"Chosen, you are trying, again, to accomplish too much with one torture session."

"You are not going to accomplish half as much as the Queen in the same time.  The thought is almost absolutely absurd.  You have been frankly spoiled for how torture works for everyone else.  The Queen, if she was explaining exactly what she did to you, would - know how her carving a series of runes into your skin, gave you a sense of approaching dread as the runes formed completion, or rather, even I know that part, but she would have some plan of which that sense of approaching dread or diminishing time was a vital part, why your thoughts had to be under an apparent time pressure right then.  The Queen would have some reason why that carving was exactly as painful as it was, maybe about how much your thoughts were focusing there and on other things she wanted you to think.  I don't know because I'm not Abrogail fucking Thrune!"

"I hope for Abarco's sake that the Queen has at no point read a full transcript of his rape of you, because she will think that he was doing every single part of it completely wrong.  I don't know how she'll think it was completely wrong.  If I knew that the Queen would have previously made me a para-Duchess of Cheliax and attached me to her personal service.  I can't hope to match her, I am, after all, nothing but a seventh-circle priestess of Asmodeus specializing in slavery."

"If you were literally anyone else but the Chosen of Asmodeus, I would tell you to completely give up hope of ever matching the twentieth part of the prowess of Abrogail Thrune."

"As it stands I am telling you to temporarily reduce the scope of your ambitions."

"Rugatonn's words to you were, 'You have flown very high and very far, and I think there is starting to be in you some of the recklessness that you saw in Asmodia.'  Asmodia solved her problem by lighting her hand on fire for thirty seconds.  Said also the Most High, 'Consult with Subirachs and devise a punishment for yourself that you expect to restore your cautionary judgment about when to decide in your thoughts that Lord Asmodeus would be a fool.  If enduring that torment makes you weaker, if it fails and must be repeated stronger, you will have only yourself to blame for either end.'"

"Mark how the Most High did not say that you were to be tortured into absolute loyalty to Asmodeus henceforth, or that you were to never think any such thoughts again.  She challenged you to devise a punishment that would restore such cautionary judgment as you might have had before flying so high and far.  Ordinary caution such as any good Asmodean might have.  And if your punishment proves too light?  Did the Most High say that you would then be deemed a failure and cast into Hell?  Did she say that in this event the Project would descend into catastrophe?  No, she said that you might need to be punished again and stronger."

"You already regret your error.  That does, in fact, do most of the work.  You still need to be punished to complete that regret, to let something deep inside you know that what was above you was displeased and retains the power to punish.  Something deep within you needs to be reminded that your fears are real and not just a payment to be indefinitely deferred."

"Having Asmodeus's holy symbol seared into you with a hot poker is not something I would assign for this case, myself.  But it would work, given that you already regret the error, or rather, it would work if you could manage to stop thinking of it as stupid.  Of course it feels stupid.  You're a child taking her first steps and the standard to which you're holding yourself is Abrogail fucking Thrune."

"It's not how you would restore Carissa Sevar's caution in her thoughts if you were thinking out a plan from scratch?  What then?  Speaking to a devil and being punished for every error of thought?  I doubt Gorthoklek is allowed to offer us such a powerful assistance  as that.  That's not a plan for restoring Carissa Sevar's ordinary cautionary judgment.  That's a plan for how Keltham freed of his chains would remake Pilar Pineda into a devil native to Golarion."

"But if that seems to you more like it's on the right track than being seared with a pentagram, then perhaps you could ask yourself what would be some vastly less ambitious form of that same plan, such as might be prescribed to Tonia for some more serious heresy of thought and to restore a similar ordinary caution."

"Chosen, you are trying, again, to accomplish too much with one torture session."

"You are not going to accomplish half as much as the Queen in the same time.  The thought is almost absolutely absurd.  You have been frankly spoiled for how torture works for everyone else.  The Queen, if she was explaining exactly what she did to you, would - know how her carving a series of runes into your skin, gave you a sense of approaching dread as the runes visibly approached completion, or rather, even I know that part, but she would have some plan encompassing that sense of approaching dread, whose diminishing time was a vital part, a reason why your thoughts had to be under an apparent time pressure right then.  The Queen would have some reason why that carving was exactly as painful as it was, maybe about how much your thoughts were focusing there and on other things she wanted you to think.  I don't know because I'm not Abrogail fucking Thrune!"

"I hope for Abarco's sake that the Queen has at no point read a full transcript of his rape of you, because she will think that he was doing every single part of it completely wrong.  I don't know how she'll think it was completely wrong.  If I knew that the Queen would have previously made me a para-Duchess of Cheliax and attached me to her personal service.  I can't hope to match her, I am, after all, nothing but a seventh-circle priestess of Asmodeus specializing in slavery."

"If you were literally anyone else but the Chosen of Asmodeus, I would tell you to completely give up hope of ever matching the twentieth part of the prowess of Abrogail Thrune."

"As it stands I am telling you to temporarily reduce the scope of your ambitions."

"Rugatonn's words to you were, 'You have flown very high and very far, and I think there is starting to be in you some of the recklessness that you saw in Asmodia.'  Asmodia solved her problem by lighting her hand on fire for thirty seconds.  Said also the Most High, 'Consult with Subirachs and devise a punishment for yourself that you expect to restore your cautionary judgment about when to decide in your thoughts that Lord Asmodeus would be a fool.  If enduring that torment makes you weaker, if it fails and must be repeated stronger, you will have only yourself to blame for either end.'"

"Mark how the Most High did not say that you were to be tortured into absolute loyalty to Asmodeus henceforth, or that you were to never think any such thoughts again.  She challenged you to devise a punishment that would restore such cautionary judgment as you might have had before flying so high and far.  Ordinary caution such as any good Asmodean might have.  And if your punishment proves too light?  Did the Most High say that you would then be deemed a failure and cast into Hell?  Did she say that in this event the Project would descend into catastrophe?  No, she said that you might need to be punished again and stronger."

"You already regret your error.  That does, in fact, do most of the work.  You still need to be punished to complete that regret, to let something deep inside you know that what was above you was displeased and retains the power to punish.  Something deep within you needs to be reminded that your fears are real and not just a payment to be indefinitely deferred."

"Having Asmodeus's holy symbol seared into you with a hot poker is not something I would assign for this case, myself.  But it would work, given that you already regret the error, or rather, it would work if you could manage to stop thinking of it as stupid.  Of course it feels stupid.  You're a child taking her first steps and the standard to which you're holding yourself is Abrogail fucking Thrune."

"It's not how you would restore Carissa Sevar's caution in her thoughts if you were thinking out a plan from scratch?  What then?  Speaking to a devil and being punished for every error of thought?  I doubt Gorthoklek is allowed to offer us such a powerful assistance as that, or that lesser devils even could.  That's not a plan for restoring Carissa Sevar's ordinary cautionary judgment.  That's a plan for how Keltham freed of his chains would remake Pilar Pineda into a devil native to Golarion."

"But if that seems to you more like it's on the right track than being seared with a pentagram, then perhaps you could ask yourself what would be some vastly less ambitious form of that same plan, such as might be prescribed to Tonia for some more serious heresy of thought and to restore a similar ordinary caution."

"Chosen, you are trying, again, to accomplish too much with one torture session."

"You are not going to accomplish half as much as the Queen in the same time.  The thought is almost absolutely absurd.  You have been frankly spoiled for how torture works for everyone else.  The Queen, if she was explaining exactly what she did to you, would - know how her carving a series of runes into your skin, gave you a sense of approaching dread as the runes visibly approached completion, or rather, even I know that part, but she would have some plan encompassing that sense of approaching dread, whose diminishing time was a vital part, a reason why your thoughts had to be under an apparent time pressure right then.  The Queen would have some reason why that carving was exactly as painful as it was, maybe about how much your thoughts were focusing there and on other things she wanted you to think.  I don't know because I'm not Abrogail fucking Thrune!"

"I hope for Abarco's sake that the Queen has at no point read a full transcript of his rape of you, because she will think that he was doing every single part of it completely wrong.  I don't know how she'll think it was completely wrong.  If I knew that the Queen would have previously made me a para-Duchess of Cheliax and attached me to her personal service.  I can't hope to match her, I am, after all, nothing but a seventh-circle priestess of Asmodeus specializing in slavery."

"If you were literally anyone else but the Chosen of Asmodeus, I would tell you to completely give up hope of ever matching the twentieth part of the prowess of Abrogail Thrune."

"As it stands I am telling you to temporarily reduce the scope of your ambitions."

"Rugatonn's words to you were, 'You have flown very high and very far, and I think there is starting to be in you some of the recklessness that you saw in Asmodia.'  Asmodia solved her problem by lighting her hand on fire for thirty seconds.  Said also the Most High, 'Consult with Subirachs and devise a punishment for yourself that you expect to restore your cautionary judgment about when to decide in your thoughts that Lord Asmodeus would be a fool.  If enduring that torment makes you weaker, if it fails and must be repeated stronger, you will have only yourself to blame for either end.'"

"Mark how the Most High did not say that you were to be tortured into absolute loyalty to Asmodeus henceforth, or that you were to never think any such thoughts again.  She challenged you to devise a punishment that would restore such cautionary judgment as you might have had before flying so high and far.  Ordinary caution such as any good Asmodean might have.  And if your punishment proves too light?  Did the Most High say that you would then be deemed a failure and cast into Hell?  Did she say that in this event the Project would descend into catastrophe?  No, she said that you might need to be punished again and stronger."

"You already regret your error.  That does, in fact, do most of the work.  You still need to be punished to complete that regret, to let something deep inside you know that what was above you was displeased and retains the power to punish.  Something deep within you needs to be reminded that your fears are real and not just a payment to be indefinitely deferred."

"Having Asmodeus's holy symbol seared into you with a hot poker is not something I would assign for this case, myself.  But it would work, given that you already regret the error, or rather, it would work if you could manage to stop thinking of it as stupid.  Of course it feels stupid.  You're a child taking her first steps and the standard to which you're holding yourself is Abrogail fucking Thrune."

"It's not how you would restore Carissa Sevar's caution in her thoughts if you were thinking out a plan from scratch?  What then?  Speaking to a devil and being punished for every error of thought?  I doubt Gorthoklek is allowed to offer us such a powerful assistance as that, or that lesser devils even could.  That's not a plan for restoring Carissa Sevar's ordinary cautionary judgment.  That's a plan for how Keltham freed of his chains would remake Pilar Pineda into a devil native to Golarion."

"But if that seems to you more like it's on the right track than being seared with a pentagram, then perhaps you could ask yourself what would be some vastly less ambitious form of that same plan, such as might be prescribed to Tonia for some serious heresy of thought and to restore a similar ordinary caution."