Keltham takes an additional moment to compose himself.  If Chelish Governance is running some kind of massive effort to gaslight him, they sure are doing a good job of including the appearance of not being competent enough to pull that off, and making lots of weird errors about information that isn't really being concealed but nobody is bothering to tell him, serving as a cover for whatever it is that's actually being hidden.  Which, you know, is what you'd expect from competent Governance running a competent gaslighting operation, right?  No doubt the average Intelligence on this planet is not really -4sd, that's ridiculous, how would people even survive.  Look at how long it took them to find an actor who could convincingly pose as one during kitchen work.

Keltham takes an additional moment to compose himself.  If Chelish Governance is running some kind of massive effort to gaslight him, they sure are doing a good job of including the appearance of not being competent enough to pull that off, and making lots of weird errors about information that isn't really being concealed but nobody is bothering to tell him, serving as a cover for whatever it is that's actually being hidden.  Which, you know, is what you'd expect from competent Governance running a competent gaslighting operation, right?  No doubt the average Intelligence on this planet is not really -4sd, that's ridiculous, how would people even survive.  Look at how long it took them to find or train an actor who could convincingly pose as Intelligence 10 while doing kitchen work.

Keltham takes an additional moment to compose himself.  If Chelish Governance is running some kind of massive effort to gaslight him, they sure are doing a good job of including the appearance of not being competent enough to pull that off, and making lots of weird errors about information that isn't really being concealed but nobody is bothering to tell him, serving as a cover for whatever it is that's actually being hidden.  Which, you know, is what you'd expect from competent Governance running a competent gaslighting operation, right?  No doubt the average Intelligence on this planet is not really -3sd, that's ridiculous, how would people even survive.  Look at how long it took them to find or train an actor who could convincingly pose as Intelligence 10 while doing kitchen work.

Keltham takes an additional moment to compose himself.  If Chelish Governance is running some kind of massive effort to gaslight him, they sure are doing a good job of including the appearance of not being competent enough to pull that off, and making lots of weird errors about information that isn't really being concealed but nobody is bothering to tell him, serving as a cover for whatever it is that's actually being hidden.  Which, you know, is what you'd expect from competent Governance running a competent gaslighting operation, right?  No doubt the average thinkoomph on this planet is not really -3sd, that's ridiculous, how would people even survive.  Look at how long it took them to find or train an actor who could convincingly pose as Intelligence 10 while doing kitchen work.