"Like food? I can do more food."

"Food, warm clothing, tents - wagons for transport - I could likely draft a longer list of items that would help." 

"I'm tentatively up for that but would be more comfortable if I could, pending defenses against various magical attacks coming in, go talk to the folks on the other side and see if they try to set me on fire or something? I'm way more up for enabling people who don't set helpful strangers on fire for success versus people who do."

"I understand." 

"I think Sandra's just about finished your Thoughtsensing talisman, by the way. And did you still want to test whether other magical attacks work on daeva?" 

"Yes, if anyone wants to zap me in the wing with whatever I can replace that pretty easy if it turns out to be bad." He extends a wing.

"Er, all right. I'm not going to throw a lot of power around in here, though - will it work for the test if it's a power level that wouldn't injure a normal human too badly?" 

"Has to be more than a papercut - here, I'll demonstrate -" He produces a steak knife and stabs himself in the arm. It leaves a small pink scratch that heals instantly. "If it wouldn't do more than that to a regular person it won't be informative."

This earns him a very impressed and intrigued look from Karis!

"Useful," she says under her breath. 

"All right. The room's shielded - I can aim for a bit more injury-potential than that, as long as all the squishy humans go on the other side of the room..." 

Savil waits for this to be arranged, and then throws a very narrowly-targeted levinbolt at Cam's wing, pretty hard; Vanyel could hold that off with native shields but she's not sure anyone else in Valdemar could. 

Cam holds his wing still for her. There is a small discolored spot where she hits. Then it heals. It doesn't seem to hurt him at all; he folds up the wing. "Indestructibility one, magic lightning zero!"

"Want me to try a few different styles of attack? Might also be useful to find out if you can get out of restraint or trap-spell type things." 

"I almost certainly can't! I might be able to do something particularly creative but the way I'd get out of it if physically tied up would involve destroying the rope with conjuration - will that work on a trap spell?"

"I have no idea! Want to test it? ...Er, if you're going to be experimenting here, I think it'd be safer to take this to an actual Work Room. There's one pretty nearby, same building." 

"Sure, why not, when the meeting's over."

"Works for me." 

"What else do we need to discuss? Cam, are you interested in making plans to, er, go talk to some people on the Karsite side, so you can think about what you're willing to help with here?" 

"Yeah, who should I be going to for an account of their end of things?"

Randi looks over at Karis. 

Karis thinks. 

"I - would not trust any of the priesthood in higher positions, I think all of those were - replaced, after the coup. I know some names of local village priests, who I - would approve of as individuals. If they are still in their same positions, that is who I would suggest you speak with." 

"...I mean, the point of that test just now was that even if I go to someone who is completely untrustworthy, I will be fine and they can demonstrate that they are untrustworthy and then I will come back and go 'boy howdy, you guys were right'."

"...I would still suggest talking to someone who will answer your questions about the state of Karse and its people. But if you are, in fact, genuinely unworried about your safety, then I can show you where to find the High Temple in Sunhame - King Randale, do have any maps of it?" 

A raised eyebrow. "No, that's - something we were hoping you could help us with." 

"Well. I can draw a map for both purposes, then." 

"Or just name one that exists."