"Lotsa wondrous items are gonna require it, it's not just arms and armor which I admittedly don't expect to need much."

"We can make somebody a metallurgist."

"I wonder if we can summon elementals here," Kytar muses.

"If we can that's suggestive about how far we are from home. Seems important to test." Even though now she's suddenly hoping they're far from home.

"You'll have to try it, it's second circle," says Daron.

"Sure thing, I can try tomorrow."

Kytar gets his first spell down on paper eventually and Daron starts copying it.

She will start studying the new spells and how they work so she can think how she'd invent variants. It's much less stressful than theology."

"Should we be on different sleep schedules?" Daron wonders after a bit. "We could cover round the clock if we wanted. Always have somebody in for laundry."

"That's a good idea. Hopefully soon enough we'll have Rings of Sustenance and it won't matter nearly as much but in case that's harder than it should be." Magic item making isn't hard at all; it's always been the bit of magic research that has felt the most obvious and instinctive. She just needs materials. 

Without them she's just straightforwardly inferior to made people at everything and they might decide they don't need her. 

So Kytar claims a bedroom and goes to sleep intending to be up again before Carissa goes to bed. Daron, a short sleeper like Kytar, intends on staying up till Carissa's awake.

"D'you like him?" Daron wonders.

"I like you better and Asmodia most of all. I might have inconvenient tastes. I think - it's probably good to have people who are thinking about it from different angles, as long as they don't decide to kill us and do it without us - do you spend a lot of time planning for that, I don't think I put in any specific amount of worrying about that and I have no idea how much it'd do by default."

"...no, I don't really expect people to murder me. Why? Do you have some reason to murder me of which I'm unaware?"

"...no? But like, by default, at all times people have the option of murdering each other, right? And if you're useful to them they probably won't, because it's a hassle? And I also gave you the - slight aversion to murdering people - I have that too, I have no idea how common it is generally -"

"It is actually generally common to have a considerably stronger aversion to murdering people, although I guess here that could be an artifact of it being frowned upon to make criminally inclined sorts," Daron says.

"I'm not criminally inclined, I never broke a law in my life before I came here. And there are lots of things it's illegal to think about, at home. - it might be the difference between made and born people, though. That seems plausible enough."

"Killing people's illegal almost everywhere in this world," he says. "Like, everywhere except cannibal rounds. That's all I meant."

Nod. "Killing people is usually illegal in Cheliax, certainly it is illegal to just stab them on the streets. But if I were in a - secret organization trying to build a god - and I wanted to leave - obviously no one would let me?"

"I think there are seldom to never secret organizations trying to build gods here apart from this one. They do have the death penalty, if you stab people in the streets or make people who stab people in the streets or something, but I believe most locals go their entire lives without entering into any situations where their stabbability comes up."

There is no point trying to convince people to be more paranoid; either she'll want to kill them and then rather they be less paranoid or she won't and then they won't have anything to be paranoid about, if they all come out like this. "That's good. I'm glad. I - want people to be okay. I'm just used to - things being very dangerous."

"Maybe it's because everyone around you was aiming for Evil, and didn't have any conveniently mindless victims to push into a sea?"

"I think people mostly weren't aiming for Evil? It sort of happened even if you were trying not to be, I think worshipping Asmodeus might be in itself Evil. But - maybe the people who were trying changed everyone's expectations around."

"It wouldn't take that many, if one in a thousand people would murder you given the chance but you know a hundred people that's still a good reason to put a healthy dose of watchfulness into whether those hundred people have the chance."

"Guess that follows. Also - if you know enough examples then you would feel really stupid, making any of the mistakes you know of from examples."

"Do you know a lot of examples?"

"Sure. Not, like, directly, but friends of friends. Lotta people at my school end up doing - more reckless stuff than I did."