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I don't know, Nethys doesn't talk to me, the thing with the prophecy never happened, I just borrow books -

All the gods who were once-human, there's nowhere on Golarion that I was ever able to hear about, where their followers aren't hunted or enslaved.

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This crazy plan would be an awful lot less crazy with Carissa on-board, and able to do things like subdue a Security guard and cast Teleport from scroll.  Since you haven't suggested that, can I assume she's part of the Conspiracy?

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DON'T KNOW, she acts like she's in love with you, and the Worldwound - is incredibly deadly, but it's a place you can go, that's a little less Cheliax, while you're there - they don't have time to hurt you about being a Nethys-worshipper so long as you're holding back the demons - or that's what they say -

I don't know about any of your women.  We don't talk about it.  Or nobody talks about it in front of me.  I wouldn't have said anything in front of her.  Haven't said anything in front of anyone, I don't know who to trust.

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Carissa is too valuable in any plan like this.  And she always seemed a little sad inside, deep down.  So we're going to risk that unless you say it's suicide.

Any bright ideas for how to bring Carissa in?

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Carissa is in her room enchanting magic items; it's what she usually does, when Keltham doesn't want her. Normally no one would think anything of it, if Keltham sent Security to fetch her to his cuddleroom; but with Ione acting strangely, they might. 

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Keltham... doesn't particularly seem to be immediately inventing whatever plan he was supposed to invent, faced with this set of facts.  He looks drawn, absorbed, worried, beneath his transparent-to-Cheliax straight face.  If he was supposed to be ordering Carissa to his cuddleroom anyways, the risk was apparently described as too high for that.

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Should she risk delivering a prompt to him?

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Honestly she was hoping he'd have something wildly creative, not because they don't have plans (they have five) but because having Ione feed him all the lines makes the whole thing feel more orchestrated.

 

- but letting him think is even worse. Sure, risk it.

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Message:  Keltham, if - if I had to risk trusting one person I'd - trust Pilar, I think - Keltham she has to have been touched by Cayden Cailean for a reason, she started out loyal to Asmodeus but that's the reason she's not dead, why they trusted her enough to not just kill her on the spot - but there has to have been a reason for that, our gods can't help us much but we have to take whatever they send and there's been no other visible reason for why she's here -

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...and Pilar might be able to throw a party for everybody who should come with us.  If that was real.  Was it?

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I - don't know that it wasn't -

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"Ione, should I possibly have some recovery chocolate delivered, for you - actually, you know what, Pilar, if this is a good time for us to have some candy, can you please already be here?"

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Pilar's curse has expressed some skeptical sentiments along the lines of, they really should not expect that much active help from Chaotic Good about certain nefarious plans.  It's not going to act against Asmodeus's interests, but there are some places where it seems less Chaotic Good to actively help out than others.

So she's standing just outside the Alarm radius, and moving forwards even as Keltham speaks; her curse is willing to cooperate with not showing Keltham that Pilar's curse doesn't work like that around Alarm spells.


Pilar knocks gently on the door.  "Cake delivery," she calls.  Keltham said out loud that he wanted chocolate, but he was thinking about cake.

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Keltham opens the door for her.  "Come on in," he says, sounding like he's trying not to sound tense about it.

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"I was hoping it wasn't you -"

"- what's wrong with Ione?"

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"My grandfather is dying."


Message to Pilar and Keltham:  Pilar.  Don't give any visible sign.  I think they're about to - stop treating Keltham gently -

I told him.

Are you with us.

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"That... does sound very terrible..."  Pilar somewhat robotically offers up her cake to Ione, who takes it with a somewhat more natural motion and promptly takes a bite.

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Message to Pilar and Ione:

Pilar.  I know we've had some - overt disagreements -

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Such as, for example, when, where, and whether we should be having sex.

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Right, well, I need you to draw on whatever Keeper training you've mastered at all over the last three months, face up to the actual reality of what was going on there, and notice that Asmodeus actually never gives you what you need at all and that I am better as a dom for you in every possible way.

And then I need you to invite everybody who actually loves me, who won't betray us, to an escape party.

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(Pilar wishes to register for the record that this would not, in fact, land on her at all, to the point that she is having difficulty about making her reaction here sound remotely like her.)

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Message:

I'm going to draw on my Keeper training to pretend I haven't heard anything you just said, except for -

Ione, do you really - do you actually think they would, to Keltham -

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Yes of course they would don't be stupid.

Especially now that he knows.

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Because you told him.  You - you, you idiot, I don't even - after we get out of here, I am going to fucking, fucking hurt you, so badly -

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