kith is a terrible place to start a cult of asmodeus
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Yes, of course, she has them right here. They are in Taldane.

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He wants to know what language that is, and if there's any part he should clip a note to as the likely problem area once they have someone who can read it.

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It's Taldane and she's pretty sure it's this part right here because it's the only part that wasn't straight off the checklists. She explains about how where she's from some people don't have free will, how she always wanted that, how she thought the new person would also want that, how she'd never heard it was a specialty art to make people that way but she hadn't been considering making people when she was last in Cheliax.

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"Mm-hm... I'm going to make you an appointment to talk to a risk assessor, what hours do you sleep?"

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She gives them.

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"Tomorrow at six-ring then. If you don't show up you'll be in real big trouble, we'll have to track you down before you can make another, understand?"

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"I'll be there, I promise."

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"Mm-hm. Tell me where you're staying."

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She gives the hotel.

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He has a few more questions, reminds her a couple times that falsifying the report will land her in deep trouble, and lets her go pending her appointment.

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She goes back to the hotel and collapses into bed and shivers. She shouldn't go to the docks, yet, it'd be quite reasonable for the police to have followed her.

She thinks the police are probably not behaving like they are going to execute her? She can't think why they wouldn't but it'd be odd to let her go and set an appointment for the next day if it wasn't a test which it was possible to pass. There is an incentive argument for not killing people even if they broke a law if they reported it themselves and could've avoided doing so? But it seems like a pretty weak argument and maybe only appealing because she doesn't want to die.

She's scared, and tired, and also while it makes a lot of sense that making mindless people is illegal there's another angle from which making mindless people seems entirely fine. It doesn't hurt anybody. She feels slightly indignant about this, in some vague disconnected way. 

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The nun walks her back to the hotel and then returns to her monastery. Asmodia II, as planned, does not return.

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Yep. She'll figure out how to catch up tomorrow if it all works out. 

 

She sleeps very poorly but does not miss her appointment in the morning.

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At six rings there's someone at her hotel room. "Carissa Sevar?" she asks.

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"Yes, ma'am."

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"I've spoken with the Universal Prayer people and they think your person can actually survive if someone puts food and water in her mouth for her. It turns out she can swallow."

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"I'm very glad. - guess it makes sense, because she can walk, prompted..."

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"Yes. Are you prepared to look after her?"

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"Of course." If Asmodeus can't use her she's going to kill her as soon as they're somewhere where it's legal.

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"All right. In that case I don't think we need to pursue further judicial action apart from - don't make anyone else. Most people only make one, maybe two people in their lives, we in Ivory like to leave all the real population growth to experts with good track records. Whatever project you wanted her for, consider it failed. All right?"

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"Of course. I understand."

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"Collect her from the monastery and good luck with her. Maybe if you're lucky she'll drift a bit, wake up."

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"Maybe. Thank you."

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"Mm-hm. Good wake." And she departs.

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She will drag Asmodia I back to her hotel room, then, and then go try to track down Asmodia II. Probably what they're going to want to do is dump Asmodia I in the ocean somewhere and claim that she did in fact wake, as Asmodia II, but she is not in great shape to plan a murder right this minute.  

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