"And now we go back to the Moon?"

"Only once I've dropped off the note and given the drone its final instructions, I can't pilot it from farther away and still avoid bumping into people." Felaaaandriel, come out come out wherever you are.

Felandriel Morgethai is in her office, which is not technically on this plane, though it has a door to an antechamber that is!

"This look good enough to you?" Cam asks, when he's found the door with her name on it.

" - probably whatever gets dropped there gets to her, yeah."

The drone deposits the note, he pilots it out a window, and has it go up high and self-destruct. They are en route to the moon a moment after it begins ascending.

No one has murdered them yet! This really suggests that the lead casing is effective against scries, but she is nonetheless eager to get to the Moon and keep the not-being-murdered up.

"Thank you," she says to Cam, because saying that is free and Chaotic Good people like it.

"You're welcome!" ...

Okay he doesn't really want to wait till Felandriel Morgethai shows up or maybe even doesn't show up to ask about the thing.

"Hey, do you have an opinion on Razmir?"

"....why do you ask?"

"Based on my reading it sounds like he is running another Lawful Evil country, I don't know if there's a party line or if you've barely heard of the place or what."

"- I don't know all that much about him, except that he's not actually a god and doesn't like it when people know that. He doesn't help at the Worldwound. Lawful means he'd keep a deal, if he made us one, but I'm probably not smart enough to make a deal with him that I'd like the results of him keeping. I think he'd lose in a fight with Cheliax.

What reading."

"You do remember when you gave me permission to conjure stuff for machine translation to work on, right? I can also read it when I do that."

- she nods. "Well. Morgethai's a much safer ninth circle caster to have knowing that we exist."

"Even though she's not Lawful? In fact, literally the opposite of your alignment?"

"Like you, she will probably tediously attempt to redeem me. She reasonably likely won't transport us both to a plane outside time, Feeblemind us, figure out which magic works on you eventually if one is a ninth circle wizard about it, extract a million diamonds from you, use them to take over the world, and leave us that way for a thousand years.

- she might. But I think she's least likely, of all the people I could ask."

"Huh. But, you're pretty sure Razmir is actually just a dude, not a god?"

"Yes. Asmodeus wouldn't allow a Lawful Evil god who didn't answer to Him, and a real god wouldn't be hanging around in Razmiran."

"So the 'god of luxury' thing probably just means the dude version of that where he wants to lounge on a silk divan and be fed peeled grapes or something, and not a complicated god-concept? Sounds, uh, bribable."

" - if we had a way to negotiate safely, yes. But he's not going to trade fairly just because he can get everything he wants that way."

"Yeah, I'm just curious if there's a gold standard for safely negotiating with a Lawful Evil dude, I thought possibly you'd know. Could also try asking Ms. Morgethai."

"He'll keep his word, if he gives it, but he's smarter than us and so he can think of lots of ways to technically not break it. Maybe if you - conjure contracts between him and various powerful people in his service - or the Chelish equivalent - we could use those - but trying to draw up your own contract from scratch with a Lawful Evil ninth circle wizard far smarter than you definitely always ends with you enslaved at best."

"Ooh, cribbing from past contracts is a good idea, at least where the outcomes are verifiable." He will put this in the open letter to Hell surreptitiously. "Seems like a disadvantage of being evil, if someone who can give you everything you want down to the peeled grapes comes along and won't get anywhere near you because of how you are known to suck, especially if not even being Lawful gets you out of the consequences of that reputation."

"Right, but an advantage he has over Morgethai is that if he finds out we exists he can just enslave us, whereas she's - probably - I'm counting on it - going to be too principled."

"I'm not sure that's an advantage? Like, I will also give her peeled grapes if she wants them."

"But not a million diamonds with which to take over the world."