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Lucy attempts to solve post-Razmir Ustalav
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"--So that went well!" To Tiriac: "Feel like you've risked your life in a good cause yet?" 

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"As it happens, Miss Whitman, I do."

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While they talk, Arazni is looting her stripping her rotting corpse and putting on her magic items, which are basically everything on it (including her dress), throwing all the random nonsense in the resource bin into a bag of holding, and recollecting her staff so she can put Mage Armor up properly again.

(She has not really touched her divine senses yet. Arazni has never been a great god, and she is not, at present, significantly more powerful than, say, Iomedae was before she touched the Starstone, so this is not as much of a problem for her as it would be for someone who was more meaningfully a god.)

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"It... did." Also they ticked off Geb. Geb is still ticked off. At her personally. de Caserta is prepared to die for the cause of Iomedae but also she is not sure having Arazni on their side now was worth the price they just paid, sorry Arazni.

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"Are you upset because the thing you warned me would happen totally happened?"

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" - More that I'm going into combat shock, actually? Sorry."

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"Oh, no, that's super fair, I'm being artificially chipper to postpone having a minor breakdown."

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Arazni has her headband! "Dropoff in Absalom all right with you?"

Arazni is also going to have a breakdown but she will have it elsewhere. She needs to reconsider basically every one of her beliefs and probably also yell at Iomedae and Milani for a while.

(Every cleric of Arazni who was not previously True Neutral, which none of her clerics were because she only chose Neutral Evil people who wanted to kill themselves but were incapable of doing so because of outside forces and them only very briefly, lost their powers a few rounds ago.)

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"--Ustalav would be better, if it's all the same to you, I resurrected most of the undead there too and I think things are still a bit up in the air--plus, like, that place is seriously wack in some way I have yet to identify, and I would like to identify it." 

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"Fine with me." She's going to drop them off and then plane shift to Aktun and sell one of Geb's trinkets and buy ASSASSINATION INSURANCE from the CHURCH OF ABADAR in AKTUN and bask in the certainty that nobody is going to murder her until she leaves.

Then maybe she'll eat food. It's been a while since she ate food.

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"I'll go with Miss Whitman." 

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"I can make it back from there myself."

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"Ustulav is a fine place to be."

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Awesome. Holding hands for teleport. Lucy makes sure that one of the people she is next to is Tiriac. 

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Tiriac holds her hand, still with the same grave, courteous expression he usually wears, and they all teleport into the city of Ardis!

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- Which Arazni instantaneously departs. Yes, you're safe in Aktun under practically all circumstances without assassination insurance, but why take the risk?

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There is this model of the army of Remek Czaszar/Uachdaran Mòr/Wielki Ksiaze, that people have, which comes from their model of undead armies in general, which is that they are the slaves of him personally, and that when he flees the battlefield and they are all returned to life, great, that solves the problem. This theory comes from the obvious fact that, well, would anyone willingly serve a Neutral Evil tyrant bent on slaughter and full of treachery if they had free will in the matter? Even people he's bribed into service, when they get their offered pay on a silver platter, will they really keep working for him?

These are questions asked by people who have not considered that the average soldier in the army of Remek Czaszar has drilled beside their comrades and under his authority for 200 years.

The city of Ardis is presently occupied by the completely alive army of Remek Czaszar!

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Our Heroes, therefore, have just teleported into what Crusader's Square, capital of Ardis, which was the capital of Ustalav when Arazni was alive and is About At The Center, and have there appeared next to the Blindstone, that 21-foot-tall menhir whose carvings have not been seen since the first Ustav king ordered the entire thing completely wrapped in chains for what, given the history of Ustalav, were probably excellent reasons. The square is not as abandoned as you would expect, given that the city was taken last night, but the few people up and about in the morning are moving fast and quietly and intent and not talking to anyone, and there's only two street vendors at opposite sides of the square selling breakfast, neither of whom is crying wares very loudly. This probably has something to do with the armed guards standing on the corners of the main streets that fade into the square with the white lion of Taldor on a green stripe that's painted on their black-iron breastplates.

(Buildings on the street include two abandoned temples of Pharasma, one with the holy spiral defaced and one with it taken down, an equally abandoned temple of Sarenrae with the sun-symbol missing but the outline still visible, and various stores selling - for instance - hats, shirts, and boots, all of which have firmly closed doors.)

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Hmm. 

This seems Not Ideal, but not obviously and acutely problematic, which means that she definitely needs more information before attempting to do anything about it, if it even is the kind of problem it makes sense for her personally to attend to in a world where so many things require an immediate and emphatic infusion of not being dead. 

She does, however, frown at the defaced temples, especially Sarenrae's. 

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A couple of hobgoblins in fancy black armor will march over.

(Regiments in Czaszar's army aren't sorted by race, but they are sorted by language.)

"Identity?" one of them barks in Tien-accented Taldane.

(This means a lot more for new-raised champions than for people who have been in Czaszar's army a hundred years.)

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"I'm the healing glowy thing!" 

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NARROWED EYES.

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She wiggles her fingers at him. Her hand glows. Any miscellaneous aches he may have acquired in the course of possessing a biology fade. 

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... "What do you here?" he says, now suddenly sounding a lot more respectful.

(The other guy is gesturing in the direction of one of the other guards, waving him over to issue instructions of some sort.)

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"Well, I made sure not to glow so brightly that I would get all the underground corpses, because if someone had already turned into an Outsider then getting resurrected would probably be bad for them, so I missed anyone who was indoors, so I probably missed a lot of people. I would like to have missed fewer people!"

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