"That which can be destroyed by the truth should be."
-- P. C. Hodgell, Seeker's Mask.
"Pyrissis doesn't tell me anything, neither does Cedtara for that matter, that's something I would have thought myself unlikely to go along with so how are you planning to persuade me, how did I get here."
"Grabbed you out of your bedroom. They almost certainly know you're gone. We have Nondetection up but it shouldn't, actually, stand against Cheliax actually trying, so we're probably going to get caught in the next minute or two. You would understand that the world had to end if you understood what it's actually like. Suffering, suffering, suffering, from birth to death and long after, inescapable, involuntary. Very few people would choose to be born into this world, if they got a choice, or choose to have children, if they got a choice about that. It all has to go."
"Ask living people. Scry dead people. It's not a secret except from you, any book about Hell you read that Cheliax didn't select for you will say it, any person you ask that Cheliax didn't choose will know it. Presumably Abadar, have you got a first-circle truth spell?"
"Yes, tell me what symbol that spell would show according to you, and I've noticed you not answering my question about how you even know I exist."
"We work in small cells and this is a suicide mission that plausibly ends with me in Hell, I don't know anything like how we got the tip. The symbol is two curved lines, like so, it's some kind of economic theory thing. Abadar's not worth serving, though, He isn't doing anything about all of the suffering in the universe, he fought against Rovagug -"
"Okay, look, if this is actually real and you hanging around here is going to get you sent to a place of eternal suffering then you need to tell me how to get back in touch with you people and then Teleport the fuck away from wherever this is."
She beams fiercely at him. "We'll find you when you're out of Cheliax. Step back at least ten feet."
Ten feet are backstepped. "If what you say is true I'm going to have to magically hide when I'm out of Cheliax, how do I get a message to you."
"Don't hide from Sending, okay? And we'll contact you. Well. They'll contact you."
Pyrissis releases her grip on the magic item clutched in her left hand, and both of them are consumed, instantly, smiling, by five Beads of Fireball.
"Wrong priority. You pushed too hard there, at the end. We do not want them figuring out that this mission failed and repeating it, and that is a higher priority than tracking down one cell of Rovagug cultists."
The why is that Cayden Cailean has spotted a band of Rovagug-aligned mortals who are about to target the anomaly-securing-containing-and-protecting installation constructed by Asmodeus, in order to kidnap the anomaly and try to get him to destroy the universe. This is Cayden Cailean being very legible about that.
Cayden Cailean requests permission to update his oracle's curse with an information packet, after which Cayden promises that his oracle will stop the Rovagug-aligned mortals from obtaining the anomaly.
Then there will be more Rovagug-aligned mortals later!
Cayden Cailean's oracle will make the Rovagug cultists believe they succeeded at their mission, which will diminish the incentive for them to try it again.
This will go a little better with some subtlety, Otolmens.
A lot of things happen very fast under conditions like this one. It's not even that Security believes Snack Service about the cultists but not about the thirty-minutes part. It's just, this is sort of what Security is programmed to do.
Keltham and Pilar are now in the (official that Keltham knows about) saferoom! Carissa Sevar and Ferrer Maillol and Jacint Subirachs have all just been shoved into it! And some of the more powerful Security! It all happened very quickly!
Other tier-1 researchers are going to a different saferoom, this one is at capacity.