me. I do worry people will find it an intrusive ask in general."
"My ride to Limbo? Also if you need me again later, mail label's 'letter to Cam'."
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