kith is a terrible place to start a cult of asmodeus
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"Mmhmm."

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...he shrugs, and goes back to writing things into the spellbook; it takes kind of a while.

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In Cheliax she always felt like she was about as impressive and capable and loyal and worthy as a human could reasonably be, which wasn't very much but it was something. Here, once everyone else levels she will be useless. Maybe they will kill her because it's not worth having someone with so many vulnerabilities on board.

- she made these people. It is ridiculous to feel this out of control of things. She can make people loyal to her, if she wants. She doesn't want, but maybe there's a kernel of an idea, there.

 

She's so scared and she's so lost and this is so stupid and contemptible and self-inflicted.

 

Eventually she pulls herself together and prepares the rest of her spells and casts Detect Thoughts so she'll have warning if Daron is contemplating whether to kill her.

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Daron's very absorbed in the spells! He's in a pretty good mood. They can't get Asmodeus but they can start a wizard school - or possibly just him if Carissa winds up spending a lot of time crying? - and learn all kinds of cool things and maybe one day he or somebody he makes will be a god and that will be very cool and they can catch all the dead people and that'll be just about the most important thing anyone has ever done in this universe which, while not objectively doing anything very important right now since no gods are doing god-sized stuff in it, sure does contain a lot less competition once they get the ball rolling.

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Okay. 

 

 

She uses Prestidigitation on her puffy face - it's not an official use of the spell but every girl at her school knew a dozen tricks for it - and then sits up and has an Unseen Servant carry over her own spellbook so she can get better acquainted with the spells Daron was created with. Scrying is going to be a pain to redevelop from this and also she has a sneaking suspicion it won't work across planes like it's supposed to. And she doesn't even know what you start with if your aim is ascension. Irori wasn't even a wizard, she doesn't think. But it's a starting point. (And she can get any spell she's heard of that she can afford the ink for.)

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After he's slept, woken up, and prepped some spells for the day, Daron asks if she has an opinion about getting longer term accommodations in Twiceharbor versus setting up in Lemondale and getting underway on the school.

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She's leaning towards the latter, they've come to a bit of attention here and less money seems worth it in the short term for less chance of someone being intrigued/suspicious enough to make a person with detailed knowledge of Asmodeanism.

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"All right. We could walk it, it's only about three miles on once you get out of Twiceharbor, but if you phantom us a steed that'll save time and we can make a grand entrance. Then we corner the Lemondale laundry market and plan our next people."

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"I only have Mount but can do that, tomorrow morning. You should start thinking what could've been improved about you, it'll be useful for the next one."

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"I seem all right to me so far, except obviously if there's any way to squish more Intelligence in a person we need that and probably we should try varying lots of relatively trivial things in case any of them combine usefully in ways we can't predict in advance, as long as we need more numbers to get spells anyhow."

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"I'm about as smart as ever happens by accident in Cheliax, everyone smarter than me I've ever met was using magic enhancements. Detect Thoughts gives a read on it and you're a smidge above that but only a smidge, I think, I bet you can't hold onto more spells than me. We might be able to get better than that if the maker is enhanced."

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"Maybe, yeah. Might be as much a splendor thing as anything else. Wonder if you can finesse sorcerers - is there a reason to, do you reckon -"

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"I mean, if you can throw it in with wizard for free then it's extra spells. If you have to pick I think wizards are just better as long as we're not constrained by supply costs. There are a lot of kinds of sorcerer but I don't think there are any that can do things wizards categorically can't emulate. - maybe make the next person know every kind of sorcerous bloodline and what it gets you, though."

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"We can get a lot of data out of Golarion that way, we should keep a list." He starts one.

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"The names and a vague sense of the uses of every wizard spell developed? Can you do that or is it the wrong kind of category. Safe transmutation spell development. The summoning curriculum at the Academae in Korvosa. The protections around the Starstone, partially because it could be relevant to building a god but partially just because I'm curious. What gods are, how they work..."

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"You can't do - objective stuff. You can do the summoning curriculum, or some particular list of spells you don't know everything on but know where the list is. So not 'ever developed' but 'taught in places we have in mind' sure."

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"Can you do 'known to a specific person'?"

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"Not reliably, but we can try as long as we're trying things, who are you thinking?"

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"Famous wizards in history. Of which I could name a dozen but also we can make someone who knows two hundred. Geb. Nex. Jatembe. Razmir. Aroden."

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"Dunno what it'd do to try to put what Aroden knew in a first level wizard. Let's find out." He writes this down.

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"All the experimental ones that might produce someone who doesn't work should be for once we're more powerful, I think. If we mess up a second created person I think the local authorities will shut us down. And I - don't wanna dump them off a boat if they're weird some way other than not being there. - I gave you that too. I don't know if it's theologically warranted but." Shrug.

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"I don't think we'll be in trouble as long as the person isn't messed up by their standards, and we don't murder them. Merely not reaching your own ambitions isn't illegal. But that one might really be a mess."

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"Do Razmir as the first test case. He is still alive and definitely not ascended or otherwise transcended mortality so there won't be any weirdness caused by - trying to create a person who knows things only gods know, or something.

 

- immortality. Ways to do it."

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"I think we should try early for 'index of Abadar's library', go from there."

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" - we're so unfathomably powerful. Yes, definitely do that. And, uh, history of how Golarion got its afterlives, I got the Chelish version but especially with history sometimes they told us things that were more the right attitude to have than what actually happened."

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