Her curse had better not expect her to actually do this.

Her curse is not that stupid.

Well good for it.  Is Pilar kindly allowed to hand this stuff in for analysis?

Eh, sure.

Pilar admits to being surprised.

Pilar has been nice to her curse and now her curse is being nice to her.

Guy with his wheelbarrow leaves the grounds. The wheelbarrow is still full of potatoes, which he's confused by - did he miss a step? No, he changed plans. He should get somewhere quiet and figure out what the plan is now.

Pilar hands the canteen in for analysis.  Whoever's in charge of putting out this kind of fake story, the canteen was taken off the body of an agent of Milani who looked like Pilar currently looks.  The Milani agent was surprised trying to use the canteen, and got interrogated, executed and Maled -

- was hunted by Paxti, but managed to suicide before being Maledicted.

Is her curse ever going to stop whining about every little thing.

Trying to make somebody believe that they got a friend Maledicted is mean.  If Pilar stops trying to use her curse to be mean, her curse will stop whining about it.

Being mean to paladins doesn't count.

It always counts, for everyone everywhere.  Paladins are, first and foremost, people, even if a lot of paladins forget that themselves.

Pilar knows this already and doesn't want her curse reminding her of it and that is why Pilar is angry and trying to go out of her way to be mean.

...actually, Pilar just had a really fucking disturbing thought, and she's ashamed of herself as an Asmodean for not thinking of it a lot earlier.

Her curse wouldn't, possibly, maybe, have just humorously tricked her into saving a paladin who was actually going to get caught and Maledicted.

Would it?

Pilar will not be used against her Lord, Asmodeus, to whom she is truly and incredibly-undeservedly loyal.

It has not escaped Pilar's notice that her curse has not answered her question.

From this it would then follow, for example, that if this paladin had hypothetically been due to get caught and maledicted, he would have first succeeded in his mission, and would have gone to Hell never saying what he'd done, leaving Chelish Security unaware of it.

If Iomedae wants that exchange to be made, Asmodeus presumably wants it not to be made.  And therefore in a case like that, hypothetically speaking, Pilar would have well served her Lord.

But Chaotic Good is also fine with that exchange not being made, huh?

Apparently so!  If there's one thing that Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil can team up to fight, it's Lawful Good!

Bullshit.

Chaotic Good and Lawful Evil may find paladins annoying for very different reasons, but they can sure agree that paladins are annoying.

The Worldwound project shows that Lawful Evil and Chaotic Good have no trouble teaming up to fight Chaotic Evil.  Why wouldn't it be the same for teaming up to fight Lawful Good?

If Pilar's curse isn't just messing with her about this, how would her curse feel about rounding up every single Lastwall spy targeting the Imperial palace?

 ...And sending them home unharmed to their families where cute sons and daughters no doubt await them, wondering whether their missing parent will ever come home to them or if they'll hear about their Maledictions instead.  They will be so relieved and happy to know that their parents' nightmarishly dangerous missions are over.

Her curse should be very cheerful to go along with this, right?

Oh, well, that might cause the Chelish government to go around committing more nefarious evil deeds than they would have otherwise, both because Lastwall wouldn't stop them and because Cheliax would know Lastwall couldn't stop them so they'd try even more nefarious plots.  No true Chaotic Good curse could approve such a thing!

...Pilar's curse could, of course, be swayed about this, if it happened to be true that rounding up all the Lastwall spies would make something else happen so that the whole thing wouldn't then be a net loss for Chaotic Good.

Would anyone like to make Pilar's curse an offer?

Another hour, another call to the Grand High Priestess.

"I think I'm ready to do lie authorizations," Carissa tells Maillol, "unless you judge otherwise."

She looks slightly better.  Like a stiff breeze could still blow her over but she'd get back up.

"Eyeballing you, you might be ready for on-call authorizations on lies but you're not ready to accept project handoff.  I guess that's good enough if we want to bring the others back tonight.  Pilar may arrive a little later, she's on loan to Crown Security for urgent undisclosed reasons, and we may need some lie ready to cover that."  Actually Maillol knows exactly what those reasons are, but Sevar does not get to hear about Project Lawful bullshit of that order until she's more recovered.

Maillol hopes very strongly that Sevar is ready to accept that handoff before dawn tomorrow.  It hasn't escaped Maillol's notice that, although today there were no massive project disasters per se, yet, the person who started out as Project Director of Project Lawful was kidnapped and extensively tortured by Abrogail Thrune.  Maillol is not sure whether Pharasma's curse is following the title or the acting authority, and in the latter case he wants to give it back to Sevar ASAP.

"More importantly, Sevar, are you sufficiently able to monitor and respond to emergency Keltham events that the Grand High Priestess can leave the site area?"

"I believe so. It might not be maximally convenient for my recovery if something major comes up but I think I'm in condition to handle it."