...feels like the next story-arc of unreality is supposed to be the one where they imitate Civilization and like he's finally home at last, and he has to notice all the smaller notes wrong with that; which will be harder to detect compared to the louder notes in Cheliax, now that he / the reader have been alerted that Conspiracies are a thing.
Who's got the largest negative price? Keltham is contemplating trying the most predictable action possible, to see what the next layer of the Conspiracy prepared for that.
There was probably something clever he was supposed to do to have the new character Korva Tallandria with him at this point, who'd be very useful for figuring this out. Like not get her almost sent to Hell. That was probably the flag event he missed.