Ray the crazy wizard works for the Frost Corporation, enchanting Frost Brand (tm) swords.
Lord Cupcake wants Travok and Kairon to negotiate a deal with FrostCo for Ray's services.
In this deal, the crazy wizard will give Lord Cupcake a thick, sugary topping - that is, the legendary Frosting of Ray.
This will involve a putting a nozzle onto a Wand of Frost (tm), to shape its output. And there's only one company of wizards which has expertise in how nozzles shape the outputs of wands.
Yes, that's right: Travok and Kairon will have to secure the co-operation of Aperture Laboratories.
But they can't negotiate a merger between FrostCo and Aperture Labs... that would be bad.
Well, not until Ray says it's time to cross the streams.
Okay, thank you, you've been a wonderful audience, you can stop throwing tomatoes now.
PS: If Tiamat escapes from Avernus and arrives in central Phlan, then there is one sentence which, if spoken by any player, will cause Inspiration:
"Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown... THROW IT!"