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There's a long pause.

 

 

" - no, I'm just an idiot, and I wanted to close the Worldwound, and I - felt like it was weird that - nothing had gone even more horribly wrong -"

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"- in that case we should get a copy of the actual treaty language and make sure they can't stretch it."  And she stands up and holds out her arm for Gallipsiwhoop so she can Plane Shift -

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" - Cam can do it. Cam can you make a copy of the Worldwound treaty please."

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"Absolutely positively." Poof.

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And Felandriel Morgethai casts a Mass Fox's Cunning and a Mass Owl's Wisdom and reads it aloud. 

 

 "They're not at the Worldwound," objects Gallipsiwhoop.

"Operating at, not 'at'. I think they're plainly operating at the Worldwound, and away from the Worldwound conducting...work pursuant to their aims at the Worldwound, specifically the work of not getting assassinated - I guess it's a bit of a stretch - Sevar, what do you say that we consider this a consultation on Worldwound-closing strategies."

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" - of course," she says. And then, a bit suspiciously, "you're Chaotic Good and not even a signatory."

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"Yes. But Cheliax is a signatory, and it's them we need to constrain. I don't think anyone else who knows you exist wants you Dominated or dead. But Aspexia Rugatonn would spend five Wishes on it, if she has that many from scroll."

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"I'm not Cheliax's enemy."

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"I am!"

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"He can't - do things without my permission -"

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Wobbly hand gesture.

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"Child, like every Chelish person who isn't soul-sold and has an independent means of transit you are a massive defection risk and the downside is much much larger for the upside, for Cheliax, here. You know this. You were - surprised on some level, that they hadn't killed you yet."

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"They're scared of me but they're wrong to be."

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"Who are you trying to convince?"

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This is pretty much what she expected from a Chaotic Good archwizard and she doesn't actually like it at all. She feels - like she can't trust any of this interaction as it's happened so far, like maybe it's all entirely deft manipulation -

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"My take on closing the Worldwound is that you could possibly achieve a lot on the Abyss end, with Cam's powers," she says casually. "Rather than just supplying the crusaders better and giving them time."

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"Oh, I was about to say that I still have the telescope and could probably cause explosions in the Worldwound from here if we became nervous about this during this conversation. Uh, do I need a Mind Blank or does having lined my skull with lead cut it?"

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"Unconventional but pretty much works," she says. "You like Carissa are vulnerable to Wish-kidnapping; in your case probably they would try to stash you in an antimagic demiplane somewhere. You can attack the Worldwound from here? Do it; I'd expect that to be a strong argument for the protections for those operating at the Worldwound to extend to you here."

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Cam goes and fetches his telescope and gets a good look at the Worldwound. "Carissa can I make some explosives. At the Worldwound."

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" - not on the soldiers. You can make some explosives on the demons if they're only enough explosions to explode the demons and not also the wardstones or the soldiers."

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"Yeah I was going to aim for the very middle of the Worldwound and undershoot it a bit."

Explosions.

Boom.

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" - pleased to meet you, by the way," says Felandriel Morgethai. "I'm Felandriel Morgethai. This is Gallipsiwhoop. Why'd you want to meet here?"

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