"I doubt that entities in some ways above gods would be terribly interested in whether or not Cheliax ends up with dath-ilan-based methods of spellsilver refinement, and so I doubt that is what we are meant to do here.  To be sure, anything else we could try doing encounters the same question, but it seems especially unlikely to be that one, somehow.  I should nonetheless like Asmodeus, looking at my soul the next time I pray, to perceive within me some hope of progress on something, now that the Bag of Holding's contents are lost, and there will be no tuning fork for a Plane Shift back to our... back to my own Material plane.  You convincing me that dath ilan is real, or convincing yourself that it is unreal, at least might be progress toward satisfying our purpose here; and then, somehow, being allowed to depart.  Do you have a better idea than {radio} for what we are to do with our time, here, besides waiting for Asmodeus to drop me as a cleric so we can eat snails?  What supposed principles would you be testing and proving, by creating such a thing?"

"I doubt that entities in some ways above gods would be terribly interested in whether or not Cheliax ends up with dath-ilan-based methods of spellsilver refinement, and so I doubt that is what we are meant to do here.  To be sure, anything else we could try doing encounters the same question, but it seems especially unlikely to be that one, somehow."

"I should nonetheless like Asmodeus, looking at my soul the next time I pray, to perceive within me some hope of progress on something, now that the Bag of Holding's contents are lost, and there will be no tuning fork for a Plane Shift back to our... back to my own Material plane.  You convincing me that dath ilan is real, or convincing yourself that it is unreal, at least might be progress toward satisfying our purpose here; and then, somehow, being allowed to depart."

"Do you have a better idea than {radio} for what we are to do with our time, here, besides waiting for Asmodeus to drop me as a cleric so we can eat snails?  What supposed principles would you be testing and proving, by creating such a thing?"