"I would rather not kill anyone when being reincarnated, if that's also something I have design privileges over?"

"I don't know if you can avoid killing anyone... I don't know if there'll be anyone to kill... but I'll tell the Worldbuilding Team that was almost your first request, and I think they'll do it if they at all can."

"And you can certainly give everyone a good afterlife!  Do you want to be more specific?  Or leave it to the Worldbuilding Team to fill in?"

She wouldn't try her hand at designing an afterlife herself, but she's happy to watch other people trying to do it.

"The first thing that comes to mind is an afterlife with a variety of paradises that have readily available travel and communication between them. And maybe a reincarnation option where people can choose to lose their memories and be reborn, and then after they die they'll regain their memories from every past life."

"I want to design the afterlife, but I'd be interested in hearing advice on what what worked out well or poorly in other universes."

The angel grins.  "If you want examples - I have so many examples!  Not as many about the afterlife as about other things, but even so, there're a lot of universes where we did specifically design afterlives, and more where someone else did it outside us!

"Different paradises with communication..."  She muses for a moment.  "When those happen, they're more frequently thought of as different parts of one paradise.  Are you thinking of the difference as a matter of terms, or as something deeper?  I know a lot of places with clearly different afterlives, but they definitely wouldn't all be thought of as paradises!

"And then when you ask about how they worked out... are you talking about working out well for the individual people, the universe as a whole, the story, or something else?"

Working out well for the universe is more difficult to tell; she's wondering how she'll answer if he says he's looking for that one.  Though really, now that she thinks about it, she's thought a lot less about how well afterlives worked out once people got into them, rather than about how they were anticipating them...

"I'm not sure it matters whether it's technically the same paradise or not? I think it's important that everyone can go somewhere suited for them, People in the afterlife might need to change and grow as people before they can truly be happy, but I don't think they should need to stop being essentially themselves, or change a lot in ways that they wouldn't endorse. That means the afterlife needs to be suited for the people they are, and since people are different, they'll need different afterlife options." 

"As for how it worked out, I mostly meant how it works out in the very long-term. What is someone's afterlife like a billion years after they die? What is the afterlife like for someone who dies a billion years after the world was created?

A... billion... years?

"I don't think I've ever looked for someone who's been in an afterlife that long!"

"Well, they're supposed to be forever, right? Imagine an afterlife that's fun for the first thousand years, but then it gets so boring that all the dead are trying to kill themselves again. Or an afterlife that's not big enough, and it fills up with dead people and gets overcrowded." This being's priorities are concerning.

She tries to think about it... but then she's suddenly wondering what things will be like for her in another thousand years.

Fortunately (she's thinking now for the first time), the Will of the Multiverse did mention a couple alternative possibilities even if she hadn't really thought about them before...

"... Do you need to design everything yourself, or simply leave open other possibilities?  Your reincarnation plan is a good idea; I know of one way of doing things - that, well, seems to be working out well - which gives people the opportunity to launch themselves into other worlds or sometimes even other afterlives in different systems if they get tired of where they are.  Of course, you'd need their permission to drop people in them, but it's sometimes possible."

"That sounds like an incredible idea. Is there already a network of afterlives in different universes that allow travel between them?" And can he someday get to Nirvana after all? Also, can he advantage Good* somehow?

*That is, the Good gods of Golarion and the forces aligned with them.

"I don't know if it's regular enough across many different universes to be called a network, but it might be; let me ask..."

She pulls out a quill pen and scroll from another pocket, writes a quick note to the Worldbuilding Team and then after a moment's thought another note to the Diplomacy Team, and tosses them into a suddenly-appearing midair portal.

"I know there're a few afterlife systems each shared - or partly shared - by several universes, though.  But most of the ones I know about are the sort that don't invite detailed scrying."

"I'd be interested in opening relations with other afterlives, and also the Golarion afterlives if possible. The diplomacy team should reach out to Iomedae, Sarenrae, and..."- He considers the Chaotic options -"Cayden Cailean. Pharasma is the most powerful God on Golarion, but I think it would work better to let those Gods negotiate with Her on your behalf. I think they would be interested in voluntary exchanges, and they all have complex existing relationships with Pharasma." Can he open up trade between Golarion's paradises and his afterlife, and can he give Heaven powerful artifact weapons, scrolls of Wish, or something even better? 

Abadar would want to trade, obviously, but it's better to direct it all through the paradises and let Good impose a tariff. Should it all go through Heaven first. Heaven would be better at coordinating a tariff than Elysium.

"Also, Iomedae can't lie or break her word, and will generally hold Herself to a high standard of honor and nondeceptiveness. The diplomacy team should know that if they don't already." So they don't go through Pharasma.

"Unfortunately for that plan, the Diplomacy Team mentioned that Pharasma and..." she glances at her page "Otolmens have blocked them from communicating with other gods from your home universe so far."

"Ah." Shit. He hasn't heard of Otolmens, maybe they're a high-ranking psychopomp or something. "One of Pharasma's roles is the protection of Golarion from things outside it. An option that comes to mind is sending me to serve as a representative, since I'm native to that universe. Would that be possible?" It's objectively insane to be an emissary to Gods when yesterday he was just a first-circle looking to slay rats*, but whatever.

*Adventurer slang.

"... Maybe, if you set up your afterlife to permit things like that!  But that would need to be after the story we're going to put you in."

Right, the outsider is obsessed with stories. His intuition says that he should give her an opportunity to steer the conversation, since he's playing cooperative. "Can you tell me more about the story?"

"The story will be called 'Roses of Villarosa,' about a romantic rivalry... and perhaps more, as you choose.  It opens at the Royal Academy, where the villainess - you - is currently betrothed to the primary love interest.  He might be a prince, a duke's son, or a noble prodigy - you pick; you fill in more about him.  You might be a princess, a duke's daughter, or a rich heiress - you pick.  In the canonical story, your betrothal is interrupted by the Heroine and you are left to a Bad Ending... but here, you have the chance to avert it.

"I have a list of choices for you to choose between when you want, and then any more details can get filled in - within some very broad lines, such as, the Crown and nobility have to have some real power."

Okay, but he literally doesn't care, the story is irrelevant compared to eternal paradise and giving Heaven superweapons. But he has to play along-

"Could I make tentative first picks, then go back to revise later when I have more context?"

"Absolutely!  People do that all the time!  Do you want me to start with the world, or with yourself?"

By this time she's pretty sure he'll choose the world; if he's watching her face closely he might pick up on that.

"Let's start with myself, then circle back." Lac has Wisdom but not the kind that's good with faces.

Then he might miss her surprise.

"All right!  The first things to choose are your hair style and hair color.  They're linked with personality - not necessarily for everyone in Villarosa, though you can certainly have it be that way if you want it to, but that's what you're really choosing here."  She adds indulgently, "I wasn't the one who phrased it this way."

She waves her hand, and three illusionary images appear in the air in front of them.  They look a little like Lac's sister might look.

"For hair style, your choices are drill hair, which comes with a free bonus of an intimidating laugh that might be magical; hime-cut hair, which comes with a bonus of 'Silk Hiding Steel', or a core of inner strength and determination; or Elaborate hair, which comes with a free extra maid."

Is he going to look like that? That's so weird. Hopefully he'll get used to it.

An intimidating laugh that "might be" magical sounds dismissable. He has to stop himself from immediately dismissing it. 

"Another maid? I could have maids already with any of the three background options, right?"