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In Which Korvosans Rally & The Dead Envy The Living
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A year doesn't have to be a whole number of days. That's not at all required by physics.

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But why would the gods have done it that way? What would the calendar even look like? She's laughing so hard it's making her cry.

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Did the gods toss each individual planet into orbit with just the right perfect spin?

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That's what everyone says!

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The gods let their beyblades rip with a watchmaker's fucking precision, and the length of the day was never affected by the moon's gravity at all, never slowed or accelerated by it, because that was all factored in?

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Is it so hard to believe? 

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Nor ever changed by the loss of a moon's gravity, nor by meteor impacts?

Checkmate, theist. 

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I don't think that'd make that big a difference in the length of the day? Planets are big and fast and it's only been a few thousand years.

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The gods sure seem to work in mysterious ways but she's pretty sure they'd bother to do something about it if Earthfall changed the length of a day.

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INDEED.

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We're still doing the religious revival thing to maximize the anti-shadow gods' visibility of and degrees of freedom in the Vault, right? The only church we still need to hear from is Cayden Cailean. 

Now, on the one hand, it's been argued, and convincingly, that Cayden Cailean might not be one of the most anti-shadow gods. On the other hand, in fact it has not been convincingly argued that Cayden Cailean is anti-shadow; I have no idea what that guy is smoking but would have assumed that someone smoking such stuff would think Cayden Cailean a natural ally?

And at any rate, Asmodeus's hiring spree has radicalized a somewhat greater number of people than it's cowed. Don't get it twisted, Korvosa isn't Infernal Cheliax - an entire 12% of us are within an alignment step of Chaotic Good (a solid 2pp of whom score the top-right square on Pharasma's two-dimensional manifold). And Cayden Cailean, for all that he's a subversive element in ordinary times and a bad influence on the youth, has never been said to be a friend of Asmodeus. 

So, "Megapope". None of us have managed to get through to Cayden Cailean yet, but it's known that the gods often wait on clericking their patsies until some kind of religious experience brings the potential minion closer in tune with the god than they usually are, probably because this is less effort on the lazy god's end of things - indeed, the entire polytheistic revival was premised on this idea - so we're still holding out hope. (The other clerics figured that you should preach last in case you turn out to think it'd be useful for causing appropriate religious experiences to create wine again.)

So... here we are. Entertain us.

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It's not even noon.

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We are adults and can make our own decisions.

Anyway, Megapope, you wanted a chance to rebut Archbishop Reebs, well, here's your golden opportunity - and he's not even around to argue his side!

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There are a lot of Asmodeans around, I don't think we need Reebs's help to shout the Caydenite down.

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We will have order at the polytheistic religious revival. 

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Wait, let me confer with my team out of character. Olivia, Cheryl, let's go somewhere Arthur can't hear.

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Quickly, while they're gone, I offer Barry's character, Lyvina, and Choryon 50 gp apiece if they promise not to tell their players that they promised not to tell their players that I offered them 50 gp apiece not to tell their players about the offer.

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Choryon immediately accepts, Lyvina thinks about it and then accepts, the Megapope wants 51 gp.

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I tell him it'll be a cold day in Hell before I pay him 51 gp to take 51 gp from me. 

Does he want the free money, or no?

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It's already a cold day in Hell, in Caina. 

(It isn't actually a cold day in Caina; in Pathfinder's standard cosmology the cold layer is Cocytus. But it often entertains the Pope to give the same answer that his Earthling OC would if said OC were pretending to be Olin Mull, and it especially entertains him to give that answer now, in this conversation with Altronus, because, despite "Cocytus is the cold one" being as common knowledge as common knowledge gets (unless he's feldsparring this? Mull did do much of his growing up in Andoran province...), he knows that Altronus won't call him on it, because Altronus is too busy roleplaying(?) as Arthur the Earthling, who is likelier to (if anything) think that Caina is the cold one.) 

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(Altronus is incapable of not letting on that he sees what the Pope did there, so he gives an exaggerated wink. And raises four fingers.)

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Does he want 50 gp for doing literally nothing, or does he not?

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He wants 51.

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If I let you get away with that, I'd have to give Lyvina and Choryon 51, too.

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