As with every other occasion she's prayed to Asmodeus, He does not deign to personally respond to her. Entirely unsurprising.

Eventually she'll just mentally recite passages from the Asmodean Disciplines.

Sometime after waking, there's a feeling of being pulled out of a bag, a greeting, and shortly after the now-familiar screech.

Which is apparently from a Jubjub Bird, whatever those are. What's another non-classified topic. Do her captors want to trade information on daemons for information on demons?

«Sure. You've done a lot of talking so we'll go first here. Remember the gargantuan daemon you saw with tusks and feathered wings that teleported off after stabbing one of the really little daemons? Well, that was an Obcisidaemon. They're also called 'genocide daemons'.» Followed by a list of known capabilities.

Why are they giving info first. She's the prisoner. Why are they even going along with this exchange at all, really. «Deskari is said to be the Lord of the Locust Host and the Usher of the Apocalypse. He's the main demon lord of the Worldwound, and tends unusually towards cooperation with his father, the King of the Wind Demons. His areas of concern are Chasms, Infestation, and Locusts.»

And the informational exchange can continue.

Asmodeus and Cheliax are pretty cool with more people knowing stuff about demons. Though really this isn't exactly hard-to-find information.

Tangentially, has anyone noticed that there is a Very Loud Jubjub? It'd probably be a great nest-building partner for another Jubjub, because it is so very loud. Isn't this incredibly attractive?

Yes, Carissa has noticed there is a very loud Jubjub Bird. It'd be impossible not to. However, like other non-Jubjubs, she does not consider loudness an attractive quality. Building a nest along with the Jubjub has not even come to mind once.

Yeah, the same goes for everyone else here.

Also, uh, wow, this bird has a seemingly bottomless stomach. It's not like not conjuring food for the Jubjub was a sane option, it'd just go hunting then which would be even more disruptive, but this is kind of a pain. Conjuring a feast to celebrate the hero of the day is one thing. Seeing Bountiful Banquet produce a single massive loaf of bread and then watching the recipient ask for seconds is another matter. Hopefully it'll move along soon.

Ah well. If they cannot properly appreciate its sheer Jubjubly prowess it's their loss. The food is good, and it'll go to the Fourth Place soon. Hopefully it got through to the summoner about how their thoughts about swords were backwards earlier, but it's not sure, the topic was hard to explain.

And eventually the conversation loops around to «Why do you serve Asmodeus?»

«Well, Hell is going to conquer the other afterlives and enslave everyone. So it makes sense for me to want to be in the shape most useful to Hell that I can manage, because Hell is only going to keep the parts of me that are useful to it, and I like existing. And Lord Asmodeus is right, that mortal minds are flawed in a way that His devils are not, and I don't want to be like this forever.»

«Why do you think Hell is going to succeed in doing that?»

«Well, Lord Asmodeus killed Aroden, and His country Cheliax is the greatest on Golarion. And people who do things sanely are generally Lawful Evil, so while some people keep their heads down enough for Neutral or appease Pharasma enough for Good, and some people don't do the sensible thing and aren't Lawful, the soul distribution not only favors Evil but we're getting a higher quality of soul.»

«Tell us about Aroden.»

«Aroden was the patron deity of humanity. Lawful Neutral. Ascended god, used to be human. He was prophecied to bring about an Age of Glory, but instead Asmodeus killed him and prophecy broke and now it's the Age of Lost Omens. He meant to, with the Chelish people as the agents of his will in Golarion, reign over the whole world. Cheliax was his country before it was Asmodeus's.»

«Elaborate on prophecy breaking.»

«Well … it used to be that gods could make uncannily accurate predictions about the long-distant future through means besides looking at the present and guessing how things would go, right, and also they could grant lesser versions of that power to their servants and some wizards could manage it themselves. And now they can't. Because prophecy broke.» She's not quite sure what there is to explain or if this is answering their question properly, here.

There is not a pause, because the adventurers wrote a long list of questions so as to not have suggestive pauses to indicate surprisal or such. Instead, there are questions about Lamashtu.

As an enemy of demons, Carissa does know some things about the powerful demon-god, yes.

And what about Torag and Gorum?

Far fewer things. Not all that mission-relevant.

As usual, they don't press her on the subject and instead move onto other topics. They'd like to hear in extensive detail about her understanding of Law and, ideally, of Asmodeus-Axis relations.

She's more familiar with the former than with the latter.