Ione was told to fetch a mirror and come here as fast as possible, but also she's pretty sure Keltham's real plan doesn't involve Ione.

"Here with the requested mirror!  Otherwise keeping quiet until Keltham says differently!"

She's quietly annoyed with how the Conspiracy has been mostly keeping her out of the loop on things, but can't deny that alterIone probably isn't being kept up-to-date on it and it probably helps with her reactions -

Oh, that's a nice military-grade mirror there.  Keltham must've asked them for a scry, somewhere, and she'd bet he's got more in his quick-draw scabbard than just wandering around looking for anomalies.

"Thanks, Ione.  Answer immediately, what were you thinking about between when you got the mirror request and when you arrived here?"

"Trying to figure out why you suddenly needed a mirror, obviously, which I now realize is to try to expand the range you can see while scrying on somebody carrying that mirror."

"What was your previous leading speculation?"

"Conspiracy's going to be casting a lot of illusions today.  For all you know, it's harder to maintain a consistent illusion if the mirror has to be part of it.  Or you were going to do something clever with the Law of Optics, that you hoped the people casting the illusion wouldn't know how to fake."

1.1x for Ordinary, those are high-quality speculations that Ione would be less likely to have come up with if Conspiracy knew why he wanted the mirror and was instead frantically briefing Ione on what to do if Teleported.

"Thanks.  And, sorry, Conspiracy Ione.  In the event you're an innocent caught up in all of this, somehow, I did try to figure out how to send you on this Teleport with a bag of money, but couldn't actually figure out how to do it in a way that didn't risk a bunch of gods or mercenaries descending on Ordinary Ione if Conspiracy Innocent Ione was given a real chance to escape."

She smiles.  "I appreciate the thought," she says, just like alterIone would say it, and not like true-Ione would say it in a more heartfelt way.

Keltham will now head over to Lord Marshal Fennelosa, who he's about to send to AbsalomNidalWorldwoundOstenso and request permission to Prestidigitate some writing onto whatever Fennelosa happens to be wearing.

" - sure." He's wearing an obviously magical silk cloak and obviously magical robes, both of them dirty, the cloak slightly bloody.

"Just to check, will that persist on this clothing?  Since it seems obviously -"  Detect Magic.  "- is visibly magical?"

"You should have a hard time damaging the cloak with a cantrip but dirt, as you might've noticed, sticks fine."

In lieu of asking more questions, Keltham will just try to Prestidigitate part of the robes to subtly patterned iridiscence a la intricate diffraction grating, which is the sort of thing that people on the Project have been doing an awful lot of recently.  Does that, in fact, go, with these magical robes?

Nope, the magical fabric does not want to be turned into something else.

"Sorry about this, but I need you to wear... different robes over these robes, or a shirt, or something else I can Prestidigitate."

The amount of focus that it takes Keltham to converse about this is sufficient that his thoughts slip; he's planning to Prestidigitate his god's mysterious symbol and a Taldane question mark.

"Sure," Fennelosa says impatiently. He reaches into his bag and pulls out a nonmagical thick fur cloak, and pulls it on over the magical one. 

The team following Fennelosa will just have to be prepared to Dominate anyone who walks up to him to comment on the holy symbol, though she thinks people will mostly not do that.

Keltham will Prestidigitate his god's symbol and a question mark, in diffraction-grating iridescence that somebody who wasn't deeply involved in the Project might not understand the optics of well enough to cast an illusion faking it, and also he's going to weave in some small Baseline fancy script that's going to look like a lot of indistinguishable Elvish curlicues to anybody who doesn't read Baseline, but which Keltham himself can immediately check for coherence.  That hopefully makes it complicated to change on their end and fake in an illusion on his end.

"How are we staying in contact once you've Teleported?  Telepathic Bond, or does Message work across Greater Scry?"

Keltham is trying to avoid thinking about how much it costs Conspiracy to claim that he needs to give all his instructions in advance (20 bits).

She anticipated that, which is why they said that cantrips worked across a Greater Scry.

Though also that number seems high and she suspects Keltham's trying to think false things on purpose.

"Message should work fine," Fennelosa says.

"All right then, I'm about to give you your destination.  Ready to go?"

Keltham is trying very hard not to think of his next action.

"Yes."

Keltham casts Invisibility Purge!  Were there any invisible people waiting to go along on that Teleport trip?

Nope!

The team accompanying Fennelosa will Teleport in separately from a different location, because there's no reason to have them anywhere near the Project site at any point.