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Fia doesn't dislike Feradi, exactly, although maybe if he were in the habit of disliking people he would. Feradi is rude on purpose, mean on purpose, just to prove he can be. It's unpleasant to be around.
But Fia can't really fault him on the philosophy, given the givens. And anyway, he's probably nicer when he's at home, when he's not flaunting his contrast with Cretari citizens.
They actually prefer the mess hall since they'd like to be findable if anyone else wants to get tapped.
Trying to reveal as little information about the puzzle as possible by playing a card game well!
And throughout it no one approaches them to be tapped, so after one game it's probably worth approaching the commander to ask about that.
He can be found in his office; he's taking a report but it doesn't last too long and the reporter ducks out to make way for them.
"Hello." (Since Feradi mentioned it he'll take a look at this guy's disposition? For Fia's calibration if nothing else.)
Commander Artigas: has a disposition. Your Sense Motive score must be this tall to ride except that if you use magic you can apparently just see it so there it is. "Gentlemen."
Yikes. It's so... detailed. It gives Aten more of an intuitive sense for how valuable the thing the Cretari government is doing, where they make everyone keep certain traits in case one of them turns out to be important. He understood this before; it makes logical sense (though, huh, now that they're here they do not actually have to keep being this short? Maybe their body should be taller, they should think about that later), but he hadn't felt on such an obvious, apparent level that, oh yeah, things that are awful to experience can be turned into something useful. He wants to turn this guy over to a team of developers and have them pick his thing apart until they come out with something that gives a nice boost to attentional capacity when stacked with other Citreliac standards, and that also isn't - that.
"Commander. I hope we've justified your decision to let us into your fort."
Okay stop looking at the thing and get down to business. "We wouldn't mind being more so. If we're taking breaks in the mess hall and someone doesn't have an Endure up, I don't mind being approached for a casting." (Feradi does mind, at least a little, but given that he doesn't want to go to Hell he's on board with the plan anyway.) "If there was an easy way to communicate this to the people it's relevant to, we thought you might know it."
"Do you intend to extend this to people whose duties do not take them outside of the fort?"
"Yes, but it would neither free up other spell slots nor directly affect patrol efficacy and I don't know whether to imagine you to be invested in the comfort of the cooks and such."
"...We're not aiming to be less concerned with the welfare of people considered non-vital given that there's apparently a torture realm which w -"
"- You play chess? You have chess, on this planet?" Feradi takes a quick two steps toward the bookcase but stops himself before touching anything he wasn't before.
"Yes, I play chess and relatedly it exists on this planet, though I don't know if it's much like the sort you're familiar with, as variants exist even here. I can have a sign posted to the effect that anyone including noncombatants can ask you for Endures free of charge when they spot you in the mess hall. - assuming I understand correctly that you're approaching this as a charitable Judgment-oriented behavior and do not intend to charge for it, but I can also post a price if you have one."
"Free at least for today. We're planning to stay here for a while; given that it's our time and attention more than the individual Endures which are valuable to us, it might be worth it to assemble people densely some number of times per day rather than have us posted up for long stretches. It would free us up for trips to adjacent forts, and whatever else comes up that's good for us to do. We discussed this with," how do formalities, "your First Arcane, but we weren't sure at that time whether we might be leaving soon."
"...If it turns out you're all completely wrong about whether demons are even bad, I don't expect us to stick around. Short of that, I'm not sure. There are kinds of things I can think of us learning which would make us want to leave but not unwilling to wait through a notice period first."
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