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.
"Not unless you can time travel."
"Don't trust you, asshole."
The fairy goes to talk to everyone stuck in the other section of the building, inspector and receptionist's relief and all.
A bunch of people put up vigilante circles for the jailbroken daeva. Known human associates of the jailbroken daeva are placed under surveillance. The GCP has a lot of meetings.
Various people try to yell various deities into various locations for various reasons.
Pelor is busy; Fharlanghn isn't inclined to answer right now and Boccob never does. Ehlonna will go where she's called at least occasionally, though.
"- oh hey! Hi! I'm Anne. And you must be Ehlonna since that's... what I was saying. Yeah?"
"Do you do animals or just plants? 'Cause demons don't do animals so well and it's making it really hard to bring back thylacines."
"Oh gosh can I hold her. I'll give her back if you decide you don't want to give us any I just wanna -"
Anne holds her very gently. "Uh, so they've been extinct here a long time. We want to get captive breeding populations of a bunch of extinct marsupials - we've got the birds and reptiles and monotremes, everything that lays eggs demons can do. And the placental mammals we can with some failure rate incubate in demonic versions. But marsupials are hard. They're born so underdeveloped that having a demonic mom doesn't work well at all. We've never managed to have two live nondemonic thylacines at the same time. Uh, the ultimate goal if we ever crack the problem is to have a marsupial mixed managed ecology, like Jurassic Park - do you know about Jurassic Park -"
"It's a dinosaur park. Hundreds of millions of years' worth of dinosaurs were already extinct by the time humans evolved. So the ones people were most excited about bringing back weren't all ones that would've lived together naturally. They have an angel on hand for the food for all the animals, and keep the ones that'd bother each other separate, but some of them are living together without being natural contemporaries. We're hoping to do extinct marsupials the same way."
"Yeah, something like that could work. You don't have druids, though, how are you making sure they're happy?"
"Uh, I don't know exactly what druids are... for... we have animal behavior experts? Obviously with dinosaurs there was a learning curve but people watch for stereotypy and train them with treats to accept vet checkups and don't force them to interact with people at any given time. And with marsupials it'll be easier because they have closer living relatives we know about."
"Druids are - Fharlanghn had a cleric here, did you hear about him? Druids are like clerics but for nature. They have healing and stuff but instead of things people need, they have things plants and animals and ecosystems need. It sounds like you could use a few, for something like this."
"I can... put it as a nice to have on the job ad? I don't know where to get them? We did, uh, hear about the cleric."
"It does seem like he made kind of a mess, yeah, I'm not sure what happened there. I have a bunch of druids, anyway, I can ask if any of them want to come help you. You don't really hire druids, usually."
"What do you do with them?"
"They're more like advisors, a lot of the time? You tell them what you're doing and they'll let you know if there's anything wrong with it. Or usually for something like this it'd just be run by druids, but I can find you some young ones who won't mind not being in charge. Or rangers, they can't do as much but they're used to being support staff, and it's not as weird to hire them."
"Do they have... second jobs to pay the bills? This place is kind of out of the way unless they usually work remote."
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