"I will not try to do it blind! I do like the sound of doing all that research though. If you sell your soul do you give a particular amount to the purchaser in paper money? Does that soul not enter the pool backing the currency, or is it a collaborative currency-backing setup, wherein everyone who buys a soul agrees to contribute them to this project?"

"You know, I haven't actually looked into it. I think if you sell your soul to a specific devil it's theirs and not - part of the broader Hell resource poll - so maybe those aren't among the souls backing everything. People mostly don't sell their souls for paper money, though I'm sure you could, they mostly sell them for magic favors or protection or power, but I guess those probably have a monetary value of some kind."

"I meant the other way around, can you back money with your own soul and thereby print your own money if you decide to enter it into circulation. Is there fractional reserve soul banking - I bet there could be if they never have to cough up because no one goes to Hell with a briefcase and says 'I would like twelve' -"

"We could summon a devil and ask?"

"Let's not and say we did. Would the Abadarans know?"

"I guess they might, they do lots of banking. Asking them gives away that we're Chelish, though, and here we're pretending not to be."

"I really am not though."

"If you want to go ask the Abadarans banking questions once we're done shopping I will linger in the corner and try to only make faces if you say something dangerous."

"I appreciate the accommodation of my grisly fascination with the soul bank."

"I am aiming for either of us to feel at least mildly guilty about our inevitable betrayal so we have to be very friendly." 

"Is it so inevitable? I suppose there is this awkward tension hanging over everything where you're evil."

"It's totally inevitable! We are literally exact opposite alignments and only working together because I have magic power over you, but not enough to stop you from murdering me! I think even Good people would know to expect betrayal under these circumstances!"

"I mean, I'm happy to compromise on chaos if I find a suitable legal system or whatever, it's only I've been living in an anarchy for the last hundred-odd years! Do you wanna meet in the middle at Lawful Good?"

"Ewww, have you met paladins? They are very annoying and also want to destroy everything I hold dear."

"I don't require that either of us be a paladin specifically!"

"I don't think much of the Lawful Good gods either. I guess if I end up Good after closing the Worldwound I won't actively go murder any orphans about it but I don't expect to, there are all these rules and loopholes and you have to spend so much of your time on it."

"I mostly spend my time reading books, flying around, playing the violin...?"

"Well, you're an outsider, I think it's different for them."

"I admit I did not fly around or play the violin when I was a human but I have real good personal continuity with myself from back then, dying did not much change me."

"Huh. Are you sure you'd have noticed? Especially if it's been a long time?"

"Yes! I'm a fairly obsessive notetaker and obviously the fact that my notes from life did not accompany me into the thereafter did not stop me from obtaining copies."

"Huh. I hope people who summoned apsels do become them when we die, sounds like a great deal."

"As far as I know the other daeva types are also this way."

"Afterlives here aren't. They shape you. Which makes sense, because they are the creation of beings who don't particularly gain from our current forms. I don't really understand who or what made your setup."

"Nobody has stepped forward to claim responsibility."