And you'd be out 3 gp.

Doesn't seem like the end of the world.

My new offer is 40 gp. 

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, he'll take 50.

I'm sure you would.

39 gp and pray I don't alter the deal further.

Meanwhile,

So, are we still worried about not leaking information to Asmodeus through his clerics, or have we pretty much given that up as a bad job? Because if we haven't, I thought of a neat way not to break character and reveal anything I shouldn't know in-universe: I could just say "Olin gives a sermon" and roll Perform (Oratory) about it.

And this might work better for the ostensible purpose of all this sermonizing in the first place, which is to communicate the state of mind it takes to become a cleric. I could talk about the Caydenite theology I know, and Olin's experiences in the army that most immediately preceded gaining channel energy, but unlike all of the other clerics in-universe, and unlike my character, Cayden Cailean never actually made the decision to empower me. So what do I even know? I might say something inaccurate that gets these people turned around.

Eh, I'd think that if you say something that's a little wrong in-universe that, in-universe, your character will just have said something a little different... wait, no, I don't think that at all, because it isn't true and I don't believe things which aren't true (well, I mean, I presume that I do (although I can't be sure, since there aren't any modern examples I know of for the obvious reason), but I try not to). But, if you tell the GM in advance that you're doing that, then that should work.

Plus, the DC of the oratory check depends on the subject matter and approach, so it seems risky to leave that in the GM's hands.

You make good points.

Welcome back. Lyvina, Choryon, add 50 gp to your character sheets. You remember Altronus giving you the money in return for promising not to tell your players about the transaction. Olin, add 10 silver to your character sheet. You remember Altronus giving you the money in exchange for not telling your player that Altronus gave you the money in exchange for not telling your players. Separately and in addition to this memory, you observe that your character is, at this moment, imagining that he's loudly telling Barry all about it.

Barry, your character is a lying cheat who swindled me out of ten silver and he'd better watch his back.

Whereas my character feels nothing but goodwill towards you.

So, Megapope, tell us, what's the (Chaotic) Good word? Diametrically-opposed-on-the-alignment-chart-to-Asmodeus is, at this moment, a flavor in shorter supply than it is in demand, but how do you resolve the contradictions inherent to Cayden Cailean's alignment? Isn't "Chaotic Good" something of a... contradiction in terms?

Hoo boy.

It's come to the Vault Colonel's attention that there's grumbling about a fight with the Church of Asmodeus, so she's going to tell the queen about it.

Yeah, she's heard. Glorio thinks that she should publicly distance herself from the Church of Asmodeus, so that when the fight starts she won't be on the losing side.

That's the stupidest thing that Qualins Rachmirol has heard this morning and she was in the war room. If Ileosa will forgive her for being blunt, Glorio would know why trying to pick sides here is moronic if he'd fought the shadows last night instead of running like the cowardly bastard that he is.

If a fight starts in the Vault, every one of us will be on the losing side.

I didn't say that I agreed, only that he said it.

So, it's come to Cressida Kroft's attention that there are people rumbling about starting a fight with the Church of Asmodeus. Cressida Kroft would like them to refrain from doing so for the time being, in light of how Archbishop Ornher Reebs controls the shadows who control the shadows who control many of the Vault's shadows. 

She'll want to talk to Lord Arkona about that, then, since he's the guy who's doing most of the organizing. 

Yeah, she'll do that. What's Lord Arkona up to?

Lord Arkona is in an all-hands meeting with the other Arkonas in the Vault, because it's high time to get everyone on the same page.

Back in the mansion, he turned on his mindreading as a poor man's see invisibility, and wound up reading the minds of those fucking guys - you know the four (although only three of them actually failed their saving throws). They are incredibly weird and not to be underestimated. They share a supernatural ability, although the specifics of how it works are unknown to him and explaining what he does know is - going to take some explaining. 

First of all, all three of them were pretending that they had been pretending that their actions were determined by an outside power, but that they'd recently decided to pretend to have deduced that this was, instead of being their imaginations, the case.

That's a pretty weird thing to find in someone's mind, but how is it supernatural? 

So, each of them is currently imagining an imaginary friend, and imagining that their friend has their own opinions about every little thing that's going on outside the physical person's physical skull. Second, each of the real people are imagining that their imaginary friends don't really believe in Golarion, and are only imagining that they do. The imaginary friends think (imaginarily) that the lives of the people whose eyes they're riding behind is just improv theater, conducted around a table by an acting troupe in their time off. Glorio is rounding off some of the irrelevant details which would make this harder to explain without changing anything important, but you're with him so far?

More or less, but, again, what's the supernatural twist? The imaginary friends are real possessing spirits?