- Temos smiles, at that. 

"I would recommend being very careful about interacting with Razmir. He is powerful enough to disadvantage you immensely, and he might do it on little or no apparent provocation. I agree there are advantages if you can make it work, but - no step of your plan should be 'Razmir will do what's in his long-term interests' or 'Razmir will do what his trade partners understood had been agreed'.

"Gotcha. You know anything about his ostensibly Good minion?"

"I know nothing I'm at liberty to share, I'm sorry."

"Can I get you to help me draft a return letter outlining conditions for future contact? I can't actually hit a pocket from the Moon but I can get it aimed more at-him than the last batch were."

"I can. Can I do that in Absalom in consultation with some people who know more about Razmir, and address it to you when it's finished?"

"Yeah, let me give you a custom address label, I'm getting a lot of correspondence from back home on my usual. Put 'letter to Cam raspberry pie' on it."

"I will do so. Thank you."

"Y'welcome. What do you think Carissa will let me get away with paying you?"

He blinks. "It'll depend somewhat on how hard Razmir-expertise is to come by. I'd expect it to be much less than Carissa's payment, as she represented herself uncertain if she was able to pay, and you've just demonstrated ability to pay. Two diamonds of that kind would almost certainly exceed the final costs."

"Oh, I only have ability to pay if Carissa lets me. You know this costs me absofuckinglutely nothing, right? Like I don't know what theory of value you go in for but you should absolutely soak me for everything she'll let you."

" - so, I'm willing to account for the projected rapidly falling value of diamonds in quoting you estimates, but I don't believe in quoting you more than the actual value of my labor. You can separately give me presents if you want to do that."

"You can make up to five diamonds of the previously discussed size to give the Abadaran a present if you want."

"Plus two to pay him with."

"Yes, you can also make two to pay him with."

Seven diamonds for the Abadaran.

Then he'll head home! 

"And Lastwall's going to come pick up the tuning fork, if they accept the deal." She looks tense. Actual Chelish people will judge her in a comprehensible Chelish way rather than an incomprehensible Good outsider way.

And, a little while later, a man Plane Shifts in. He is, as promised, Chelish, and his magic items identify him as a very high-level wizard, though a rather weaker one than Felandriel Morgethai. There's a paladin in Lastwall's livery accompanying him.

"—I am going to cast an Antimagic Field on myself and my companion," he says, already doing that. "For my protection and yours."

"I have been informed you do not trust me," he says, mostly to Carissa. "That is, perhaps, wise, but I will nonetheless treat this as the sort of meeting where I am trying to change that, since you did invite me here under conditions. If you had not done that, we would still be having this meeting, but there would be much less trust involved or deserved."

Carissa is not going to win this fight and is counting on having arranged to not have one. There's a treaty. 

"I want to fix the Worldwound," she says, mostly succeeding at not sounding like she's terrified.

"As do I. And a number of other things besides. But we can focus on the Worldwound until we find a more sustainable solution for keeping Cheliax from murdering you—I assure you we will find something satisfactory. I am still alive, after all."

Then, to Cam—"What Lastwall most desperately needs, before we can make any sort of plan, is information on whatever sort of thing you are, and the details of your capabilities, as far as you are willing to share those. Preferably information that we have some way to verify—there are truth spells but an outsider of your power could trivially defeat one cast by a mortal, the way our magic normally works."

"I have no idea if my power level has anything to do with my ability to defeat a truth spell since we don't have those back home. Do you have a sensible order in mind by which I should give you the introduction to apsels or should I just talk till you interrupt?"

"Just talk. I have no expectation that the assumptions underlying any particular question I might ask at this point are correct."

"In the set of universes I am accustomed to, there are nonmagical humans, let's call them Earthlings; and there are apsels, changers, movers, and Limboites. All five of these groups live in separate universes, no contiguity between them. Apsels, changers, and movers, collectively 'daeva', are summonable by Earthlings in a procedure I gather has little to do with local summoning rituals. This was rumored to unknown throughout Earthling history till an event called Revelation about a hundred fifty years ago - Earth years are about the same as Golarion ones - but is now common and has ushered in a lovely post-scarcity era, hurrah. Unless it turns out daeva-summoning is repeatable here, though, only apsels matter for your purposes. We make things. The things have to be nonmagical and I have to know roughly what they are and where to put them. I cannot make antimatter, vacuum, objects that begin in motion - though they can begin under tension and I can play some tricks with frame of reference. My range limit is like, two three times the distance from Golarion to its sun. I have a volume per time limit but it is very high - it takes an apsel working alone a few weeks to make a Golarion-sized planet."

So, first of all, that's bullshit.

The universe, however, is very big, and actually contains rather a lot of bullshit. 'The ability to make arbitrary material objects' is about consistent with the reports he's been getting.

There are a thousand directions for further questions and research but his job is to prioritize those, and the most important for their interests right now is—

"Can you, and are you willing to, give explicit instructions on how to summon a daeva? It seems that whatever your summoner did was not repeatable, else Cheliax would have done so by now, but we ought to do the test." Because then they won't have to route everything through a Chelish wizard whom they can probably get to defect but might not.

"I can! I used to teach university courses on it! It is complicated to do the complicated safe way but a sentence of explanation to do the simple dangerous way. By dangerous I don't mean you'll explode I mean that the daeva in question will be free to do whatever they want. I can provide standardized safe summoning circles in the Earthling languages but none have been designed in any Golarion ones; if Carissa won't give me more paper allowance I can show you a computer version," he waves his computer, "I'm competent to do a translation in Taldane if that's desirable but you have translation magic so perhaps it isn't worth the bother."