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I propose that I suggest to Otolmens a payment that will be acceptable to Her, that will not actually cost Her significantly given Her capabilities in the material world, and that will constitute a relatively large payment for the service She requests.

The service I have in mind will greatly benefit Cheliax, currently Yours for now.  Cheliax by and large tends to do things that I find very unpleasant.  But as the symmetry and opposition between your interests and mine is not perfect, there is a chance here for mutual benefit.  Nidal, for example, manages to be such an awful place that Cheliax is actually better than it, and for Cheliax to conquer Nidal more swiftly would serve both of Us well - though the gain from Your perspective would be larger than the gain from Mine, and I would demand payment to make up that difference.

I propose in particular that you legibly exhibit to Me your honest expectation of how long the war with Nidal will otherwise last and how much it will otherwise cost; our compact will call for You to pay Me for how much better for Cheliax the war ends up going, compared to that expectation, after I suggest my proposed service to Otolmens.  You will pay me for improvements as they become nearly certain, however, rather than waiting for the war to end.  I would commit not to using those payments to work against Your interests; not everything that I want is something you hate.

One similarly observes that although You derive similar pleasure from torturing most of the souls in your possession, there are in truth some souls' tortures that I find more tragic than others, even though they are all tragic.  If Cheliax ends up with a counterfactually larger population compared to what You expected, after Otolmens's intervention suggested by me - due to their increased counterfactual wealth and hence population growth, or their conquest of other territories - the compact would call for You to instruct Cheliax to use fewer of certain tactics and techniques that you designed specifically to lead good people into damnation.  If the payment cannot be made up that way, it can be made up in relaxations of other Chelish policies designed at producing damnations of people who are not, in fact, particularly evil.  I would also accept payment in the form of stays of execution for souls of my choice in Hell.

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I propose that I suggest to Otolmens a payment that will be acceptable to Her, that will not actually cost Her significantly given Her capabilities in the material world, and that will constitute a relatively large payment for the service She requests.

The service I have in mind will greatly benefit Cheliax, currently Yours for now.  Cheliax by and large tends to do things that I find very unpleasant.  But as the symmetry and opposition between your interests and mine is not perfect, there is a chance here for mutual benefit.  Nidal, for example, manages to be such an awful place that Cheliax is actually better than it, and for Cheliax to conquer Nidal more swiftly would serve both of Us well - though the gain from Your perspective would be larger than the gain from Mine, and I would demand payment to make up that difference.

I propose in particular that you legibly exhibit to Me your honest expectation of how long the war with Nidal will otherwise last and how much it will otherwise cost; our compact will call for You to pay Me for how much better for Cheliax the war ends up going, compared to that expectation, after I suggest my proposed service to Otolmens.  You will pay me for improvements as they become nearly certain, however, rather than waiting for the war to end.  I would commit not to using those payments to work against Your interests; not everything that I want is something you hate.

One similarly observes that although You derive similar pleasure from torturing most of the souls in your possession, there are in truth some souls' tortures that I find more tragic than others, even though they are all tragic.  If Cheliax ends up with a counterfactually larger population compared to what You expected, after Otolmens's intervention suggested by me - due to their increased counterfactual wealth and hence population growth, or their conquest of other territories - the compact would call for You to instruct Cheliax to use fewer of certain tactics and techniques that you designed specifically to lead good people into damnation.  If the payment cannot be made up that way, it can be made up in relaxations of other Chelish policies designed at producing damnations of people who are not, in fact, particularly evil.  I would also accept payment in the form of stays of torment for souls of my choice in Hell.

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I propose that I suggest to Otolmens a payment that will be acceptable to Her, that will not actually cost Her significantly given Her capabilities in the material world, and that will constitute a relatively large payment for the service She requests.

The service I have in mind will benefit Cheliax, currently Yours for now.  Cheliax by and large tends to do things that I find very unpleasant.  But as the symmetry and opposition between your interests and mine is not perfect, there is a chance here for mutual benefit.  Nidal, for example, manages to be such an awful place that Cheliax is actually better than it, and for Cheliax to conquer Nidal more swiftly would serve both of Us well - though the gain from Your perspective would be larger than the gain from Mine, and I would demand payment to make up that difference.

I propose in particular that you legibly exhibit to Me your honest expectation of how long the war with Nidal will otherwise last and how much it will otherwise cost; our compact will call for You to pay Me for how much better for Cheliax the war ends up going, compared to that expectation, after I suggest my proposed service to Otolmens.  You will pay me for improvements as they become nearly certain, however, rather than waiting for the war to end.  I would commit not to using those payments to work against Your interests; not everything that I want is something you hate.

One similarly observes that although You derive similar pleasure from torturing most of the souls in your possession, there are in truth some souls' tortures that I find more tragic than others, even though they are all tragic.  If Cheliax ends up with a counterfactually larger population compared to what You expected, after Otolmens's intervention suggested by me - due to their increased counterfactual wealth and hence population growth, or their conquest of other territories - the compact would call for You to instruct Cheliax to use fewer of certain tactics and techniques that you designed specifically to lead good people into damnation.  If the payment cannot be made up that way, it can be made up in relaxations of other Chelish policies designed at producing damnations of people who are not, in fact, particularly evil.  I would also accept payment in the form of stays of torment for souls of my choice in Hell.

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I propose that I suggest to Otolmens a payment that will be acceptable to Her, that will not actually cost Her significantly given Her capabilities in the material world, and that will constitute a relatively large payment for the service She requests.

The service I have in mind will benefit Cheliax, currently Yours for now.  Cheliax by and large tends to do things that I find very unpleasant.  But as the symmetry and opposition between your interests and mine is not perfect, there is a chance here for mutual benefit.  Nidal, for example, manages to be such an awful place that Cheliax is actually better than it, and for Cheliax to conquer Nidal entirely would serve both of Us well - though the gain from Your perspective would be larger than the gain from Mine, and I would demand payment to make up that difference.

I propose in particular that you legibly exhibit to Me your honest expectation of how long the war with Nidal will otherwise last and how much it will otherwise cost; our compact will call for You to pay Me for how much better for Cheliax the war ends up going, compared to that expectation, after I suggest my proposed service to Otolmens.  You will pay me for improvements as they become nearly certain, however, rather than waiting for the war to end.  I would commit not to using those payments to work against Your interests; not everything that I want is something you hate.

One similarly observes that although You derive similar pleasure from torturing most of the souls in your possession, there are in truth some souls' tortures that I find more tragic than others, even though they are all tragic.  If Cheliax ends up with a counterfactually larger population compared to what You expected, after Otolmens's intervention suggested by me - due to their increased counterfactual wealth and hence population growth, or their conquest of other territories - the compact would call for You to instruct Cheliax to use fewer of certain tactics and techniques that you designed specifically to lead good people into damnation.  If the payment cannot be made up that way, it can be made up in relaxations of other Chelish policies designed at producing damnations of people who are not, in fact, particularly evil.  I would also accept payment in the form of stays of torment for souls of my choice in Hell.