"Maillol.  I'm sorry, and apologize for how unannounced this is all going to be.  But with the nation of Cheliax investing a significant fraction of domestic product into scaling up the Project, I think the point has come where it's silly for me to not ask for some things that are expensive and inconvenient and will enable higher Project output by myself."

"Most of those are non-urgent and can be negotiated sensibly and with due notice.  The reason for this abrupt set of requests is that I have been kind of stuck in this Fortress.  I now want to take a set of measures whose point is to test whether Cheliax has been truthful with me about conditions outside it, and the less time hypothetical Conspiracy Cheliax has to prepare for those, the better.  If I ask you for something impossible, that I didn't expect to be impossible, I obviously cannot alter reality to make it be possible for you, but please be creative about thinking of other ways to do it; it costs Ordinary Cheliax its probability when that happens and I didn't expect it to."

"My highest priority request is for as many possible daily newspapers, preferably including newspapers from previous days, in the same language this page is written in," Keltham holds aloft a random page from his shirt, "in whatever country that is, and at least three theology books from that country mentioning multiple gods but at least the gods Asmodeus, Nethys, Cayden Cailean, Zon-Kuthon, Iomedae, Irori, Norgorber, Calistria, and Aroden, and at least five fictional novels preferably from five different genres, bonus if there's a lot of descriptions of interesting magic in them.  I imagine, but am willing to hear otherwise, that this is something you can get done in an hour on an emergency basis.  Happy to hear a cost estimate, which I think I am okay at this point charging to the Project; this is something the Project needs to do in order to gain access to additional knowledge of mine.  Oh, I also need a scroll of Comprehend Languages, preferably divine version, brought back, if at all possible."  The schedule disruption of now worrying about mindreading has also affected Keltham's planning in other ways; this was supposed to be combined with the Tongues project.

"Maillol.  I'm sorry, and apologize for how unannounced this is all going to be.  But with the nation of Cheliax investing a significant fraction of domestic product into scaling up the Project, I think the point has come where it's silly for me to not ask for some things that are expensive and inconvenient and will enable higher Project output from myself."

"Most of those are non-urgent and can be negotiated sensibly and with due notice.  The reason for this abrupt set of requests is that I have been kind of stuck in this Fortress.  I now want to take a set of measures whose point is to test whether Cheliax has been truthful with me about conditions outside it, and the less time hypothetical Conspiracy Cheliax has to prepare for those, the better.  If I ask you for something impossible, that I didn't expect to be impossible, I obviously cannot alter reality to make it be possible for you, but please be creative about thinking of other ways to do it; it costs Ordinary Cheliax its probability when that happens and I didn't expect it to."

"My highest priority request is for as many possible daily newspapers, preferably including newspapers from previous days, in the same language this page is written in," Keltham holds aloft a random page from his shirt, "in whatever country that is, and at least three theology books from that country mentioning multiple gods but at least the gods Asmodeus, Nethys, Cayden Cailean, Zon-Kuthon, Iomedae, Irori, Norgorber, Calistria, and Aroden, and at least five fictional novels preferably from five different genres, bonus if there's a lot of descriptions of interesting magic in them.  I imagine, but am willing to hear otherwise, that this is something you can get done in an hour on an emergency basis.  Happy to hear a cost estimate, which I think I am okay at this point charging to the Project; this is something the Project needs to do in order to gain access to additional knowledge of mine.  Oh, I also need a scroll of Comprehend Languages, preferably divine version, brought back, if at all possible."  The schedule disruption of now worrying about mindreading has also affected Keltham's planning in other ways; this was supposed to be combined with the Tongues project.