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They reach the storage area. 

Lucy strips efficiently out of her dress, and surges upward and outward into her greater shape. 

What follows is--gory. 

First she snaps off many of her spires, squeezing them mercilessly with her powerful crab-claws until they shatter and fall. Then, lowering herself to the ground, she snaps off each of her long, slender rear legs. Finally, she raises the claws to her mouth, and bites through the wrists. 

It takes less than forty seconds, in total; the spires have begun to regenerate, but not yet finished. The legs are regrowing faster. 

(She bleeds, in this form, a clear and sparkling ichor composed of water, diamond dust, and organic compounds not found in Golarion.)

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HOLY SHIT HOLY

(This does in fact freak her Lastwall escorts out a GREAT DEAL.)

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She shrinks back down to her human form, which has a lot less biomass to regenerate (and also blood a more traditional color, but her bones are still diamond, which her escort will be able to see, if they're paying attention to the details of her replenishing body, which, valid to not). 

"Should I do it again?" 

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"No, that will do," says the person personally escorting, who is now aware that this is the most valuable room on the face of the planet. "Thank you very much."

(The diamonds will be broken up and put in various very secure storage locations by very trusted people.)

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"You're welcome!" 

She shoos the blood with a word of Correspondence and re-dresses. 

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And then they're hoping to pull her back to the room, where a bunch of paladins and Technically Not Paladins On A Bare Technicality are -

"Welcome back," says Ulthun. "Do you have priorities other than the flourishing of all sentient beings, or things you want to spend money on, since this is really yours?"

(There's a stack of magic items with little notes on them for her.)

"Also," says Theissen, "do you need to eat, sleep, drink, or shit? There's a ring that can fix that."

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"--Well, I get uncomfortable if I don't do any of those things, but not very, since the healing keeps up--it can be distracting, though. Uh, I...do have personal interests, but the flourishing of all sapient beings is more important? I do tend to get attached to specific people really easily, so if it's more convenient for me to pay for Count Tiriac's Atonement, I can do that? I like doing science, especially science for promoting the flourishing of all sapient beings...I like trashy novels, especially but not exclusively romance novels...I embroider, mostly Correspondence-sigils, that's what's up with my dress..." 

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"Right, but I thought I should ask," says Ulthun with a grin.

"Then I'll send for a Ring of Delayed Doom if you don't need the Sustenance," says Theissen.

(The note on the Sustenance says that it takes a week to charge, cuts you to needing two hours of sleep a day, and makes all bodily functions unnecessary.)

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"What does that do?" 

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"Delayed Doom lets you push almost any harmful effect - including spells and poison - a minute into the future," says Vaus, "but it will still affect you then. It's a charge per garnet on the ring and they need to be made individually, though, so don't use it too casually."

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(The other rings on the table are her choice of a Ring of the Godless, which makes you better capable of resisting divine magic and magic of divinely created or summoned creatures and stacks with her new Cloak of Resistance, and a Ring of Protection, which makes her much harder to hurt with weapons.)

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Godless, definitely, she is approximately unconcerned with physical damage. 

"Oh--one thing I forgot to bring up earlier, when I was comparing paradigms--back home, I have a vault, with tissue samples from people, so that if they die such that their body goes missing I can still bring them back." 

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" - Sounds good," Ulthun says, "What size does it have to be and can you heal it afterwards?"

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"Large enough to keep track of, and yes absolutely."

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"Then we'll do that as soon as the Commune goes through," says Theissen.

(Yep yep. General Lastwall agreement.)

"We'll also want to collect everyone who died recently," says Ulthun - "Do you know if you can work from Clones?"

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"I do not but if you explain what Clones are I might be able to guess?" 

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"Eighth-circle wizardry which creates a magical duplicate of the body to which the soul flees on death," says Vaus, who is The Expert On This in Lastwall. "Our former spymaster, Jean Riudaure, created one before his death, but he had been forced to sell his soul before defecting to our side and needed to contest his new owner in a contest of wills to remain alive, which he failed. He is now in Hell."

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"Well. I can't guarantee that it'll work. But it sounds like the worst-case scenario is at least informative." 

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"I think we want to do it simultaneously with you resurrecting all our dead who don't object and one round before you light up Ustalav, assuming we don't have a better plan by then," says Ulthun. "This still leaves the questions of whether your Law-light can dispel planar rifts - Vaus, is there any pre-Gate spell that creates a temporary one -"

"And it leaves Cheliax as an issue," says Theissen. "Resurrecting the undead and closing the Worldwound will be huge, but still leaves Hell causing problems."

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"If she resurrects all the dead of Cheliax, how many of them will still be loyal to Cheliax?"

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"Planar rifts very much sound like the kind of problem that law-light could solve, but I hesitate to give an authoritative answer just because we don't have them at home so I haven't checked."

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Message from Kehler: A common problem for mortals is that they sometimes think they don't need good things to function at full capacity, and in fact they often do. This is not true for outsiders and it is worth investigating if it's true of you if you haven't.

And Vaus, "Let me consult with the Master of Conjuration to see if there are any test spells."

Ulthun shakes his head at Tiriac. "Loyal or no, they won't have organization. I think raising the dead of Imperial Cheliax to rise in rebellion is a great idea, but we'd need coordination and allies if we don't want milling mobs, and we don't have time for that."

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...She whispers back, "I haven't tried depriving myself of good things for long enough that I would expect to be able to tell the difference, but also, like, resurrecting people is a good thing, for me."

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Kehler nods.

Vaus, "He says Rope Trick and Create Pits are simple test but might not work and suggests Shadow Invasion, which we have scrolls of."

Ulthun, "The Law-light tests will be a problem, given that we're testing a lethal weapon's lethality. We should focus for a moment on how to do that without risking permanent sacrifices or leaking the secret to Cheliax."

Theissen, "Call a demon and see if the binding or the demon melts first?"

Ulthun, "Still a sacrifice either way."

Theissen, "Acknowledged, but." 

Ulthun, "Yes."

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"--Can I get context on the demon thing--"

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