Right.  Their actual alternative wasn't being computer programmers, it was that they were otherwise heading to the Worldwound.  Most top-secret sequestration conditions are probably nicer than that, aren't they, so long as living conditions go.

It is sometimes hard to remember how Golarion works, and casting an illusion of Civilization drawn from his own mind didn't help with his sense of reality.

He hasn't actually said tsi-imbi(*) at any point, now that he thinks of it.  Kind of pointless now.  Still, universalizable rules.  He'll do it next time he's alone.

(*)  Said by dath ilani when they suspect themselves of being insane, and the people around them should get them to a psychiatric institution if they don't seem to be correctly checksumming immediate reality.  An emergency signal; never said as a joke.

Right.  Their actual alternative wasn't being computer programmers, it was that they were otherwise heading to the Worldwound.  Most top-secret sequestration conditions are probably nicer than that, aren't they, so long as living conditions go.

It is sometimes hard to remember how Golarion works, and casting an illusion of Civilization drawn from his own mind didn't help with his sense of reality.

He hasn't actually said tsi-imbi(*) at any point, now that he thinks of it.  Kind of pointless now.  Still, universalizable rules.  He'll do it next time he's alone.

(*)  Said by dath ilani when they think 'this seems impossible, I might be insane', and the people around them should get them to a psychiatric institution if they don't seem to be correctly checksumming immediate reality.  An emergency signal; never said as a joke.