...okay, actually Asmodia needs the Queen or the Most High to sign off on telling bettors that, in the event the primary deception fails and the backup fake-escape plan doesn't work, they aren't all going to be executed and will remain in a state to have some use for money afterwards.  Because otherwise people are placing bids at probabilities that do not make any sense.

Here is Asmodia's mind being totally sincere about how much she did not cleverly plan that and just legitimately tried to do this obvious thing, that they obviously ought to do, and then ran into herself not being able to do that correctly because people were scared.

...okay, actually Asmodia needs the Queen or the Most High to sign off on telling bettors that, in the event the primary deception fails and the backup fake-escape plan doesn't work, they aren't all going to be executed and will remain in a state to have some use for money afterwards.  Because otherwise people are placing bids at probabilities that do not make any sense.

Here is Asmodia's mind being totally sincere about how much she did not cleverly plan that and just legitimately tried to do this obvious thing, that they obviously ought to do, and then ran into herself not being able to do that correctly because people were scared.  She is not trying to extort any promises out of anybody, it just looks to her like Cheliax would obviously continue to have use for Project Lawful either way and is not going to kill off a tenth of all the Security officers in Cheliax, and if Asmodia is right about that, it would be useful to the betting market to say so.