Wrong kind of negative.

Shadows keep doing evil because they're hungry, right? We need to design a ring of sustenance for one, and then we can redeem it.

I think Black Butterfly is a goddess of silence, so if we want her help, everyone must shut up. 

...oh great Butterfly.

Cressida Kroft said right at the start that she wanted to get a better handle on the shape of the threat before jumping to solutions.

Some of these proposed solutions have had kernels of good thinking in them, but on the whole Kroft thinks it would be better to hold off on proposing solutions and just roundly discuss the problem. There are several parts of what happened last night and the explanations they've gotten which are mysterious to her, and - 

Kroft has given up on finding solutions? It's a good thing she's not in charge of the Guard anymore, that's for sure!

...And I have a number of questions which maybe someone here knows the answers to. The big one is, what caused the shadows to attack last night when they never had before? What was the proximate cause?

They gave up on finding a solution to the Worldwound and now it's a sucking wound in the top of planet, draining blood and treasure out of Golarion's best nations. You want the thing with the shadows to be a forever war, like the Worldwound is?

What was the proximate cause?

Rovagug made the shadows attack? Reebs already went over this??

Right, so, she'll state what seems like the obvious theory just to get it out there, but Kroft's stating in advance that she's not very happy with it. Maybe a cleric can clear up her confusions?

So, the theory goes, the attack on Korvosa was the effect of direct divine intervention: the Rough Beast reached out to a shadow and directed it our way.

If the theory is so obvious why do you still have confusions?

...Ignoring that and moving on. Cressida's first confusion is how the Team Shadow coalition is able to afford it - her understanding was previously that divine intervention is rare because deities can cheaply veto expensive interventions, unilaterally or nearly unilaterally.

The handful of gods and demon lords in favor of yellow fever must be wildly outnumbered by the ones who aren't, but we still have yellow fever. If the Pallid Princess - acting more or less alone - can't preserve the status quo even against the combined powers of Nirvana, Heaven, Axis, and Hell(?), Kroft must admit she doesn't understand why pox and ague still exist.

Oh!

Oh!

Did you know that ague is caused by mosquitos and we could eliminate them with something called a gene drive?

Wolves, too, and gob -

uh -

...only mosquitos and wolves, though.

Is something I read.

In a book.

....................i have NEVER heard of a GENE DRIVE and i DON'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE

Sounds like made up nonsense to me.

And just when I thought our outlook couldn't be any rosier.

Can you please one-to-ten how concerned about "gene drives" I should be for my own person and for the human race.

....Two, maybe three? No higher than four.