"One could conceivably, in a Time Stop, land some Disintegrates to get line of sight to the Gate, and then dispel it even though it's in an antimagic field, except that this requires one to be both a paladin and an archmage -  and a powerful paladin, Gallipsiwhoop says he'd otherwise see if he can become one temporarily - and I think you're still looking at six, seven moments of spellcasting which it's a gamble if you'll get."

"I have heard it said," and seen it with her own eyes, but no need to tell Morgethai, "that Arazni could bring other people into a time stop with her. Some gods' miracles could briefly allow a spellcaster access to powerful spells like Arazni's that few have ever managed to replicate. Is Nethys one of those gods?"

"Sometimes," Nefreti says. "But only if one intends to do something interesting with it."

"And this is not interesting enough, I take it? What does Nethys think is interesting?"

"Moving the Eye of Abendego! Putting the Worldwound in Elysium! Using a magical superweapon to threaten to melt all of Dis! Releasing Rovagug!"

"Please do not release Rovagug."

"I release Rovagug much less often than you do!"

Concerning.

"What about an earthquake that levels a city and accidentally closes the portal to Hell? Interesting enough?"

"Kind of unoriginal, don't you think?"

"I don't see what's unoriginal about that besides you mentioning it earlier in this conversation."

Nefreti frowns consideringly. "...two diamonds. One for the Miracle to make me do things I cannot ordinarily do, and then one for a Wish wording that is not really allowed."

"For the earthquake? Or for some other solution?"

"Oh, it'll cause an earthquake."

"...and what else?"

Nefreti counts on her fingers. "A crater visible from the space station, an angry lecture from the forces of order, a change to the laws of physics, an awakening of things in the depths, and a parrot."

"As the local representative of the forces of order, that sounds like a plan I'd want to veto in advance?"

"Space station?"

"It's a station in space," says Nefreti patiently. "...people say 'space' when they mean, specifically, the space where there isn't any air. You can see lots of things from it, the crater is not objectively that big."

"How big is 'not objectively that big'?"

"How about we just don't do the thing that involves a change to the laws of physics and all that."

"Nearly destroying Dis with a magical superweapon involves a change to the laws of physics," says Nefreti, peeved.

"How about we don't change the laws of physics for something much less significant than destroying Dis."

"If we are not doing anything interesting Nethys will not give us Arazni's Time Stop to do it in."

"So we need to find plans which either cause horrible devastation or don't rely on Arazni's time stop. Much as I would love to cast Arazni's time stop, I'm feeling inclined toward the latter category."