There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he doesn't want to know and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to the afterlife and read books forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare that anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict, someone who understands what happens if you leave them scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell, like you would with an Asmodean.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's wizard wants Nethys's oracle to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy of having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to the afterlife and read books forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare that anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict, someone who understands what happens if you leave them scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell, like you would with an Asmodean.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's wizard wants Nethys's oracle to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy of having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to the afterlife and read books forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare that anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict, someone who understands what happens if you leave them scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell, like you would with an Asmodean.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's representative wants Nethys's representative to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy about having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to the afterlife and read books forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare that anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict, someone who understands what happens if you leave them scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell, like you would with an Asmodean.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's representative wants Nethys's representative to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy about having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to Nethys's afterlife and study magic forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare that anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict, someone who understands what happens if you leave them scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell, like you would with an Asmodean.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's representative wants Nethys's representative to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy about having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to Nethys's afterlife and study magic forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare kill her anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict, someone who understands what happens if you leave them scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell, like you would with an Asmodean.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's representative wants Nethys's representative to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating a servant of Asmodeus.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy about having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to Nethys's afterlife and study magic forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare kill her anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict.  Someone who understands what happens if you leave people scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's representative wants Nethys's representative to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.

There's a flare of hate in her then, now that she won't go to Hell for hating Asmodeus's servants.  And with that hate, flashes of contempt, starting to arrange themselves around her sudden new identity.  She is too scared, too shaking from being on fire for a minute, and too angry, not to think the thoughts that she is thinking now.

You can make Asmodeans into high-level wizards, if you give them enough intelligence boosts, but you can't make them think.  She's not particularly happy about having thought that, she doesn't actually want to insult the person in front of her if he's reading her mind, but the thought came to her anyways.

The security wizard hasn't realized that this entire conversation has been predicted out by Nethys and Asmodeus, he isn't curious about the divine, he isn't keeping his eyes open and because of that he doesn't see.  He's posturing about serving Asmodeus, and not realizing how this whole interaction they're having right now is something that Asmodeus no doubt had to work around and pay Nethys extra for in order to get a library oracle on His project.  She hopes somebody in Hell has a very very long talk with him about that after he dies.

Nethys has really gone to some lengths, in ways very visible to her, to make sure that Nethys can seriously threaten her and Chelish security can't.

She can't be maledicted, she can't be tortured for very long, if she's killed in the course of sincerely doing her duties that thought doesn't actually bother her at all if she gets to go to Nethys's afterlife and study magic forever instead of burning, and maybe Cheliax wouldn't dare kill her anyways because if she can't be maledicted somebody else might raise her and she'd talk all about Keltham.  Ione Sala doesn't know what Nethys has set up against somebody cursing her stupider, but maybe it'll be too obvious to Keltham by then, or she can pray to Nethys for divine aid, or she could simply go to Keltham and tell him it's time to find a university who can Heal her better.  Or maybe the higher-ups here are aware that cursing Nethys's oracle with stupidity would in fact constitute a serious slap in the face of a god, one who's very hard to keep out of things, on a site already subjected to extensive divine intervention.

And she is too scared, too shaking, and too angry, not to think what she thinks then.

That's not how compacts work, Asmodean.  They're negotiated, not dictated.  Nethys made very sure you wouldn't be able to escalate your threats against me to worse than what Nethys could do.  Maybe you should call in a more experienced security officer who knows how to negotiate with non-Asmodeans you can't just maledict.  Someone who understands what happens if you leave people scared of being set on fire and stupidified and your negotiating position does not, in fact, let you just keep escalating further until you send them to Hell.  Non-Asmodeans stay on the lookout for ways to improve their bargaining positions, if they're scared and you haven't made a real deal with them, that's what happens.  I wasn't ambitious and I'm still not ambitious and I don't want really very much at all, if you negotiated terms with me I'd be very predictable and wouldn't even ask for very much, but if Asmodeus's representative wants Nethys's representative to be predictable, he needs to bargain for that and not just dictate.

"I understand," Ione whispers out loud, meekly.  He's either reading her thoughts like a halfway intelligent person or he's not; she'll see.