Luckily, the next human life they encounter is a pair of Iomedaen paladins.

They aren't going to bother the high-level wizards from another planet without good reason to, but they do note to themselves that that one woman's clothing choices look kind of Evil.

She doesn't Detect that way, though.

"In the name of the Light, and on behalf of the Civilization of dath ilan, greetings."

These people are in fact claiming to be from another planet?! Well, in that case, the Church of Iomedae returns their greetings. (They aren't sure exactly what some of those words meant, but they sure did sound Lawful Good.)

The paladins offer to escort the ?alien wizards? back to their camp.

At the camp, another paladin, who happens to have seen a picture of the Grand High Priestess of Asmodeus in Cheliax, sees the approaching party and screams at his comrades:

"What the fuck are you doing—that's Aspexia Rugatonn—"

Being completely immune to fear, and not particularly Wise, he draws his sword and charges.

"Detect Alignment on me before you do something stupid."

"She's not Evil," confirms the paladin who Detected that earlier.

     "I'm pretty sure a ninth-circle cleric has lots of ways of faking that."

"... ask Iomedae? This situation is likely even more bizarre than it looks to you."

They are, eventually, able to find a fifth-circle cleric whom Iomedae has warned to expect a cleric of Hers from another universe who looks exactly like Aspexia Rugatonn.

     "... what?"

Look, I have no idea either.

Anyway, we're here from another world with much better technology than yours but no (existing knowledge of) magic, and we've heard that your world has kind of a lot of problems that we'd like to help fix.

Uh...yes please?

We've had previous dealings with Iomedae but we need to ascertain more thoroughly that She's actually aligned with our Civilization's values. How do we talk to Her?

Prayer works like this.

It takes about two seconds of Therril thinking about what Civilization is going to do to this universe's stupid flaming infinite torture dimension to get Iomedae's attention.

[Incomprehensible alignment verification stuff.]

Iomedae is approved to act within dath ilan's predesignated Alien Containment Zone, a currently unpopulated hundred-mile radius centered on [this point], this being the limit of anyone's preexisting Exceptional authorization. Getting Her access to the rest of the planet will require a vote of the Nine Legislators.

Her prior agreement with Athpechya included some unlikely-conditionals about being able to oppose Asmodeus in dath ilan if the need arises and dath ilan's Lawful processes are not functioning, conditionals She is not going to relinquish, but She would like to expand them to cover the other Evil gods of Golarion's universe as well.

There are OTHER evil gods.

That's also going to have to be put to a vote, but in the event that the Legislature stops functioning on account of evil gods before they can do that (unlikely: it will only take five minutes once they get back to dath ilan and their systems are very resilient), sure, she confidently predicts that Civilization would retroactively appreciate Iomedae's help in that case.

Also, after renegotiating some things with the other gods, she's revising Athpechya's status: she is now a fourth-circle cleric with the additional ability to cast up to three Gates between Golarion's universe and dath ilan per day. Her previous oath not to cast spells in Golarion is null and void. She still has the first- through fourth-circle spells she chose during her original trip to Golarion but she has used up all of her Gates for today.

Iomedae will choose higher-level clerics in dath ilan later, but Athpechya is not, actually, particularly aligned with Her values for a dath ilani.

Yeah, valid.

Anyway, this is also an intelligence-gathering mission for them, so how would they go about buying transportation to the largest library on this planet, and also more translation spells?

They have a fifth-circle wizard in this camp who can Teleport them back to Lastwall, and from there they can get a Greater Teleport to Absalom or wherever else they'd like to go. The Temple of the All-Seeing Eye in Osirion is probably the best library on the planet, but, uh, if they're this cautious about gods they may not want to interact with Nethys. Also if they plan to visit Cheliax they should be warned about Malediction—

After this many updates in the same direction one should in fact meta-update so that the next update is less surprising, but, uh, that series does not appear to be converging to a finite amount of badness.

Meanwhile in acausal group chat:

[Registering a preliminary preference for just nuking this entire continuum of Reality]

[Seconded, but: how?]

[My current median estimate for the number of gigantic flaming x-risks on this planet is currently in the thousands]

[Objection: it's still here]

[I know. It doesn't make sense]

[Why doesn't Iomedae—]

[Presumably She thinks it's fixable]

[Or She can't]

[Thousands of sealed x-risks and a god can't let any of them out?]

[No, I mean: if She were the sort of entity who would, She wouldn't exist]

[It's obvious if you understand decision theory]

[I do understand decision theory and I'm beginning to regret it]

Later, in the Grand Library of Absalom: