"Any other specific questions?"

"A vampire who got his soul restored?"

"Yep. We're working on seeing whether the effect can be replicated."

"I'm sort of curious how that reads for alignment."

"You can try it. If you get evil and you attack him I will punch you, you should not assume whatever you get is relevant to his current conduct."

" - I don't just go around attacking evil people."

"Well that's good."

So he casts the spell. Looks around the room, blinks rapidly. His hands move at his side a bit. He does not attack anyone. "Huh. Thank you."

" - woah, can you read everyone's alignment? Just like that?"

"It's an area effect, yes."

"What's it think we are?"

"..." He points at Faith. "Chaotic neutral." Alex. "Chaotic neutral." Father Michael. "Lawful evil." Angel. "Chaotic evil." Karen. "Neutral good... are you, uh, confident in the company you're keeping -"

She considers this.

"...yeah, pretty much."

"Okay." He nods at Dennis. "I can't read him, or your dog, but that's normal, people who don't have a lot of magical power are typically hard to detect."

"I guess that makes sense."

"Do we know what this system judges people on? I don't know if I speak this much nerd."

"Lawfulness is about your willingness to hold yourself to rules - your society's rules, or your god's rules, or the code of an organization you've committed yourself to. Goodness is about your willingness to make sacrifices to help other people, mostly, though there are some details that are important."

"Well, fine, I'll take chaotic neutral, then. - why do you ping evil? The priest, I mean, it's pretty obvious why Angel pings evil."

"That's a bit of a long story."

"Oh, okay. Aren't they all. Guess we shouldn't keep these guys waiting through it."

"A long time ago I made a magically binding commitment the execution of which ended up requiring murdering a lot of people."

"That'll do it. Your god's not evil?"

"No," he says at the same time as Alex says "Yes."

" - I mean, I dunno if he'd ping evil. But we have just determined that he sends a lot of people to Hell, so."

"That is not actually evil. - sending good people to Hell is evil, but sending bad people to Hell is neutral."