"Do you think that the situation with Cam was mostly my fault or mostly his."

"I mostly don't evaluate mortals in those terms. Both of you were trying quite hard and neither of you was taking fairly simple strategic actions that would've advanced your goals but that were hard for you to notice you had available or believe would help."

This is not exactly the thing Carissa was on some level yearning to hear, though also it seems much much less important than it did an hour ago. 

And, well, no one ever said Iomedae was the god of meeting peoples' emotional needs.

"Technically it's on the to-do list but in a complicated way where almost certainly before it got to the top of the to-do list it will stop making sense for me to exist in my present form."

"I hope you realize that's horrifying and I hate it."

"I do realize that. I promise you I did not set things up like this because I think it's okay when people who wanted to live instead die, or because I did not want to live."

"So long as it's not a requirement." But she hadn't expected it would be. The claim 'you are actually Lawful Good' makes it feel much less likely that Lawful Good is actually about a bunch of ludicrous insane things.

"You should probably get an Atonement, the spell, because it'll affect how everyone on Golarion parses you and make their impressions more accurate. As you surmised I don't think it much decreases the probability you go to Hell, though significant resources are being expended towards not-that. You are in fact still not actually acclimated to the stakes here and should expect most of your errors to be in the underrating-it direction for a while. If you're going to interact with Cam only do it when trying to win.

You would not go very wrong by imagining I had said 'I am proud of you'. You should immediately drop a couple hundred diamonds for resurrections on Lastwall's representative and tell them I told you to tell them they should all be used for rescue resurrections; you cannot do better than that for the people whose murder you personally enabled, and it won't be anywhere near doing right by them."

She doesn't ask if there's anything else, because She's reading Carissa's mind.

And elsewhere, upstairs: 

"Carissa has decided to abandon Asmodeus, become Lawful Good, and assist in rescue operations in Hell. If anyone in your world has any proposals for that we'd want to see them. I am confident that diamonds you give her will be put to good uses, and she intends to ask you for some for rescue resurrections. Do you have any questions for me?"

"Wow. I assume there is a great reason you don't do that all the time. Uh, I'll let everybody know -" He glances at his computer. "How am I going to afford a lawyer, if they cost a shitton of diamonds, or do I not need one anymore, or...?"

"Ask Carissa to pay for yours too, I now expect she will. I don't do this all the time because it's a very expensive use of the extremely limited resource 'allowance to act on the Material'. One conversation or thousands of yes-or-no questions answered for my followers."

"- should I talk to your paladins or something instead then? I mean, I have questions but I don't have a lot of them that I'm confident no one else could answer."

"The marginal costs mostly track how much difference there is between what I'd tell you and what they would, and is I think worth paying in every case where those are in fact different. This is a fairly delicate and complicated situation and I now possess more context than anyone else on it."

"Oh okay.

"Wow, if prayer worked this well every time I would have taken it up sooner. Can you not hear me because I'm Chaotic or was it just not a good time when I tried for you earlier?"

"I don't have a lot of visibility on you because of the alignment difference and because one of your more prominent features when looked at closely is a dispreference to be looked at closely."

"Yes, Kofusachi mentioned that but he did get as far as mentioning it and you didn't.

"Is it a good use of my time to - study Law as it is understood here?"

"Plausibly. Some of Carissa's problems were specific to Carissa but I would be unsurprised if you also got off on an unnecessarily bad footing with some people who weren't Asmodeans, too, out of - not being good at predicting which features of a situation are nearly sacred to them."

Nod nod. "Where's a good place to go to find out about that? Or, uh, a good person, I assume geographically speaking this is fine."

"The Church of Abadar offers classes on Law which on Golarion are I think not pitched at you-like audiences but in Aktun might be. I think you're not looking for 'what is the social benefit case for enforcing contracts' but 'what is the case for expending a lot of thought and effort on the local style of predictability and ally-suitability', and I don't know what language gets used to distinguish those but I'd expect them to be different classes of wildly different utility to you."

"No, yeah, I get why you want to enforce contracts and have laws, I'm not ideologically chaotic just - have spent a hundred fifty years living in an anarchy. I'm missing stuff like, if someone is currently Lawful how good a predictor of future behavior is that, what behavior does it in fact predict, what things will Lawfuls freak out about that I consider unimportant details."

"Yep. I think in Carissa's specific case her Lawful reading reflects a serious underlying commitment, but that's not always the case. Probably there is a sociology-of-law-on-Golarion class on offer at a university near here. The thing that panicked her in your most recent fight was that she had understood 'no fuckery' to mean you didn't believe yourself to be gaining a new capability or achieving a significant effect on the world she hadn't intended, and then became convinced you were conceptualizing 'gaining a new capability' and 'achieving a significant effect on the world' sufficiently narrowly and without-reference-to-her-perspective that this commitment was meaningless from within her perspective. Which is the kind of problem societies in fact solve with contract law, and that is the solution I recommended to her."

"Well, I bet they have lots of lawyers in the Lawful Neutral afterlife, I can find one I get along with who can translate for me." She could've just time-bounded it like he suggested!, but that sounds too whiny to suggest out loud. "Why are you here instead of Abadar or Kofusachi?"

"I was once human. I retained skill with human presentation. Abadar and Kofusachi were never human, and cannot approximate it very well. My degree of skill with it is actually in a sense misleading, in that I am no longer very human, but it makes communication much more productive. I adjust my human presentation based on what the person I'm speaking with won't be mislead by, generally, though with you I am not checking closely how misled you are because you don't prefer to be checked that closely on that.

In addition to that, We expected I could convert Carissa, and they would have more difficulty doing so."

"Do I have much scope to - do stuff on my own recognizance, or is she going to keep a tight hold on me even going forward -"

"She'll want to go through lawyers to make sure she isn't giving you permission to destroy the whole plane but with that constraint I expect you'll be pretty free to work on things of interest to you."