A Marran cleric on Earth
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The woman looks baffled, then stern. She puts away the card, hops out, and opens the rear door of the carriage.

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Not enough money? She doesn't trust coins minted in Andoran? Or anything other than this country's plates of ...ivory? ...If this place is very far away, maybe she doesn't even recognize gold at all.

She gets in.

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It's just as luxurious inside, with padded seats, a cool breeze, and illusory music. The woman sits in the front and manipulates a complicated artifice. 

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Wow. Yeah there's no way she would have been able to take her in a fight, with or without a full set of spells.

Enhanced Diplomacy.

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"Hey Windows, call Jenny." The music is replaced with a soft chiming, then another voice:

    "Hey Claire! What's up?"

"I found a girl wandering around, doesn't speak English. I think she's undocumented... She tried to buy a fake ID off me for like five bucks. She looks about your size, can you bring over some clothes for her?"

    "Wow. Uh sure. See you soon!"

"Thanks. Hey Windows, end call."

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A few minutes later, they arrive at a familiar manor house. Inside is the dog from before!

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Ah, of course. She uses her Enhanced Diplomacy benefit (she's been recasting it every minute) to politely greet the master of the house... by holding still to allow it to smell her and then petting it on the head, which is not at all what she would have done unaided, the Enhanced Diplomacy really paid off on that one.

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Wag wag wag!

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Over the next hour, introductions are made (Claire has a husband and a young-but-marriageable daughter), clothes are presented (flimsy but soft and colorful), and vocabulary is taught.

Claire's dog, Cabbage, continues to behave like an extremely friendly dog.

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This house is amazing! Meicona feels very vain about her ability to perceive pretty things, feel softness, learn languages, and be interesting to her hosts.

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The next morning, Meicona prays for understanding of these strange people, so that she can improve them according to Marra's will. She requests the following spells:

0: No new orisons. She'll keep her usual set of Guidance, Resistance, Enhanced Diplomacy, and Stabilize.

1: She keeps her Marra's Inquisition, and requests 2x Detect Law and, for her domain spell, Charm Person. (Marra's Inquisition is a limited version of Detect Thoughts that Marra grants to Her clerics.)

2: Share Language, Owl's Wisdom, and she keeps her mostly-useless Enthrall.

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As usual, she does not get any divine visions.

Also, she does not get any new spells.

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Is she - not a cleric anymore?

 

She spends an unacceptable three rounds agonizing, and then thinks of ways to test it:

As an Evil cleric, she can channel negative energy. If she somehow traveled very far away from Marra, it might not work even if she's still a cleric.

As a cleric with the Nobility (Leadership) domain, she can make nearby allies concentrate on their tasks. She doesn't currently have any allies.

As a cleric with the Law (Slavery) domain, she can perform a Touch of Law. It's a subtle effect that makes difficult tasks consistent. Not always successful, but always about how you would expect them to usually go, or maybe a little better. She can do it five times a day. If she picks tasks of just the right difficulty, and succeeds at all of them, that's some evidence that her Touch of Law still works.

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She should try the tasks without the Touch of Law first to compare. She'll need a bunch of similar tasks... how about identifying the wildlife outside the window?

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Outside there is: fescue grass, a robin, an oak tree, a garden snail, another oak tree, a plant of some sort?, a tomato plant, another robin no wait that's the same one, a green bean plant, a grey squirrel...

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She turns away from the window and thinks.

That was easier than she was expecting, for someone panicking. Which in any other situation would be great - praise Marra's training! - but she needs a task that she fails at about half the time.

What are the objects in this room made of?

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The floor is made of thin strips of wood. The ornament (?) by the bed is made of brass on the base, wood for the stem, and paper (?) around the skirt. The table it's on is made of wood. The glowing divinatory item on it is a total mystery. The bed has a steel frame covered with some sort of varnish. The walls are plaster. The brush on the table is unknown. The wand by the stack of paper sheets is wood and copper. The curl of wire by it is steel.

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Too easy again.

How about recalling religious trivia? Demigods of each alignment are: Neshen (an angel who demands obedience and struggle, Marra probably has Her eye on recruiting Him), Jaidz (an agathion who inspires courage), can't think of any Chaotic Good ones, Valmallos (like Nethys but more responsible), can't think of any for true Neutral or Chaotic Neutral, Dispater, Arazni (NE, enduring abuse and undeath), Shax (demon lord of cruelty and murder).

Okay, she got 6 out of 9, that's good enough. Now she needs 5 more questions of this difficulty to try while using Touch of Law.

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What are some other agathions?

Touch of Law. Shei, worshiped by caretakers of the elderly. Pathetic.

Touch of Law. Irez, empyreal lord of calligraphy and runes. Marrans who follow the Lissalan heresy probably want to recruit Her.

Touch of Law. Ondisso. Empyreal lord of incorruptibility. Somehow not Lawful?

Touch of Law. Walks with Golden Stars. One of those agathions who looks like a dragon, which are considered to be nobility. Hm, does that mean they are closer to Sarenrae, or that they took power by force? Or that they are more capable than most, and so the masses submit to be ruled by their betters?

Touch of Law. Bharnarol, who confiscates inventions He dislikes. Not great for the inventors' vanity.

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It wasn't easy to remember the agathions' domains, but the difficulty was consistent, and the thoughts crept along at a snail's march.

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Whew.

 

So she's still a cleric, just very far away from Golarion. Whether or not Marra intended for this to happen, she needs to figure out how to best serve Her. Normally that would mean gathering followers, training their faith and discipline, guiding a new cleric or two, and sending the followers' souls to Marra. But it's going to be hard to train followers without Marra's Inquisition, and presumably Marra won't be able to ordain any new clerics here -

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- and where will their souls go? If she's beyond the reach of Marra, but still within Pharasma's Creation, they'll go to Asmodeus.

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Maybe there's a local god Who Marra would approve of, Who she can make contact with?

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