Obviously, the hotel is aware of other multiversal polities. It usually seems to prefer to appear in uncontacted locations, but sometimes a location becomes contacted and of course it has to stay to support its current residents in their right to come and go as they please.

Some time later, an advert begins to appear outside its doors in locations that have been contacted by great powers of the multiverse.

"Multiversal Conference On Intervention And Cultural Effects.

Please let a member of staff know if you are interested in attending, providing a talk, being part of a panel discussion, or chairing a panel or open session.

Conference facilities are now also open for general hire."

Maynard has chosen to spend his next few days in the Magical Mystery Hotel. It's not like he has a real reason not to be there; and the mystery is impossibly tantalizing. Walking around, he's hoping to meet someone interesting. The odds are much better in that Multiversal Conference. Actually, the odds would be much better in a talk featuring what he finds interesting. Focusing on his desire to meet a member of staff, he fumbles around within the corridors, hoping to tell someone that he feels like providing a talk discussing financial infrastructure, probably in its own separate conference? That's gotta be how the Magical Mystery Hotel works, right?

Every so often there is an elevator lobby, and the elevator floor listing now includes the Conference Desk.

At the Conference Desk, a lady of indeterminate age is very happy to take his conference booking and asks what room size and audiovisual equipment he requires, if he'll be taking questions from the floor, and if it's not intended to be part of the Multiversal Conference, what kind of locations he would like to advertise in, what the overall theme is, and whether he would like to make any stipulations about other contributors or attendees.

"Really just a microphone and projector, I want something big because I want to be sure that there's room for everyone wanting to show up, I will indeed be taking questions. I guess I'd want to advertise - in the buffet area, more? The theme will be comparisons of the financial infrastructure, values and systems across different civilizations, and my only real stipulation is that attendees and contributors are non-disruptive. I'm super-jazzed to see what kind of attendees we're ending up with!"

"Very good, sir. Please remain resident in the hotel for the next few days while we gather sufficient attendees. Your room will be complementary throughout."

And so a talk is arranged.

Their Excellency Established-Nodal-Vector, Peer-Ambassador to the Mercantile Alliance from the Cultivators of the Garden of Flesh, is not ordinarily the sort of being that would stay in a hotel... quite the reverse, actually. Still, once it becomes apparent that the Floating Hotel's appearance is a Contact Event, it is equally apparent that they are the highest-ranking diplomat available. As such, they apologetically make arrangements to transfer their current occupants to other local Gardens, fold their presence, transition to a convenient waypoint, and extrude an appendage into the Hotel.

Being a mature Cultivator, they technically don't need anything while they're here, but will admittedly find their stay slightly uncomfortable without a large empty space in which to unfold (up to 5,000 cubic meters)... and it would be somewhat rude of them to fully unfold without ensuring that said space is atmospherically isolated from any sapient beings who have not consented to exposure to Cultivator biochemistry (an airlock arrangement rated to keep an ammonia atmosphere separate from an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere ought to suffice). Standard hotel amenities such as an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, water, gravity, and consumption-designated-biomass are unnecessary but welcome; non-Garden furniture is both unnecessary and mildly inconvenient. Luxury, in their case, would involve making arrangements that permit their unfolded self to serve in place of any number of amenities for interested and consenting sapients, but among the reasons which permitted Established-Nodal-Vector to obtain their rank was their willingness to hold personal gratification as a matter of secondary importance to the pursuit of collective goals.

Beyond that, the Peer-Ambassador will happily observe any Conference proceedings they are permitted to observe, generally in a form which appears not unlike a floating iridescent eye (though many additional limbs can be unfolded as desired).

Of course Their Excellency can have a suitably sized room for their needs, with a suitable airlock. They are welcome to provide advertisements sized to fit on a small business card, to be placed discreetly in the communal areas where sapients that may be interested are likely to gather, although if they start to run a business from their room they may need to pay extra to cover the increased liability insurance costs, and they will need to provide their own contact method and/or specify what kind of telecommunications apparatus they would like to find in their room.

Did they have an event in mind for the conference schedule or would they just like to register as an attendee? So far only fringe events such as a talk on financial infrastructure are available; the conference will take a little time to organise.

Very good. They had thought it obvious that such could be arranged, but those things that go without saying are often among those which are most important to say. Given local space to fully unfold, and local resources to offset their own expenditures, it will not be strenuous for Established-Nodal-Vector to extrude and maintain an appropriate number of appendages for safe local interaction.

The specifics of the Floating Hotel's governing business laws sounds like a fascinating topic which is likely more appropriate to a different interaction, but in brief; 'starting to run a business' was not their original intention, as the providing of assorted services is a personal hobby, not their customary vocation. Still, many cultures do find it more appropriate to pay for certain services than to receive them on an informal basis, and the Peer-Ambassador is easily in a position to pay for whatever procedural services are called for, in a variety of currencies. Narrowing down the many services any mature Cultivator could provide into something sized for a business card is a bit more of a feat, but given some brief arrangements along these lines, they produce a suggestively tentacled business card advertising a "Taste of the Garden", offering "free quotes on Personal, Cosmetic, Medical, Biochemical, and Genetic services; unusual requests a specialty".

The preferred contact method for any Cultivator is telepathy, and as a general policy, the Peer-Ambassador fully consents to all telepathic interactions. For interoperability with inorganic distributed systems, they are familiar with a variety of more conventional computing systems. Those based on visual display and auditory input are most immediately useful, though if they're going to stay around for more than a few local days, they may as well take a splinter of their attention to grow their own interface equipment; all they'll need for this is a functional network port and the temporary services of a cooperative mind with an understanding of the network protocols used.

Otherwise, the Peer-Ambassador will be quite satisfied to register as an attendee for now.

The rooms were shockingly luxurious, but really, she should have expected that from a great city like Whitewall, especially for an ambassador. She's shocked, but not disbelieving.

She's slightly surprised at how many foreigners there are - travel is difficult, especially in the North, but she doesn't even notice if any are from another world. Creation is large, after all.

After that, though, she's... confused.

She checks for Raksha glamour and tricks, of course, she's not an idiot. But it holds up to scrutiny, and iron is available enough, and so far as she can tell, her soul and will and virtues are intact. Real, then.

Well. She is, in some ways, made for this.

Multiversal Conference on Intervention and Cultural Effects? The AdmiralMerry's experience with other universes isn't the sort that would lead her to expect enough order out there to organize a conference at a pretty normal looking deep space station convention center and hotel. Though there's all kinds of explanations for that, of course. And if anyone would expect their personal multiversal filter bubble to be full of howling chaos, it's the Admiral.

Well, her views on the subject of the cultural effects of intervention, and her imposition of these views by treaty and laser (and, off the books, a considerable amount of gods and magic), are known galactically, but perhaps not multiversally. Anyway, even an old married woman can have fun at a conference (especially if she brings her wife).

She can try to adapt some material to this conference, as well. A long lecture would be boring; perhaps a case study on a successful contact with a human colony, or with an alien world. Maybe a panel debate on some important question, if there's enough panelists.

The existence of shamans as shamans is disputed in Ranalite.
But of course a shaman would never think they are not a shaman (even if some disagree about what that means).
Lirakoz is very knowledgeable, and a Specialist in many fields, but a very weird person by Ranalite standards, structuring life around many abstract-incommunicable-beliefs, even compared to other shamans.
No words or justifications are needed, only thoughts and feelings.
"If I go this way, for incomprehensible reasons, I could further the cause of metamorality to a level impossible for any other person in Ranalite" (as other people wouldn't follow unexplained intuitions so eagerly) is enough guidance.
Finding the hotel isn't hard.
Knowing what to do is. Maybe nothing will come out of it. But that is not a reason to not try.