"I do not have an angle on that. I - worry that even if the gods can't reach this place natively they could maybe act here if we actively went and got their attention, and so we shouldn't. But - it does at least suggest that if we don't have a better plan by the time we're old we can go back home, try for the Starstone. Or - try to steal it."

"We don't have a great way to get intel on how to pull a heist."

"We really don't. It is probably harder than ascending with it and only a few people have ever done that. But - it's not totally impossible."

"I know, right? We have so many options and so much time, we can do all kinds of amazing stuff."

"You're not tempted to get an elemental to go flag down Asmodeus?"

"What? Nah. Sounds like the sort of behavior that would get me tortured for a few thousand years. I wanna be a god."

- she nods. 

She's risking a lot but it somehow doesn't feel like risking a lot. Maybe because the difference between being a worthy servant of Asmodeus in Hell and an unworthy one is real but hard for the human mind to be invested in. Maybe because this stupid dream is just so - tantalizingly plausible-feeling, here, right now. 

"Yeah. Me too. I'm going to go update Kytar."

"He said something about that spell having an annoying casting time, maybe let him say hi first."

Sure. She'll Detect Magic while she waits, she hasn't seen a druid cast before.

It's a bit like Remove Disease but slower and lower power.

"Hey."

"Hey. Water elemental worked."

"Uh... is that good news?"

"It's - informative? It suggests we're out of reach of the gods but not of - all the planes we know of, or anything. Suggests a way to get back to Golarion once we're high enough level even if a direct Gate doesn't work. I don't think it has that many immediate implications. We might be able to trade Earth elementals for spellsilver once someone's higher level."

"I guess that's good. Are, uh, you going to try to get elementals to pass messages to Hell -"

There's something so endearing about the fact he's apparently probably not even thinking through how to kill her to stop her! "No. Asmodeus can't find this place via people here praying to Him but He might be able to use it if He found it and we're trying to do better. Yeah?"

"Yeah." He smiles at her encouragingly. "Lots better, we can pull it off."

"Hope you're right about that. But we've got to at least try. And - make sure Asmodia doesn't find out, because she'd do it."

"She hasn't sent us a letter or anything," Kytar says. "Also she's not a caster."

"She could make ten and have them duel to the death to level right away, they'd only need one of them to make second. I don't think she'll try it unprompted but we can't tell her."

"She can't make ten," says Kytar. "I believe she'd be stopped before she got ten deep into the project. Clairvoyance the monastery sometimes if that will make you feel better."

"It doesn't have that much range. I'm not worried as long as we don't tell her she can fulfill her life's purpose if she can figure out how to get a second-level spellcaster."

"I'm not going to tell her."

Nod. "Thank you for - explaining about how other religions see things."

"You're welcome. I'm - really glad you thought to check? It would probably have been easy not to."

"We're - trying to do a pretty hard thing here. We needed your - angle. We should if anything probably try to get more angles, though - I kind of want to wait to make people who are likely to be coming at it from an angle where they disagree with us a lot, until we're powerful enough to handle it if this results in making people who are opposed to the general plan."