"Persuasive pitch, if so," Keltham says, learning, as he speaks, to speak and clench his stomach muscles at the same time. "I'll pause to take my jacket off first not to ruin it, and I'll want somebody to pay me afterwards, but I will, in fact, jump into waterholes to save drowning children."
"My theory is that Zon-Kuthon of the inverted values is the god that has an effectively unnegotiable incentive to oppose everything we're doing here and want us all dead, that the vision uniquely identifies Zon Kuthon though why it had to come in that form I don't know, and that we're being warned that the security precautions we had at the time I got my spells this morning, plus any further precautions we'd take predictably to my god, are not adequate to navigate that with acceptable casualties."
"Can Zon-Kuthon just - take people, could he take somebody here, especially if they're Lawful Evil, if his clerics attack us - or does Asmodeus -"