Hey. Hey. Cayden. You are so going to want to see this. 

"I want to meet everyone and hear their stories and go to all their worlds and see everything and help everyone! I bet I could do that in drink form, too!" Amulet of the Planes, cursed blessed to always choose a target never visited before, turn the daily charge into a liquid, major artifact, easy as. "But if you can't -"

"Please, please do surprise Me."

"I can't give out magic," the bar apologizes. "But here, I think you'll like this one."

And it passes her a bundle of abstract sensory impressions with a little umbrella in it.

It tastes like turning over a stone, and discovering a hidden world of tiny, delicate creatures. It tastes like running into a stranger in a train station and bonding over how wonderful it is that in twenty minutes you'll both be in an entirely new country. It tastes like someone who spends years carving a tiny intricate statue out of jade, so that they can leave it in an old hollow log, not knowing who will find it or when.

"I can also recommend you media, though. Books from any of the worlds that I can reach."

What She wants from books is - not just beauty and knowledge. Not the things She'd see for herself if (when) She goes to the worlds where they were written. She wants to explore, to find the strange and the beautiful and the new, to be surprised and delighted over and over and over again. She doesn't want to be told where to go, only what to avoid, because it's empty or dangerous or boring.

She's looking for travel advisories.

In return She offers all the wonders of Creation (in book recommendation form where available), and Her personal help connecting Milliways to more worlds and helping more people find it, if it is something She can help with. Not in payment, commensurate or otherwise, but because She wants everyone to have this, everyone across all the worlds.

She'll be going through all of the doors that open into Milliways from now on, exploring and helping people and thrilling in the discovery of endless new creations. This isn't something she asks Bar for, or even tells Bar about. It's something She is, that She wishes made known, the innermost legible core of Her, with an enormous earnest happiness and gratitude and goodwill towards whoever made this possible, and whoever will use it like She will.

Bar appreciates the offer, but Desna is the wrong kind of being to help with opening doors. Bar doesn't control where the door opens. In some sense, the fact that it doesn't is the tradeoff that lets it reach so much further than a being like Desna can.

In fact, now that She is here, the door will not open to anywhere where Her interference would be ... uninteresting. Not the right kind of story. The door is controlled not on the level of gods, but on the level of the landlords, who sit outside of time and are mysterious even to Bar itself.

That said, She is welcome to stay as long as She likes, and invite people from the worlds She can reach. Several of the other patrons also plan to wait for more doors and travel through them.

In terms of travel advisories -- Bar recommends these books here. These ones are published by big inter-world alliances, and cover all the worlds they know how to reach. These ones cover specific worlds that are particularly important to be prepared for, for one reason or another.

Desna will need to either start a tab, pay for the books with something Bar is allowed to accept (counterfeit is fine), return the books after She is done with them, or talk to that mortal over there. The mortal has offered to cover people's tabs up to a certain amount, but needs to know they exist in order to pay, for privacy reasons.

She's not going to stay if that stops people from other worlds from using the magic door!!

...that means there's more than one Milliways, otherwise Her staying here would count as affecting the worlds to which the door would no longer open, and She can't affect worlds She can't even reach.

Desna decides She's going to leave sometimes, go out to see the many worlds, and come back occasionally for more. That way everyone should get the Milliways experience best suited to who they want. She'll miss some interesting visitors that way, but being the goddess of travel means no part of Her should stay in any one place forever.

She opens a tab. She can of course provide gold, but that's boring, how about this minor artifact that does poorly targeted interplanetary teleport instead?

And She settles in to read, and watches the little wormhole. She's not going to wiggle through it uninvited, it looks uncomfortable. Cherry's going to open her door eventually and that will count as invitation.

...oh yeah, Cherry prayed to Her! She's feeling very generously inclined right now, but the request wasn't very specific, was it. What's going on outside?

Milani is young, as gods go, and very small; even Cayden outweighs her many times over, fellow upstart that He is. She cannot answer many prayers, but she receives few enough that it works out, barely. Usually she passes them along to Someone else who might help instead of her.

She makes art out of necessity, coordinating Good and Chaotic gods in unlikely alliances, helping them balance their different interests and costs on the thinnest edge that makes an intervention barely worth it. She can do this because she understands Golarion's mortals as few others can - easily, cheaply, intuitively - better by far than vast alien Sarenrae, who does not understand why anyone harms another, or Desna, who can read all thoughts but only at great expense to Herself; better even than Iomedae, Who cut out her own humanity, Who can coordinate better than anyone if She spares enough attention but Whose attention is managed far too well to notice the unlikely and the unforeseen.

Where Iomedae fights for Good optimized and triaged and carefully doled out, and writes off whole causes as lost, and Cayden is called on to help one person at a time, Milani wants to reform systems. She is not well known or well understood, rarely invoked and rarer still to answer in her own name. But when a rare prayer reaches out to her very heart, she will - not answer, she can't afford to just answer - she will do her best, and try to rope Anyone else she can into it as well.

Oh hey, some people are here already! But they're not coordinating properly -

Hey guys, team huddle. I'm going to tell you exactly what the mortals prayed about. 

They'll subsidize her costs; it's a long-standing agreement she has with some gods who trust her not to misuse the contents of prayers not actually directed to her, a tough market to get into for Chaotics but an invaluable service for the same reason.

(Gods do not communicate in words, not even Milani. She's not going to insert a long complicated disclaimer saying this transcription doesn't fully and faithfully represent what passes between them, she's not Lawful.)

That's really great! She says she'll do it earlier with an intervention, but she didn't ask for a particular one, what would be best?

We should talk to her, to coordinate. I think it's best to help her messengers to reach our mortals, quietly. We could send down some people here and now, but others would notice. The Night Monarch can go anywhere and talk to anyone, and every time she does Hell inevitably hears about it sooner or later.

Uh, Desna? Why are you moving so much of Yourself into Milliways? To god-sight there are vast trails of butterflies descending from the stars; visible only to Her allies, but - wait! Don't incarnate! Asmodeus will notice and so will everyone else!

Don't worry! I'm just here to go into a bunch of other worlds soon, this is GREAT.

Don't go! We need you! Golarion's people need our help so much more than those of Cherry's world!

It'll be fine! I'm bringing back a bunch of butterflies that were exploring some new stars in Creation that were really quite boring by comparison. 

Oh Good. 

Should we call Iomedae in? She has a paladin here already.

Cherry doesn't want to talk to Iomedae yet, so Iomedae won't talk to her. But the paladin is praying, so She'll be here soon and then She can help us talk to Cherry. Milani can do it herself (with a boost from Sarenrae) but nothing beats talking to an already-empowered mortal, if you want them to still be in good shape afterwards.

She could have missed this prayer, humbly offering something to Her attention without, actually, claiming that it deserves it. She never has enough attention to go around, and She trusts Her paladins to make the right call on what really matters. 

She's not going to miss it when three other Good gods are metaphorically jumping up and down on top of it waving a flag for Her attention.

Orient. Prioritize. Call in more of Herself, to better see and understand, reevaluate the potential benefits, reprioritize. Flag it for higher attention, pulling in resources from projects that couldn't afford Her sudden temporary absence a moment ago. Repeat, and repeat, until She achieves the optimum balance between what resources She can use here and what She judges will not trigger a worse reaction elsewhere by its absence, by telling the wrong adversary to invest enough in finding out where She went.

I am here. I'm going to talk to My paladin Irabeth and with her help to Cherry, and let all of You speak to Cherry through her if You wish.

We can call on many others, Who would help us and would also benefit from this new opportunity.

We can do it later but right now adding more people would risk the secrecy and could add conflicting interests. Not everyone is as in favor of letting everyone travel away from Golarion as Desna is.

Hey, guys? Did you know they have stars made not from positive energy but from giant explosions? I can't wait to see them!

Did someone say GIANT EXPLOSIONS?

Oh for - we were trying to keep this thing a secret! How long have you been listening?

You know that I am always everywhere.

I see all things and all futures. The possible futures contain great Good, and also great explosions.

I have always believed in Your fundamental inner Good! Now that You are here, You will help us steer towards the most Good future!

Nethys, are You steering for the future with the greatest Good, or that with the most explosions?