When she enters with the true seeing spell cast upon her active, she'll find a girl curled up on the floor, seemingly uncaring of how uncomfortable the rubble has to be, crying.

(The sobs have subsided a bit now, but she's clearly still miserable)

Like this, she looks a lot younger. She still has the same neutral Good aura around her, though, and doesn't seem to be about to start up again.

... Is that a tail? Probably it is in fact not the most salient part about this situation, though she relays it anyway. Asking if she is alright is kind of a stupid question here, but she does need a better understanding of what's going on; she can't really assist in making plans or in being reassuring without something more to orient on.

She'll put on her best calming voice, though, and let Karen know she's in Lastwall, and that while there may be dangers there will always be those here who will fight them off.

It'll take a bit, but once she hears Louisa start talking Kakara will slowly pull herself back together and sit up. Not standing, just yet, but when she wipes her eyes they're just red and shiny and her telepathic voice is only a little shaky.

"You're... not in any current danger, I don't think. I Saw something awful and I almost did something ill advised about it."

At this point she seems to notice the damage to her surroundings, and her cheeks take on a somewhat stronger red tint.

"Sorry about the damage. I didn't mean to lose control like that."

"We obviously don't prefer our rooms be damaged, but nobody was injured, and compared to the cost of what would have happened at the worldwound had you not shown up we will happily repair it and consider it cheap at the price. If I may, what is it that you... Saw? Is it likely to be an issue going forward? We can make accommodations, but it would be easier with advance warning it might be needed."

Somehow this is even more embarrassing than the alternative, and if she had essentially any emotional capacity left after grappling with what she saw of Hell she's sure she'd hate it. As is, it mostly just combines to make her feel more tired and wrung out.

"I was attempting to verify some of the things I was told about Golarion. Started with - the church of Asmodeus, and then looked into Avernus. All the people there... I could feel them, and it overwhelmed me, to the point I almost got myself killed charging into Hell to make it stop. The lightshow was from me going up to full power to do that. I don't expect it to happen again off of that, but if there are any similarly upsetting things I might see and get angry about it might be a good idea to tell me now, so I can make sure not to go searching for them unprepared."

That's such a reasonable perspective!

(Outside of the followers of Iomedae, this would be a bit more noteworthy, but one doesn't spend much time in her church without running into someone who's immediate reaction to learning about Hell was to start planning out how to kill Asmodeus. They attract that mindset rather strongly.)

"I would advise you avoid the other evil afterlives - the Abyss and Abbadon - as well as Cheliax, Nidal, and Zon Kuthon. They're mostly not as bad as Hell, but it can still get... pretty bad. We try not our new Paladins too many of them on scry in close succession for that reason. There's no other trigger you can think of that would cause something like this?"

"I might spark a bit at something particularly bad, but typically powering up doesn't do that with my level of control unless I'm seriously pushing past my limits; it's been almost 5 years since I last did something like this, and that was when I thought someone had just killed my father in front of me."

"Normally this would be where I offer you a warm drink and something to eat, but I'm not sure how much good it would do you without a body. I don't suppose this is the kind of situation where you can ride along on someone else's senses for it?"

"No, I don't seem to get that deep of impressions from someone when I'm just riding along and I'm... nervous, about diving in deeper even to someone willing."

Kakara shakers her head, and refocuses.

"What I really need to do now is do something, to feel like I can still help people and not like I'm just abandoning them."

This is also an intensely recognizable phenomenon.

"If you want, you could talk to one of our leaders about your capabilities, and see where you can do some good in the next couple of days?"

"I'd like that, yes. Thank you."

Then with the reassurances made they can cancel the rest of the evacuation and go to another, less destroyed meeting room, this one with more permanent and powerful security measures than the last. The current Precentor Martial for scouting, Keyron Saiville, has cleared time from his schedule to speak with her.

En route, Dazarel will rejoin them, his attitude a mixture of grumpy and embarrassed.

They don't actually like evil people getting their forbiddance passwords, especially if they aren't lawful enough to give oaths about not sharing it that Lastwall can trust, but it'll obviously kill him if they don't give it and it involves most of the same class of tail risks as giving it to Karen in the first place. (Theoretically speaking they could just not give Karen the password and heal her after, she's only off by one step of alignment and has obviously more than enough hp even in a worst case scenario where she doesn't make the save and takes the full 36 possible damage, but that's not the kind of thing you do to allies without pressing need). The forbiddance in question is one that they hold relatively less secure for that reason, so as to concentrate all the "enemy bypasses the forbiddance password" downsides in one location where they can manage the risks instead of running a smaller but unknown risk on a dozen different ones.

"So, I've heard that you're roughly a 9th circle combatant with an entirely different combat paradigm than we're used to. What does that come out to in practice?"

There are a lot of truthful answers she can give to that, some of which are even not completely misleading!

"Most of my abilities involve Ki in one sense or another, which is essentially a pool of energy I can use to accomplish tasks. Theoretically, it's supposed to be able to anything magic can do and then some, but the downside is that you have to actually know what you're doing and have good enough control to accomplish it. In practice, this primarily boils down to physical enhancement, flying, and energy blasts for most practitioners, but I've got an array of other skills. I can sense other people's energy to get a guess at their strength and track their location, communicate telepathically, create bursts of light, defend my mind against intrusion, move things somewhat clumsily with telekinesis, overcharge other people spells, and teleport anywhere I can sense. Outside of my Ki, I am also a seer, which is a primarily divinitory psychic power that allows me to see faraway and past events as though I was there and project myself out of my body as a shade like I am right now. I also don't need to sleep, but that is a magical effect cast on me by someone else and not a native trait or something I can do to anyone else."

Notably left out is her ability to turn into an Oozaru; it's bad enough that she revealed her tail, but if she doesn't make too big a deal about it it shouldn't be that notable. There's no shortage of near human species out there, but the ability to make yourself into an enormous monkey is uniquely identifying. Kakara is also quite glad she's a natural blond on that score, since it makes the hair much less noteworthy when she transforms. Also not included is her ability to use the multiform; she's pretty sure she can work with Lastwall, but being able to do research while seemingly otherwise occupied would be a good way to notice if that's not the case, and what they don't know can be a surprise for her enemies in the case of a leak.

"When I have my body, I'm also an exceptionally skilled martial artist and passable with a sword, gun, or staff, but while it usually makes up a significant portion of my combat ability it's of limited utility at the moment since my limbs just phase through things."

(Passable by the standards of the exiles, that is. What's considered a dilettante approach not worthy of particular regard by a group of Saiyans with a martial tradition centuries old that draws upon the legacy of Earth is perhaps not how Golarion tends to measure ability).

That's better than he was expecting. Not as versatile as a sorcerer, much less a wizard, but that's hardly atypical for casters that also carry at least partial martial progression; Lastwall's Paladins are, in fact, a central example of this phenomenon. It sounds like she has the equivalent of a full suite of divinatory and information gathering spells, plus a decent spread of evocation, transportation, and utility.

"What do the limitations on your teleportation look like in practice? You said anywhere you can sense, but I'm not sure what kind of an area we're talking about. Can you transport people other than yourself?"

He's guessing from the dragon that the answer to that last one is yes, but it might end up being "only myself plus a limited weight allowance" like outsiders tend to get stuck with, which would still be useful but notably less so.

"The primary issue is targeting. If you have another person's energy signature to navigate by, you can use instant transmission to appear next to them easily, but without that you have to use dead reckoning which is a lot harder to aim at long distance. Theoretically speaking it doesn't really have a range limit but in practice without someone really strong acting as a beacon it would be hard to navigate with it outside of your inner solar system unless I was going to one of the other planets directly. And... I can take people with me, as long as I'm touching them and it's not too many - 3 is fine, 4 a bit of a struggle, 5 requires concentration and it past that it's usually faster to take multiple trips. But again, touching them is a concern at the moment. I might be able to swing it to someone I was doing a ride along in with some research, but I don't think I could chain it past that."

Like Teleport, but with Greater Teleport's range.

"About how many can you do a day? And similar to before, what do the limitations on the telepathy work out to?"

"How many can I do a day? Er, depends on the difficulty of the jump, but it doesn't take more than a couple seconds per, so call it 20 a minute, maybe about a thousand an hour? It'd get pretty mind numbing though, so I'm not sure I could keep focused long enough to get up to 20,000 in one day. It's never really come up."

"Telepathy works best for relatively short distances, under a few hundred miles or so. Beyond that, the connection starts fraying, and people nearby can pick up what you're saying if they're close enough; how close is close enough depends on how much it frays which is a function of distance and skill, but the message also starts to become harder and harder to understand as well, just more slowly. As for the number of targets, I've also never run into a hard limit there, but from experience it's at least," three billion souls, lending her their energy and trusting her to defeat the danger that threatened them all "in the thousands. It's not exactly possible to have that many conversations running simultaneously though, and you can't have mass communication without compromising security."

Once he hears the first part, Keyron Saiville can't keep the smile off his face. Greater teleport, at will, can transport objects. The issues of teleportation capacity might not be the most pressing need Lastwall has, but it has long been one of the most frustrating ones. There are no shortage of outsiders, from the lowliest fiends to the mightest archons, who possess the ability to freely transport themselves within Golarion; whenever a new type of outsider is identified and catalogued, it is almost considered more likely than not that they possess that capability. But nearly to a soul, they cannot be used to solve logistics. Aside from what is needed to transport their own person, outsider teleportation loses out to human in almost every regard. In the unluckiest cases, this takes the form of an outsider only being able to transport themself, and even for the luckier occasions the best you can typically hope for is a mere handful of additional pounds and which cannot include spacial items. In principle, of course, there's no magical reason it would have to work that way, but judging by what heaven has told them there's a great treaty among the outer planes that they all limit themselves correspondingly. Only a handful of neutral and chaotic evil outsiders dare to defy this decree, and the likes of the soul-stealing Thanadaemons are far from being reliable trade partners even if summoning them for that purpose *wasn't* harmful to the Law and Good of the wizards in question and their commanding officers. Short of summoning a demigod, the only way to solve the problem of mass transportation of goods to the worldwound was with corresponding armies of mortal mages - a state of affairs, that is, that held until today. Keyron knows the other Preceptors Martial will be just as excited, particularly his comrade in Garrisons and Logistics, and the fact that they apparently need to find a way to get her a body first will only put a very slight damper on things.

This also, of course, correspondingly also means they need to prioritize keeping her safe from Cheliax, Hell, and the other forces of evil even more than they already were planning to. The former two at least should be incapable of interfering if she was supplying the world-wound, yes, but with the potential gains this large even Cheliax could not be trusted to stick to law. With all this going on in his mind, it's perhaps unsurprising that the bit about telepathy didn't really register. Sure, the range was impressive, but the necessity to coordinate forces the size of the shining crusade was not especially common, and most of the use case for faster sendings is already covered by "as many teleports as you can find a use for." Until they can shake loose enough force to conquer Cheliax, at least, and another part of him notes that he's already at the point where he means until instead of unless. It's a good feeling.

"It sounds like we ought to get you back a body, then. Were you able to bring any bits of your corpse with you? If you did we could bring you back to life with just a Resurrection,  but if not it'll need to be a True Resurrection and the materials for that will take a bit longer to source."

Lastwall doesn't really keep a stock of true resurrection diamonds, on the grounds that there are actually an awful lot of high level people who have died without bodies in the last two centuries and plenty of them would be willing to work for Lastwall if they were to raise them. Keeping the diamonds in storage for a True Resurrection asap would be just giving up value, and their margins are tight enough to make that trade painful. Their reputation (and, admittedly, income) is good enough that they can typically get one as an advance for an only moderately enormous sum in bond with the promise of full repayment later in any case, even if it's still not nearly as quick as already owning one.

"Er, do those just generically grow and regrow bodies, or are they specifically for reviving the dead? Because if it's the latter there might be an issue, I'm not dead and neither is my body. I just... don't have access to it for the foreseeable future."

"Ah, that might indeed complicate things. If I may, what happened with it specifically?"