All right.  Connect the pieces, as they'd be connected in Conspiracy.

Obvious statements are obvious:  The person he knows as Abrogail is not the Queen of Cheliax, the Zon-Kuthon war never happened.

- Asmodeus is the god of compacts, the contracts he signs with Cheliax are binding on them when it purports to be somebody representing Cheliax and they can't just lie about that to him.  Abrogail, herself, never signed any contract except the one stating consequences if Carissa fell in love with her; the rest was all Lrilatha, or one time a supposed representative of Chelish governance.

- There isn't actually an interdiction... no, Keltham can't quite rule that, so early, Broom has no obvious Conspiracy-purpose if Otolmens doesn't exist, and even the Conspiracy might hesitate to lie about that.  But something is keeping his god from him.

- The Conspiracy can read his mind, but doesn't do so at all times, they weren't doing it last night when Keltham was first thinking about this.  They panicked when they got the information on which spells Keltham prayed for this morning, started reading his mind then, and told Ione to supposedly be in the toilet.

- Fennelosa kicked a child; Carissa talked about feeding putatively sapient rats to other rats and selling tickets; the slavery market, the wizard teacher hurting his students after class.  It points to - anti-Light, the thing that 'Zon-Kuthon' is supposed to be - being present in Absalom, in that wizard teacher whose book talked a bunch about Asmodeus, in the mind of Fennelosa, in the mind of Carissa.

- If Conspiracy, they're probably lying about being unable to identify his god.  Can Keltham figure out which god it is?  They wouldn't have said the name after Keltham got clericed, so it'll presumably be a god that got mentioned as Lawful Neutral before Keltham got clericed.  Which Keltham thinks narrows it down to Abadar, maybe Irori, he doesn't remember if Erecura was mentioned before he got clericed... he thinks after... and then after Keltham did get clericed, they'd cast whichever god it actually was in a negative light, because any accurate representation would start Keltham moving in that direction.  Well, that makes it obvious that, if it's one of Abadar / Maybe Irori / Possibly Erecura, from among those three, his god would be Abadar.  Banking is the obvious fit for Mad Investor Chaos.  It's the thing that could be a misrepresentation of the god of Honorable Trade.  Could also just be that the Conspiracy didn't have the bad luck to mention the real god of Coordination to him before he got clericed.

- Cheliax telling him about a huge push to manufacture spellsilver over one month.  Why tell him that?  It makes no sense on Conspiracy...

If they have to report revenue to him monthly, because that was in the compact, and they expect a lot of revenue in one month, they would need an excuse... for that?  Revenue from a war, using ultimately Project-derived weapons?

That's - that's really not good, at all.  Keltham would be responsible for stopping that, one way or another - but the contract isn't written in a way that implies that Cheliax owes him revenues from stealing other people's stuff using Project-derived weapons - is it?

Table that one, keep thinking.

All right.  Connect the pieces, as they'd be connected in Conspiracy.

Obvious statements are obvious:  The person he knows as Abrogail is not the Queen of Cheliax, the Zon-Kuthon war never happened.

- Asmodeus is the god of compacts, the contracts Keltham signs with Cheliax are binding on them when it purports to be somebody representing Cheliax, and they can't just lie about that to him.  Abrogail, herself, never signed any contract except the one stating consequences if Carissa fell in love with her; the rest was all Lrilatha, or one time a supposed representative of Chelish governance.

- There isn't actually an interdiction... no, Keltham can't quite rule that, so early.  Broom has no obvious Conspiracy-purpose if Otolmens doesn't exist, and even the Conspiracy might hesitate to lie about that.  But something is keeping Keltham's god from him.

- The Conspiracy can read his mind, but doesn't do so at all times, they weren't doing it last night when Keltham was first thinking about this.  They panicked when they got the information on which spells Keltham prayed for this morning, started reading his mind then, and told Ione to supposedly be in the toilet.

- Fennelosa kicked a child; Carissa talked about feeding putatively sapient rats to other rats and selling tickets; the slavery market, the wizard teacher hurting his students after class.  It points to - anti-Light, the thing that 'Zon-Kuthon' is supposed to be - being present in Absalom, in that wizard teacher whose book talked a bunch about Asmodeus, in the mind of Fennelosa, in the mind of Carissa.

- If Conspiracy, they're probably lying about being unable to identify his god.  Can Keltham figure out which god it is?  They wouldn't have said the name after Keltham got clericed, so it'll presumably be a god that got mentioned as Lawful Neutral before Keltham got clericed.  Which Keltham thinks narrows it down to Abadar, maybe Irori, he doesn't remember if Erecura was mentioned before he got clericed... he thinks after... and then after Keltham did get clericed, they'd cast whichever god it actually was in a negative light, because any accurate representation would start Keltham moving in that direction.  Well, that makes it obvious that, if it's one of Abadar / Maybe Irori / Possibly Erecura, from among those three, his god would be Abadar.  Banking is the obvious fit for Mad Investor Chaos.  It's the thing that could be a misrepresentation of the god of Honorable Trade.  Could also just be that the Conspiracy didn't have the bad luck to mention the real god of Coordination to him before he got clericed.

- Cheliax telling him about a huge push to manufacture spellsilver over one month.  Why tell him that?  It makes no sense on Conspiracy...

If they have to report revenue to him monthly, because that was in the compact, and they expect a lot of revenue in one month, they would need an excuse... for that?  Revenue from a war, using ultimately Project-derived weapons?

That's - that's really not good, at all.  Keltham would be responsible for stopping that, one way or another - but the contract isn't written in a way that implies that Cheliax owes him revenues from stealing other people's stuff using Project-derived weapons - is it?

Table that one, keep thinking.

All right.  Connect the pieces, as they'd be connected in Conspiracy.

Obvious statements are obvious:  The person he knows as Abrogail is not the Queen of Cheliax, the Zon-Kuthon war never happened.

- Asmodeus is the god of compacts, the contracts Keltham signs with Cheliax are binding on them when it purports to be somebody representing Cheliax, and they can't just lie about that to him.  Abrogail, herself, never signed any contract except the one stating consequences if Carissa fell in love with her; the rest was all Lrilatha, or one time a supposed representative of Chelish governance.

- There isn't actually an interdiction... no, Keltham can't quite rule that, so early.  Broom has no obvious Conspiracy-purpose if Otolmens doesn't exist, and even the Conspiracy might hesitate to lie about that.  But something is keeping Keltham's god from him.

- The Conspiracy can read his mind, but doesn't do so at all times, they weren't doing it last night when Keltham was first thinking about this.  They panicked when they got the information on which spells Keltham prayed for this morning, started reading his mind then, and told Ione to supposedly be in the toilet.

- Fennelosa kicked a child; Carissa talked about feeding putatively sapient rats to other rats and selling tickets; the slavery market, the wizard teacher hurting his students after class.  It points to - anti-Light, the thing that 'Zon-Kuthon' is supposed to be - being present in Absalom, in that wizard teacher whose book talked a bunch about Asmodeus, in the mind of Fennelosa, in the mind of Carissa.

- If Conspiracy, they're probably lying about being unable to identify his god.  Can Keltham figure out which god it is?  They wouldn't have said the name after Keltham got clericed, so it'll presumably be a god that got mentioned as Lawful Neutral before Keltham got clericed.  Which Keltham thinks narrows it down to Abadar, maybe Irori, he doesn't remember if Erecura was mentioned before he got clericed... he thinks after... and then after Keltham did get clericed, they'd cast whichever god it actually was in a negative light, because any accurate representation would start Keltham moving in that direction.  Well, that makes it obvious that, if it's one of Abadar / Maybe Irori / Possibly Erecura, from among those three, his god would be Abadar.  Banking is the obvious fit for Mad Investor Chaos.  It's the thing that could be a misrepresentation of the god of Honorable Trade.  Could also just be that the Conspiracy didn't have the bad luck to mention the real god of Coordination to him before he got clericed.

- Cheliax telling him about a huge push to manufacture spellsilver over one month.  Why tell him that?  It makes no sense on Conspiracy...

If they have to report revenue to him monthly, because that was in the compact, and they expect a lot of revenue in one month, they would need an excuse... for what reality?  Revenue from a war, using ultimately Project-derived weapons?

That's - that's really not good, at all.  Keltham would be responsible for stopping that, one way or another - but the contract isn't written in a way that implies that Cheliax owes him revenues from stealing other people's stuff using Project-derived weapons - is it?

Table that one, keep thinking.

All right.  Connect the pieces, as they'd be connected in Conspiracy.

Obvious statements are obvious:  The person he knows as Abrogail is not the Queen of Cheliax, the Zon-Kuthon war never happened.

- Asmodeus is the god of compacts, the contracts Keltham signs with Cheliax are binding on them when it purports to be somebody representing Cheliax, and they can't just lie about that to him.  Abrogail, herself, never signed any contract except the one stating consequences if Carissa fell in love with her; the rest was all Lrilatha, or one time a supposed representative of Chelish governance.

- There isn't actually an interdiction... no, Keltham can't quite rule that, so early.  Broom has no obvious Conspiracy-purpose if Otolmens doesn't exist, and even the Conspiracy might hesitate to lie about that.  But something is keeping Keltham's god from him.

- The Conspiracy can read his mind, but doesn't do so at all times, they weren't doing it last night when Keltham was first thinking about this.  They panicked when they got the information on which spells Keltham prayed for this morning, started reading his mind then, and told Ione to supposedly be in the toilet.

- Fennelosa kicked a child; Carissa talked about feeding putatively sapient rats to other rats and selling tickets; the slavery market, the wizard teacher hurting his students after class.  It points to - anti-Light, the thing that 'Zon-Kuthon' is supposed to be - being present in Absalom, in that wizard teacher whose book talked a bunch about Asmodeus, in the mind of Fennelosa, in the mind of Carissa.

- If Conspiracy, they're probably lying about being unable to identify his god.  Can Keltham figure out which god it is?  They wouldn't have first said the name after Keltham got clericed, so if this is solvable, it'll be a god that got mentioned as Lawful Neutral before Keltham got clericed.  Which Keltham thinks narrows it down to Abadar, maybe Irori, he doesn't remember if Erecura was mentioned before he got clericed... he thinks after... and then after Keltham did get clericed, they'd cast whichever god it actually was in a negative light, because any accurate representation would start Keltham moving in that direction.  Well, that makes it obvious that, if it's one of Abadar / Maybe Irori / Possibly Erecura, from among those three, his god would be Abadar.  Banking is the obvious fit for Mad Investor Chaos.  It's the thing that could be a misrepresentation of the god of Honorable Trade.  Could also just be that the Conspiracy didn't have the bad luck to mention the real god of Coordination to him before he got clericed.

- Cheliax telling him about a huge push to manufacture spellsilver over one month.  Why tell him that?  It makes no sense on Conspiracy...

If they have to report revenue to him monthly, because that was in the compact, and they expect a lot of revenue in one month, they would need an excuse... for what reality?  Revenue from a war, using ultimately Project-derived weapons?

That's - that's really not good, at all.  Keltham would be responsible for stopping that, one way or another - but the contract isn't written in a way that implies that Cheliax owes him revenues from stealing other people's stuff using Project-derived weapons - is it?

Table that one, keep thinking.