"I like it. It's not like he knows how much Cheliax cares about medicine--"

"Not just medicine. They have machines that can do laundry and cook. I think they have weapons."

"Excellent. --I doubt we can push for that until we corrupt him, though. Speaking of, do you have thoughts on that?"

"He's weak and vulnerable and almost entirely obsessed with medicine. Not a lot of angles."

"Unless we get him to want something else. --Sex is promising, I think, a lot of useful things you can do with sex, especially if you're fucking your inferiors. Teach him to be selfish, teach him to care more about his pleasure than about what other people want. If we're lucky his home plane wants men to be chaste, getting him to do something he thinks is Evil is going to be good for his Evil even if it's a sacrifice on Law... And even Good people like sex. We should recruit a bunch of very pretty girls."

"Girls?"

"Abortions."

"--Right, sir."

That's right, Tanidio might be Chrisor's very favorite protege but Chrisor still knows better and Tanidio should know his place.

"Get him drunk, too. More desires will come out when he's drunk, and it makes you violent, impulsive... I don't like how much this hits his Law but getting someone Neutral to Lawful is going to be easier, we can justify Law..."

"We don't know he's not Lawful already."

"And even Chaotic Evil might give us weapons to watch the world burn."

"I think the low status of the project will play into it too. Make him feel humiliated, make him feel degraded, unappreciated-- he's Good but he's still a person, no one wants to live in a dirty house while they're saving lives, at some point he's going to get envious and resentful and want better--"

"And we give him an opportunity for revenge, or to become powerful."

"Exactly."

And so they continue to plot until Bun gets out of his bath.

Bun is now no longer covered in other people's blood! This is a much better state of affairs.

When he gets to main room, he is entirely unaware of any designs on his virtue plotting.

"Right," Chrisor says. "So, I think the first order of business is to line up what you need-- students, presumably?"

"Students would be good. What I need depends on whether you want me to focus on teaching students, or doing more practical things-- getting the smallpox preventative to work, or seeing what diseases you have."

There is no non-awkward way to ask this, but he does need to know how many species he's going to treat. "The servant who helped with the bath-- is he just... Very short?"

"Not... especially short for a member of his species?"

"There are multiple sentient species?"

"Elves, dwarves, gnomes, tieflings, aasimar, halflings, orcs, goblins, hobgoblins--"

"--giants, strix, geniekin, lizardfolk, merfolk, all the different kinds of outsiders--"

"Assorted undead, minotaurs, ratfolk-- I am definitely forgetting something--"

"Derhii."

"What's a derhii?"