"All right. And I probably should get started on talking to people."
"I did not really have this situation in mind when I built my contract with Cheliax but I did put in provisions related to us parting ways. They need to account for the spellsilver they refine as income to the Project, they need to account for the headbands they build as if they were being sold to the Chelish government, and the defense against them understating that price is that I can buy those same goods from them at the price they state. Modulo various other provisions, they can always keep at least half of it for themselves, they can package up goods and price the package to prevent me from adversarially sniping fairly priced goods that were key to a larger supply chain, etcetera etcetera."
"The point being, unless there's provisions in there with effects I do not understand, either Cheliax has to cause a lot of income to accrue to the Project in terms of selling themselves spellsilver and headbands, some of which I can withdraw for myself, or they may try underpricing them, and in that case we come in and buy half of it from them. I'm trying to think of whether I'm sufficiently mad at them that we'd come in and buy half of their production even if they do fairly price it to the Project, just to deny those resources to Cheliax. But I'd just as soon let them make the first asshole move on Project contract treatment, so that I can tear into them using other provisions with a clear conscience."
"Assuming, of course, that Carissa Sevar does not successfully model me doing that."