"I am a real person! My senses were still active while Felandriel was projecting herself into my body. It's not that disorientating once you get used to it."

"Oh I suppose I shouldn't ask what she's really doing. I'm still getting used to this sort of thing. Did she explain what was going on? A lot of that made sense to me, and I assume it made sense to her, but if you didn't get an explanation it must have been baffling." No loss to her in sharing everything Morgethai knows or will soon know with him, but possibly Morgethai has a different preference, so if he didn't get things explained she will keep him confused.

"My understanding is that you are or claim to be a time traveler. I am very curious what that's like. I assumed that sort of magic was simply unfounded myth."

Enthusiastic nod of agreement. "So did I! But five days ago, I suddenly remembered four different ways the next month or so could have gone — well, two ways the month could have gone and two ways I could have died in the next month. If it's not real time travel it definitely does a good job of seeming like it is. Last time I was in contact with Morgethai and she cast a spell which let me perfectly recall a page of text, and she told me to send her some of it when I arrived. It must have had whatever information she's working with right now."

The trapdoor at the top of the dead-magic plane opens and a rope is lowered down.

He starts climbing up.

She follows him.

The demiplane is exactly as she remembers it. The moonlit glade doesn't seem to have much in the way of a day-night cycle.

Isaac stumbles briefly as he leaves the dead-magic plane.

Felandriel's real body is seated against a tree. She's briefly unconscious for a moment and then her eyes snap open.

"Hello." Is the telepathic bond still working?

She pauses for a moment at the stumble, before returning to her climb. Side effect of whatever Morgethai is using to overshadow him with herself? It's a guess, she won't get it confirmed. 

"Hello." It seems to be.

Good. "I will cast the truth geas now, unless there's anything else you want to say first?"

"It is all better said under the geas, I believe." I don't know how the telepathic connection will work with the Geas, you didn't have it active last time. This may be inconvenient. 

Morgethai can spot a little bit of distraction as she says one thing while sending along a directly contradictory message, but only a little bit.

It will probably be easier to answer telepathically but I am not certain.

Felandriel takes a minute to prepare the spell from her spellbook. Lesser geas. "Respond truthfully and completely when conversing with me or conveying information to me."

And suddenly her body language shifts. The hint of worry, the shade of deference to an archmage, the glow of curiosity in her eyes and ears, that all vanishes in a moment. In place of it all, Tencednil is suddenly... standing as if to report to Mother, which is useless — she shifts — standing as if reporting to a captain in the guard, someone to whom she is subordinate, someone who she respects, but someone to whom her opinion matters and who she expects to hear her out and to change plans based on what she says.

As Morgethai sees things and reacts, even just slightly, she shifts in turn to make this more obvious. It's just clear where to twitch, what small motion will illustrate exactly what she means to convey, how to come across exactly right. The Wishes definitely persisted, but she's never felt it more than she does now.

Is everything you have communicated to me so far true?

I did in fact have something else to say before you cast the Geas, and I said it. Aside from that, I have communicated no essentially verbal information directly to you which was known to me to not be true. My precise body language was at various times misleading in a variety of ways, which I anticipate but am not certain you would prefer not to spend the time expounding on. I cannot attest to the truth of any messages you left for yourself, and while I replicated the letter as I remember someone appearing you be you giving it to me, I had only strong evidence it was in fact given to me by a Felandriel Morgethai.

The telepathic impression of a pause, as if realizing something. There isn't an actual pause, but telepathy can communicate the sentiment without actually breaking a flow. (She hadn't actually realized that was possible, but it is and it lets her be more open, so apparently it's obligatory.)

—Possibly relevant to this matter, the security measures around and the appearance of the location we are currently in were familiar to me. Assuming for the sake of argument that that page was indeed added to my mind by a Felandriel Morgethai, I still do not know whether or not she was acting of her own unaltered will, but I had no evidence she was not. If she was at some point misled, I would not know it.

A break, and the impression of a deep breath to organize her thoughts, as if about to rattle off a list. Her actual body language starts shifting towards the same, but it's still in the middle of the pause, which gives a somewhat strange effect visually.

If I was misled, I would not know it.
My communications with the Bank of Abadar have in many cases been intentionally misleading, and inasmuch as you observe those communications they were not true.
The same holds for my communications with various other parties, but none I anticipate being relevant.
To the extent you may have attempted to cast divination spells on me, I have attempted to mislead them, and while I doubt I succeeded if you took any such actions I may have successfully communicated false information to you at some point in that fashion.

This is almost certainly not an exhaustive list of every possible method of communication I have used which may at some point have given you false information directly as a consequence of my actions, but I anticipate you do not in fact want me to produce a fully exhaustive list, and therefore further completeness would be contrary to your intent in your Geas wording despite being indicated by the words you in fact communicated. Telepathic impression of shutting up and sitting on her hands. (Why her hands may not be clear to Felandriel Morgethai, but neither she nor the Geas appear to think this requires further explanation, so it will do.) She doesn't actually sit, just returns to the same posture as before, giving up on the half-completed deep breath she was in the middle of.

That's good enough. How many loops has it been since we last spoke?

Loops? Is that a mistranslation? No, telepathy doesn't have those. Not days, that would translate directly, not years for the same reason, her patrol went in loops but it would be a very strange question to ask and is probably not the intent here. Puling apart actual physical motion and experienced time? She lives in a demiplane with dilated time, a word which means "physical rotation of Golarion" might translate as loops?

Even as she's thinking, she starts to respond.

The last time we exchanged actual words, disregarding those words exchanged within the past hour, was to my subjective experience approximately twenty-one days ago, or— twenty fifteens is three hundred, fifty is just over two twenty-ones— slightly more than one seventeenth of a standard year ago. I have patrolled in approximately twenty complete loops in the intervening span. In objective time, we have never spoken before. Measuring by Golarion rotations as I recall them, it was approximately twenty days ago, or slightly less than one eighteenth of a standard year ago.

The impression of a pause, again, this time one to collect her thoughts instead of continuing in this vein.

I expect I misunderstood the question in some sense.

You did. I must not have communicated the concept clearly enough. How many times have you experienced time travel backwards since we last spoke?

Once. There's some hesitation attached to that, which she tries to pass along into the telepathy. A sense of hesitation about calling this time travel — is it really? A sense of uncertainty at how many times it actually happens — is there actually only a single step involved in returning her to Desnus? But—

I am assuming, especially for this answer but in general, that you parse all my statements to be accompanied with a "to the best of my understanding" qualifier. I expect adding it explicitly would on net cause additional confusion, but know that here in particular I am less certain than I usually would be.

It is of course possible that you have not actually traveled through time. Someone may have figured out how to cause an artificial increase in sorcerer circles. The gods have sometimes granted direct increases to cleric circles. It would be simple enough to test if you are still experiencing this phenomenon. I would raise you, if you did not travel back in time. Nonetheless, I expect you do not want to die today.

I indeed do not! However, to answer your question completely required sending at least the existence of my unease with the specific framing, though I have thus far avoided a lengthy discussion of it. We can and most likely should disregard my minor definitional quibbles, but I am compelled to completeness and truthfulness rather than practicality or clarity in my responses. She tries to make it clear, between posture and telepathic overtones, that this is not an attempt to judge Morgethai for anything. This was a quite reasonable Geas to use, and most likely the appropriate choice of wording. She's just bringing up an inevitable and quite possibly unavoidable consequence.

Fair enough. Please give me a summary of your actions and their consequences starting from when you woke up on the 29th of Desnus last loop and ending now.

She did somewhat see this coming, so she can at least partly make up for not being constrained by the speed of her own mouth. She was still expecting to have time to phrase everything before getting there, and she doesn't now. It all comes out through the Bond as fast as she composes it, and that's something between liberating and terrifying given the stakes here.

Fortunately Morgethai asked for a summary. This would be excruciatingly slow if she was trying to answer completely about all actions she has taken in the span of over a subjective month.

As she was planning it, the general skeleton of her summary would go something like this:

- Returning to herself on the 29th
  - Realizing she had the abilities she remembered having
- Meeting Mika and the wizards in the Rusted Anchor
  - Finding the amulet with them
    - Increases her trust in the memories (loop? Loop) being accurate
  - Keeps them alive
  - Selling the amulet to Mother, who could get a reasonable price
- Moving money to the secret account
  - Placing bets on the Breaching
    - Demonstrates substantial credibility to the Bank as someone who knows things, which she used later on
    - Acquires quite a bit of money, which she had no real use for
  - Placing the blackmail letters into the secret account for later use, with the codes not yet available to anyone
- Attending the Breaching
  - Convinced her the loops were at least mostly accurate
- Sending the letters from the secret account
  - Warning to the King
    - Postpones Kind Eodred's death by a day
    - Makes conspiracy notice the account
      - Causes conspiracy to break in to the Bank, where they find the secret letters
  - Encoded letters based on tomorrow's paper
    - One to the King to point him at the Urgathoan cult
      - Causes the investigation to start in time, catching the cult before the otyughts get restless and angry and the disease has spread everywhere
    - One to the bank warning them of a break-in tomorrow
      - No meaningful effects she could see, it just seemed polite
  - Encoded letter without a specified key, for the conspirators to find while they break in
    - Points them to the other letters and gives them some advice
    - Shapes the goals they have towards useful ones and gets them funding her Wishes
- Volunteering for the guards
  - Means she is in the room for the actual cult attack
    - Prevents a few casualties, probably, by blocking the wizard from casting
    - Prevents another few casualties from 'blocking' the cleric and the daemon in a room
    - Gets the guard's endorsement of her and gets her on their list for patrols
- Actually storming the cult
  - Substantial budget increase for the guard
  - Prevents the disease from spreading further
- Joining the caravan to Janderhoff
  - Probably saves at least a guard or two, possibly the whole caravan
  - Gets her out of Korvosa where a teleport towards Almas would be obvious
- Teleporting to Almas
- Contacting last loop's version of you!
  - Gets her the Wishes
  - Alerts that version of you of the time oddity
    - Causes the writing of the letter!
  - That version of you takes them all to Korvosa
    - After some shenanigans, that version of you somehow removes then-Queen Ileosa and Togomor from the area
      - Cure production process stops
      - Throne is left empty
        - Cheliax steps in with a claimant, delivered by a Gate from Hell and accompanied by a seventh-circle priest of Asmodeus and far too many devils
        - Aspexia Rugatonn must have been the caster — is there any way to use that?
        - Houses gather to handle the open throne, with House Ornelos apparently opposed to Chelish rule
      - Throne wealth is looted — Tencednil doesn't know by who
- Sending the cure details to the Bank, plus an offer to fund it for the price they would have paid once it is completed
  - Cure happens!
  - The Arkonas funded it as well somehow? She isn't sure what was going on there
- Finding the red mantis assassins near the Arkona mansion
  - The guard hunts the rest of the local Mantis down
  - They lose one of them but capture or kill the rest
- Killing off the fungus bloom
  - The sewers seemed remarkably clear afterwards? Probably nothing important but it was a little strange
- Dinners with nobles
- Sending a letter to Toff Ornelos suggesting he contact that version of you about the Chelish
  - After various maneuvering, you two(?) completely destroy the Temple of Asmodeus in Korvosa, killing most (all?) of its inhabitants and quite a few other nearby people
    - Something unclear happens which results in Toff Ornelos telling the newspapers he killed Manohar, she doesn't know the details