"Given an even larger misapprehension, like, 'I have been being mindcontrolled all this time' or 'the information from back home is being faked somehow' or 'there is this entire other planet neither of us knew existed and conditions are wildly different there than we were taking as background when making promises, for some reason'?"

"Maybe we could spell all those possibilities out in advance as part of the promise."

The Zone of Truth runs out and their caster absconds with the chocolate box.

"If I were confident that I could come up with a complete list, absolutely! We could probably do like, I don't know, a whitelist, that the promise stands if I discover you have eaten a baby or whatever, etcetera."

"I think I'd want 'unless you are presently being mind controlled, the information you're able to conjure systematically falsified, etcetera.'...actually I think I'd want a fancy headband from Razmir to even start on this, so you should get to work on that."

"Well, we can send for him whenever you're ready."

"I'll do a Sending." So she does, to Telri, giving the address in Aktun.

And in a few minutes, someone will knock on the door!

Cam will go answer it!

Telriana of Kyonin, Minister of Agriculture for Razmiran, is an elf of about average-for-a-human height, sensibly dressed for long walks in the wilderness, equipped with an aura of I-am-fading-into-the-background and a bunch of magic items. Cam will mostly just recognize that she is wearing a bunch of magic items; Carissa, over his shoulder, can recognize among others the quite powerful Wisdom headband, the inevitable Ring of Sustenance, and what looks remarkably like - if not quite exactly identical to - an actual Amulet of the !@#$ing Planes mostly tucked into her shirt, only it can't be an Amulet of the Planes because it looks brand new and most of the surviving Amulets are ancient and knocking around the collections of ridiculously wealthy monarchs, retired adventurers, elder dragons and suchlike.

"Hello! I think the password is re: cherry cordials?"

Carissa will goggle enviously from over in the corner.

(It's not actually impossible that Razmir could make an Amulet of the Planes. It's the kind of thing no one can do, but...every archmage can do at least three impossible things...)

"That wasn't specifically intended to be a password but it doesn't hurt. Hello, I'm Cam, and this is Carissa."

"Telriana of Kyonin, Minister of Agriculture and general speaker-to-do-gooders of Razmiran!" she says, and walks in. "Hello, Cam, hello, Carissa."

"Welcome to our humble abode which I have not furnished yet. How did you come to work for Razmir? I liked his letter but I'm also very new to dividing people up by alignment at all."

"Furnishing it is a demonstration that you are who you claim to be, if you have any ideas!"

"And - Kyonin does not really have problems, other than the problem that at some point someone will inevitably conquer us and wipe out our civilization and the problem of a perpetual demon invasion, and they're both kind of stalemated and have been going on for long enough that I couldn't think of anything useful to do there on either of them. So I decided to go where there were a lot of problems that were new and open to being worked on, and that ended up being Razmiran! And I've been trying to fix them ever since. With, uh, some success, on the famine-mitigation front."

"I would love to mitigate your famine, by the by. Though possibly after first flippantly remarking that democracy is remarkably protective against famine according to my data. Carrisa can I do furniture for the next ten minutes or something no fuckery intended."

"You can make furniture in unoccupied air in this building for the next ten minutes."

Then Cam will traipse - insofar as he can traipse - around making furniture, mostly like what he has in his house.

"If you can just make people bread, preferably something nutritionally balanced and healthy and long-lasting - I can give you examples - and fill up the granaries with it, that would be wonderful. If you've got more precision making it in the villages would be pretty significant - Razmiran's distribution skills are not great - but they aren't actually that bad -"

"- The actual problem is that about a quarter of the world's agricultural production comes from druids and clerics of Erastil and Gozreh and so forth casting Plant Growth to bring health to the fields and Razmir declared that all clerics of gods that don't accept his divinity were persona non grata in Razmiran, so food production dropped by a quarter. My job is mostly just a matter of finding lots of druids and rangers and shamans and oracles and so forth and so on who don't care about the gods and can not insult Razmir while inside his country, and persuading them that if anyone in Razmiran tries to hassle them while they fix the food problem the wrath of the Living God will land on whoever's messing with the food supply. Which to be clear it will."

" - what does Cheliax do?"

"Cheliax lost a third of its population in the civil war and hasn't gotten most of it back yet, for this among other reasons."

Carissa does not know there to be a civil war in which Cheliax lost a third of its population and this is an embarrassing thing to admit. She'll - nod.

"I can have reasonably good precision even at a distance if I have a little robot there reporting its position to me, and I went to medical school and can do all kinds of enriched grain products and suchlike. And seeds, better seeds - and fertilizer, or better yet the Haber-Bosch process, let me actually just explain that to you right now, you don't need super high tech stuff -" He pulls up an article on it. "You have comprehend languages?"

"Yup!"

She'll read over his shoulder. "- I'm a little worried about messing with seeds on a very large scale at first, we'll probably want to start with just food storage, but all this sounds good - what's ammonia and what do you use it for? -"

"One nitrogen three hydrogens - I'm not sure how to usefully answer this question if that doesn't mean anything to you - and it's good for getting nitrogen into the soil, which is also what planting beans in between other stuff is for if you know about that?"