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Templates: Keltham, Carissa, Fëanorians
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Golarion
dath ilan

Prerequisites:

optionally, the first tag of a dath ilani matchmaker in King Randale's court (Sandbox) for character/setting background

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optionally, prior familiarity with Golarion in general and Carissa specifically:

General Golarion background: we know we once were gods (Subcontinuity)

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alternatively, this one is a short Carissa-focused story: necessities are free (Sandbox)

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Warnings:
Warnings on the first thread include:

this story takes place in a totalitarian state ruled by the literal forces of literal Hell
it contains torture and abuse and moral injury and approximately every other way in which people can wrong one another
more specific content warnings available on request

Related threads:

a dath ilani EMT in queen abrogail's court (sandbox)

Authors: Iarwain, Swimmer963
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Footnotes

CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE CONTINUITY.
mad investor chaos and the woman of asmodeus:

Page 169: Dath ilan is screaming because Carissa wearing Keltham's shirt is terrible for infosec for trying to keep the topic of Project Lawful secret.
Page 173: The problems with this theory are: it's too cold, it's too dangerous, it's not allowed, your weapons enchanter/mindreader wizards don't get patrol assignments, and handing a random chelish person out on their own absurd power at the worldwound where the treaty doesn't permit kidnapping them is a hell of a defection risk; people at the Worldwound may not be allowed to say that last part but they'd definitely know it.
Page 177: Regarding "We have just received instructions from Hell that we are to cease that particular policy by which temple-instructed children seen to have fond feelings for other children are noted by their instructors for additional correction in the form of being forced to do Evil deeds that train those feelings out of them," this is a policy change made as part of Asmodeus's bargain with Milani to reduce the number of souls sent to Hell.

project lawful and their oblivious boyfriend:

Page 1: Khemet, the Pharaoh, is a Maitimo. Merenre is a Caranthir.
Page 2: Ismat is an Isama and is married to Merenre. Merenre and Ismat's backstory can be found in baubles and bangles (Wiki page).
Page 54: Merenre only knows about the nine girls whose souls are fetching high prices on Hell's markets; he doesn't know about Pilar or Ione.
Page 55: By "If your Way is one that Irori can speak of so clearly to me, then it is worth a day of my pursuit at least," Derrina means that Irori's ability to articulate what the gamblers are doing suggests that it's an Irorilike enough pursuit for her to benefit from trying it.
Page 83: Nethys is aware of the Things That Make You More Real When They Look At You, i.e. the readers of the story. Nethys ordered Caylean to think a Thing-meme where the Things could see it, conditional on events going according to Scenarios 1-4, so that the Things would be interested and look at that event and make it more real, but only if events went according to Scenarios 1-4, thereby increasing the anthropic probability of a Nethys-preferred outcome set.

my fun research project has more existential risk than I anticipated:

Page 6: Regarding whether or not Pilar can stand up to torture, she is referring to the time she was told she couldn't participate in a prank with the Osirions lest they capture her and torture information out of her.
Page 28: Hemaka is a Findekáno and is married to Khemet, the Pharaoh.

Table of Contents (Fan-made)

This is a fan-made Table of Contents for the purposes of aiding navigation during the Bayesian Conspiracy's read-along podcast "It Makes Sense If You Understand Decision Theory" (hpmorpodcast.com). It should be free of spoilers, so comments and proposed edits should go to the draft on Google Docs, and this page will represent only the "finalized" entries.

Section
Title
End of section (Read until…)
Words

Volume I – Mad Investor Chaos and the Woman of Asmodeus

Prologue
Planecrash
End of tag
365

Book One: Places-People-Go-When-They-Are-Dead

25,292

Chapter 1
Golarion
"Keltham…spent some very long minutes contemplating…[how] to have it not happen to him."
1,825

Chapter 2
Equilibrium
"…two one-proton atoms and one eight-proton atom"
4,370

Chapter 3
Steel
"'Pray'?"
2,178

Chapter 4
Infinite Possibility Space

Keltham repeats six names.
Note: IMSIYUDT Week 1 ends on "And she trots off to find the priest." 

4,503

Chapter 5
Surface Thoughts
He decides to check if he knows the answer.
4,216

Interlude
Environmentalized Intrinsics
"People do it live at parties.)"
1,664

Chapter 6
The True Meaning of Chaos
"Keltham was somewhat misinformed…"
2,943

Chapter 7
Squirrel
End of conversation before "The priest stands up"
2,078

Chapter 8
Presumption of Good Intentions
"…and they teleport."
1,515

Book Two: Customs

33,650

Chapter 9
Syllables

"Keltham shall now attempt to explore…"
Note: IMSIYUDT Week 2 ends on "It has plumbing!" 

3,899

Chapter 10
Spilled Ink
"EMERGENCY […] MEETING RIGHT NOW"
3,318

Chapter 11
Common Knowledge
"WHAT. WHAT IS THIS"
2,057

Chapter 12
Sources
"Eventually, Keltham lies down in bed" (stop at first line of tag)
2,714

Chapter 13
Seven
Keltham wakes up.
2,077

Chapter 14
Heresy
End of Carissa's morning conversation.
2,467

Interlude
They Never Listen
End of tag.
117

Chapter 15
Board of Coordination
"'STOP IGNORING URGENT REPORTS'" +1 tag
2,303

Chapter 16
Topology
"Oh and also eat breakfast." (and breakfast begins)
3,048

Chapter 17
Master-Criminal-Detective
"'Cheliax is Asmodeus's and Asmodeus isn't stupid.'" +1 tag
2,577

Chapter 18
Mobility
"'Sure. […] if there isn't a big round stone tower around.'"
2,686

Chapter 19
Thinking Quickly
"they all have good poker faces."
2,120

Chapter 20
Going Meta
"if you go looking for enough tiny signs like that, you will eventually find some"
4,267

Book Three: Orientation

31,826

Chapter 21
Sense Motive
"'thick erasable pens in multiple colors.'"
4,878

Chapter 22
One Equals One
"Physics disasters are BAD but math disasters are SO MUCH WORSE."
2,775

Chapter 23
Faster Than Hell
"'…you're not all 8 years old and that should count for something…'" (+end of tag)
5,688

Interlude
Syllogism
""\h, ~ (red(h) ^ blue(h)), ~(~red(h))^(~blue(h))?" Patxi ventures?" (before "Carissa is being a bad student")
3,322

Chapter 24
Divergence
"'go and speak aloud any really bad wrong answers you come up with here.'"
2,737

Interlude
Building Blocks
"'Second one,' the girl says."
1,649

Chapter 25
Shadows of Necessary Truths
"at least not more cheaply than he could grab someone from there"
2,188

Chapter 26
Absolute and Timeless Stuff
"'I expect I will have something to say on Coordination too, at some point or another.'"
4,505

Chapter 27
Keepers
"Seriously? that one?"
Note: IMSIYUDT Week 5 ends on "he needs to not talk about that during lunch" 

2,459

Book Four: Curriculum

Chapter 28
Lunch
"'What does happen in Hell, exactly?'"
2,699

Chapter 29
Variance
"'I hope you meant me to take that as a challenge.'"
2,052

Chapter 30
Variants
"She turns and leaves the room again and this time actually tries studying her logic homework."
1,480

Chapter 31
Dignity, Dignity, and Dignity
"same book, same language, same library, same city, same planet, or same laws of physics"
4,730

Chapter 32
A Balancing Point of Pressures
"His audience is so captivated and concerned."
6,044

Chapter 33
Smallness and Irrelevance
"learning things, knowing how one fact connects to so many other facts, seeing how worlds differ across planes."
767

Chapter 34
Two-Step
"WOULDN'T THE KIDS THEMSELVES SPONTANEOUSLY INVENT BETTER GAMES THAN -"
3,083

Chapter 35
Games
"They're starting to trust Keltham to know where he's going, though. They listen."
4,411

Chapter 36
Good Times
"[…] a team of dedicated clerics healing them and keeping them under." +1 line (mid-tag)
3,326

Chapter 37
Diversity and Optimality
Post beginning "'All right, speaking more seriously now. It's easy to tangle yourself up with paradoxes'"
3,413

Interlude
–
3 tags
91

Chapter 38
The Optimal Best Answer
"he's going to try learning wizard spells with the last of his day."
957