"In exchange for your full cooperation, not holding anything back?" He does not want to promise amnesty in exchange for her help if that help amounts to the minimum she could in good conscience call 'helping'.

"I will not agree to be questioned on how I escaped Hell, or what allies and resources I personally possess outside Cheliax which are not resources known to House Thrune or the Church of Asmodeus, or on any matter of no real military relevance. …and you will ask nothing about my sister. Or my mother." She lets a little accusatory grief into her voice, there, not because she feels any but because it might make him feel bad.

He does not, in fact, feel any guilt about killing Myrabelle, only occasional worries that he did not do a good enough job.

"For your full cooperation with regard to Cheliax and things known to Cheliax, then.  For amnesty and a commensurate future favor - Is that really what you want, or is it just that you're trying to negotiate in the manner you imagine I'm most comfortable with?"

- he's being a paladin. He's being a paladin at her. He is worried that she might feel pressured to approach this negotiation in a way she doesn't endorse. Imagine, having your enemies at your fingertips and thinking about that. She knows the rules they follow, but it's another thing entirely to watch what it looks like to have a personality that formed around that mold. Lilia did not in fact expect him to Dominate her and rip out all the answers he wanted without needing any concessions, satisfied in the absolute certainty she'd do it to him. But she expected him to wish he could do that.

"I considered coming in here with a contract for you to have your lawyers waste several weeks frantically poring over. But some of our common interests here are time sensitive, and I don't actually expect I'd get more of what I want. It's a good deal; take it."

"Alright. I guess if you feel cheated later the remedy is obvious... I am going to have someone write something up for you to sign, though. Nothing complicated, just getting what we agreed to here in writing, and some assurances that you have in fact left Cheliax' service, aren't feeding us false information, aren't going to attempt to harm anyone else serving Lastwall or our allies while you're working with us, and the like."

Contemptuous eye-twitch. "Obviously."

"Do you want to wait for that or are you willing to proceed on my word alone for the time it takes to draft?"

"Get it written. I don't have anything that's more time-sensitive than you'd expect."

He gets it written. It contains what he said it would.

She reads it carefully and thoroughly. She is not, in fact, stupid, and she's not out of her mind. "Fine." She signs. Badly, because they've left her hands bound.

He hasn't, yet, specified what he'll do to check if she's telling the truth. In his place she'd instruct the prisoner to assent to a long variety of curses and then render them unconscious to place the Dominate because most ways to resist it which aren't the obvious one require either successfully resisting it or being conscious to activate your contingency. And then she'd do it three times, and then she'd still only be mostly sure it'd worked. But she knows about some of Myrabelle's tricks, plus some of her own tricks, and so she has more expectation than most people that it's hard to make sure someone's truly in your power. Maybe paladins don't worry too much about that.

He just spends five minutes repeatedly dispelling her, then asks a priest of Abadar to come in and tells her not to resist the truthtelling. Contemptible, really.

Does he somehow imagine that Lilia has gotten through her whole life while unable to beat an Abadar's Truthtelling. She can beat mindreading. She should tell some lies just to teach him a lesson. 

She does not do that. 

Alright. What does she know about Cheliax' interference with Tar-Baphon's seals?

He did not even smile when he got confirmation that she was telling him the truth. Truly Iomedae possesses methods of making mortals uncomplicatedly obedient to her will and devoid of all normal human motivations which the forces of Evil can only aspire to.

"I didn't know in advance. Abrogail admitted it once Lastwall made the allegation. She claimed she had Hell's approval, and that they thought Asmodeus could make a deal with Tar-Baphon. I don't know if she intends to try again."

"You never learned any details on how they did it?"

"No. I objected, when Abrogail said we'd done it, and was arrested. I don't know who was involved, though if she had Hell's permission she would also have had Lrilatha's supervision."

"How many diamonds does Cheliax have left?"

"I thought we had four, at the start of the war, but Aspexia hasn't been spending them that way.  They're happy to spend one wherever you might have to match it. There was discussion of trying the kidnapping again, trying it four times back to back to see if that does it. More than six, I think."

"What do they think about our latest moves?" Cansellarion has been marching east, trying to get between the main body of Chelish forces and Egorian. He's still planning to take Westcrown first, but he wants to try to force a battle and defeat the rest of the Chelish army in the field by threatening the capital before going after either city.

"They can't beat you in the field and they know it. Abrogail wants to cut you off from supply by killing Morgethai. Razmir's helping us. The plans for that looked reasonable, to me. If Morgethai thought she was invincible she wouldn't have needed you to invent reliable guns to involve herself. If that works, the army's stranded, and Abrogail can figure out how to answer it. The soonest they'll try is Oathday; Razmir's preparing some things."

This will be after the second supply Teleportation Circle and before the third. Of course

"Alright. Tell me about their plans for that, and what conditions determine when they're going to try it."

"They intend to burn Almas to the ground and force her to show, and if she never does keep going and burn the rest of Andoran down too. - figure they're planning to join the war at the best moment, and if this isn't the best moment for them it might be for us. They'll time it for when she's asleep, but they expect she'll show anyway. Razmir's been preparing the gems to trap her soul, and claims if not interrupted he should have enough Oathday. He also wanted Cheliax to pay him for a bunch of Gates, through which he can have monsters he keeps in his demiplanes flood the city, and a bunch of ritual casting implements so he can have his church make him more powerful for the fight, and for some scrolls of Tsunami and Earthquake and so on - he didn't want to use any live magic for the provocation, doesn’t even intend to be there for it, he wanted to save it all for the actual fight. Lorthact - an exiled duke of Hell who has been teaching abjuration classes in Korvosa - will also be participating. If you showed up to help Andoran they meant to drop some incendiary clouds on the army, but that wasn't a significant component of planning. There'll also probably be simultaneous attacks on Vigil and Vellumis - have an allied dragon eat a bunch of peasants, whatever - but those are purely a distraction and might actually be dropped in favor of burning Azir to the ground now that the Rahadoumi have involved themselves."

Clepati said and then immediately denied that with the help of Alfirin she could defeat Lorthact. She also said she could kill Razmir, though presumably not permanently. He should probably follow up on that, now that Razmir and Lorthact are pressing strategic priorities. After this. For now, he'll ask for more details about what Cheliax is willing to buy from Razmir, what other powerful wizards they have and what their capabilities are, what Lorthact has revealed of his capabilities… and also whether they are planning anything else this big, or if Almas and associated diversions are going to be the bulk of their effort.

They might, especially if Almas doesn't end decisively in their favor, attempt mass kidnappings again. Abrogail really despises the girl on the radio, and while Abrogail is somewhat irrational about this it's hard to dispute that it'll be bad for the invading army's morale if they get to slowly torture her to death on air. There was also discussion of Razmir going after Lastwall directly, since they know that Freedom broadcasts out of Vigil and that they're producing the 'guns'. And there were efforts underway to get Arazni to help but she hadn't heard that those had gotten anywhere (and you'd really expect them not to). Manohar's working on some kind of speculative superweapon which could be dropped on the army, she doesn't know many details but he has some captured guns to work with and is, in fact, much smarter than he's generally credited for. 

Kidnappings via pit fiend, or Razmir, or non-Wish means?