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"...So, the place I'm likely to get kidnapped to is Hell, and the place some of the known ones are is also Hell?" 

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"Hell is larger than Golarion," says Kehler. And, smiling, "Yes."

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"I got here from Count Tiriac's castle as slowly as I did because I was avoiding breaking the sound limit. I am one-quarter Messenger, and the purpose of Messengers is to carry messages between stars. I would need a symbiote I don't yet have, to break the light limit, but I can still go very, very fast. 'Bigger than a planet' is still entirely workable." 

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"Right." Kehler will send for some maps of Hell! "Hell consists of nine planes, stacked 'lowest' to 'highest', each much larger than Golarion but of finite size; there are permanent Gates connecting them but each is accessible only from the next 'highest' and next 'lowest'. Powerful artifacts are likely to be in the possession of powerful devils, since Hell is a strict tyranny." One of the queued questions is "can Lucy beat a pit fiend" and they're waiting on the answer.

"This is what an Amulet of the Planes looks like; we don't have one to compare, so this is an artist's depiction. Plane Shift spells are aimed with an attuned rod; an Amulet of the Planes doesn't require one, and instead requires - a sort of complex mental trick that uses intelligence, which Fox's Cunning enhances. This is its Razmiran variant, again an artist's depiction; the Razmiran variant requires the attuned rod. There might possibly be one in the possession of a Neutral Good adventurer formerly in Razmir's service who would lend or sell or give it to us but last our scries picked her up she was in the city of Razmiran-controlled city of Kavapesta in Ustalav and wasn't wearing it. Felandriel Morgethai might possibly have one because she's the sort of person who occasionally has strange rare artifacts, and we'll know if we should ask to borrow or rent it from her when the Commune comes back."

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She studies the depictions, and nods. 

"Are tuning forks hard to come by?" 

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"Not by the standards of magic items, but they might be in Hell. There's one for the material plane in the Bag of Holding," which is somewhere in the stack of magic items.

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"So they are, in fact, magic, and not just...tuning forks, with tones corresponding to planes?"

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"Correct," says Vaus, who is the specialist in this. "You need to go to a plane to attune the fork. Archmages can create private demiplanes that are impossible to get to because nobody has a fork for them; this is one of the reasons they're so hard to assassinate."

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"Couldn't someone go to one with an amulet that didn't need tuning forks?" 

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" - Possibly!" Vaus grins. "But you'd need to specify the demiplane exactly, and there are a great number of permanent demiplanes that powerful wizards made and then forgot about for it or died or retired to to mistake it for. Amulets of the planes are only reliable, to the extent they are reliable, if you aim them at the main planes."

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"Hmmmm. --Something to put on the not urgent pile: I want to look at a bunch of tuning forks for different planes lined up together, see if I can figure out anything interesting from them. Seeing as how I am a thing-that-goes-places." 

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Sure. In the simple case, they can non-urgently add tuning forks for the planes they have reasonably easy access.

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Second Commune is done!

Is Law-light lethal to some outsiders but not others?

YES.

If she takes the actions you have recommended will the person who identified herself to us as Lucy be in urgent danger within the next twenty-four hours?

YES.

'Is there a simple, accessible-to-us plan for healing Tsukiyo with a sufficiently good chance of working that you recommend we try to come up with and execute it?'

NO.

'Do we already have plans we should carry out with regards to this that we have already dismissed?'

NO.

'Can the person who identified herself to us as Lucy defeat a typical pit fiend in combat?'

PROBABLY NOT.

'Should we attempt to rent an Amulet of the Planes from Felandriel Morgethai'.

NO.

(The 'should we inform' questions come back 'no' in every case except the High Priestess of Sarenrae, who gets an 'UNSURE'.)

'Is there anything of catastrophic importance we should ask that we haven't thought of but are likely to.'

NO.

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" - The spell usually delivers a one-word answer but sometimes doesn't," Vaus says. "Pit fiends are the most powerful devils common enough to be a type, and my best guess is that Iomedae thought that we would take 'unsure' to mean 'I don't know what Lucy can do', not 'if she gets lucky or has the right buffs'."

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"Maybe I should've tried praying to her again, before the Commune. Not in expectation of a response, just giving her a run-down on stuff." 

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"Praying to Iomedae is usually a good idea unless you are very busy, in which case it is often a good idea," says Kehler. "But if you prayed to Sarenrae She probably passed on any nonprivate information She learned from you to Iomedae, the good gods cooperate, so it isn't as urgent as it would otherwise be."

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So she takes a moment to think about her favorite word, and how much she vibed with Sarenrae, and clever things she's pulled off by putting life-light through variously enchanted lenses, and also these are the colors of the Neathbow and what they do, and she's actually pretty good at fighting with Correspondence, she was taught by Mr. Irons who is very, very good at it, and she hasn't gotten in a lot of real fights with it but, like, some, and this is her slitting her own throat to rob the Boatman, and these are the things she's figured out how to do with Correspondence and the methods by which she conceives of and tests new ones...

She looks over the maps of Hell, looking for things like "lots of damned souls here" or "rare magic item storage"

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Damned souls: Everywhere. They pave their cities with them. Most devils are made out of damned souls. The main ones are probably in Dis, an extraplanar metropolis that is the second layer of Hell, and the endless queues of new petitioners in Avernus, the first layer of Hell, but that's just saying "the more dense areas are."

Rare magic item storage: Nope! Each layer of Hell is dotted with the fortresses of powerful devils, but, honestly, there's so many powerful devils that it's hard to fit on the map. Most fortresses will have treasuries? But whether or not they'll have the amulets might or might not help.

In general, maps of Hell are paved with random cool things like "Fanged Marshes," "Promised Land," "Hanging Marches" or "Gardens of Erecura." There's so much stuff it would take days to explain all of it.

"You should absolutely try to get out of Hell as fast as you can if trapped in it," says Kehler. "If you can't Plane Shift out, there are permanent gates to other planes in Dis, but Hell is somewhere there are very large numbers of very powerful entities. Golarion is a very small pond compared to the oceans of the Outer Planes."

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"Okay, understood. But, also, they pave the roads with them???"

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The leadership of Lastwall is not controlling their faces sufficiently that she can't tell they're as disgusted with this as she is!

"They pave the roads with them, they build their cities out of them, they build their soldiers out of them," Kehler snaps. "Hell needs to be destroyed, and Pharasma is monstrous for building a world with a Hell and for sending ten percent of the population there."

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(Tiriac will quietly rise - "If you don't need me urgently?" and bow out of the room. He still wants that Atonement, and he's not sure he can contribute anything until Lucy needs a bodyguard again.)

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(She gives him a thumbs-up.) 

"That's so--I'm used to evil, I'm used to people seeing other people as, as resources, or playthings--I am not used to people using people as resources when literal non-magical rocks would work just as well. Has it not...occurred to Asmodeus...that surely someone Good would cheerfully trade those souls for some other resource plus actual cobblestones--" 

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"Asmodeus likes torture," she says flatly. "Asmodeus likes - Asmodeus wants there to be people beneath Him in the hierarchy, the more the better, and He wants as many people as possible in the hierarchy He rules to have people beneath them, who they can oppress with nothing but their own will stopping them. He is god of Tyranny, Pride, Slavery and Compacts. Selling Good gods the slaves of His followers would allow His slaves to dream of freedom, which He doesn't want, and would produce a gap in His tyranny, which He doesn't want. Paving stones are useful to him so His most miserable devils can still be able to tread on someone."

"He could, in fact, be worse," Vaus nominates. "Zon-Kuthon is the god who wants to minimize everything His past self Dou-Bral, god of beauty, love, joy art and music, wanted to maximize. But He only gets His followers, not all Lawful Evil souls whose patron deities don't claim them."

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"I am going to want a more in-depth explanation of Zon-Kuthon and/or Dou-Bral at some point, but not until after going through the existing items on my checklist." 

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"What's the rest of your checklist?" Vaus asks.

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