Yemma sighs. "There is a way I could let you in. A couple of ways, actually. Three." He extends a finger. "Easy way: if the Enemy were somehow not able to do anything, I could let you in. As long as he wasn't able to do anything about it, it'd be fine. That's probably not going to happen, to be honest." Another finger. "Slow way: go away, get stronger. Way stronger. Strong enough that you won't have to worry about the Enemy following you in. Obviously, that's not very helpful for you."
Kakara looks up at him through her bangs. "...and the third way?"
He sighs, nodding. "Third way. Quick way."
A door opens in the wall to your right. There are stairs inside.
Leading down.
"You take the stairs, and find what you're looking for the hard way," he says.
Kakara stares at the doorway. "...those go down."
"As far down as you can go," he says, nodding. "And they lead where you're thinking. I'll be honest: there are things down there that could rip you apart, shade or not, and they'd be happy to. If I were you, I wouldn't risk it. But if you really want to get into Heaven as fast as you can..." He shrugs. "I don't know that you want to head down there now, though."
Dazarel squirms free of her grip and scampers up onto her shoulders, hiding behind her neck. 'Please no.'
Yemma shoots the lizard a foul look. "I'd be glad to chuck him down there, though."
Kakara stares at the entrance to Hell, the hair on the back of her neck standing on end. It looks surprisingly unimposing, for something so important.
After a long moment of thought, she sighs, deflating. "No," she mutters. "You're right. I shouldn't risk it. Not yet, anyway."
"Sorry, kid," he says, grimacing.
"Our interests turned out to be significantly more aligned than that implies, but that's mostly correct. We'd like to commission some wishes and a clone, including up to a wish to accelerate the latter process, under the usual secrecy requirements."
They remove three now-cut diamonds from a bag and place them upon the table.
Felandriel Morgethai's immediately gets much more serious.
"These aren't the only ones you now have, are they."
"No, they are not, and yes, we're willing to part with some not needed for the wishes we have in mind for the right price or a sufficiently good reason. Do you have one prepared today?"
"Not prepared, but I keep a 9th circle slot open most days. What are the wishes? Aside from the clone, that is, I do have a wording that can do that one."
"We'd like to wish up an actual copy of her body, so it isn't vulnerable to a Disjunction or Dispel like Polymorph Any Object is, the Clone, also for her but using your caster level instead of one of ours, and one for retrieving her if someone manages to trap her soul or Maledict her and it beats the clone or similar. We've also got the diamond dust and lesser wish diamonds for permanent greater magic fang, as well as any or all of Aura Sight, Enchantment Sight, and Tongues if you've got a way to make that work for someone else."
A dedicated Wish diamond for revival. Even Queen Galfrey doesn't have that through her, though they'd almost certainly come up with one relatively quickly if it became needed. That means either she's bringing more to the table than just Teleports, or the diamonds are originally hers - likely both, although the fact that she can't cast her own Wishes does limit the possibility space for what a jailbroken teleport could end up looking like. That plus the splendor headband suggests some variant of sorcerer, but she's missing far too much context to make a confident assertion of it.
"I can do the wishes, yes; I presume you want the body first, since you want those spells cast today? The Permanancies should be possible to manage, though I've never done it before; if I borrow parts from the Imbue with Spell Ability spellform and apply it to Permanancy, the result won't stabilize enough for preparation but the topology should be simple enough to make work with Limited Wish. It'll probably take me about 10 minutes to sketch it out properly so I can specify it without ambiguities, but not more than that. I've only got one Limited Wish prepared and one seventh circle spell slot free, though, so you'll have to prioritize."
"Tongues and Enchantment Sight first then, if we're limited on it. Aura Sight is half covered by items already and we can use a normal greater magic fang in the mean time, it's got enough duration for a temporary basis."
He then turns to Kakara.
"Felandriel is not categorically trustworthy when giving her word, like Paladins are. But she does take the 'Good' part of Chaotic Good incredibly seriously, and in the centuries since we first encountered her we've never known her to screw over someone for trusting her, or work with the forces of Evil save on pan-Good projects like the worldwound where her participation amounts to not walking out due to Evil sending assistance, or to spread secrets she was entrusted with. And she will almost certainly need to know if she's going to target a wish properly."
Right, showtime. She turns off her Masque, in what would probably be an incredibly impressive display in magical efficiency for Felandriel if it wasn't totally hidden from her by a mind blank, and introduces herself.
"I'm Kakara Goku. I'm mostly human, but I'm also part saiyan, which is why among other things I have this."
She uncurls her tail.
"It's actually quite important that whatever body I end up with is also part saiyan, since it makes some of my powers stronger, and my real one is beyond my ability to retrieve at the moment."
"That should suffice for targeting. But just to be clear, Wish can also move people from basically anywhere to basically anywhere, so if it's not currently under a forbiddance or whatever I should be able to just grab it and bring it here. If we do it that way, I can actually transport 17 people in total, so if you have a list of requests for either this or if that ends up being how I need to retrieve you with the third diamond I'll need to know that ahead of time.
(They do in fact have a list of candidates for her, people jailed in Cheliax or Nidal or prisoners or people gone missing in action months ago, but they kind of expect her Milanite and definitely-not-Milanite friends have their own lists that would get in expectation better outcomes for the forces of good from being freed).
"If we had a lot of wishes going spare, I'd be willing to give it a try; I don't exactly want to leave my body in her hands. But the person who has possession of it is an incredibly powerful sorcerer with a focus on sealing magic and I came here from really far away, so if we're stuck at a pace of one a day I think it would probably be better to go for the sure thing, and then anyone it's critical to rescue I can just pick up myself."
Felandriel doesn't comment or change her expression at the mention of the limit being wishes per day rather than diamonds, but she definitely notices it. It could be a slip of the tongue or other mistake, but it definitely lends credence to the idea that Lastwall just had a powerful conjurer-specialist sorcerer show up from another planet with a bag of diamonds. Her offering to pick up the rescues in person is hardly needed after the mysterious increase in logistics capabilities, frankly, but it doesn't hurt. Whenever there's one explanation that covers all the surprising information you just got, that explanation should get a corresponding amount of credit for predicting it all.
Instead of commenting, she constructs the ninth circle scaffold for Wish off of her spellbook, picks up one of the diamonds, and requests the body of Kakara Goku.
This is less creepy than the Clone deal, probably due to the lack of intubation and not having just seen it be someone else's corpse 30 seconds earlier. From this angle, it could just be one of her multiforms out cold, at least until you noticed it wasn't breathing.
With somewhat more practiced ease, she'll make the transition.
Once in the other body, she has the unfortunate realization that she is once more without all her magical items, as they stayed with the other body. Fortunately, this is a mostly just a problem for people who can't accelerate to speeds hundreds of times faster than the human eye without giving up detail work or damaging things. She honed this trick on her friends so she could get ready for school in between their blinks, and they were themselves fast enough to do the same for an ordinary human. From all appearances, it's as though the two bodies simply switch places, except the one now on the ground gets up in time (at more human speeds, if still incredibly fast) to catch the other.
"So, er, can we use this other body for its original purpose still?"
"If you mean its role as a Clone, yes, all they need to do is dispel the Polymorph and then use another 8th circle slot to reconnect it. Much faster than growing a new one from scratch, so I imagine they'll appreciate the care. Your other spells will be a bit, though, so please bear with me."
Since she didn't think to bring a book and this probably isn't the place to ask more questions on the parts of Golarion that still confuse her, Kakara can do some stretches and then move into some light exercise.
From the looks on their faces, you would be forgiven for assuming Golarion didn't consider this light exercise.
It actually only takes Felandriel Morgethai just over 8 minutes before she's done planning the lesser wish wording, at which point she can wave Kakara over to get the spells cast.
It's moderately dissapointing that she can't see the spell as it's getting cast, but watching it take effect on her and then abruptly stabilize into a permanant structure on her is still quite impressive. It's almost enough to make Kakara wish she had any magical abilities whatsoever, but she wouldn't actually trade and has legitimately no idea where she would ever get the time to train them. Her sight is fairly amateur as it is.
If that's all the spells they have for her today, she can instant transmission them back to Lastwall?
So, now that she's not one lucky dispel away from her combat abilities sinking like a stone, what are the most tractable problems to sudden overwhelming force? She'd heard suggestions that put Nidal and Cheliax pretty high on the list of global problems, but that a large part of the issue would be humanitarian and thus she should wait a bit on dealing with them to give time to arrange relief convoys and so forth?
They're a bit concerned about the extent to which she seems to be treating "conquering Cheliax and Nidal" as problems she can easily defeat in the field, but it is indeed true that an additional legendary hero would plausibly prove decisive in either even before considering the edge her instant transmission offers in any conventional military conflict. It's true that all else equal the nation with the larger army and economy will win a war, but that doesn't apply when one side can teleport entire regiments and battalions behind enemy lines to crush any forces that don't maintain sufficient force concentration. They haven't had time to update potential war plans, but the news out of the staff office is very encouraging, so they are in fact currently making the arrangements necessary so that conquering one or both would result in something other than an immense humanitarian disaster. This is an immense task that includes everything from reaching out to the church of Erastil to be ready to salvage crop yields to finding out what clerics every Good and Neutral church can spare on a temporary or permanent basis if they provide compensation and transportation to stepping up their recruitment of administrators, but it's also a nice change from their usual desperate efforts.
They'd prefer she stay away from anything that could plausibly actually kill her until Felandriel can wish up an accelerated Clone tomorrow, but there are a lot of places in Ustulav that are pretty much safe for high level martials of any kind if they have cleric support that would nevertheless hugely improve quality of life for a lot of people?
That sounds probably doable. What do the problems there look like? She thinks she recalled something about undead being one of the issues there, but it's been hundreds of years since any of her people had to deal with undead, unless you count petitioners in line to be sorted, which means most of her knowledge comes from half remembered stories and some fantasy novels. Not the most reliable sources even before you consider that things might work entirely differently across universes.