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" - you didn't know?" Security says, sounding surprised right back. "People sense when they're chosen - not which god, if it's not a god they're very familiar with already, but which fundamental forces they're touched with - and you're not from around here, right. I - apologize. We noticed around midday and then set a team of people trying to figure out which god it might be and they were going to report to you when they had anything better than a list of all the known Lawful Neutral gods."

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" - he said Chaotic Evil and I was confused about that but haven't got aura sight -"

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"Do you have a person you're supposed to report all instances of being confused to," Security snaps back at her. 

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"Yes. I'm sorry. There's - I was confused about a lot of things today."

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Keltham is currently confused about whether the security guard and Carissa already know each other; that seems more like an intimate cofounder-cofounder interaction, or two Keepers on the same level of organizational lattice, than a security officer talking to an unfamiliar non-security officer.  He decides not to point this out, in case it's symptomatic, say, of their being part of a set of playactors who all know each other and aren't good at pretending to be strangers...

His hypotheses on how the people around him could be trying to deceive him, keep foundering on all the ways they'd have to be simultaneously good at it and also bad at it in order to explain the details of his observations.

Still, Keltham doesn't neglect to note that the whole thing rings slightly false, and more like they had reasons for worrying about him acquiring the info that his god was Lawful Neutral, though what to make of that, he has no idea.  "Evocation or Illusion next?" Keltham says.

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"Third circle cleric evocations would be... there's one to disrupt the summoning magic of summoned creatures, I'm going to be seriously alarmed if you've got that...one that gives the aura of Lawfulness devils have, and one that does a really bright light...Helping Hand is third circle, it can find anyone within five miles and sort of gently politely repeatedly point them in your direction. ...doesn't make a lot of sense for this situation. Do you know yet how to see if it's instantaneous or has some duration? Instantaneous ones look like they're rigged to all go off at once, ones with a duration look like it'll hold stably for a bit on its own and decay slowly."

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Keltham inwardly stares at the truth spell he has remaining, first to come to mind as effect-over-time, then at his other spells.  "Either I can't tell the difference at all, or none of the spells I got today were instant," Keltham says, hesitantly, after a while.

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"Okay. Then it could do a really wide range of things but it's probably not instantly deadly, and Security can cancel it if it's even somewhat deadly. I don't see how we'll guess without you casting it."

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Keltham starts going through brief gestures to untie and flick loose a spell.

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This spell is, in fact, Invisibility Purge.  How are any invisible people nearby doing at a very fast Spellcraft check and attempted reaction to that, if any?

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The invisible security person is also on the other side of the door!!! Defense in depth, right?

 

 

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....Abadar is incredibly not amused by them. In general making a god this not amused with you is an incredibly doomed plan. 

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Oops.

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Keltham is slightly proud of how fast he manages to get himself behind the security wizard, relative to the short person who suddenly materialized in the room.  He makes no romantic attempt to grab Carissa along the way, either because his hindbrain hasn't gotten updated about him having equity in her or because his hindbrain successfully updated on her being a vastly more seasoned emergency response officer.

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That's Otolmens' halfling, it has got to be, but she isn't supposed to know that. Carissa steps clear of security but where she's easier to get to than Keltham and shouts, not screaming like she's scared but shouting because more attention should be allocated here. 

 

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" - are you the special case with authorization direct from the High Priestess," Security asks Broom.

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"Broom is," he says.

His hindbrain knows that this is a situation where he needs to think very fast to avoid punishment rather than appearing unthreateningly stupid.

Broom removes the other ring.  Not the invisibility ring, the ring that conceals his alignment and his thoughts.  He knows that powerful wizards can read thoughts in general and his thoughts in particular.

Wink right eye if I should try to explain, left eye if you explain, he thinks at the security guard.  I can say I am chosen of a secret Lawful Neutral god that tries to avoid people making large messes.

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Keltham, however, still has Aura Sight up, which is not something that Broom would know, because halfling slaves don't memorize the durations of third-circle cleric spells.

"Lawful Neutral," Keltham says, a moment after the ring comes off.

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Right eye. 

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"Broom apologizes very much," says Broom with a deep bow, but not a servile one.  "Broom is the chosen of a secret Lawful Neutral god that tries to avoid people making large messes."

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Okay.  There are at least some people hiding in the walls at all but they're - honestly this doesn't make Cheliax look so bad, if it's true.  A Lawful Neutral god who averts messes sending invisible observers to monitor the alien traveler, under some interfactional compact, are, like, how things would work if any part of Golarion were remotely functional.  Which, given how functional this place isn't, does make the story a little suspect.  "Security, does that match your understanding?"

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"Yes, it does."

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"You mind if I tap you with a truth spell before this conversation continues, Broom?  The spell doesn't force you to respond, it forces you to say the truth or nothing."

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Right eye if you can let me evade that truth spell without his knowing.  Left eye if you can't.

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