Are there any OTHER demigods we'll need to deal with?

Lorthact, maybe.

Who in the ABYSS is LORTHACT?

Lorthact was a Duke in Hell, but he's been dead for over a century. I very much doubt that he is relevant to our story.

Speaking of the worldwound, you know what would be a useful miracle to ask for? More wardstones. We know those are possible with a miracle, and having the ability to put up a giant artifact powered forbiddance would be very helpful for keeping out the undead and any infinite demons.

[Kressida isn't the only sane and good and reputable person on this meeting, right?]

The gods are all against us. Rahadoum had the right idea.

"Ahem. Ahem. Let me get real for a moment.

I am sure that we are all, in the back of our minds, dreading this possibility. How can we not suspect that all of the higher powers conspired against us? That the conclusion is foregone, and it's just hubris to think that we, a mere small human nation, can do anything about this onslaught of all the problems of Golarion at once?

But we should remind ourselves that it most probably isn't so. We still get divine magic, we still get Communes answered. We might be doomed, yes, but we should proceed on the assumption that we aren't. It's the end of the world, countries are shattering, economy is flayed, and a dozen ancient evils are threatening to break free, and our loved ones are consigned to Evil afterlives and the army of the dead grows with every round, and it might be all over, and if it is, what is stopping us from giving in, and eating our last feast, and plunging straight into the shadow horde, arms wide, tears in our eyes, ending it all!

But if it's not doomed. If there is any hope. It would be such a shame that we did do that, wouldn't it.

Let us discard all the possibilities where we are doomed, and let us discard all the possibilities where we give in. It's never too late for that.

I said my piece."

yeah unfortunately some of us didn't hear the end of that over our own sobbing.

it's all the loved ones consigned to Evil afterlives, okay?

Better to process that now than to stumble on it while fighting or whatever. 

It's not clear how many people are inside this Korvosa set but you remember at least one of them was already considering praying to demons tonight, right? That'd be stupid to say out loud.

All this talk about the last feast makes you sound like a secret Urgathoa cleric. 

That's not gonna get dignified with a response.

"Excuse me, Taupir, sir -"

    "'sir'? It's not a knight like us - "

"- would you be interested in an arrangement where you refrain from eating people without permission and block other shadows from getting to us, and we ensure that you get to eat someone each year?"

        "Right, excellent idea, I'm first!"

"After all, if all living people are consumed, you'll never get to eat again. It's in your interest to keep us alive."

    "Shadows are Chaotic, you can't make deals with them."

            "That's not what Chaos means!"

"And obviously, I'm not going to let anyone get damned. They'll be under Taupir's control, or hmm perhaps that of a wiser shadow, and won't do any Evil. And when we kill them after their tour of duty, that's free Good points!"

That guy won't even deny being an Urgathoa cultist! Maybe he brought the shadows upon us, on purpose!

Let us discard all the possibilities where we are doomed, and let us discard all the possibilities where we give in. 

Yes, and while we're proceeding on more pleasant assumptions, we should assume that Aroden came back to life, Glorio Arkona will marry Ileosa and speedily inherit the monarchy, and that all of us can fly!

I feel more optimistic already.

To my face? No-shit, right to my face?

Thread's rules say I can say whatever.

That's not gonna get dignified with a response.

That guy won't even deny being an Urgathoa cultist! Maybe he brought the shadows upon us, on purpose!

(In a louder tone of voice.)

Hey, everyone, notice how they ducked the question about whether he's an Urgathoan cultist? Suspicious, says I. 

It could even be that he brought the shadows down on us.

"- would you be interested in an arrangement where you refrain from eating people without permission and block other shadows from getting to us, and we ensure that you get to eat someone each year?"

That seems like a strict improvement on my current set up, which is "I refrain from eating people without permission and block other shadows from getting at you, and in return I get nothing at all."

But you'd have to take it up with Master Delmore.

"After all, if all living people are consumed, you'll never get to eat again. It's in your interest to keep us alive."

Hmm, that's a really good point. I remember reading that the daemons have a setup kind of like that... and, duh, I'm so silly, so do the undead in Geb.

Oh! Geb's had people and shadows coexisting for a long time, maybe since they have more experience with it they know how to do it right! Master Delmore, could we go to Geb and bring a shadow back to teach us?

"And obviously, I'm not going to let anyone get damned. They'll be under Taupir's control, or hmm perhaps that of a wiser shadow, and won't do any Evil. And when we kill them after their tour of duty, that's free Good points!"

Why do you people's minds always come back to the killing thing??

To my face? No-shit, right to my face?

Ooh, can he be the first target for being magically driven into insanity and then turned into an Allip?

I mean, it's not like anyone's going to volunteer and he did back-talk the queen.

You don't need to drive someone insane before the spell to turn them into an allip; insanity is easy to add in post-production.

Maybe you don't. Not all of us have 15+ CL to throw around.

We aren't driving anyone in this room insane. 

Except, maybe, one Cressida Kroft.

Except, maybe, one Cressida Kroft.

She volunteered! You all heard her!