"Well, first I didn't have a headache and was in China, and then I had a conversation with the god of drunken parties who wanted me to party better and stop torturing people, and then he dropped me here in Golarion where I am supposed to kill demons, and then I had the worst headache I've ever had in my entire life. Apparently."

Levrolurment nods wisely. "That'll do it. Gods are nearly impossible for human minds to understand.""

Talking to gods gives you a headache! This is useful information for Nie Huaisang to have because Nie Huaisang is pretty sure that his continued longevity is best served by not being the chosen cleric of the god of crimes, actually. 

He gets out of bed and says, "where are we?"

"Golarion."

"The fuck is that?"

"I'm a gnome! And that's very rude. I don't go up to humans and say 'the fuck is that?' even though humans are way weirder than gnomes are. You do the same thing over and over again even when it is incredibly boring and almost none of you would pack up everything to investigate a plane-related spatiotemporal anomaly. Also you keep dying. You lose track of a human for just a few decades and suddenly they're dead. Very confusing species."

"What is going on?"

"We got teleported by gods to Golarion to fight demons. Apparently. --Not the demons on our earth. Different demons. But cultivators are still very good at fighting them."

"I don't want to fight demons!!!!"

"Not to make you lose all your face, Nie-xiong*, but I don't know what god would possibly choose you to fight demons."

*An affectionate name for a close but not very close friend; similar in connotations to "bro."

Nie Huaisang also wishes he didn't know the answer.

"I didn't talk to any gods! I was near Sect Leader Lan and then a hole opened up under him and I tripped and fell in!"

"You... tripped."

"Yes."

"You're a cultivator and you tripped."

"You don't need to make that face about it."

Levrolurment waves a hand. "Boring, boring, boring. I want to talk about ethics."

"Do all gnomes like ethics?" Nie Huaisang says, sensing a distraction from the uncomfortable topic of why he is in Golarion. 

"Most gnomes are wrong. Ethics is the most interesting thing in the world."

Visions of the Lan's thousand rules dancing in his head, Wei Wuxian says, "Is it."

"Yes," Levrolurment says, totally unable to parse sarcasm. "It's important to distinguish morality and axiology. We know that Good is moral and Evil is immoral. But that doesn't establish that we should take moral actions! Maybe when you have a solid theory of value it will turn out that it's best to be Evil. Maybe we should maintain the balance between Good and Evil, Law and Chaos. Maybe Chaotic Good is better than Lawful Good, or maybe we shouldn't care about the Law versus Chaos axis-- that's typically considered to be a Neutral Good position but some ethicists think that 'Pure Good' is a better name for the position. Maybe the alignment system is in fact totally orthogonal to value and there's something totally unrelated we should care about! Maybe the most important thing is to eliminate suffering so we should free Rovagug and destroy everything."

"Honestly, I think the Rovagug cultists have a very plausible theory."

"Are they going to do that? I live in everything!"

"Most of them are too full of existential misery to do anything except drink and cry and write atrocious poetry, but some of them occasionally come up with a plan and some adventurers kill them before they get much past step two."