Feladriel Morgethai really does not like risky operations. Gallipsiwhoop is muttering something to her that no one else can hear. "Time Stop, Wish in, Disjunction?" she proposes. "You'll observe that it amounts to matching them for diamonds, and it does, but I'm not thinking of anything that doesn't which doesn't risk changing the fact we presently outmatch them for archmages."

"The gate is covered by antimagic fields presumably to prevent this exact thing. We'd need a way to remove them." Alfirin is not delighted about being here in a strategy meeting with everyone, but she's mind blanked and disguised as a Garundi man (She flipped a coin and rolled a die) and it's unlikely Morgethai will be able to learn anything more about her.

Morgethai looks consideringly at Cansellarion. "Your sword can dispel a Gate even in an antimagic field. …this probably doesn't help us, can't count on it doing it quickly and I doubt you can read a Time Stop from a scroll."

"And even if he could, the antimagic fields would keep him from getting close. You can't enter one while time stopped."

"I flatly don't see an approach likely to work." She looks at Nefreti. "Unless you want to explain how to accidentally cause an earthquake on purpose."

"I don't know how to explain the causes of things."

"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."