in principle I think you should be able to guess the entire premise from the title
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" - that seems pretty reasonable."


A long pause to think about it some more. 

 

 

"What materials do you want to make the blanket out of?"

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"Uh, the softest blanket I am aware of is a blend of a bunch of things, I can look it up..." He looks it up. "Silk, vicuña, and - wow, owl feathers, wasn't expecting that."

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Another long pause to think.

 

"In the next five minutes you can make a blanket made up only of silk, vicuña, and owl feathers, no more than eight feet in any dimension, here where I can inspect it for secret messages to Razmir, and while I'm not granting new permissions I expect you'll also make whatever else you were planning."

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Cam decides against complaining that he doesn't know what Razmir's favorite color is yet. He goes with navy blue. Blanket. It's ludicrously soft, almost feels like it doesn't exist at all.

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Does it appear to have any secret messages for Razmir?

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Nope, it's just navy blue fluff, no cables or weird knots or anything.

The snacks are in a basket woven of celery and mostly various candies. The note, which is wrapped around a potato, says, Dear Razmir, thank you for your letter! I am in search of conditions under which it would be wise to meet you or Telriana, as I agree that it sounds more than possible for us to have a positive sum collaboration wrt vast quantities of material objects. I regret that I do not have the finesse to reach either your pockets or hers at an advisable distance; please accept these gifts as an apology for this and for the delay in my reply. Feel free to write again if you have any suggestions regarding assurances about my and my wizard's safety or if you want more of the cherry cordials. Sincerely, Cam

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"Why do you even want to deal with Razmir? He's Lawful Evil, he's sending people to Hell as surely as Cheliax is."

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"I live in hope that - or, well, perhaps I am better described as being dead in hope that - he can be bribed. It doesn't look to me like he's specifically out to send people to Hell as a terminal goal, it looks like he chose a kind of dumbass and also incidentally evil way to up his personal standard of living. Also, like I said, better with us than against us."

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"And I guess he too is in the position of not getting you for very long if he enslaves us. 

 

 

All right."

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"I need more explicit language to go out and copy this celery basket and the blanket in Razmiran."

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"In the next five minutes you can make one copy of this basket and its contents in Razmiran."

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"Thanks. Feel free to eat the example snacks yourself if you like."

He steps out and telescopes Razmiran - it's getting a bit out of view now and he has to consult the peanut gallery's political maps as they're shopped onto pictures of the 1/10 scale model of Golarion to be sure he's got the right place, but then he can drop the basket pretty close to the ground in Thronestep.

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Then next time he checks his mail (provided this next time is in at least thirty minutes), a letter will be waiting for him!

Letter to Cam:

I am pleased that My suspicions have, in fact, been confirmed, and appreciative of these gifts.

Given My own personal interests, it would be stupendously foolish of Me to harm you when I could achieve all I desire without making a possibly-vengeful enemy with unknowable powers. Nonetheless, in the interests of a future relationship I have passed negotiating power on to Telriana, who possesses an alignment closer to Kofusachi's; should the god of prosperity speak with you, He will be more capable of confirming her honesty than He would Mine.

She will respond 're: cherry cordials'.

Signed,
Razmir, Living God of Razmiran, Sovereign of Melcat, Thorvyn, Gifhorn and Kodrigrad, Ascendant of the Thirty-First Step.

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Shortly afterwards!

Letter to Cam:

re: cherry cordials

Hello! This is Telriana; Razmir thought a Good person would be more convincing writing to you.

Razmir appreciates your gifts and says that He 'appreciates the confirmation', as He put it without explaining what it means.

The obvious suggestion for how to arrange negotiations (from my perspective) is that Axis still values material goods. If you plane shifted to the city of Aktun in Axis (your wizard may not be powerful enough, but you could hire a cleric from a Lawful Good god - or Abadar, who may be even more reliable - to Plane Shift you there) and sold a very large number of valuable material objects, you could get money in an Axis bank you could use to rent a room from a service providing secure conversations guaranteed nonviolent, which I have heard-unreliably-plus-have-confirmation-from-Razmir that Axis provides; Axis both takes Law very seriously and has exceptionally powerful inevitables who could provide security for such a meeting, and with enough money you could purchase an agreement for them to defend you and your wizard from Razmir if He were to break a contract to augment that personal wrath of Abadar that would fall on any contract-breakers.

If you have questions about Razmir, Razmiran, or myself, I am happy to explain more of the situation as I know it, but I don't at present have a good enough understanding of what you know to know what telling you would help.

Signed,
Telriana
Minister of Agriculture for Razmiran

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Cam shows these letters to Carissa.

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" - proposing an exchange in Aktun's a pretty - good sign, that's in fact probably the way to do high-stakes things without something going stupidly wrong. I wouldn't mind if you accepted."

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"How shall we get to Aktun?"

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"Lastwall was setting something up for us. Once they've arranged it we can - probably try to buy a Plane Shift from the Church of Abadar, that's probably simplest. 

 

Can Worldwound supply drops happen at this distance?"

 

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"Not as elegantly - I'm more likely to have things falling from the sky than appearing neatly on the ground - but yes, why?"

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"I'd like to do another one and I'd also like to be on the Moon whenever we're not in Axis, at least unless Razmir can get us some really good gear and maybe even then."

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"Sure. I can probably still reach at least half of the circumference, planetary rotation notwithstanding."

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"In the next five minutes, in open air near the Worldwound, you can make Worldwound care packages identical to the ones I authorized earlier up to twice the volume I authorized earlier."

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Cam steps out and squints into his scope and puts down more of the packages.

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"Thank you."

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"Anytime." He sits back down and tries some mango-involving hors d'oeuvre offered by one of the suits of clothes. "How long does this house thing last?"

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