To: Nasik Eilifson
"I'm pretty sure that was the case, but I can't be sure, exactly. At the time, I was too weak to ping alignment detection spells. Conrad They Damian didn't care about the alignment of people while I was working with Them, but They did tend not to recruit Good people. Less because they were unwilling to permit them to join on account of simply being Good, but because of the Good people being repulsed by Them.
Honestly, I had my alignment checked only after They ascended, when They had inquisitors that had alignment detection at will. Presumably all the stealing and pillaging we did at the Worldwound caused me to become Chaotic, though when I crossed that threshold I don't know.
You request a soul contract by asking a third-circle cleric of Conrad (presuming you want to join His church and not Damian's) to cast Planar Inquiry for you, to let them know that you're interested. They may ask you to do some task: for Conradians it is common for the summoned fiend to want to observe you dueling with someone. After that, they'll leave and come back several hours later and tell you what the result is. If it's successful, then you'll need to have a fourth-circle cleric cast Planar Ally instead – Planar Inquiry only allows talking. Once that's cast, you'll be given the contract to read and sign.
Usually, at the Bronze Orchard, we have Rendon cast it, because as the High Priest, he has the power to unilaterally void soul contracts and excommunicate them from the church. I think we'll shift to a more decentralized scheme once we expand, though how that will shake out I don't know. Ask the clerics.
The next day, the contract will take effect, and you'll receive the boon that the soul contract gives you. There's a small selection to choose from. I chose Fiendskin, which bestows energy resistance. I have cold resistance now, which really helps when you're working at Sarkoris Scar.
We turn into half-fiends when we reach Him, but He has demons too. Not many, though, since the vast majority of them He sees as unfit to work for Him. Unlike basically every other Chaotic Evil deity, Conrad and Damian contribute to Pharasma's forces in guarding the River of Souls from daemons, though that's mostly because Their outsiders need to be there to shepherd the soulbound to the Silver Garden. Still, it makes Pharasma happy, and generally it's good to have Pharasma in your favor.
Yes, they have free time, though the scheduling is different since outsiders don't need to eat or sleep. Yes, they do. He does very little shaping of souls, but tons of selection.
You get to keep your channeling capacity as an outsider, presuming your soul isn't broken apart into separate bodies like with dretches, although the process of casting as an outsider is radically different from casting as a mortal. It's much harder, and you have to start from scratch. I'll have all the time in the world to get up to seventh-circle, though. The half-fiends currently at the Silver Garden – there are only a few dozen of them – have only gotten up to first-circle spells."
