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>I'm going to hope the Bloodmist Labyrinth falls outside this spirit court's domain.
Yep, whole different plane of existence... though that doesn't necessarily mean portals are any more ecologically friendly or spiritually unobtrusive down there.
>If we have suffered no ill effects for detaining Goris, it would seem being an accessory to imprisonment is acceptable. Or that detaining her doesn't count as imprisonment, yet.
Azarthraine gave the order, Esmeraude did most of the work, and neither of them have ever been in any chain of command under Lord Grimwald, nor even met him.
>Another thing I'm not clear on is if Goris counts as a priest. She's an active member of the faith, but churches generally have hierarchies with sub-priest or non-priest positions. Is every cultist a priest? (She's a spell-caster, and her class might mechanically even be "priest", but that's a different matter, I would think).
Assuming the Church of Orcus uses similar terminology to the Reformed Mithraists who gave weekly sermons and organized midsummer festivals and archery contests back in Davina's hometown - which would make a certain amount of sense, given that they both effectively started out as cell-structured mystery cults and then grew into the same postapocalyptic power vacuum by cribbing from basic frameworks of Old Empire bureaucracy - 'acolyte' or 'crow' would be someone who's literate and sufficiently trained to participate in a supporting role for certain rituals. Someone who's fully ordained, allowed to take a leadership or instructional role is known (in Mithraism at least) as a 'bridegroom,' and referring to herself as 'Sister Goris' would imply at least that rank, while being out on a military operation in the field alone would tend to imply the third rank specifically. Of course, higher initiates of Orcus probably don't take vows of cleanliness and pacifism - if anything they seem rather inclined to the reverse - so following the analogy too far might be dangerously misleading.
>Is Maria still with the group? A binding preventing lying would be useful.
That's up to Archivist, or a designated successor, or persuade-an-NPC actions in a flashback.
>Rolling to attempt questioning Goris, starting from the role of nice cop or reasonable authority figure. Possible areas of interest:
>Her rank and allegiance (might be willing to share this even if she's not otherwise willing to cooperate, and we don't technically know that she's working for the church of Orcus right now).
She says she's a second lieutenant, holds no title of nobility, and that notification of her capture should be sent to King Robert II of Gelid-Tar.
>What she was trying to achieve with the creature we suspect to be the Guardian of Skin. It's curious that it has not been returned to the Temple of Final Sacrament if the church possess the means to transport it.
She says her orders were to come here, wait for the fight to start, then use that scroll.
>Information on Aaban Bonegnasher's successor, and location.
She rolls her eyes and says that Father Hesperix weilds Dacris and runs the Talon North outpost/temple of Orcus now, everyone knows that.
>Any notable spellbooks that the church has acquired in the labyrinth in recent months.
>Any intelligence about the Church of Orcus' operations in the Bloodmist Labyrinth. (One possible inroad there would be to ask Goris if she has any news on the art restoration project >>/questarch/767974 Davina donated to >>/questarch/768091 ).
Talk of prior donations leaves Goris somewhat confused. She cautiously explains that she's pretty sure she has some useful information, but before she shares it, she wants to either see some hard proof of who you're allied with, and what your own intentions are, or else hammer out a mutually satisfactory bribes-and-torture package.
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>What's Goris' aura look like?
Well, mostly it's a garbled, multilayered mess. She's got a belt boosting her strength, some weaker (maybe single-use?) magic items in concealed pockets, shadowy spots suggesting other pockets lined with lead, some sort of undead abomination that she's wearing as a suit of armor... underneath all that, after hours of dilligent observation from different angles and during the questioning, looks like a masochistic / http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/dandere sort of personality type with some obsessive-compulsive overtones, probably a natural talent for mathematics, and a 3rd circle divine spellcaster with some variation of the https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/cleric/domains/paizo-domains/death-domain , not to be confused with the more benign https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/cleric/domains/paizo-domains/repose-domain
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