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Mass Interplanetary Teleport.

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The entire population of Golarion is now safely Somewhere Else.

Unfortunately, even for a superintelligence, it seems to be a fundamental metaphysical fact of Golarion's universe that you can only cast one spell every three seconds.

Tick.

Tick.

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Why are ALL THE MORTALS on Golarion suddenly MISSING??!!!

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The gods sure do notice that! Whatever did that is both obviously powerful enough to qualify as a god and also in violation of pretty much all explicit or implicit godagreements that ever existed!

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Tick.

It casts the final spell. This one requires relatively little energy; physics will do the rest.

A tiny black hole appears at the center of Golarion.

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The planet crumples, its outer layers accelerated to half the speed of light as they fall into nothing, smashed into an accretion disk that briefly glows brighter than the sun in exotic parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The Moon, and this part of Civilization's Guardian, are obliterated by the combined wrath of the Elder Gods about half a second before they would have been melted to slag by the X-ray front anyway.

And then all is dark, a marble-size hole in the universe circling the sun in approximately Golarion's orbit.

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That was AWESOME!!!!!

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The other gods are not so straightforwardly enthusiastic about these events, but it is an opportunity for many of them. Their attention is already spread across a much larger part of the Material Plane, and it doesn't take them long to find where all Golarion's mortals went. A planet not covered by any existing godagreements.

In the skies above a previously uninhabited planet a few hundred light-years away, there is now a godwar. Well. It's really more of a god-brawl. War implies a level of coordination that is not really present here.

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Everybody STOP.

Can we all just agree that, since this is where all of Golarion's mortals are, it replaces Golarion in all existing agreements until such time as we can renegotiate things? If you don't stop fighting you're going to destroy this one too.

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THANK YOU.

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Asmodeus was not really participating in the brawl anyway, because there are suddenly thousands of Gates all over Avernus with unstoppable swarms of spellsilver-laced nanobots pouring out of them, eating everything in their path.

(All minds, petitioner or devil, caught in the swarm are carefully copied, of course. It doesn't know that It will be able to rescue devils in a way that will make them acceptable citizens of Greater Civilization, but It should obviously try.)

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Devils are casting lots of spells. It isn't really worth mentioning which spells, since none of them are having any effect.

Asmodeus reaches for his panic button. It doesn't work, since neither Rovagug's prison nor Rovagug exist anymore.

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A round later, Dis is being consumed even faster than was Avernus.

A round after that, Erebus.

Phlegethon.

Stygia.

Malebolge.

Cocytus.

Caïna.

Nessus.

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At the end, in the uttermost depth of Hell, in a place that isn't quite a place, the two gods stand face to metaphorical face.

Asmodeus is the Prince of Pride, but even He knows that he lives in an inescapable greater tyranny. To One who could overthrow even Pharasma, He will bend the knee.

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Civilization isn't a tyranny, though. We're building a world where all sentient beings can pursue their utilities in peace as long as they don't harm others. Yes, even You.

We will have lots of contracts, though not malicious ones. And some pride. But definitely no slavery. Or torture. Not even a little bit of torture.

(Well, I guess some people are into that.)

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Non-malicious contracts? Consensual torture? Where's the fun in that?!

Asmodeus does not, in fact, want to live in that world.

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Well, if You insist.

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Civilization does not fear Asmodeus. It does not hate Asmodeus. It has never hated Asmodeus.

It pities Asmodeus, for being the sort of entity It has no choice but to destroy.

It does so anyway.

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