Receiving Mindspeech in the blue place is really weird. Seldan is now on his third repetition of trying to loudly think through the situation in the Shadowgod's direction, and has no particular reason to think that more iterations will be more successful. He extracts himself so he can concentrate properly on the message and then alert Blai. 

:Nayoki - the Mindhealer - thinks that Someone yanked them into the shared Foresight dream and is somehow trapping them there. She doesn't think it's dangerous for them directly - though it would be rough if it lasted for days - but she's not sure if there's a second step to the plot. ...Still waiting to hear word from Haven, but no news does at least mean it hasn't exploded.: 

Well, that doesn't sound that bad unless they're out so long that they have to be forcefed in their sleep.

It's not nearly as bad as most things that could cause someone to abruptly collapse! (Though it leaves unexplained what happened to Blai in that one prophecy, he doesn't have an existing recurring Foresight dream to be yoinked into.)

It seems like it would mostly be bad if, you know, something is going to come up that only one of them could have stopped, or if a god is going to try to assassinate Leareth again while he can't defend himself. But they're pretty locked down here, he can't see how any assassination attempt could get through – if it's an earthquake, there are literally dozens of people here capable of Gating them elsewhere, it doesn't have to be Leareth personally. 

Maybe the Star-Eyed Goddess just wants to block Leareth from researching how to get to Golarion? But the Shadowgod is already known to be in favor of contact with Golarion and probably wouldn't let it go on indefinitely? 

The Shadowgod might if nothing else not be in as much of a hurry as Blai, She doesn't have much reason to care if he makes it to the convention on time.

Indeed, the Shadowgod seems fine with nudging along plans that take twenty years to play out and until the very last moment look like letting another god have Their way. 

...Actually, that thought is making him wonder if this might be mostly aimed at making Foresight less noisy? It's probably incredibly hard for to the Star-Eyed to even figure out what's going on, what with Blai wandering in with his otherworldly god-magic, and especially Minor Prophecy letting them repeatedly see what's going to go wrong and changing plans based on it. Maybe taking Vanyel and Leareth off the gameboard is less to allow a specific plot to play out and more so that She can see well enough to plot anything at all?In which case the Shadowgod might not be too bothered, though probably (hopefully) would still intervene to disrupt any plots that end in Blai being murdered. 

Huh. Well, it seems like kind of bad incentives to let that work for sort of the same reason one shouldn't cooperate with kidnappers. Blai is now contemplating what the loudest most annoying things he could do to make this future retroactively a stupid one for the Star-Eyed to steer for might be.

This is not obviously a wise way to relate to gods but Seldan is kind of delighted by it anyway. He got the best Herald!

Hmmm. Blai could prepare as many prophecy spells as he can fit tomorrow and cast them on a whole list of important decisionmakers? Are there other spells he has that are even more weird and impossible by Velgarth standards? Creating food is pretty impossible with Velgarth magic but it’s not hugely impactful on their situation…

He's not sure. He could... cast Tears to Wine and let tons of people drink the wine, that might look confusing if they were people who then went on to do substantially different things than they would without the enhancement. He could... Speak With Dead, if there's anybody who might have valuable information a god might have been trying to lock up, though with Shadowgod being a death god and presumably on-side that doesn't seem that likely to work.

Yeah. The Shadow-Lover doesn’t have remit over all the relevant dead people, but - poke at Blai’s concept of the spell - aww, it seems like it wouldn’t work to try casting it on someone who died in k’Treva, since they don’t have the bodies. Also even if it did work, it might not change that much, most people are already convinced it wasn’t Leareth’s doing and Brighstar probably wouldn’t be convinced by a spell he knows nothing about.

Tears to Wine does seem interesting. Seldan can bring it up with Nayoki.

It might be worth doing it even without the justification that it will annoy a hostile god but he might not have thought of it without, so it can pull double duty.

Indeed. He wonders if it works on Companions, and now he's musing on how he would even drink wine, like, logistically - it seems deeply unaesthetic to put it in a water-trough though you technically could...

...he wonders if they could actually learn anything that would have any disruptive effects by Speaking to Dead with Yfandes, it's not like they can't already figure out more or less what happened, and Vanyel would probably not actually find it emotionally reassuring... 

He's going to attempt to do some more praying in the blue place. He's not sure it will help but it's as good a place to think as any. And maybe he'll think of something else.