"Is there anything I can do to convince you not to place me in stasis?"

"Containment costs are currently high because of uncertainty about your origins and capabilities. You are likely to be moved to lower-cost containment in the future as these uncertainties are resolved, not stasis, unless you manage to lastingly increase containment costs substantially."

She takes a somewhat condescending tone. "My soul is the property of Lord Asmodeus on my death."

"While Asmodeus's church may have told you such, we detect no method of enforcement on you, let alone one sufficient to pull you out of here. Devils often mislead about these matters."

"I'm Lawful Evil."

"Yes."

"Why am I worth a risk of opposing Pharasma to you?"

"We do not know which devil Pharasma is. Given this, we doubt they are capable of posing a significant threat to us."

"Pharasma is not a devil. She is the Neutral goddess of birth and death, protector of Creation, whose psychopomps sort souls into afterlives in the Boneyard based on their alignments. Due to Abaddon's actions against her, she offers every soul she would otherwise send there their choice of Hell or the Abyss, reducing their soul intake. Who are you and why are you impersonating an outer plane."

"There appears to be a deeper level of confusion than anticipated here. While we will not answer any questions that present security concerns, you may ask questions and we will attempt to help orient you."

"Are you claiming I'm not in Pharasma's Creation?"

"If we have understood your claims correctly, yes."

That sure is a claim. She'll review her memories of the really weird questions she was asked.

"Why wasn't I able to breathe the air earlier?"

"We have not yet identified what substance you are made of. Presumably the concept which is being translated as 'air' means something rather different to you than it does to us. Thus, the air here isn't compatible with your biology. We're magically sustaining you anyway, and we've told the air here not to interact with you too much, so it's safe for you to let it pass through your lungs."

"How do the sun and other stars behave on the Material Plane here?"

"Stars emit light and orbit the planet. The sun is the closest star. The activities of stars relate to conditions in other planes, and can be studied by astronomers to make guesses about extraplanar conditions. Astronomers also study other aspects of star functionality, such as how this relation works at all."

"Planet, singular? And my last interrogators asked me if I was familiar with the sun splitting into multiple suns, does the one here do that?"

"The sun here has done that under unusual and unfortunate circumstances. Thankfully, only a few people died of it, aside from the instigators. And yes, there is one planet."

"Who, uh, were the instigators? What did they do?"

"Some very unhappy and misguided Psychopomps. The exact intentions of their plan are not publicly known, but it involved tampering with the Positive Energy Plane. It at least appears to have gone poorly for them."

"So you're saying there are psychopomps but no Pharasma."

"Yes."

"What are local psychopomps?"

"A psychopomp is one of a pair of primary classes of results split off from the mortal soul during death, specifically the counterpart to a ghost. In terms of composition, a psychopomp is formed from bits of soul energized during the death, specifically parts often glossed as 'philosophy of death', combined with more general soul material and energy that it competes with other things for."

"What exactly happens here to the mortal soul during death?"