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If you. Somehow dug a tunnel. From here to the Arctic Circle. You would be protected by the Worldwound Treaty.

Oh, huh. Then maybe we should do that. Thanks for clarifying.

The Abyss is infinitely big so if we go there and look around theres a 0 percent chance we'll manage to find the worldwound.

Wait no that can't be right how would any of the demons manage to find it then.

There are spells for getting directions to significant planar features. They're not even very high level.

Anyway, speaking of spells, when are people going to stop doing massive guilt trips about personal use of spell slots? Some of us want to scry our families.

What if we tunnel down to the darklands and just live there, like the dwarves? I’m already getting used to living underground, it’s kinda nice

You know what would solve this? Dragons. Gold Dragons can get sunburst at will. Do you think Mengkare is looking for another country to rule?

We could just make our current tunnel bigger and stay here. Then we wouldn't get eaten by shadows or demons!

I'd rather be turned into a shadow than be eaten by a dragon, no way that's a good idea.

They say there's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution. We wouldn't want to prove Them wrong, would we?

If it works for the dwarves it'll work for us.

I heard some people in Mendev tried that and then their kids started being like, half lizards or something. No thanks

Dwarves don't live in the Darklands, idiot. Torag told us to quest for the sky, it was a whole thing.

We grind all our silver down into powder and make Holy Water with it.

Then we drink nothing but Holy Water for a week, until our whole bodies are Holy Water.

The shadows won't be able to touch us, we can just run around punching them all to death with our magic fists.

Being eaten by a dragon sounds way better than turning into a shadow. Really we just need to figure out a way to die that doesn't expose our bodies to necromancy and that isn't Evil, we'd be better off that way. Dragon would work if it digests the corpses thoroughly enough.

> Dwarves don't live in the Darklands, idiot. Torag told us to quest for the sky, it was a whole thing.

Liar. You're literally living underground right now.

I bet this was all your idea, trying to drag us down here with you!

Oh, we should ask Torag for help then. Great Torag, lead this humble mortal to The Sky, such as for example with positive energy channelling...

I heard that the kids of people who move to Hermea are half-lizard too. Maybe there's just no way through this without getting lizardy.

Well look at where questing for the sky got you! I bet whoever lives in the darklands now doesn’t have to deal with shadows at all. 

Oh, we should ask Torag for help then. Great Torag, lead this humble mortal to The Sky, such as for example with positive energy channelling...

That's actually a great idea! Everyone should pray to the gods they feel closest to and ask for cleric casting! Even if it didn't work earlier or if you weren't ready to devote your lives earlier, the numbers are different on both sides of the equation.

Hey, that was my idea first! Why are you trying to steal my idea?

Whoah, what about people who feel close to an evil god? They won’t be able to turn undead at all. So pray to the god you feel closest to, unless you’re evil, then pray to a good one instead. 

That's actually a great idea! Everyone should pray to the gods they feel closest to and ask for cleric casting! Even if it didn't work earlier or if you weren't ready to devote your lives earlier, the numbers are different on both sides of the equation.

...Hm. Alright. 

There are some gods which she feels mostly aligned with, and she's asked them to cleric her before - most saliently when she first became Field Marshall. She didn't expect them to do it, and they didn't; it's rare for powerful fighters to get cleric circles, it adds less to their capabilities than clericing someone young and inexperienced would. 

Still, it's worth checking to see if the gods still agree with that logic.

Abadar, Torag, Jaidi, Erastil... any takers?

The gods are probably busy fighting all the shadows right now!

If we all pray to them it'd be distracting, we should just leave them to it

Nope. She didn't expect it to work and it didn't.