"That makes sense. Having neither the skill nor the longevity for learning languages, I am pretty happy Tongues exists."

"It's a good spell but you miss all kinds of fun nuances!"

"Maybe after I'm immortal. Or a god. Whichever happens first."

"You know a way to do immortal without the godhood?"

"Well, Aroden did it, how hard can it be."

"He did something but he didn't actually do it without godhood and look where that got him!"

"I'm pretty sure he was immortal before the godhood. The end result is a bit depressing though yes."

"I wouldn't rely that heavily on legends about deities even if the legends are about before that."

"Okay, point."

"I wonder what happened to all his clerics, I don't think I heard."

"Lost all their levels, I think."

"But like - all of them all of them, or just like, no more spells - if a paladin falls they can't cast spells and their magic horse dumps them but I think they can still hit you with a sword real hard -"

"I—actually don't know. Probably only no more spells but." Shrug.

"Wonder if Iomedae or someone was able to pick them up. I should look this up. Background research."

"What for?"

"God stuff! How gods work and under what constraints. Do you not research this?"

"Not per se. I don't think I am very close to the point where it makes sense going for the Starstone so I've been focusing more on that."

"Yeah, I'll concentrate the research closer to when I'm about to go, but that doesn't mean I can't do bits of it sooner, or at least write down what I want to find out."

"Fair enough."

"I plan to see if I can get any gods to talk to me before I make my run. There are some things they don't tend to do and if they actually can't that'd be good to know so I can if necessary frontload it."

"I don't think gods are known to be very talkative about this kind of thing."

"Sure, but it's cheap to try. At least if you just pray instead of buying a Commune."

"Maybe Abadar himself would degin to answer. Despite his stance on mortal rights such as privacy he is pretty accessible, for a god."

"I don't know anyone who's gotten him to talk, do you?"

"No, but I don't know that I know of a lot of people who really tried, and it's not like trying this is mutually exclusive with and other ideas to get the gods talking."