Trading liaisons would be lovely, yes. He should also talk the Field Marshall of the Korvosan Guard about that, Kroft is kind of… operating her own thing, here. It's a volunteer force or a religious order or something, who even knows, certainly she doesn't. 

The round that’s all been sorted, Reebs is going to retreat to his private room in the mage’s magnificent mansion to call a planar ally without raising anyone's hackles.

Nothing bad will happen and in twenty-five minutes he'll present it fait accompli. 

Is Reebs sure that he wants to vanish right here?

Minutes are the sort of thing which could matter.

That's exactly why he needs to get started on casting.

The Archbishop does in fact have competent underlings, to season the incompetents. He'll leave... Volcator in charge - it's not like she could go any madder with power than she already is - with instructions to disperse her manpower and network with all the factions in the Vault. The Archbishop's theory is that Asmodeus is primarily playing for vision here. Get Him it. Every cleric, every powerful wizard, every politically influential person, should have an Asmodean in their orbit, so He can intervene with predictable results. 

If that's the mission, Volcator Charthagnion knows just how to do it. After a brief conversation with the eight year-old boy to impress the importance of his mission on him, he can be sent to liaison with the Church of Sarenrae.

It gets him out from underfoot, wastes the Sarenites' resources, and there's no way they'll turn him down.

This other ten year old can be appointed liaison to the Church of Cayden Cailean, and this one to the Church of Ragathiel. 

Uh.

Can we find a babysitter for them?

We're ten (and eleven, respectively! I am not ten) and the year is 4707 AR. 

We don't need a babysitter.

We are the ones who babysit. 

You.

Aww.

In Soviet Korvosa,,,

Although we probably don't have as much babysitting in our futures, anymore, since we were both disowned by our families. 

But I'll show them, though. 

I'll show them all. 

That's a useful impulse, and we can channel it towards good ends.

I vote we keep them.

Getting even won't improve your life, but forgiving and forgetting just might. It isn't that you shouldn't selfishly pursue revenge, it's that you can't.

I hope Pharasma fills my dad's heart with regret when he's old and gray and I visit him at his deathbed and he asks me if I forgive him and I hold his hand I say I do and I'm fourth-circle by then and he doesn't know it but I cast malediction on him right before he dies with a smile on his face.

...We can work on that.

Toff Ornelos isn't morally pure, and that's a deal-breaker for some: he's a devil-binder and he's worked with Ornher Reebs in the past. 

But how does Toff Ornelos feel about the growing power of the Asmodean church?

Toff Ornelos is taking a wait-and-see approach.

Disappointing. 

Qualins Rachmirol isn't morally pure, and that's a deal-breaker for some: she was hand-picked by Hell's Whore, the diabolic False Queen herself, Ileosa Arvanxi. But how does Qualins Rachmirol feel about the growing power of the Asmodean church?

Qualins Rachmirol is taking a wait-and-see approach.

Disappointing. 

Glorio Arkona isn't morally pure, and that's a deal-breaker for some: he tried to align himself with Ileosa against Lord Ornelos. But now that he's seen first-hand the wages of compromise with sin, how does Glorio Arkona feel about the growing power of the Asmodean church? 

He isn't thrilled. Is there anyone discretely collecting a list of Asmodeans and Asmodean-sympathizers? If not, someone should get on that. For his own part, he's going to see if he can sneak a peak at the Queen's list of named shadows and their controllers. 

Ileosa's Sense Motive is +17.

(It's a charisma skill for her, because of Versatile Performance.)

Oh noes, +17, that's terrifying. I don't know how I'd ever get past that. It's not like my Bluff is +33 or anything.

But, eh, suppose I give it to you. What's your Perception modifier?

Minus two.