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Every other time they have arrived too late. The first time, the aasimar had been murdered in his home; the blood was not yet cold, but the body was gone, so there was no question of raising him. The second time, they saw the city burning as they flew in and were unsurprised to find their target's home at the center of the firestorm. No body that time either.

The third one had already been taken prisoner by the time they arrived, and they spent six months chasing her frantically halfway across the world. The cultists didn't make it to the gate with her, but they didn't recover her alive either. 

Honestly the whole situation is pretty dispiriting and doing terrifying things to their bank accounts, and if they aren't able to rescue this one they are going to need to go back to Sothis and cast spells for pay for a while. Though if this one is in enemy hands they'll hardly have affordance to do that.

This one is being held in a village, in an ordinary-looking house, but the other houses looked ordinary too, or at least the ashes of them did, and one can't be too careful.

A second before the wall collapses, the residents of the house might notice that everything goes silent and they can no longer speak.

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Headshake.

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"Your turn, then."

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"Have a boyfriend back home? Or a girlfriend?" 

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"Nah. Had kids."

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Nod.

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"I guess asking the same thing about you is kind of a waste of a question."

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"We've been on the move for over a year now. Not great for staying in touch with anyone back home."

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Nod. "How'd you find out about the Deep Plane stuff?"

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"Got a commission to retrieve some personal effects that'd been with a caravan that got hijacked on the southern coast. We don't usually do operations with people as adversaries, but the price was very good and someone was going to take it, and something felt - off. We took it. Asked a bunch of old friends to help out, because taking people alive is thrice as much of a hassle.

Lucky that we did, because we encountered a force significantly greater than advertised. We won, but it was a close thing, and then ten minutes after the fighting died down we were attacked again by a different group. We took the 'personal effects' we'd been sent for and Mahdi used an emergency teleport out.

We were pretty sure by that point that something was fishy, so we went to a friend who's good with traps and got help opening the box. It contained instructions about where to find the gate and how to open it, and some - holy texts, I guess, of the cultists. Fazil asked his church for a loan to go look into it more. We were timesharing the carpet, at that point, with two other adventuring groups - the loan let us buy it outright. Went and talked to some experts on cultists of Rovagug. One of them recognized the instructions and told us about the Deep Plane, and told us where to go find Teriesh. He was dead, of course, and when we came back so was the expert, but we had some leads on the kids by then."

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"How many kids?"

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"He had ten, originally, that we know of. Most of them were already dead. There were four alive. - weren't fast enough to the first three."

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Nod.

"Your turn, I guess."

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"What happened to her mom?"

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"Executed when Verita was a year old. Primary worship of other gods."

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Nod.

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"Any idea how long it'll take Fazil and Mahdi to find us?"

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"Shouldn't be that much longer, I wouldn't think. I assume they're being careful about moving the debris so the ceiling doesn't collapse."

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"That makes sense."

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"We should've left you outside in a pocket dimension or something."

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"Everything's obvious in hindsight, I guess. But you'd have felt really dumb if something had come for us out there."

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"Yeah. Lotta that in this line of work. Guess we could ask Abadar for everything but I hate doing that."

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"Does he give out that much advice?"

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"There's a cleric spell. Augury. Tells you whether things will go well or not, by your god's definition. We could do it all the time, I just think it's kinda stupid."

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"Does Fazil think so too?"

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"He thinks some religious thing, you'd have to ask him."

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