And there are, still, people so incredibly smart and skeptical that they'll stay around and try to loot a house or two. But not enough of them to overflow the River of Souls and get eaten by astradaemons if they all die simultaneously, which is the part that matters.
Others do pray to their gods about the affair, and divine attention now gathers toward Absalom. But there is no ancient god who decides to collect more of Themselves and focus a truly vast attention on the Starstone Cathedral and surrounding planar spaces, while nothing has yet begun for real; and that is the only choice those gods make that ends up mattering.
