leareth is captured by Cheliax
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There is no actual, visible sign of danger, but the last time Leareth dared to venture onto the Planes - over a thousand years ago - he was assassinated by a Swordsworn. So he's not exactly relaxed about any of this! 

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Malduoni takes out another scroll of Teleport, and then reaches for his daughter's hand again. He has permanent See Invisibility and can check that Zahra still has Carissa's hand and Carissa still has Leareth. He waits for five seconds for Iomedae's people to decide who's coming on the first trip. 

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Ignasi gestures to two of his people, who grab Aroden.

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He Teleports them north. To Leareth's facility, which has all sorts of shields on it but not shields against Golarion Teleport specifically. 

 

...The spell does, however, instantly set off every single ward-alarm. Which is the second reason why Malduoni wanted Leareth in the first group. 

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Leareth extends his Thoughtsensing as fast as he can. 

:Nayoki it is just us we are safe: 

He's belatedly wondering if it would have been more efficient overall to just Gate everyone. Then again, raising an unscaffolded Gate from the Dhorisha Plains to the far north - a distance of well over a thousand miles - is something he's just as happy to not have to do. There's going to be such a gigantic mess to clean up here and he would rather not be exhausted for it. 

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"Please bear with me a moment," Malduoni says, and then vanishes again, with another burst of powerful magic that sets off all the alarms AGAIN. 

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Nayoki is already sprinting down the hall toward the source. 

:- Leareth? WHAT. What HAPPENED–:

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:- You can make us not invisible now: Leareth tells Carissa.

To the paladins, "- Welcome to my facility - I apologize, my people will probably be alarmed - I will have to explain some things to them -" 

 

 

- he's going to have to explain to Nayoki that he was kidnapped by a former god, believed dead, but actually now a ninth-circle wizard and some sort of political leader in the Golarion country that banned all the gods and their servants. Who has an army and is planning to conquer Cheliax. And the only way Leareth was able to get out was by praying to a literal god. It's a LOT of context to cover. 

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Wizards usually dismiss invisibility by punching each other, because it breaks the spell - invisibility's weirdly fragile that way - and you can learn some things from watching it fail. But she has a feeling Leareth wouldn't appreciate being punched right now. She dismisses it the normal way.

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And Nayoki reaches them at a run a few seconds later. "Leareth! Are you hur– What. Who are these people." 

(Unless Iomedae's paladins have Tongues or Comprehend Languages up, she's going to be totally incomprehensible to them.) 

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"- Our allies. It is a very long story. ...When did you come back from Haven?" 

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"When you disappeared! Obviously! ...I am not stupid, I did not tell the Chelish envoy why I was leaving. I made up a graceful explanation." 

She switches to Mindspeech. :Leareth, are you all right? You look...: She's not sure what. She's never seen his mind in that configuration, before. 

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:I am fine: he snaps back, then turns to Iomedae's people. "This is Nayoki, my second-in-command–" 

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Malduoni picks this moment to reappear with a flash of magic and the remaining paladins. 

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Nayoki almost reflexively blasts him but manages not to. 

:Leareth: she sends weakly. :Could you not have - sent word ahead -?: 

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The idea hadn't occurred to him. ...Honestly, it had mostly slipped Leareth's mind that his staff would presumably be panicking over his sudden disappearance. :I am sorry. It was rather a rush: 

"This is Malduoni," he says out loud. 

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"Should I give her the translation spell as well?" Malduoni asks Leareth. "You ought warn her, if so, since our magic is unfamiliar and I do not wish her to mistake it for an attack." 

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"She would have seen Carissa using it." 

He reaches out in Mindspeech anyway. :Nayoki, Malduoni is going to cast his translation spell on you so that you can speak to him and the others more easily: 

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A dozen of Leareth's other mages are catching up now. Nayoki lifts a hand and gestures for them to stay back

:...All right: she says. She looks so dubious. :Who is he?: 

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:- It is complicated. But. He is an ally: 

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Nayoki doesn't resist when Malduoni casts Tongues on her.

She turns to the paladins and - tries to smile, though it probably looks kind of ghastly. She's been having a bad day. 

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The paladins look like they've also been having a day. "Thank you for hosting us," Ignasi says. "Our most urgent task is to build a shrine to the Inheritor; where's a good place for that?"

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Build a what

Nayoki looks helplessly at Leareth. 

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"Iomedae," Leareth clarifies. "The Lawful Good god of defeating Evil. She is - on our side. They can do it here - can you select a room or something -?" 

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Nayoki is giving Leareth such an incredibly concerned look! 

:Are you...sure you are all right?: 

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