"The stable number is probably somewhat lower than the number Golarion has."

"They mostly seem to not make a mess but - yeah, maybe."

"Mostly isn't enough! You need a small pantheon that all get along with each other very well and don't have any drama or infighting. All the same alignment, if that's a meaningful concept here anyway, but also good social dynamics in whatever way gods have them."

"That feels like maybe it means lots of important godthings don't happen! I guess they're happening somewhere and if your pantheon does run into the Golarion one it can better coordinate to defend itself if its members get along. All lawful, I think lawful for gods is even more important than for humans."

"I'm not actually sure alignment's a meaningful concept here! Predictability, maybe, is what you want."

"Trustworthiness. Keeping your word."

"Yeah, those. And not giving it casually, we don't want them locked into stupid things they promised while drunk five thousand years previously or anything."

"Yeah. - Kytar did you get anything on protections on the Starstone, it's not common knowledge anywhere I know of but maybe it is somewhere."

"Sorry, nothing came through on that."

"No worries."

"What do you need to know for, anyway?" Daron asks. "Are you imagining - what, we get powerful enough to get to Golarion and go fetch it?"

"Probably we can't do that if their gods can't reach us here but it's possible it's the Outer Planes that are too far away and the Material plane isn't. And - I'm curious. It's the only time in history someone had the ability to make arbitrary people gods, and they set up a selection system that picks about one every thousand years. How does it pick? It might be relevant for us."

"That is interesting," acknowledges Daron. "Pity Aroden's too dead to ask."

"And also a god! Who would put us on an antfarm the details of which I'm not clear on, Cheliax is not big on talking about Him."

"He was pretty decent as they go," reports Kytar.

"Who would put us on a nice big antfarm, okay. I still bet we can do better."

"I'm beginning to feel I should build an actual ant farm and have it around to illustratively gesture at and maybe make illusory diagrams against," Kytar says.

"Normally I'd object it'd be hard to explain to new research team additions but actually we can just make them think it's hilarious."

"It's objectively at least a little funny in context," says Daron.

"It should be a nice ant farm. Comfy. Lots for the ants to do."

"We can make somebody an expert in ant welfare," Daron says.

"Ant welfare and spellsilver mining and how to make pearls of power and - what's at the top of our list of wanted spells - Sleep, Alter Winds, Track Ship, Admonishing Ray."

"They don't have spellsilver here," says Daron, "far as I know."

"I don't think they have either," agrees Kytar.

"They don't themselves mine it but why would they, it's useless as a metal. I still want someone who knows where we find it on Golarion and then we can guess whether rounds are even made of the kind of earth that might have it or not."

"Okay, they might have it and just ignore it," allows Daron. "It'll be a pain to identify in local terms."