Well look at where questing for the sky got you! I bet whoever lives in the darklands now doesn’t have to deal with shadows at all. 

Oh, we should ask Torag for help then. Great Torag, lead this humble mortal to The Sky, such as for example with positive energy channelling...

That's actually a great idea! Everyone should pray to the gods they feel closest to and ask for cleric casting! Even if it didn't work earlier or if you weren't ready to devote your lives earlier, the numbers are different on both sides of the equation.

Hey, that was my idea first! Why are you trying to steal my idea?

Whoah, what about people who feel close to an evil god? They won’t be able to turn undead at all. So pray to the god you feel closest to, unless you’re evil, then pray to a good one instead. 

That's actually a great idea! Everyone should pray to the gods they feel closest to and ask for cleric casting! Even if it didn't work earlier or if you weren't ready to devote your lives earlier, the numbers are different on both sides of the equation.

...Hm. Alright. 

There are some gods which she feels mostly aligned with, and she's asked them to cleric her before - most saliently when she first became Field Marshall. She didn't expect them to do it, and they didn't; it's rare for powerful fighters to get cleric circles, it adds less to their capabilities than clericing someone young and inexperienced would. 

Still, it's worth checking to see if the gods still agree with that logic.

Abadar, Torag, Jaidi, Erastil... any takers?

The gods are probably busy fighting all the shadows right now!

If we all pray to them it'd be distracting, we should just leave them to it

Nope. She didn't expect it to work and it didn't.

Wait we shouldn’t all pray to become clerics, what use will a bunch of first circle clerics be? We need to all pray to make one guy a cleric, so he can cast miracle to hallow the city. 

We should teach everyone wizardry. Half the population is smart enough to hang cantrips, right? Probably more now that all the stupid ones got eaten. We could just take down all the shadows with a barrage of rays of frost.

This is why we need a mandatory hour of prayer! If this works you have to credit me first, you know.

We can't learn wizardy in a week, we'll have starved by then.

Maybe you can’t learn wizardry in a week. If I knew how to read, I bet I could learn it in a day!

Exactly. Besides, what would be the point in spending so much money on the Academae if it couldn't even teach people to be wizards?

Yeah! If there’s ever a time for them to stop hoarding their magic and share it with everyone, it’s now. 

Then we're settled?

We'll all enrol at the Academae and ask for training to be wizards, and we'll go hungry until next week when we'll probably have gotten to fifth circle and can all teleport out by ourselves.

And anyone who can't do that is just a lazy bum who deserves to starve.

People become powerful best under pressure, right? So now's the best time to study wizardry, really.

I thought wizards become more powerful by fighting. So once we get a few spells, we can fight the shadows to get more. 

When you turn into a shadow, is it just your soul?

I mean, does your body get left behind intact?

We've got tonnes of fresh meat piled up on the streets above us, why would we be going hungry?

If you eat human meat Urgathoa turns you into a zombie. Everyone knows that.

all zombies are cannibals is not the same as all cannibals are zombies.

Everyone in Mwangi eats human meat and they're not all zombies, just the ones in Geb.

What's a Mwangi? Also, Hermea??

You turn into a ghoul, actually, not a zombie. And Pharasma does it, not Urgathoa.

Pharasma does not turn people into ghouls.

Suggesting cannibalism is exactly what a secret cleric of Urgathoa would say. How do we know no one here is a secret cleric, listening to our plans and reporting back to the shadows

[derisively] There's no such thing as a secret cleric. If Someone clerics you, you know.