Yeah, they'd brought drinking water so he was fine in the end, but they weren't sure how fast he'd go through it and he couldn't tell them, what with being a frog.

The djinni actually really liked when the kettle was boiling, but he also kept splashing water out of it and scalding people or half putting the fire out, and would start knocking things over if it boiled dry or went cold for too long.  She thinks someone brought it to a temple eventually and made it their problem?

What kind of temple?

She's pretty sure it was Nethys?  Irori's was closest and someone definitely suggested bringing it there early on, but 'why is there a djinni where djinni don't usually go' is really more a Nethys thing than an Irori thing.

That makes sense. Did she ever want to be a cleric before or did she just pray for it when there was a shortage around her?

...it, uh, just kind of happened.  But no, she'd never really thought much about being a cleric, she was just focused on being a wizard. 

(Okay, so apparently the whole fort is not actually talking about how she exploded herself?  That's good?)

So she wasn't doing explosions on purpose to get them a cleric?

(OKAY WELL NEVER MIND THEN.)

Nah, she wishes she could take credit for it but it was the All-Seeing's idea.

Well, uh, praise be, or whatever. In what format does He like to be paid back for doing stuff?

Mostly by people doing cool magic and learning things?  He doesn't really, uh, express preferences nearly as often as other gods do.  Unless that's what the maddening visions are about, but that's still not actually, like, usable.

That sounds harder than, like, showing up to watch dudes be tortured to death once in a while, but okay.

(She can't super relate but intellectually she understands not everybody has the temperament for wizardry.)

Also real quick she does NOT recommend anybody try exploding themselves on purpose, most of the time you just almost die (or actually die), and also if you're doing it because you want power in specific that's probably more the right sort of thing for like Calistria or Iomedae or Gorum or Somebody.

Anyway, uh, she can try setting up, like, a reading group?  If they want?  And He's also said to like explosions, so probably exploding demons counts at least a little... is it true there's a kind that explodes when they die, she knows people are mostly like shooting and stabbing them. 

Balors do that!

Okay, cool... are those one of the really bad news kinds?

Yes. In large part because of the exploding thing. This guy, the oldest one in the squad, has seen a couple of them do it.

Okay.  Well.  She'll hope- pray, actually, that if any of them are around they explode well away from the fort and anybody who'd get caught in it.  And maybe start up that reading group just in case.

Sounds like a good way to kill time.

That's the plan!  Also it means if you've got a particularly good one everyone can read it together instead of fighting over whose turn it is first.

But some people are much faster readers than others.

Oh, you take turns reading aloud, and then talk about the interesting or complicated bits.  It's hard enough for two people to read the same book without shoving, more than that wouldn't work at all.

Does mean everyone goes at the pace of 'reading aloud plus arguments', so it doesn't work quite as well for novels as one might hope, but on the other hand everyone who's not reading can do mending or whatever while they talk.

Or spinning or cutting their toenails or whatever, sure.