- she can disappear from here, and, one Teleport later, reappear in a resource cache halfway across the country, well outside the city, proof against scries, where she can heal herself and begin arranging negotiations with an archdevil for an army sufficient to avenge herself on the invader and retake her capital, before her resurrection really gets underway.

It was a clever attempt, but there was not, really, any hope it would succeed, even sufficiently to make Geb notice.

And Lucy…

shrinks down into human form…

and smiles.

She pulls an arrow out of the ground and picks a scrap of withered flesh off of it.

And she sits down, crossing her legs, and glows, and sings.

She sings of freedom, of self-determination, of the resolution of problems long resigned to being a background fact of the world, of unlooked-for salvation and  impossible rescue, of the throwing open of prison doors, of the Anchoress’ promise—all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

And she sings of divinity, her kind and the Golarion kind both, and the reaching of one’s full potential, promises deferred and promises fulfilled.

And the scrap of flesh in her hands grows.

(She really isn’t built to fight people. She’s built for this.)

... And from that Arazni takes form, as Arazni was in life and as Arazni was when she lead the Shining Crusade, mythic archmage, Chosen of Aroden.

(And, in a secure resource cache halfway across the city, the strings of a puppet with an empire's worth of magic items are cut.)

What does Arazni want to do? Well, what resources does she have? Who, exactly, is she presently dealing with? What situation is she in? How can she effectively bring these together for her purposes?

Right now... her first priority should probably be to get in telepathic contact with the fiends and inform them that SHE IS CANCELING THEIR ATTACK ORDER RIGHT NOW.

Lucy beams and jumps to her feet and claps her hands together rapidly, in delight rather than applause.

Then she turns her attention back to her party, because she did kind of abandon them to the fiends for a while, and if that had any predictable consequences she should unconseque them sooner rather than later.

They got stabbed a bit? The sort of fiends that can be summoned by Planar Ally are scary, but they're not, like, that scary, given that Lucy was radiating life-light the entire time. The azata has switched back to calming emotions. de Caserta is looking at her hands and observing they are still intact and going back to looking at her hands. Dawnbringer Kais is quietly lowering his head to pray.

Tiriac will smile, very slightly, for the third time since he returned to life.

" - Do you have an escape route planned, anywhere? I can get us back to my body to collect my magic items, one of you should make sure you have my staff, is Nex backing this or are you just self-motivating here -"

“Self-motivating. It seemed the thing to do, when I showed up with unprecedented healing abilities? I think de Caserta—our wizard—might still have a teleport? Who or what is Nex.”

"Join hands for a teleport, we do not have the time to -"

Within the cracked and broken ruins of the great pyramid, something stirs.

It takes a great deal to attract the attention of Geb, mightiest necromancer ever to ascend through his own power, who did not become a god because gods have rules; who invented fully a quarter of modern necromancy, who named a nation after himself, who shattered a hundred miles of land so thoroughly magic itself failed there, and who, unlike the Whispering Tyrant his equal in many arts, did all this without cheating.

And who, when his sole great rival decided that he had better things to do than fight wars with Geb, returned to his fortress of the dark arts, and founded demiplanes, and built weapons, and invented new and deadly spells, and did not, at any point, encounter anything that would have possibly given him the slightest bit of an interesting challenge. Once or twice he was roused from the slumber of four thousand years to crush some insignificant intruder, but never did any threaten his skills.

He did not, in fact, notice when he died. And as his foot coalesces on the doorstep of the Cinerarium, the Great Pyramid of Mechitar, he does not notice that he lives again. On his head is the Crown of Geb and on his feet are the Boots of Geb and around his waist is the Belt of Geb and beneath it is the Robe of Geb and in his hand is the Staff of Geb and circling his head are six ioun stones and circling his body further out, the four Orbs of Geb.

Oh.

She’s scared.

That hasn’t happened in a while.

(She refuses to regret it. If she only pulls shit when there’s no risk to her, then she’s nothing but a coincidentally Good bully, without the courage of her convictions.

But she is scared.)

She lights up Law, more brightly than it took to close the Worldwound.

There is, of course, the faintest possibility that if Geb was still a ghost, that would blast past all of his protections and scour his soul from the cosmos. She has, however, just restored him to his full youth and health! So, by the laws of physics, he's permitted to exist just fine!

(Every item he carries that is not an artifact is instantaneously disjoined. The Orbs of Geb clatter to the ground. The rest of his items continue functioning.)

This may, theoretically, be a threat. "An attacker."

Geb's Disjunction. He draws the Rod of Geb from thin air. Quickened Geb's Annihilation.

Lucy has spent the past fraction-of-a-second hurriedly issuing permits under her breath to Arazni and the ex-Graveknights (except the suicidal one) for every kind of local magic she can think of. 

Geb gets: zero permits. 

The spells fizzle before they can touch her. 

"Guys I have keyed an authorization for anyone on our side to cast teleport into the antimagic effect," she hisses, primarily to de Caserta and Arazni. 

"Alternate suggestion: Kill him while his magic doesn't work." 

"--Right." 

She does, in fact, know how to fight with the Correspondence. She hasn't gotten in many real fights with it, but absent a Golarion-magic antimagic field, it's still a better first resort than attempting literal pugilism again. 

She strides towards him, psyching herself up.

Does Geb know what he is right now? That's right, he's a human! Does Geb know what Count Ristomaur Tiriac has spent three hundred years learning how to kill very, very well?

Geb can take six arrows to the face. As the first target not in an antimagic field to have that honor, he is therefore the first person to actually get a Named Arrow (Human) aimed at him!

The Robe of Geb deflects four of them and Geb looks at the other two with mild curiosity, considering they are through his heart, which really ought to be enough to kill him.

- Flame Strike, Admonishing Ray.

Quickened Disintegrate and Arazni will ORDER HIM TO DIE (Mythic Power Word Kill) -

- And partway through this the Boots of Geb will automatically trigger (because "disjunction" was how he and Nex said hello to each other) and attempt to plane shift him to safety?

No permits. 

...Those slippers are very, very powerful, though. 

Lucy swallows down the Word of death that was on the tip of her tongue as Geb vanishes. 

Instead she says a swearword that, while not strictly "non-magical," in the sense that Correspondence is inherently a magic language, nonetheless does not enforce any effects on the world. 

"Yup."

Arazni was hoping to loot his corpse.

(Of course he has Clones, everyone who's anyone has at least one Clone. Losing all his stuff would have been a much more serious blow to his efforts than dying would have been.)

"Right. Let me get my stuff and we can go."

Greater Teleport to her extremely hidden resource-cache? Arazni can have a complete mental breakdown LATER after she has a +6/+6/+6 headband to have it with.

Lucy does not know about Greater Teleport separate from regular Teleport to issue it a permit, but it doesn't really matter since she takes down the law-light after just another moment. 

Then she turns around to survey the scene. Is anyone currently dead or maimed? Is that one fellow who wanted to know what she had done still around? 

No, not at present.

Right now, Geb is only a ruin because everyone in it was resurrected and there was anarchy in the streets and a bunch of mid-to-high-level characters fought a battle there and also Lucy tore significant parts of the palace to bits.

Apparently this... worked??? or something???

de Caserta is feeling kinda shell-shocked, which is very weird, that hasn't happened since she was first-circle.

Sarenrae's interventions tend to, yes.