Someone is back with a scroll.

The woman in armor has used another two lay on hands (the wound opened a little faster after the second one).  "I only have two more."

"Just a moment on the remove curse, we have one thing to try first."

"From where I'm standing it's that way," illusory patch on the wall. She tries spinning around and flying face-down and getting a bearing from each corner of the room. "Not very precise, triangulation from a wide base would be better, but it feels consistent," she reports. What a strange feeling.

She was hoping it would be narrower and they could triangulate something critical, but with such a wide area it either might be the worldwound as a whole or it might be the curse isn't intended to provide a useful sense to work from.

"Mark that spot and where she is standing, and I guess we don't need the surveyors equipment.  And you can cast the remove curse now."

She's not expecting it do anything against a curse Areelu herself cast, but you often want to rule out the easier and cheaper options before giving up.

Sure enough, the remove curse has absolutely no noticeable effect on Tanya!

"The Analyze Dweomer should be here in just another few rounds.  Will you prefer to cast it yourself Lady Terendelev?"

"Yes.  Also, I think we are going to want people with Paladin's Sacrifice ready to use.  The emergency contingency we are preparing for is a dominate by a very powerful caster, so, well, make sure they understand what they are volunteering for.  I am sure their sacrifice will be worth it if it comes to that."

She casts a Heal on Tanya.

The wound closes!  But an itch and a faint phantom sensation of a pull is still there.

Oh good, it worked. "I can still feel a bit of a pull... the wound doesn't seem to be reopening." Whew. Well, that means she can't be a teleporting city-killing one-woman strike team, which is probably for the best.

"I guess I am just waiting on the Analyze Dweomer scroll.  I think I will return to Kenabres, if you can still feel a bit of the pull, I'll hold off on teleporting you around until tomorrow when I have more spells to spare.  We'll still want a Paladin with Paladin's sacrifice to be on standby near you, just as one more fallback. I'm hopeful it can redirect even one of Areelu's dominates."

"Areelu's semi-divine power can push through most of the standard otherwise certain defenses against mind control, but I think since a Paladin's Sacrifice is redirecting it and not trying to block it entirely it should work.  For reference, Tanya, it is a second circle usually Paladin only spell, although Iomedae can grant it to her clerics also.  It is faster than normal to cast, and it redirects all recent harmful effects, including mind-control away from the spell's target to the caster."

The wound's itch and faint pull are actually getting more insistent with each moment.

They'd order one of their men to be mind-controlled in her place? It's a strategically correct decision, and... probably they don't treat it as worse than ordering someone into a suicidal attack, because they're used to mind control. Of course she's not going to refuse it, given the alternative, but it's still an unpleasant idea.

"The pull seems to be getting stronger again," she reports.

"Let me know as soon as it opens up."

She announces, again.

"We might need more healing soon."

A runner is back with the scroll of analyze dweomer, along with a lens made of ruby and gold!

"Finally.  Do you mind if I take a look at your orb also?  This spell can examine multiple creatures and objects per casting."

"In my system orbs aren't detectably magical unless they're being used, the magic comes from the mage, but I can't detect your magical items so the orb could have been tampered with. Go ahead, if you see something while I'm not using it it's probably sabotage. ...Is this location secure enough for me to stop using the orb?"

If they can see enough with a single spell to reproduce orbs for their own use then it's probably a lost cause trying to keep the information hidden from sufficiently powerful actors. In any case, Tanya's life might be on the line here: a compromised orb is a terrifying idea.

"Their most secure rooms are inside, this is just a checkpoint for incoming teleporters."

She casts the spell.  For most practical purposes, it isn't better than arcane sight or even just multiple identifies or even a skillfully enough used detect magic.  But for identifying more esoteric magical effects that stretch the definition of discrete spells, or identifying effects illusioned or abjured to hide from lesser divinations it can be invaluable.

Terendelev sees the spells Jon and she cast... and a permanent tongues and a permanent comprehend languages, each masked by a mask dweomer.  And they were cast with an extremely higher caster strength, a 9th circle with all the tricks like ley lines and prayer beads and death knell and maybe obscurer tricks.  And there are a bunch of esoteric effects Terendelev can barely make sense of, including not only the cursed wound, but effects reaching into Tanya's soul and tying things together on some abstract level.  She can't follow most of the ties, but one of the ties leads to elsewhere on Tanya's person... another orb?

She looks at the orb Tanya is using first in case being in use makes it easier to interpret.  The orb can do a terrifyingly diverse array of things, it's almost like a wizard's spellbook but spontaneous and tying in physical motion of clockwork to manage and manipulate magical effects with mathematical precision.  It is amazing and beautiful and even just gleaning very vague principles you could invent all sorts of things from it.  A clockwork analog of Ioun stones?  Clockwork based metamagic?  The possibilities seem immense.

She focuses... the other inactive orb is similar but even more powerful.  And it has some functions that operate very differently from the clockwork spells of the first orb.  It is still different from typical Golarion magic items, but more recognizable than the clockwork.  Some sort of mental alteration effect?  Some sort of avenue for an entity to intervene on it, to keep it working correctly and control Tanya's mind?  Okay that is urgent.  And it is tied to Tanya's wound and soul on some esoteric level!

All this information in just three rounds nearly leaves Terendelev dizzy.

She glances over Tanya's other gear, just incase there is anything else surprising.

"Your backup or secondary orb, whatever it is.  It has some type of hostile mind control effect.  It is tied to your cursed wound, so I don't want to risk destroying it or even separating it too far from you, but I suggest taking it off immediately and us putting it in a lead-lined box for safe keeping."

She wants time to think, but she also doesn't want to leave this vulnerability open.

In the minute or so Terendelev took, the itch got worse, but then actually stopped... and just as Terendelev speaks Tanya can feel a tiny spark of pain, like an annoying paper cut.

Blast it all, it's Being X again?! That damned orb definitely deserves the name of a cursed magical item!

"I'm aware of its mind-affecting abilities, they only activate if I use it - but my memories might have been altered - I don't want to use it but if it falls into the wrong hands it could be catastrophic." Tanya can't use it safely without praying to Being X, so Being X might be able to empower someone else to use it, and as much as Tanya doesn't want to use it again she wants to be on the receiving side even less!

Not carrying the Type-95 would mean someone who mind-controlled her would have that much less power to play with, and accordingly that much less of a reason to target her. In a world with mind control, having such power might be a poor life choice. Tanya hadn't had time to reflect on this before, but she's coming to like the idea of leaving that part of her life behind.

"I'll defer to you on handling it but if not for your analysis I'd feel much safer destroying it than giving it away. Honestly, this thing probably shouldn't exist in a world with mind-controlling and mind-reading gods. If someone manages to use it they could do a lot more damage than you've seen from me so far. Probably more than you're imagining. Make very sure it's well secured. Whoever set me up already had access to it, but there could be other actors." It's also a military secret of the Germanian army and she's committing treason by letting anyone else have a look at it, let alone giving it away, but that is really not among her top priorities right now; getting away from known sources of hostile mind-control is.

(Outloud) “We need a box for securing a cursed magical item.”

(And through her message) “You also had a permanent comprehend languages and tongues, hidden with an obscure exotic spell we speculate is only usable by witches and suspected as a spell Areelu Vorlesh has used in the past.  And all of them were cast at a strength only a handful of spellcasters on this continent could achieve, Areelu Vorlesh among them.  I can’t think of any reason why she would use you like this instead of just directly dominating you, but it’s the only thing that fits!”

Focus.

“And the orb had been tampered with beyond what you remember, your cursed wound is new, correct?  Somehow the orb is connected to it… I’m not actually skilled enough to tell, we will need a specialist in obscure and exotic curses and maybe soul-affecting magic.”

This is all very worrying, but what sticks out to him is the fact that Tanya’s original planet is probably doomed, just like Androffa.  Too much technological and magical power for a civilization to handle.

"I don't know anything about the wound or anything like it. We already knew there was a tongues spell, at least that seems straightforward to explain if they wanted what in fact happened..."

When faced with a scheming enemy, try to surprise them. Did they make any choices that weren't overdetermined? Did the choices they made or will make actually matter to the enemy's plan or is it all a distraction? Does it matter that they went here first and not to Axis? Did this really depend on the teleport or was that one contingency among many? Is there an obvious outcome now that they are here?

"They want something they can't get by asking nicely and paying us, or presumably by dominating me but not having your cooperation. So they must have set me up to cause you to react in some way. The attack on Kenabres might have been a distraction, or an unrelated event they took advantage of to quickly make us trust each other and induce you to help me. What are the results, undesirable to you, of me being in Kenabres or here or of us working together?"

...it occurs to her (perhaps too late) that if the enemy has a way to establish mind control over her remotely, through whatever magic was done to her, they might want her in Lastwall's secure area where she can do the most damage before they take control. The mind control might not even be magical in nature; it could be something more like brainwashing, a trigger hidden in removed or modified memories, a different personality coming to the front that would act of its own accord. 

Tanya really, really doesn't want to do threat analysis with herself as the threat and have them reasonably conclude they shouldn't grant her shelter, or should in fact imprison her to reduce the risk. She's not even loyal to these people, they're the ones who owe her money! But what if staying here will lead to her being mind controlled or mind-wiped - no, that way lies madness. She can't reason that she shouldn't seek safety just because the enemy would predict that she would seek safety. Whether or not Areelu is the one who set her up, there are bound to be more threats out there than Areelu.

(In a message) “There is one obvious source of additional information.  Lastwall should have a scroll or two of limited wish in stock if you want to try restoring your memories.”

“Areelu Vorlesh has used convoluted plots before, but the convolution is typically more purposeful than the random chaos of the demons she works with: deliberate distractions, useful side goals… the obvious plot that occurs to me is trying to assassinate Deskari in a deniable way?  But why not just dominate you to do that?  Unless she is trying to sabotage the demons even more extensively and wants you on our side?”

“Limited wishes are more than Lastwall would just give me upfront… but I will pay for a limited wish to restore your memory if you willing to commit to sharing what you learn relevant to this?  Or if you aren’t willing to so commit, I could advance it out of the money I already owe you?”

“Areelu assassinating Deskari through Tanya would be past the normal level of demon infighting but not drastically so.  …it would mean she no longer needs him as a patron for her Witch spellcasting, either she’s found an alternate demon lord or developed an artificial source of raw power.”