Doesn't particularly match up with Keltham's model of how hard it would be for him to produce oxygen, or find another alchemist who knew how.  There's a lot of stuff with oxygen in it.  Water is 8/9 oxygen by weight and Keltham knows how to split it.  There's no way that saving a couple of weeks on figuring out their own method would be worth half the proceeds of the Project on all chemical sales forever.

Keltham has actually heard about crazy Golarion bargaining, and could potentially try doing things that way?  But first Keltham wants to make sure that he's not missing some key facts that would make this a sincere and fair offer, one that Keltham shouldn't be trying to bargain down from.

Keltham's got truthspells, and also a spell that causes people to only say prices that would be fair given their knowledge, if the alchemist wants a quick way to prove that he's being honest about something or just prove that the entire offer is one that's fair relative to his own model of things.

Doesn't particularly match up with Keltham's model of how hard it would be for him to produce oxygen, or find another alchemist who knew how.  There's a lot of stuff with oxygen in it.  Water is 8/9 oxygen by weight and Keltham knows how to split it.  There's no way that saving a couple of weeks on hammering out the issues in a reconstructed method of dath ilan would be worth half the proceeds of the Project on all chemical sales forever; oxygen simply isn't that important an input.

Keltham has actually heard about crazy Golarion bargaining, and could potentially try doing things that way?  But first Keltham wants to make sure that he's not missing some key facts that would make this a sincere and fair offer, one that Keltham shouldn't be trying to bargain down from.

Keltham's got truthspells, and also a spell that causes people to only say prices that would be fair given their knowledge, if the alchemist wants a quick way to prove that he's being honest about something or just prove that the entire offer is one that's fair relative to his own model of things.

Doesn't particularly match up with Keltham's model of how hard it would be for him to produce oxygen, or find another alchemist who knew how.  There's a lot of stuff with oxygen in it.  Water is 8/9 oxygen by weight and Keltham knows how to split it.  There's no way that saving a couple of weeks on hammering out the issues in a reconstructed method of dath ilan would be worth half the proceeds of the Project on all chemical sales forever; oxygen simply isn't that important an input.

Keltham has in fact heard about Golarion's concept of bargaining, and could potentially try doing things that way by countering with a ludicrously unfair offer of his own?  But first Keltham wants to make sure that he's not missing some key facts that would make this a sincere and fair offer, one that Keltham shouldn't be trying to bargain down from.

Keltham's got truthspells, and also a spell that causes people to only say prices that would be fair given their knowledge, if the alchemist wants a quick way to prove that he's being honest about something or just prove that the entire offer is one that's fair relative to his own model of things.