--Oh, sweet! 

Lucy transfers all her stuff from the pockets of her dress to the vest of pockets. 

...Her dress doesn't contain zero petticoats, but it contains a lot less petticoats than it looked like before she started doing that. An incomplete inventory of objects on her person: 

-Several books

-Three jars of honey, with spoon

-A hand mirror

-Eight tallow candles. 

-Several random bars of oddly-warm brass. 

-An embroidery kit containing exclusively white floss

-About a yard of silk fabric

-A set of glasses with various lenses that can be flipped up and down

-An official-looking document reading "The Light-Hearted Wastelander is entitled to do whatever the hell she wants" and signed "Mr. Irons" "Mr. Wines" and "Mr. Pages" 

-Several tightly-sealed wax jars

-A collection of inks in colors that really oughtn't exist, which Lucy shuffles from one set of pockets to the other especially quickly to keep anyone from looking at them for too long.  

Ah, a high-level adventurer! How normal-looking.

Anyway, she'll have Lots Of Magic Items now!

After that, their first priority is to do simple tests, then have her shine on the moon just in case that counts as Tsukiyo's corpse, then collect and regenerate toes, then test her resurrection on someone two hundred years dead to make sure they're still all right (they can use Sending to get permission), then do the raise-everyone-in-Lastwall-who-doesn't-object-and-wipe-out-all-undead-in-Ustalav project, and all this will be as soon as the Commune finishes, since this is worth checking with Iomedae with that none of it will be disastrous. Then they start explaining to other countries they can mass-produce resurrections for everyone who wants it, which will probably trigger the next Great Avistani War but it will be a very fast war if they have infinite resurrections and Cheliax does not, and hopefully they can come to a very quick negotiated settlement.

Anything they're missing?

"Checking if Speak With Dead works on reassembled heads?"

Right! That! They'll do that.

(They were just going to use Sending to people in the afterlife, which you can also do. But Speak With Dead also works.)

Speak With Dead seems better than Sending for the use case where they have a corpse and no idea who it was? Unless she's misunderstanding how Sending works.

Nope, that's what Speak With Dead is for. But they mostly know who their corpses are.

“That’ll do to start with. —At some point after we go public I want to contact the caster who can do Wish, I’m really appreciating the effects of Owl’s Wisdom and would like to make that permanent.”

- Were headbands not covered? Shit. They thought they were on that.

Here's some headbands to try on! (only +2 so far). They do Owl's Wisdom and the other two spells that boost Intelligence and Charisma, she should pick the one that works best.

Over at the other end of the room there is currently lively debate on the Geb question, which they may have forgotten Lucy doesn't know about!

Lucy pauses in trying on headbands to look over at the other end of the room, and asks, "Who or what is Geb?"

Ulthun looks sheepish. "Both, actually. Geb is a mythically powerful necromancer and the country he founded based on enslaving everyone after they die to do manual labor. The last time we tried to do anything about it, eight hundred years ago, he - beat us completely, stole the corpse of one of our greatest heroes, the demigod Arazni, and animated her as his viceroy. The question is if we need to avoid them until after we've dealt with Cheliax or not - they're Evil, but very isolationist."

"If Arazni was back on our side..." Horgroth murmured.

"What exactly Life-Light would do with her I don't know," warns Kahler, "but she's not happy with Iomedae right now."

“Why’s she unhappy with Iomedae?”

"I haven't had a direct vision," Kahler says. "But whenever clerics of Iomedae ask Her questions with Commune about 'is it a good idea to' do anything at all involving Geb, the universal answer is 'no', and if we ask 'is it because of Arazni', or 'is Arazni opposed to us', or 'does Arazni dislike you', the answer is yes. She has us to blame for her reanimation - us trying to kill Geb - and she was fighting alongside us when she died the first time, against Tar-Baphon."

"Historical summary," says Ulthun, "Tell me if I'm making a mistake - Arazni was an archmage who became the herald of the god Aroden, one of the first mortals to ascend; He became god of progress, civilization, and humanity, and Iomedae was His paladin, and Arazni was - sort of barely a demigod; she had clerics but very few and very weak. In the Shining Crusade to seal Tar-Baphon Iomedae asked Aroden for her assistance, and Arazni came to support her, and Arazni was killed, destroyed as outsiders are destroyed, by the Whispering Tyrant. A hundred years later we got greedy, tried to go after Geb as well, and - we thought it wasn't possible to raise dead outsiders. It's still not possible for anyone else."

He pauses. "She's still a demigod. Of Despair."

“I will tentatively assign resurrecting Arazni an action value of ‘not yet’ and try very hard to get more information.”

"'Not yet' might mean 'next year,'" says the Lord Watcher of Lastwall. "We're very, very glad to have you."

Glances at Kahler. "Is one of the questions on the Commune 'can Lucy fix Arazni'?"

"No, it's 'if Lucy shines life-light at Geb-the-country, will that help Your interests more than it harms them.'"

Lucy…is not saying anything about the difference between “Iomedae’s interests” and “the cause of Good.”

(No shade to Iomedae. Lucy might not consider it in her own interests to, say, have a frank conversation with anny of her grandmother’s victims, even if doing so would accomplish an important goal.)

" - Would you rather we rephrase that?" Kehler asks. "I believe Iomedae and the majority of the Neutral Good and Chaotic Good gods would agree on this, but there may be information I'm missing."

“—Well, there’s a difference between what you’d choose to do and what’s in your interests, right, I’d do a lot of things I wouldn’t characterize as in my interests, if it was important.”

"We can lend you books on it, if you'd like, including some of the ones Ioemedae wrote Herself, or invite priests of other Good gods in to come with you - or, if you like, offer you a teleport to major temples of Good gods in neighboring countries, to see if they endorse us; I think reassuring you about the nature of our alliance is a very important priority. Iomedae's ascension was deliberately engineered by Her to shape the god She would become, so She'd have a full understanding of human preferences and still keep Her overwhelming focus on Actually Defeating Evil; Her own existence She values essentially instrumentally as a tool for this cause. She wanted to make sure She wouldn't end up like Shizuru."

“Yeah, okay.”

They'll shift the wording over to "the cause of good"! Which of these sources on their reliability would she like? Books and priests of other Good gods who happen to be resident in Lastwall are easy; visits elsewhere are slightly more complicated. She has a Mind Blank so she's unscryable and a short trip somewhere politically unimportant is unlikely to get her murdered.

(They'd also like to supply her with her own apartment in Lastwall, right now, until they can get her a fortress, assuming she in fact wants to sleep or take breaks and read books somewhere. And a secretary. All of this is nonurgent in the event that Cheliax tries to murder her tomorrow, but it's worth planning for the long term, it's not like the war will be over in a couple days if it occurs.)

Books seem like a good starting point. An apartment sounds fine (she's going to miss her mother's house something terrible, when she slows down). What specifically are they thinking of a secretary for, most of her personal notes are written in Correspondence and she hasn't checked how translation magic handles that?

They were thinking that at the point you're a Very Busy Person rushing around doing things who can resurrect people, having someone to memorize your schedule and take notes for you and inform you of urgent things that just came up and let you know that other Very Busy People would like to talk to you and coordinate with their secretaries when would be a good time is usually useful.

Books can be delivered for when she has a moment to read them. They have a lot of copies of Iomedae's holy books, lying around, and among the main things Iomedae's holy books talk about are attempts to define Good and discuss strategies for actually achieving it and proper tactics for different sorts of wars against evil (which are, of course, very different both ethically and practically, depending on whether you're fighting undead or devils or people - people can, for instance, be talked out of it) and all the obvious traps you'll fall into if you pursue Good in naive ways. They also have books about Iomedae by people who met her in life, external discussions, and so forth and so on, as well as various general religious summaries from the perspective of most of the good gods.

She could probably also use some security wizards and clerics to keep her properly buffed-up when she's Going Possibly Dangerous Places. Most assassination attempts are decided in the first six to twelve seconds, and having your spells cast in advance is one of the best ways to make sure they don't succeed.

Makes sense, she doesn't have any experience with the local buffs or assassination practices. 

(Can she have some Sarenrite holy books too? Less urgent, but Lucy really vibed with her.)

Yeah, that function of a secretary makes sense. She sort of wants to say "oh, a social secretary, of course," but actually that is more things than she thinks a social secretary does. 

She is actually sort of curious now how translation magic handles Correspondence but it's so non-urgent.