"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
-- P. C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask.
"Should I look at that so I don't say it to Keltham? Nothing obvious is coming to my own mind for what could be written there."
She will.
"Oh. Huh. Interesting implied hypothesis about what Keltham would be thinking. This is a good idea, Keltham, you should try harder than I did to have a good idea. Let me know if I should not have said it that way and I'll update."
"Nah, telling me to have a good idea is allowed by 'securitymindset'."
"All right, next episode, get somebody in to get ready to Teleport, and somebody to run Greater Scry on them. I also want a regular scry, to be done after another Teleport, it may not last as long but it'll give me a backup option." He's trying not to evaluate either of his options there. "Maillol, ETA on that? Also, same trip, I request a scroll of whatever Carissa used to detect my Intelligence as 18 at the Worldwound."
"If you're willing to pay for them, I can send a messenger immediately and they can teleport back with the scrolls in five to ten minutes. If you want Cheliax to pay for them, an argument happens first and creates a delay, the system is not set up for me to suddenly requisition a Greater Scry scroll on a nonemergency basis, and declaring an emergency here would go politically odd."
"You okay with 75% Project budget, 25% my personal account to show I take it seriously, 4000gp spending cap?"
"Make it so. Oh, and please also make sure that recording is set up around me, and that transcripts will be available to me later today, so I can review events afterwards." They can try to edit those, obviously, but it'd be a risky game for them.
"Before that. Sevar, Asmodia, out of this room for one minute. I've got a question for Keltham... above their paper classification level which nobody has really gotten around to raising but never mind."
"Okay, I'll affirm that," questions of whether that was more likely in Conspiracy, to give them a chance to perform some action out of his vision, on hold pending what Maillol says.
Prediction, Keltham runs out in the middle of Maillol talking to check on whether we're still there and doing anything suspicious.
"There's an obvious theory about why you're asking for a scroll of Detect Intelligence. I'll get you one, it shouldn't be hard to find."
"The spell Sevar cast is second-circle, not third-circle, and is one of a class of spells useful for detecting things that might be trying to hide from you -"
"I feel obliged to note that I did in fact predict your suddenly running over to check on us, though only after I left the room and had a second to think, and so did Conspiracy Asmodia."
"I'm predicting you doing it a second time too, though less so now that it's pretty clear the Conspiracy is prepared."
Still 1.05x favoring Ordinary. They shouldn't get caught that easily, but then Conspiracy isn't perfect, on the surviving probability mass for it.
"Thanks for being frank, whichever Asmodia."
"I've been trying to figure out how she feels about you emotionally and I genuinely have no idea."
"Iiiii know exactly how hypothetical Conspiracy Carissa feels about you but maybe that's something to tell you after you're done with all this."
"Neither of you necessarily have Conspiracy emotional makeup that is anything remotely like your actual - never mind, Maillol is in the middle of saying something."
"The spell I'd guess you're actually thinking of is third-circle Detect Intentions and classified. Detect Intelligence is the second-circle wizard imitation version that just detects minds nearby and reads off their Intelligence level."
"Not without a more serious political fight. I admit I don't understand why it would be important for you to verify that it exists now that I've told you about it. Or are you thinking of ordering Sevar to fail her Will Save about it?"