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He should have fallen on his sword. That would have been the sensible thing to do.
Punched his ticket for Elysium right away, no waiting around.
He thought they'd only kill him.
Why did he think that? How stupid was he? Why in the world did he think that?
And now instead of his next great adventure he's flubbed a save against dominate person.
Or they knew each other in a past life? Samsaran and fey are both supposed to reincarnate, aasimar can be long-lived, and Kroft knows next to nothing about kasatha... though she doesn't think the Tian is actually a fey.
And Golarion is a big place for reincarnations to meet by accident.
Though they could have met on purpose... but Cressida hasn't seen much evidence in her life of divine intervention, outside of choosing clerics and answering communes.
The way she understands it, many gods want to act in Golarion but at cross purposes, and others like Gozreh think no gods should act on Golarion at all. Acting miracles is harder than preventing them, and when all is said and summed the net effect is typically nothing at all.
Perhaps divinities pay closer mind to the great cities and empires outside of Varisia, but if the Good gods were willing to act in Korvosa wouldn't they have stopped the shadows?
Unless they did act in Korvosa, and this was the result.
In Iomedae's ledger, is Korvosa good for Good?
And would Milani shed a tear if the Shoanti killed us all?
Cressida Kroft needs to sleep.
She's catastrophizing.
(Well, it is a catastrophe.)
If she continues in this way she will predictably wake up tomorrow and realize that she has made a terrible mistake.
(If she hasn't made one already - there are any number of candidates.)
But she can't sleep yet, there's too much that's time-sensitive and she can't delegate because all of her people are dead.
While she's positing powerful unlikely adversaries, here's another theory: the four adventurers are cursed amnesiacs, but the procedural memory is still there.
So they meet again and they're like old friends...
But really there's no point in speculating. She's at least 15 gp worth of uncertain and confused, so it's time for another truthtelling.
Assuming that sword is at least masterwork quality, she hits me on a 4, and the absolute least damage she could do with it is 1d8+12, which usually kills me in two hits. Also, we know she makes at least two attacks per round.
And we've established that she's going to betray us at some point.
We've established no such thing.
Without my precious blood bag up front in the lancer perch, in the crumple zone? I'm shaking like a meerkat on Pride Rock.
No way she just mercs you at level 3, right after you finished leveling your character up. Go find out what she has to say.
I want to be clear from the start that I don't think you've knowingly lied to or attempted to mislead me. And yet something very odd is going on. I think it's possible that you've been victim to a terrible crime, or a terrible accident, and I want to get to the bottom of it.
Would it be all right with you if I ask a few questions and verified the answers under truthtelling? You can decline to answer any question that you're not comfortable answering.
Whatever it is you think I did, I didn't do it.
Unless it involved four heads of lettuce and a wizard named Irate Vodka, in which case I'm not comfortable answering your questions but also he had it coming.
He used to teach at Livy's school but I already told you I'm not comfortable answering your questions.
Right. I'm sorry.
I plan to ask how you came to live in Korvosa, what you've been doing for work, what you were doing before then, and about how you came to know your friends.
I have some trail mix in my carry-on bag. Do you want me to dig it out and throw it away?
Altronus, you are carrying a gun, four swords, and like a dozen knives and javelins. I think border control is within rights to ask questions.
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