"That sounds so inconvenient! The computer doesn't know how anything is pronounced - especially in languages without phonetic alphabets, which Tian is - so I can't transcribe things you say with Tongues, unfortunately."

He writes up an advertisement in the best font the Void has to offer: nonevil subjects wanted for suicidal experiment, generous compensation including a resurrection.

"Do they just have to be nonevil, because sourcing nonevil people is significantly easier than sourcing Good ones."

"I will settle for just-nonevil," he allows, "as long as they ping so we know they aren't quietly evil." He adjusts the ad.

"All right. I don't have a city in mind, but we want a big one, if it's going to have adventurers high enough level to ping."

"Goka's big." He steers for Goka.

"I met a guy from there once. He seemed all right. Politely confused about all our gods but we were politely confused about his, so."

"Does that mean it will be hard to find a temple to Nethys?"

"I remember vaguely suspecting they still worshipped him, as Qi Zhong, but maybe that's a different god of magic."

Cam looks this up.

Probably distinct! Qi Zhong is neutral good, Nethys is neutral.

"They look different to me but I'm fine with going to a Qi Zhong temple if you are."

"What are you looking at, when you say they look different?"

"Qi Zhong is Good apparently."

"How rude of Him. Hmmm, maybe I should refresh myself on the Tian pantheon before we decide where to go - you can make a copy of any existing book about Them in air on the shuttle, if you'd like."

What has the peanut gallery been recommending on this topic?

There are some books about the Tian pantheon; they agree on many points and disagree on many others. There's a big diff document written up in a collaborative-editing setup but it'd be hard for Carissa to read.

He will produce the least-disagreed-with book for Carissa and read up on its diffs for himself.

The Tian way of conceptualizing the gods is subtly askew from the Avistani one, which perhaps isn't surprising because gods are big and any human grasps only a tiny part of what they are, but is in another sense surprising because what are continents, to gods?

She will think about that once she's smarter. She's working on the next round of headbands once she gets stuck on Cam's armor.

"Kofusachi‎ seems your speed," she comments. "I guess I could live with him, but I'd rather go for Uwan, who is obviously Abadar, or Cheku, which has got to be Pharasma, on the grounds they're less likely to have it in for me and everything I care about."

"I really like the sound of Kofusachi! If I were a god I'd be that kind, I think. I resent Pharasma personally so let's go with Abadar who seems fine."

"Why do you resent Pharasma personally?" Carissa kind of resents Abadar personally but this is really not the time and the resurrection insurance was pretty painless.

"It's all the death, I'm against it."

"Planet's finite. I guess you could ban childbearing."

"There are more planets! Lots of 'em! Also you are not anywhere near carrying capacity even without magic."

"Cheliax isn't but that's because we have Asmodeus. In other places I think their population is mostly kept in check by famine. I guess if we drop food everywhere in the world that'll stop being a problem, and you could fit a lot more, but still - to gods, a couple thousand years is nothing, a plan that catastrophically falls apart then is a terrible plan now. ....do apsels know how to get between planets?"

"Sure, this shuttle could go to one if you want."