Marit makes him fly off a little ways away, and then says to Korva: "I want to closely supervise the takedown of the house and of the demiplane, he'll be trying to do it carelessly and if he succeeds at doing it carelessly he'll probably successfully kill himself and wind up in the clone. After that -

- uh, this seems like a challenging situation. I feel uncomfortable with enabling slavery without a strong legal framework and oversight such as I imagine doesn't exist. You could kill him as soon as we've dismantled his projects, but that - seems really wasteful, actually.

...my former commander would take him, and does have the resources to hold him."

"I think the thing we're legally supposed to do is hand him over to the Iomedan inquisition, but as a practical matter they're not going to have any ability to hold him. The thing we are probably expected to do is kill him. We could also petrify him, Nenio would do it for us."

"I want his spellbook and his magic items. And then, yes, I am willing to hand him over to your former commander."

"Yes, Knight-Commander. Let's start him on the teardown of his house, then, and - do you have someone who can do the Plane Shift, I'd rather not let him prepare spells in the morning -"

"Sosiel can, and I can. I'd only have one left today, but I can get us there and back if I wait until morning."

"The teardown of the house will probably take most of the night anyway. I'd appreciate backup, in case I manage to do something that gives him an opportunity to contest control, but it doesn't need to be you." Though he doesn't get the sense she has a lot of people she trusts. 

"You want Woljif, for this kind of thing, I'll just have to give him the morning off to get his spells back after. Given he's eighth circle I am actually kind of inclined to pick up - possibly everyone who came over to the other world and knows about you, except for Aivu, on the off chance that there's a fight. And then stay myself, this seems - kind of important to get right."

"Seems reasonable." Marit is never inclined to tell anyone that they are too paranoid. 

Then he will order Sunhammer to not resist his magic, curse Sunhammer's will, force him to remove all of his magic items and magic clothing and magic jewelry, explain all their features, and then hand them over, force Sunhammer to produce his spellbook from the Ethereal Plane, force Sunhammer to expend all his spells except a couple dispels needed for the teardown, and then land outside Sunhammer's house so that the whole party can move as a group and force him to disable, room by room, all the traps on his house. 

It is an absurdly stressful night. He is trying to give Sunhammer as few permissions to act as possible, and also anticipate ways he can arrange for them to accidentally set off traps, and also avoid giving any orders that might let Sunhammer have another try at wrenching the spell loose. Woljif is genuinely extremely useful to have.

It's a pretty nice treasure haul, for those who are tracking that sort of thing. Tens of thousands in gold and gemstones and (non-cursed) jewelry, vials of spellsilver, a fancy armillary amulet, a Figurine of the Dwarven Forge with the special modifications that let Sunhammer use it to make cheap trap-the-soul items, a greater headband with some additional features that let it chip away over time at enemy spell resistance when casting spells at the same enemy, eight symbols of weakness, a staff of earth and stone, a ring of inner fortitude, a tower shield that converts at will into a cube of iron around the bearer, and of course some soul-trapping rings. Plus an apparent ring of sustenance that actually obliges the wearer to subsist on the flesh of intelligent beings. Sunhammer wasn't trying for that, but he was quite pleased with it.

Korva is absolutely the sort of person who tracks that sort of thing. The headband should probably go to Nenio, even though Woljif's making puppy dog eyes at it, but she promises him that he can have Nenio's old headband in exchange. The spellbook she's going to give to Nenio to look through in the morning, obviously, and then Woljif can also look through for whatever spells he can use. The rest of it she'll figure out what to do with later. She thanks everyone for coming at this late hour and tells them to get some sleep before they do the same thing to the demiplane later, which produces some grumbling from Daeran.

Marit needs a comfortable room for his prisoner. He himself has been sleeping in a Rope Trick but his prisoner gets a room at a reasonable temperature with food and water and a chamber pot and sufficient space to stand up, which luckily isn't much space because his prisoner is a dwarf. Once that's arranged he will strip away Sunhammer's ability to do...anything other than eat, drink, sleep and use the chamber pot, and then still be too paranoid to fall asleep. (This seems like the right tradeoff, to him; they still have a lot to lose, until the clone is destroyed.)

...is there only one clone.

There is a second clone, in a demiplane to which he does not possess a tuning fork, because fuck you. He'd be able to plane shift out if he woke up there.

Marit will sit there very unhappily until morning, watching Sunhammer, who gives him a pitch on the service of Baphomet and them makes some declarations about how he regrets nothing. Neither of them sleep.

Korva will manage to sleep, as will Woljif, so at least they'll have someone who knows about magical traps and isn't dead on their feet. She'll drop the spellbook off with Nenio so Nenio can get started on copying the spells from it. Nenio thinks she's great, absolutely the best follower she can remember having, not that she can remember any of the others.

She'll return to Marit around late morning and ask whether he's ready to go through the demiplane.

He is. He doesn't visibly look worse for the wear, though he's terser than usual. 

They'll have to have Sunhammer disable the tiny babaus the instant they arrive, and will probably want Stoneskin up so they don't get picked apart while Sunhammer presumably does that as slowly as Marit's orders permit him to get away with.

Woljif can do Stoneskins for them. She can do the plane shifts.

Then it'll be their second successful teardown operation in the space of a day. The loot here is more varied; weird magic experiments Sunhammer was halfway finished with, some trapped souls (mostly of demons), an enormous gold goat's head, a taxidermied succubus, a robe of powerlessness that looks like a robe of the archmagi, an experiment in attempting to recreate ioun stones that produced some aggressive cursed rocks that do buzz about the head in an ioun stone fashion, and storage crates full of books and spell components and metals and jewelry-making tools. Sunhammer tries to kill them three times by not disabling traps fast enough. 

Well, they can take some of this stuff, too, not that she has much sense of what they're going to do with it. The demiplane itself is probably even more exciting than the stuff inside it, assuming it's permanent; once it's cleared out there are any number of things that it'd be nice to have a permanent demiplane for. 

She was really planning to do a completely different set of things that were not this thing, today, but under the circumstances she would kind of like Sunhammer gone, does Marit have suggestions for anything else they should be doing before attempting to head back to the Shining Crusade and drop Sunhammer off with Iomedae?

Marit thinks that's a reasonable next priority in the absence of a way to get to the man's other demiplane.

Korva will explicitly let Seelah know that she's going on another mission and may not teleport back tonight, then, and will only take Regill with her. The others can stay behind to help with healing or patrols, or rest, after the kind of day that this has been.

And she can not-a-teleport to the Shining Crusade, with Regill and Marit and their captive eighth circle wizard and his cat.

Marit has Sunhammer keeping his eyes closed. They may tell him where he is eventually but they don't need to right now.

Can someone notify the Knight-Commander and Alfirin he wants their consultation on something.

That's faster than they were expecting Marit back. She will cancel a meeting and go check if everything is all right.

Marit is, actually, not all right, though you'd have to know him ludicrously well to notice. He has been pushing himself very hard to achieve this outcome, once he's achieved it he will need to sleep and decompress, he knows that, and it's a reasonable tradeoff to make under circumstances like these. But that doesn't add up to being all right. He does not have experience using Dominate Person to contain extremely dangerous eighth circle casters for whom suicide is a success condition while getting them to do complex magical tasks. He spent every minute of the task expecting to fail at it. 

And, of course, the use of Dominate Person for something like this is one of those cases where the Good (result) and the Good (impulse in the heart) run counter to one another. The case that it is acceptable to make Baphomet cultists who are soultrapping people dismantle their life's work and surrender it to the government is not very philosophically complicated. The feeling of exercising absolute control over another person over their terrified and miserable resistance is a bad one, and is the kind of thing you do not actually want to stop experiencing as a bad one. War is full of cases like that. He will recover once he has slept.

Iomedae takes this in and takes several steps closer to him to offer a Lay On Hands. It's not that he really needs the spell (though it helps with exhaustion).

Marit looks slightly too carefully fine, which means that actually, something is quite wrong. Iomedae's noticed too. And the dwarf they brought with is dominated, which - answers some questions and raises others. Telepathic bond.

What happened?

There are so many things wrong in Drezen it's shooting fish in a barrel but the most urgent was this man, who has been selling very well crafted cursed rings that trap the soul on a remote trigger. I dug a very small hole through his roof and Dominated him in the middle of the night. He is an eighth circle wizard and a Baphomet cultist who figured out - with Baphomet's help - a way to craft soul-trapping magic items cheaply. He's sold thirty-eight of them to Mendevean nobility and was planning to trigger a civil war that'd in turn trigger the collapse of the Worldwound defense. 

We spent last night and today dismantling his home and the demiplane he has access to but he has another Clone in a demiplane he doesn't have access to. We could have petrified him but Iomedae is likely committing us on another front so -