They can pay him to leave the rest of the party alone -

She could open a Gate under them all right now and drop them in Nirvana. It's not even expensive, she paid up front for the right to hang around and do that whenever she wants.

(It's still expensive -)

(It's called lying, dear, you're allowed to do it to Asmodeus.)

Here's a bid: he gets his cleric, she can melt the rest of them down into Nirvanan goop, everyone's happy. 

Terrible bid. She doesn't even get out of bed for that kind of money.

She's being paid to stay in bed. 

She can open the Gate under them from bed.

...which is to say, deal. If that's how he wants to play this. 

Nonintervention from everybody else, and he'll retrieve his cleric, final bid take it or leave it. 

Ohhh now he wants nonintervention? In response to a Sending she's going to get in just a minute? She doesn't really think -

Take it. 

He can think about it harder than Her, because He's mostly being a god right now and She's mostly being an archmage right now. 

Deal, she tells Asmodeus instantly. 

Why. 

Take a closer look at this. I think it might be really quite important. 

"There are civilized foreign orcs we met riding in. I wanted to check, for them, if you'd host foreign orcs here."

          "Host 'em right up on the tallest spear I've got, if they'd like that." 

"I thought as much. Thank you." 

      "Civilized enough to carry silver? As long as they stick to eating their own young I'll take their silver."

"Thank you."

She returns with an armful of supplies to Alfirin who is nearly done with the Sending.

Chant chant chant, but that doesn't look like an Iomedae here to say "The Asmodeans have summoned a pack of devils and fled with a dozen hostages" so the chanting is less anxious than it was a minute ago.

The Asmodeans were at her last glance at them talking and maybe praying but she can't prevent people from praying unless she kills them all on the spot. Hopefully they will think it through and stop being Asmodeans, but she doesn't expect it on this timescale. Nor does she expect them to join the Crusade today. Maybe in a few months when the shock of the arrival has lessened.

She ties some food and blankets for them to her horse while the spell finishes up.

Aaand sending.

Encountered evil adventurers. Believe themselves from future, some supporting evidence. Asmodeans, one cleric, orcs, locally politically sensitive descent claims. Please advise.

"Acknowledged."

"Arazni has no advice for us at present, so I guess we should proceed as we were."

" - you made such a face. All right. As we were is I was going to drop off some food for them and ask them if they have any sudden changes of heart that i can use to make them sound less alarming to the Doux and then go get a meeting with him. Right? ...I guess we should have thought through what exactly we'd do if Arazni didn't have advice? I really kind of expected Arazni to have advice! Like, either 'they're delusional' or 'they're real', if nothing else - is there a problem in Vellumis -"

"She didn't mention any! She didn't mention anything, just, quote, 'Acknowledged.' Which means...probably it doesn't mean they're delusional and she's mad at us for wasting her time, right? Right? So if it's not that and she barely used any of the sending response then probably she's constrained in what she can say about it, so they're probably genuine? Or maybe She can't see, but then she'd say that she couldn't see - "

"Oh wait, I didn't think at all about -" 

She closes her eyes. 

"If they're delusional that's no concern of the gods, and the gods would not have done anything around it, though it is possible Arazni would still answer that way, if she prefers us not to be able to tell whether they're delusional or not, or if someone else prefers that - which Asmodeus might, I guess -"

" - you don't think Arazni would make a deal with Asmodeus -"

"Well, she probably would if it was about the Beast or the Abyss or something like that -

- and maybe about other things if He was offering enough, I know it'd be stupid for any mortal to take a deal like that but She's not -"