"That's about the size of it, yes."

"Do they have records of how they first came to exist?"

"Not that they've presented to me. You could ask Rupert, he might know more."

"Perhaps next time I see him."

She nods.

Her best move is blocked on grounds of intimidation. She makes a worse one.

He sets something up that will let him exploit it if everything goes according to plan. "We have drifted somewhat off the original subject. Did you have any more questions about that?"

"There are things I'm still curious about but I'm overall satisfied that your history doesn't make it a bad idea to work with you."

"If you say so."

"Do you disagree?"

"No, I was just not expecting this to be - shared information."

"You had a reasonable explanation for how you got into that situation and how you got out of it."

"Asmodeus's country was conquered," he mentions. "Before He dropped all the clerics though it is possible that was provoked by the same party."

"Sounds like that's a good thing. Though I imagine it was disruptive to your work."

"We had some supply issues, because we were supplied principally by Teleport and Chelish wizards powerful enough to teleport have all sold their souls and many fled, but apart from that I expect it was more of an upset to anyone who lived within the borders."

"Oh, yes, it would be. Who was doing the conquering?"

"An archmage adventuring party."

"Are things better with them in charge?"

"It seems only reasonable to assume so but I did not see very many obvious changes from what little time I spent back in Cheliax on my way to the capital. They closed the Worldwound. That alone would compensate for a lot."

"Yeah, makes sense."

"Is there anything I should petition them for if they notice me missing in a few weeks from the constitutional convention and decide I'm worth fetching?"

"Good question... anything they can spare in the form of trustworthy adventurers would be well received. If they would find it interesting to investigate the profusion of planes full of hostile beings around here, I'd quite like to know more about what's going on with those. If it'd help make it worth their time I'm happy to have Chris cast her protective spells on them, for either practical or novelty value, it sounds like there might be some of both."

"I'll bear all that in mind. I have no idea how likely they are to follow up with my absence, though."

"Well, on the one hand, I hope they do because it seems unfair to you to have you be stranded in a foreign and hazardous world. On the other hand, I hope they don't because I'm really looking forward to having a second adventurer to work with."

"I'm not actually sure this world is a lot more hazardous than Golarion is. I suppose it depends on how many of the various world-ending threats were going to follow through on that if not averted."

"It's hard to know. The world's still standing, which is a promising sign. On the other hand, last year I personally stopped someone from ripping open a portal in the middle of town that I think would have been effectively similar to your Worldwound, so, not that promising."