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"I doubt you'd give me permission to give her all those diamonds!"

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"I don't know!! I'd consider it, if it were an element of a plan where I don't die despite being wildly in over my head! She'll kill everyone I've ever known or cared about, probably, but I'm not feeling like I definitely have enough of a handle on matters to object to that."

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"Wow, you can't get more finesse than that with enough diamonds?"

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" - you probably can, but why would she bother?"

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"'Cause she's Good? I don't know how goodness is assigned around here but I think if you can simply not kill people and you do anyway it's weird to call you Good."

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"I think if you're Good you're allowed to kill Evil people. There wouldn't be an entire Good god of destroying Evil otherwise."

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"Well, we could ask her if she'd not-kill people just for being Evil as a condition of taking the diamonds but perhaps you're about to tell me she's too Chaotic."

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"Indeed. She might agree to that but there'd be no real reason to trust she meant it."

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"Well, we could try talking to somebody who's both Lawful and Good, after you're Mind Blanked? Safe to negotiate with and trustworthy!"

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"I don't think they even have anyone who can protect me right now, but - yeah, for their many deficiencies paladins in fact won't enslave you and if they promise not to kill your friends they won't."

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"And they'll probably have a read on how to talk to evil people and which chaotic ones are chill, if they're any good at their jobs."

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"I think the world would look pretty different if any paladins were good at their jobs."

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"How disappointing. They do have a lot of opposition to deal with, of course."

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They fly on. 

 

 

 

There aren't, actually, all that many forces in Golarion that could bother them. Greater Teleport doesn't even reach that far. Two Plane Shifts would, if you knew your destination, which you'd have a hard time with because scrying sensors can't see through lead.

Razmir, who has politely written a note; Felandriel Morgethai, who has just received one and is in consultation with Lastwall; Geb, who isn't paying attention; Nex, who is even less paying attention -

 

- and Aspexia Rugatonn, who is paying attention, knows she has a problem, and knows that the problem could conceivably be an existential threat to the interests of Cheliax and Hell's interests on Golarion. And who could Gate with an army directly to Carissa, or pull Carissa through such a Gate, or use a Wish to kidnap her.

Why isn't she doing anything? 

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"- which I think lends us a strong presumption that she is actively operating at the Worldwound," says Neeshaan el-Naderi, sixth circle priest of Abadar and director of the church's Worldwound treaty arbitration committee. "Which presumption is rebuttable with evidence she is actively doing something not pursuant to the attested goal of closing the Worldwound."

 

The Church of Abadar has received notice of events. They are very excited about events. They very dearly do not want Carissa murdered and Cam banished. They think the salvation of the world might depend on it. 

 

If you think that, as a result of this set of beliefs, Neeshaan el-Naderi would be even slightly inclined to arbitrate Aspexia Rugatonn's "can I murder/Dominate Carissa Sevar if I do it this way?" questions in an unfair fashion biased in favor of Carissa Sevar and Cam, you would be badly misunderstanding him. He would like Carissa Sevar and Cam to survive, and he would absolutely never contemplate stretching the Worldwound treaty in order to accomplish that. 

Luckily for them it's really just a straightfoward reading of the treaty. Carissa Sevar has served at the Worldwound for most of a decade. She said she intends to close the Worldwound and is going to be taking actions pursuant to that. Then she - zipped off in a very fast moving object, which actually counts in her favor, because the treaty mostly covers people at the Worldwound, but it does also cover people operating at the Worldwound while acting pursuant to their Worldwound-related goals, and it sure looks like Carissa Sevar and Cam are operating at the Worldwound while residing somewhere else, like powerful wizards do, and that means they're still protected when somewhere else if they are acting pursuant to their Worldwound-related goals, like a powerful wizard would be while, say, escorting supplies to the Worldwound, or preparing spells for a fight at the Worldwound. 

If Aspexia Rugatonn had reason to think that Carissa Sevar and Cam are not acting pursuant to their Worldwound-related goals -

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"Understood," says Aspexia Rugatonn, very very terrifyingly. 

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"Have a nice day," says Neeshaan el-Nadiri, and smiles at her like almost no one in the world can get away with smiling at Aspexia Rugatonn. 

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They are approaching the moon. Cam gets permission to binary-search the moon for model Felandriels Morgethai and directs the shuttle to the appropriate bit of moon as he narrows it down.

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Felandriel Morgethai has set herself up comfortably, there, with some chairs and some tea that is rapidly evaporating into the vacuum and her dragonfly, Gallipsiwhoop, which cannot fly in vacuum but which is content on her arm, being petted. 

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Cam sets down near her and opens the door and bounces out and falls down and gets up again. "Hello!" he says, making air around him as he goes.

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"I want to pay you for a Mind Blank," says Carissa, much less excitedly. 

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"Sure thing, but it won't actually protect you from Wish-kidnapping," she says, and sends Gallipsiwhoop flying through the newly-extant air to cast Mind Blank on Carissa. 

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"What will."

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"Worldwound treaty, actually! That was completely brilliant of you and I'm very proud of you."

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