in principle I think you should be able to guess the entire premise from the title
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"Depends on how exact you need it to land. If they'll get anything within a range of a couple blocks without being undesirably intercepted, sure, if you need it droned in through the window the time delay on drone feedback would be prohibitive."

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"- a couple blocks probably won't do, I imagine we have spies in her academy." Pause. "We have spies everywhere, because Hell is rich and powerful."

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"I guess arguably you might count as a spy covering the moon right now but I don't see any other candidates."

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" - could be they're invisible." She's being silly. There's no reason to think Cheliax has spies on the Moon. 

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"I guess. HELLO INVISIBLE CHELISH SPIES! I MADE SOME PILES OF SAND! I HOPE THIS HAS LIVENED UP YOUR OTHERWISE INTOLERABLY BORING DAY!"

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"Probably they're petrified conscious or something and have a Telepathic Bond they report through and you very much improved their boring day. Maybe if we set up a base on the Moon they'll be our greatest supporters." 

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"Now I'm tempted to leave a 'greatest hits of the silent film era' marathon playing but I don't see how I'd aim it at them in the right direction."

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She can't tell if he's toying with her or if he genuinely wants to further earn the goodwill of the hypothetical Chelish spies. Possibly both at the same time. 

 

"Well, I think it's better if they think that nothing entertaining will happen unless we win; then they'll be motivated to help us.

I want to leave a note for Felandriel Morgethai. You'll like her, she's Chaotic Good too. - I don't know anything else about her."

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"Well, it's not a bad start, at least. Is she just the most famous Chaotic Good person you've heard of, why are we contacting this lady you know nothing else about?"

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"She's a ninth circle wizard and could sell me a Mind Blank, after which assassinating me would be seriously inconvenient if I stay off the planet. And she's someone Cheliax wants dead, so if I were to decide you're not lying I'd have some questions for her.

I know you're lying, though."

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"I know when I'm firmly aware someone's lying to me I make sure to remind them of this every thirty seconds, yeah. She lives in a school? Do you know where in the school, or what she looks like, or is the plan just to dump a letter on whoever's wearing the most magic swag?"

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"I don't know where she is or what she looks like. You can conjure for that, though, right? If we got within a couple thousand miles could you do the drop without getting closer?"

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"Assuming she's outside or something, yeah, I can't see through buildings." Does that count as permission to make a li'l Felandriel Morgethai?

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....yes but she seems to be presently too magical or nonexistent to conjure.

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"- can't conjure her, presumably for magic reasons. Would there be a decent portrait anywhere?"

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" - probably somewhere in her school there's a portrait. You may try to conjure portraits of her, if you want."

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Cam will take some stabs at portraiture in her school.

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Felandriel Morgethai: a half-elven woman with hair so black it's nearly violet, streaked through with silver, in riotous curls. She's wearing what looks a bit like a fitted suit, silk and trimmed with vines and live flowers. There's a pseudodragon perched on her shoulder.

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"Oh, I like her style! Assuming she still looks like this more or less I should be able to identify her from the shuttle quite high up, just not all the way from the moon."

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"I thought you'd like her. I think if we stay away from the planet we are relatively safe."

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"Alrighty. Are you done passing secret correspondence to your petrified moon agents or do you want to hang out on the moon a little longer, jump around, look at stars?"

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" - maybe once I have paid Felandriel Morgethai for a Mind Blank. You said you did your skull in lead; would it in principle - I'm not giving permission -- be possible for you to also do that to mine?"

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"I thought you knew about lead poisoning! You'd go stark raving mad! I guess I could layer it but it's not an area with a lot of prior art, I'm not sure what the right way to go about it would be. Is lead all that works or do other dense materials do the trick, do you know?"

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"Well, I thought you'd go stark raving mad and you seem only as mad as you started, so I thought perhaps the problems are overstated!! I...would expect other dense metals would work, but I don't want to be the test case for that" and you'll presumably be very upset if I propose buying someone to be a test case.

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"I am indestructible and this is convenient on points such as lead poisoning and all kinds of cute little perks like that. You are not, as of this time, indestructible. Lead poisoning is very very real and it will harm you. Would you like a leaded hat?"

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