in principle I think you should be able to guess the entire premise from the title
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Sure, she can name every nice candy store and fancy clothes shop in Corentyn. 

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And he can design care packages labeled things like "SIZE 12" and "CHOCOLATES AND CARAMELS" and "SHOES - ASSORTED SIZES" and "CANDIED FRUIT, GINGER, NUTS, ETCETERA" and once they're over the Worldwound encampment he can aim a telescope down there and start placing them as neatly on the ground as he can from straight up.

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She observes this thoughtfully. "Thank you."

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"No problem."

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And she'll go work on his armor.

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Cam lazily circumnavigates the globe to get satellite footage of it in case anyone back home is specifically hoping for magic- and/or weather-influenced features of Golarion and will not be satisfied by the 1:1 scale model, or just doesn't want to wait for it to be done, or is worried that being impromptu swapped in for a different astroengineering project in a system that already has planets in it will affect something.

He checks his mail every fifteen minutes.

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Lastwall has written more.

 

A loyal agent of the Chelish crown might want to close the Worldwound because right now most of Cheliax's military is stationed at the Worldwound, and much of its wealth flows into its defense; if the Worldwound were closed, Cheliax would perhaps return to reconquering its lost empire, which would be very bad. A not-very-loyal agent of the Chelish crown might also want to close the Worldwound because of how it represents an existential threat to Golarion, though. Probably in terms of the overall effects on sapients it is good for the Worldwound to be closed but this is surprisingly unclear. The Law case is stronger. Iomedae has no guidance yet; She's reconsidering lots of Her plans in light of Cam's plane and species existing. It seems that Golarion's gods cannot act there at all. 

Someone has diligently written up a long list of factual disagreements Lastwall has with Infernal Cheliax, among them the percentage of people in non-Cheliax countries who go to Hell when they die and which god is widely agreed to be the strongest (it's Pharasma, most people agree) and whether powerful people not loyal to a Good god are overwhelmingly Evil. They note though that most people who are Asmodeans do not exactly believe a bunch of Asmodean factual claims so much as they believe a bunch of Asmodean not-quite-factual claims and fit in the facts around it. 

There are so many earnest reassurances that they're praying for him.

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Sorta hits different when the gods, like, exist.

He recasts the factual disagreements as though they're things he found while reading random texts on his own to present to Carissa.

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She is not surprised that other places tell their followers to expect a nice afterlife. "It's a good bribe, right. And every afterlife goes easier if you're not - resisting it, trying to cling to all your human frailties that the afterlife wants to strip away.... I dunno how many people in other places go where. I think other places mostly don't keep good statistics. ....Osirion might, but, I wouldn't trade them even if it does get you Axis."

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"Is it the sexism? Presumably it's not the slavery."

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"I do like that Cheliax doesn't have human slavery but I guess I'm not theologically attached to that. But - yeah. The part of me that Asmodeus can use is that I am loyal and smart and good at magic and good at being useful and a quick learner, and the part that Osirian can use is that I make babies, if you prevent me from killing them. And - I don't expect to be able to take all of who I am with me into the afterlife, that's not how afterlives work, but it feels like the thing that'll come out of the process of turning me into a devil is me, just more useful. And I'm not sure that's true about - Osirion, about Axis - at all."

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"...do people in Axis have babies, I'd been developing the impression that that was strictly an alive people thing."

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"They do not. I dunno how that fits into what Osirion's trying to shape them for."

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"Have I mentioned yet that in all likelihood you are not going to any of these places and will instead turn into a daeva?"

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"Why do you think that."

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"Well, that's what happens when you summon a daeva. So far it's happened to everyone who has ever done that. This is an unprecedented system interaction, of course, but maybe mine wins."

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"What otherwise happens to people from your world?"

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"Place called Limbo. They're still indestructible and they get an indestructible item apiece but they don't have other powers."

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"Who's in charge there?"

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"There aren't gods around, just a bunch of indestructible humans, they have lots of different local setups. I guess the folks who manage their imports have relatively more worldwide clout than the people who are mayors of specific villages or something."

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"We should check whether that's where Golarion people who've summoned something go when they die."

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"It's not, I would have heard of it. Unless it's way less common than you being in a class on it implies."

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" - yeah, people who've summoned normal demons definitely go to normal afterlives, summoning devils to make arrangements for once you go to Hell is actually recommended - but I mean, we should get someone to summon an apsel and then kill them and check - it's a very important question -"

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"...I'm not necessarily opposed to this experiment but it would need to be a consenting volunteer who was not evil."

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"Good people aren't allowed to commit suicide, it's Evil. We could get a volunteer who agrees in the abstract that they would be pleased to be inn Heaven or in the daeva afterlife, or we could arrange a resurrection for them if they're displeased?"

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