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Morithias
2012-04-10, 12:22 AM
This refers to a type of Faustian Pact you can make in Fiendish Codex 2.

"In a pact insidious, a devil promises to provide certain benefits for a mortal signatory in exchange for specified reciprocal favors. It does not explicitly bind the mortal's soul to Baator, nor does it require a statement of allegiance to any particular archdevil."

Does the sentence "It does not explicitly bind the mortal's soul to Baator" mean you can get raised from the dead after entering one?

tuesdayscoming
2012-04-10, 12:28 AM
I haven't read the full entry, but the text you cites implies that nothing prevents you from being raised. In fact, my initial impression is that the reciprocal favors would most likely be performed while you were still living.

It's pretty clear that the pact requires negotiation with your DM to figure out the specific terms, though, so YMMV.

Gurgeh
2012-04-10, 02:46 AM
From FCII:

From the devil’s point of view, such a pact is still an exercise in damnation—it is merely sneakier than a Pact Certain. A Pact Insidious allows a gullible mortal to believe he can gain the benefits of a flirtation with evil without suffering its consequences. Thus, it exploits the eternal self-delusion
of the lazy and greedy.

A contract of this type is written to deliver its promises in stages. To reap the next stage of benefits, the signatory must perform a new service for the devil. A fool who signs such a bargain rarely notices until it is too late that each service incrementally nudges him toward eternal damnation.

If a character has signed a Pact Insidious but has yet to complete its terms, then it ought to be perfectly feasible for them to be raised; their soul would have gone to wherever it logically belongs, and this is not necessarily Baator (unlike a Pact Certain, a Pact Insidious is not automatic grounds for alignment change upon signing).

However, if you have committed enough corrupt acts in pursuit of your pact to raise your corruption point total to 9, your soul is legally the property of Baator, and the devils have absolute control over where it will go. The only way you're getting raised is if your new infernal owners see benefit in the act for themselves (and even so that would only be possible if the Raise Dead spell is cast before your soul has been stripped down into its divine energy, which tends to happen pretty quickly).

Morithias
2012-04-10, 02:54 AM
Snip

So in other words until Jebel's plan for Patricia to conquer the world and turn the entire planet's population into a single religion of evil goes through, I'll get to keep coming back.