"Disappointing.  Let me know if you spot a scroll of Silence for sale so I can get my screaming done at some point."

"Did Keltham get all of Doomlord's diamonds?"

"He's got all of Doomlord's stuff, as already stated."

"...how much of a problem is Keltham going to be, now."

"From whose perspective?"

"ANYONE'S PERSPECTIVE!  HAVE YOU MET KELTHAM?"

"Technically, I'm the only girl he's still dating."

"And Keltham already donated the vast majority of Doomlord's remaining diamonds, minus this expedition, to the Church of Iomedae.  Which you're not allowed to warn Cheliax about because that hinders the interests of Cayden Cailean and Keltham."

"Okay... that's very bad, incredibly bad, extremely bad, and yet I'm still feeling relieved."

"- is the Church of Iomedae by any chance under a constraint not to do things with the diamonds that harm Asmodeus's interests?"

"NOPE."

"Does Asmodeus lose Cheliax?  As a result of this."

"I won't say that I don't know, because I do.  But I will say that it depends on people's choices, including yours."

It's strange, it's surprising, that Pilar can be feeling - alongside other horrors, she's obviously horrified that Asmodeus might lose Cheliax, of course she is, and hearing that it depends on her own choices is making her nauseous - feeling wounded that Keltham would do that to Cheliax.

They - Sevar tried so hard to not hurt Keltham, Keltham's feelings, more than she had to - issued multiple commands about that - does Keltham have any idea what Cheliax and Sevar could've done to him, without breaking any of Asmodeus's directives, if they had actually wanted to crush his spirit?  Because Sevar wanted to preserve the chance that Cheliax and Keltham could ally, if he grew up and went Evil?  And then, Keltham turns around and does this to them?  They'd have been better off fucking breaking him.

Ione Sala says nothing at all, expresses no opinions.

"Was this - entire thing - the whole thing with Snack Service - about making Keltham not doing anything more stupid with the Wish diamonds, is that how it served Asmodeus -"

"No.  It can't be that.  Snack Service is just, too large, of an intervention," she cannot speak of it but Cayden Cailean is dying over this, whatever this is, Snack Service sold His guaranteed death to Dispater.  "It can't just be about Doomlord's diamond hoard."

"Correct."

"If I get my six abilitystats Wished up - the price of that is my - being unable to oppose Cayden Cailean, or Keltham, at all, from now on.  Unless I could have done it completely with my current abilities.  Because past today, almost everything I do, everything I can do, including any growing I do from there, will be partially the result of the people and the gods who set me up to get +5s to all abilitystats."

"Correct."

"You don't have to decide immediately.  We can find another five places that grant 5-Wish sequences, before you actually have to decide."

"Okay."

"You still haven't really explained anything.  I made the promise of my own will, and you know, by now, that I'm Lawful and keep my compacts including that particular kind of compact.  And you still haven't explained much of anything."

"You'll figure a lot of it out yourself, after you're Wished-up, and then put on the artifact headband."