:Should we get a Mindhealer for them or something?: 

:Oh, probably. I can get Melody?: 

Vanyel just nods, distracted. 

Wow an entire population mind controlled by their god is a mess on a scale not too dissimilar from Cheliax. He doesn't say that, obviously.

:Should we give the diplomatic party an update? I don't, er, really know what to say yet...: 

:They should know that the pact is ongoingly mind-affecting, it might change what they want done..:

:I'm a bit confused - I'd be surprised if it were that strongly affecting for everyone all the time, the Tayledras mostly don't talk to Her and seem like normal people. It could be the pact plus - maybe Break Enchantment fixed whatever She did to them when they spoke? When that happened to me I was a mess after having it undone: 

:Oh, that makes sense. Presumably most of them haven't under Her influence done things they regret away from Her influence, either.:

:I hope not. They're mostly lovely people: 

He looks sadly at Starwind and Moondance. :Gods. I feel terrible. What a disaster. Moondance is - I don't know if he can be okay, after this. he already gets depressed sometimes because he killed someone by accident as a teenager and I think he still felt like he hadn't made it up to the world, and now...: 

:I don't think I would be ever okay if Abadar had done this.:

Vanyel has no idea what to say to that so he just leans against Fazil's shoulder, blinking away tears. 

Melody comes in. She gives Fazil a narrow-eyed look; there's both gratitude and a flicker of annoyance in her expression. :You did some sort of magic to break mind-affecting spells? Can you tell me anything about how it generally works...?: 

:Break Enchantment is for dispelling magic but specifically mind-altering magic, and it can get stuff that's too powerful for Dispel Magic to get anywhere with. It removes the mind-affecting magic, if it does anything at all.:

:I see: Her eyes go out of focus for a moment, playing over them. :Well, it got whatever distortion She'd put in to block their memories of talking to Her, and - I suspect other things but it'll take me a while to figure it out. It didn't get Nayoki's set-command on them not to run away, which is good, that could've been a mess: 

:It doesn't work on Mindhealing. It came up during the war.:

:Goodness, that says such interesting things about how all of this might work. Anyway. I think I had better spend some time with them today and see if there's anything I can do to make this easier on them. I think they're a little overwhelmed by the number of people in here right now, so...could we maybe have fewer people? Van, I'll Mindspeak you right away if either of them wants you here, same to Savil: 

:Oh, um, right, of course: 

:I'm a little leery about you being alone with them when you're not mage-gifted, but - I can lurk right outside the room?: 

He fishes a ring out of his pocket and offers it to her. :And this lets me take half of magical attacks on you - there's no good way to do more than half, inconveniently -:

:Huh! Thank you, that's very kind of you: 

She ducks outside the room and waits by the door. 

Gemma leaves with Vanyel and Fazil. She rubs her eyes. "What a night. I'm off to bed. Good luck with," vague handwave, "that." 

Vanyel nods and thanks her. He seems sort of at a loss. 

"I wish the Star-Eyed had never agreed in the first place that Velgarth souls who died in Golarion could get our afterlives. If She'd just stabbed an ally in the back to use a superweapon for murder I think we'd be trying to negotiate appropriate concessions and assurances she won't do it again. But instead she has demonstrated that concessions and assurances are totally meaningless to her, so - where does that even leave us -"

"- I don't know. At least we know that, though? She's obviously a - shape of being that'll do that. Not Lawful, I guess. And if She hadn't broken an agreement then we'd...still be trying...and it'd probably still explode later..." 

"- I guess so, yeah." Hug?