(Previously:)
Asmodia has entered a state of permanent low-grade panic that she is probably never coming out of again, now that she's had time to catch her breath, get organized, read through more of the transcripts, and realize that her job is impossible.
Keltham was told that 5th-circle wizards got paid 500gp/week and 4th-circle wizards got paid 100gp/week and he immediately asked questions about that which means he was DEDUCING SOMETHING and Asmodia does not know WHAT HE WAS DEDUCING and in fact Asmodia does not have ANY IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE of why a 5th-circle wizard gets paid 500gp/week and not 400gp/week or 700gp/week and probably NOBODY ELSE IN CHELIAX REALLY KNOWS EITHER except that Keltham clearly DOES KNOW and what's worse the numbers in alterCheliax are going to be DIFFERENT for example they're nicer to their peasants so they probably have LOWER TAXES instead of starving everyone so the nobles can have fancier parties and so the figure of 500gp/week for a Security wizard is probably WRONG and will be LOWER except that maybe actually that number is supposed to be HIGHER because alterCheliax hasn't bought the souls of its Security wizards and can't force them to work with threats of Hell and the one thing Asmodia is sure of is that the figure of 500gp/week for a Security wizard in alterCheliax is WRONG except that they ALREADY TOLD KELTHAM THAT NUMBER and now a bunch of other things in alterCheliax have to CHANGE and Asmodia does not know WHICH THINGS and Keltham obviously DOES and it is dawning on Asmodia that actually what they are trying to do here is construct AN ENTIRE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE TO CONTAIN KELTHAM whose internal consistency it is now Asmodia's job to MAINTAIN except that instead of Asmodia getting to carefully design this universe it is being PUT TOGETHER AT RANDOM by all her fellow researchers running around TELLING KELTHAM THINGS like when Sevar told him about the alterPilars and EVEN ON THEIR OFF-DAYS people are RUNNING AROUND MAKING THEIR BROTHERS JOIN PALADIN ORDERS while Asmodia was SUPPOSED TO BE CATCHING UP and Asmodia cannot begin to GUESS what else needs to be true for 1 in 30 siblings of Ostenso wizard students to join paladin orders but she can't just ORDER EVERYBODY TO STOP DOING ANYTHING INFORMATIVE because they need to be a NATURAL amount of informative or Keltham will NOTICE and by the time Asmodia figures out how all the pieces actually need to fit together it is all going to be INCONSISTENT and NOT MAKE ANY SENSE and they need to make Keltham a statue for NEARLY ONE MONTH so that when he comes out the MOON IS IN THE CORRECT PHASE in case Keltham NOTICED THE MOON AT ALL but mostly so that Asmodia can figure out WHAT ALL OF ALTER-CHELIAX LOOKS LIKE including inventing all the Law she NEEDS to in order to understand how ALL OF THE NUMBERS FIT TOGETHER and she has now tried SEVERAL TIMES to REPORT ON THIS TO SEVAR but Asmodia is having trouble putting stuff into WORDS instead of intuitions about NUMBERS THAT WON'T FIT and she didn't explain CONVINCINGLY enough so Sevar SHOT HER DOWN and said that Asmodia needed to take a break and go SHOPPING and probably thinks she's MANIC but this is the opposite of MANIC it is being in a state of permanent low-grade panic that THEIR HASTILY CONSTRUCTED UNIVERSE is going to end up FULL OF INCONSISTENCIES any one of which could DESTROY IT because SEVAR ISN'T LISTENING TO HER and even if Sevar DID Asmodia is FLATLY NOT SMART ENOUGH TO HOLD IT ALL TOGETHER and can't possibly get enough TIME and this would be a great moment for somebody to give her a HEADBAND MORE POWERFUL THAN THE QUEEN'S or possibly one of the gods running around here could RAISE HER INTELLIGENCE BY 20 POINTS if they wanted this whole Keltham containment endeavor to be even SLIGHTLY POSSIBLE -