Fazil is busy contributing to speculative plans to help in Ibyabek and scrying for contacts in Outer Sohaibek though they're going to be very cautious about actually contacting people, this time, until they're sure they're not missing an important element of the situation. He is also trying to arrange for confidentiality agreements to be signed such that Mahdi can be told about things. The paladins are very understandably paranoid. They also have reservations about this proposed solution to the wizard; so does he, really, but he also has reservations about the backup plan of leaving her chained up underground until they need the handcuffs and killing her then. 

His terse Sending to Mahdi mostly said he should come to Lastwall and maybe meet a girl, long story, very confidential, very important, and even though it's going to be harder to convince the paladins to bring them in too he's somewhat relieved when Mahdi teleports in with Hagan and also Belmarniss.

"Okay what is going on."

"I still can't tell you, I need you to agree to the confidentiality agreement from the paladins and I need to convince them that sometimes chaotic people follow those too - it's good to see you guys -"

"It's nice to see you too. Probably. I will know for sure after I have seen the confidentiality agreement."

"They are not making an excessively big fuss. The fuss is appropriately sized."

He hauls out the confidentiality agreement, which forbids them from discussing with anyone including the gods anything they learn in Lastwall or anything they learn downstream of that, for example by exploring the site where Lastwall found it or talking to people they learned about here, without the whole leadership of Lastwall agreeing in writing, or (should they be unavailable) Iomedae's personal approval, communicated through a manifestation or her herald. They are also forbidden from implying that they have interesting information they can't share, writing it down in an insecure fashion, doing things that are likely as a consequence to draw peoples' attention to it, etcetera, and from being around anyone likely to be reading their minds. And from going to Hell.

"So including the gods but not including specifically Iomedae? I suppose I'd been meaning to getting around to trying to talk to my future conspecifics anyway."

"Iomedae already knows and actually so does Abadar, She arranged something with Him when they wanted to bring me in."

"Fuss is appropriately sized and you don't expect us to regret this awfully or anything?" And she signs at his nod.

"A human landed here three weeks ago from another world. With just humans, and no magic, or nothing they call that but they've got - ships that travel between stars, so they've gone to lots of planets. It was an accident on one of those ships that dropped him on the Worldwound, and they don't really know how."

"Just humans, like...no other sapients? No other creatures at all? Do they have outsiders in their afterlives?"

"They do not think they have afterlives."

"How many humans are we talking about?"

"Billions. Our information source is a bit unreliable because he is from an awful planet where everyone is - enslaved by the government for ideological reasons - but definitely billions."

"There's an entire planet where everyone is enslaved by the government for ideological reasons and Asmodeus or similar is nowhere to be seen?"

"There is a lot we don't understand about the question but the slave planet understands there to be no gods and prohibits worshipping any and the ...flavor's all wrong...Ibyabek decided that people wouldn't be poor if there wasn't money, so they banned it, and the government picks a job for everyone and forces them to go do it all day, and then distributes food and supplies to everyone based on what it imagines them to require."

"Okay, I realize you're extremely allergic to the concept, but did it in fact from a non-Abadaran perspective work at all -"

"No! I was trying to be open minded about it but it's a nightmare. He's in their military and he looked - very thin, I thought at first he was sick, or had been until recently - and the ones we scried, too. I asked him how many days they work in twenty, and the answer is twenty. And I asked if there was anything that was newly available, or much improved, in the last five years, and he couldn't think of any - you would expect it to discourage innovation if no one gets any rewards for their labor and no one gets to choose their job, you'd expect there to be shortages of things if the demand for them changed over time, since the numbers the government was using wouldn't - and that's what it looks like. It's just awful. Tragic. - I want to fix it."

"To be perfectly honest with you I don't know that I could name any non-magical innovations from the last five years, I don't keep up with the developments in weaving and glassblowing."

"If there weren't any magical ones you'd be doing something else and you'd know about the innovations in the thing you were doing, at least. And I bet you could think of some - used to be you couldn't buy spider-silk in Sothis, now you can, that's a development in textiles for you..."

"Yes, but spider-silk wasn't invented recently. Spiders have been around for much longer than five years. Still. Skinny humans without days off, we have some of those but we don't have billions and ours can hope for better luck next time as long as they don't stab anybody..."

"And we're going to have less someday. They can make all kinds of things cheaply. You shouldn't have skinny humans with no days off if you have that."

"So what are we doing, going to their planet to check things out?"

"Not yet. We'll need a Gate, for one thing, and secondly I think the paladins want more of a plan of attack. No, you are most proximately here because of a secondary problem created by the world-hopping man. He - didn't land on us. He landed on Cheliax. And after they stole him out from them the paladins went back and stole the Chelish agent he'd landed on, and they think Asmodeus doesn't know, they think she hadn't told anyone yet. But now they have her, and she's a wizard and hard to hold, and they can't let her die and go to Hell and warn Asmodeus."

"And they can't do soul bind because they're paladins?"

"They haven't mentioned that particular constraint. They are planning to petrify her if they can't hold her anymore but they are shopping around for improvements on that. They ask what Osirion would do if she were our problem and I said, well, we'd get her married to someone who could contain her, so that is now an angle they're exploring."