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Kyeo doesn't remember enough of the fight to know what happened, and his head is killing him, but when he checks he still has his sidearm and also now he's apparently crashlanded on a planet with absolutely awful-looking hostile fauna, wow, and that one's coming his way much too fast and he draws and shoots.
kyeo and carissa
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"They're - richer than us, so much richer than us - and maybe they're running their rich country cruelly -"
stargazer
Kyeo shakes himself a little. Glances at Fazil. "Carissa - the Chelish wizard who first found me, who the paladins arrested - wanted to know if she could make some sort of arrangement with your church to make magic items instead of sitting around doing nothing with anti-magic handcuffs on."
He looks, bewildered, to the paladins for context.
"It's not easy to hold wizards," Isavel says. "We don't have an immediate timeframe but she inferred we couldn't do it for the rest of her life and we probably can't. We only have the one set of cuffs."
"What circle."
"Third."
"- then just make her expend her spells, take her spellbook, maybe wake her up in the middle of the night every night, and she's not going to be able to figure out how to do anything interesting."
"Third and she's twenty-three."
" - I guess she might eventually figure out how to do something interesting."
"And we have a policy against 'wake her up in the middle of the night' type solutions where if someone misses their job for one day a disaster happens. And it might be a disaster, for Asmodeus to learn -" Gesture at the scrying pool. "Might not be. They're very far away. But it might be, especially if we learn how he got here."
"...yeah. I...that's a tough one."
"What would you do, if you'd grabbed her?"
"She wants to be allowed to work on magic items, and says she won't contact Asmodeus?"
"Apparently."
"We'd marry her off. Find a wizard who can contain her appropriately, probably one capable of geas, review a wording that's satisfactory to everybody, marry her to him on the condition that we can have a representative drop by every week and watch him re-cast it."
"...wow." Isavel says. "I - I recognize that to an Osirian perspective that sounds different, but -"
"You'd want to screen for a decent man. But I'd expect if we found a decent man she'd choose it over - sitting here in the dungeon waiting for you to need the cuffs and, what, petrify her?"
"Probably, yes."
"This would let her live an ordinary life."
"It is a spell that can constrain a person's actions. Make them unable to do something prohibited, or obliged to do something in particular. Simple ones last forever, and she is under one of those, to not speak to agents of Asmodeus, but complex ones last a shorter time. We don't have the resources to have someone reliably on hand to cast it every week."
"We don't have the resources to do that either. But there are plenty of wizards who'd want a wizard wife, and then it's not your state's resources."
" - ask my best friend, and then if he doesn't think it'd be a good idea ask him which of his friends he thinks would be suited."
" - because it is our responsibility not to transfer our prisoner into a situation where she is going to be abused, and a woman handed to a foreign man who has formal license to geas her and prevent her from having unsupervised contact with the outside world is often going to be abused."
stargazer
"Why would he need to prevent her from having unsupervised contact with the outside world, she's already geased not to talk to Asmodeans -"
"You probably want a wording you're very sure doesn't have loopholes or ways a clever person can cause a message to eventually reach Asmodean ears, but - she should definitely have friends, Osirian marriages don't frown on having friends."
"My understanding is that Osirian women are supposed to never be alone with a man," Isavel says.
"This permits many friendships, including with men."
"With a guard within earshot, having informed her she can call them, and with people who we trust and who Iomedae chose."
"...in the fashion in which you prefer to avoid solutions like 'wake her up in the middle of the night' we prefer to avoid solutions like "she could yell for help."
Isavel frowns, considering that.
stargazer
...Kyeo would actually sooner not get into the reasons this never occurred to him as something he might do when left alone with Carissa, so he does not say anything about that.
"All right. I think we need to pray and then we might want to discuss Ibyabek more once we've heard from Iomedae. We'll let you know if we are interested enough in the ...marriage ...option to consider the confidentiality reconsiderations it'd require. - thank you for coming out here. I think it was clarifying."