"And so long as that gets transcripted and sent out soon enough, hopefully nobody from Chelish Governance gives me a completely baffled look if I say that my baseline fair share of an increase in Chelish production ought to be around roughly the amount that Chelish production would've increased in the alternate world where the country had randomly half of its current people, or gets confused and worried if I say that a proposed contract clause would be annoying enough in a final offer to make me visibly generate a random number between 0 and 999 and walk out on Cheliax if the number is 0."
"Now it's time for a break, or it would be in dath ilan, anyways, and it so happens that I hailed from there. I'll take some questions, and then probably go off by myself for a bit to let my brain cool down from recomposing half-remembered lectures - metaphorically speaking, the brain doesn't actually overheat when you overthink unless something is going very wrong inside. Dath ilani best practices would provide you with a small snack and suggest that you stand up and walk around. Maybe a brief magic-practice session after this, to break things up? Anybody who doesn't want to teach me magic, which doesn't need to include all of you, could take a longer break, that way."
"Any questions?"