"I will probably approve that in specific cases?"

"I got a confidential request for some written materials and I wanna get it couriered."

"In exchange for what?"

"- I don't have a courier lined up, I was going to go out and holler that it could be food or books, if you okayed books."

"- I don't expect to object to methods of paying the couriers but I didn't know you to have authorization to send anybody more written materials."

"- I mean, I can make them in book form, it doesn't have to be a separate authorization."

" - you want to pay couriers in order to run someone's requested written materials to them, right?"

"Yes, that is what I'm asking for, I'm sorry if I have been confusing somehow."

"The thing that is confusing is where you got the authorization for the written materials you will be paying the courier to deliver. Because I tried to only give you scoped permission to write things."

"Oh. I mean, I can make edible paper if I have to, but we were trying to be slightly more cooperative."

"When you said, 'no fuckery', what did you mean by that, exactly?"

"I am not going to use the authorization to make books to pay Axis residents in order to drop books on your head or put them in your breakfast cereal or exchange books for, I don't know, cursed books that I could leave lying around for you, or anything, I just want to pay Axis residents in books so that I can send the thing I wanna send. I was asked not to disclose the details of the request but my understanding is that it is not against your interests."

"But you were not, in fact, just intending to offer books as payment if residents of Axis happened to want books as payment, you were trying to get yourself a books permission so you could send books to some undisclosed party?"

"I guess that would more convenient than making the books out of rice paper and squid ink such that I might in fact have done it, but it's not different in a way that I understood to be important. Is it?"

"Yes!!!! If every time I give you any permission I am also expanding forever the range of things you will do without telling me so long as you can think of a much less convenient and lower-quality way you could have accomplished something similar then that's a much much bigger deal than if that were not the case!"

"Oh. Okay. I would like permission to pay Axis residents in books to deliver a parcel made of rice paper and squid ink. You can time-limit it if that will help."

"Absolutely not. If you try to negotiate with anybody I'll put up a Silence."

"Wow, just because I didn't know you'd care if I used real paper instead of rice paper?"

"Because you said 'no fuckery' while doing something that any person whose reasoning I could model would consider to be fuckery, and that means we're back to 'I have to treat you like I'm negotiating with Asmodeus'."

"I assume you realize I can negotiate in writing Silence or no Silence."

"The sounds that you make with your mouth have no meaning to me and I see no reason to share my anticipations about what you can and can't do."

"...also I'm nonzero concerned that if you do attempt to prevent me from making a consensual transaction in Aktun you will be kicked out and promptly kidnapped by your countrymen."

"I will tell them that I was indeed an idiot for thinking that decent people could work toward shared goals with Chaotic outsiders without those Chaotic outsiders dishonestly using them, and deserve to burn eternally for it."

"Do you want to go find someone to do another truth spell so I can repeat that I did not think whether the correspondence was on real paper or not was important?"

"That would just persuade me you're immune to truth spells or that you are so fundamentally psychologically alien and incapable of modelling my perspective that there is no point having interactions that aren't through lawyers and in triplicate."