"How do you tell if you're experiencing divine revelation and not a weird daydream?"

"I don't know how to describe it but there's a feeling associated with using the cleric ability to channel energy and it feels like that."

"Neat, I'm glad that's nice and legible."

"There are madpeople who say the gods talk to them but I have never heard of a cleric who couldn't tell the difference."

"Probably the gods occasionally talk to people who aren't clerics?"

"I guess perhaps under extreme circumstances. I don't think it's very typical."

"The obvious use case'd be someone out of their alignment zone nevertheless with a compatible outlook on some narrower topic."

"Yeah. I don't know much about - so there are obviously some agreements among the gods about when they'll directly intervene in the world, and I know almost nothing about those."

"Maybe they're easily hackable if you know the details."

"If they were you'd think we'd see more hacks, but maybe."

"We could go home and report this and more important people could talk to Abadar about the war."

"If we lose the ship, think we'll find it again?"

"If it keeps its same course we'd have decent odds."

"Presumably all the important people in Osirion talk to Abadar all the time anyway and don't need prompting."

"If you know who you wanna report it to you could do a Sending."

"- yeah. We barely have twenty five words to tell them anyway."

"Who do you report to?"

"Bishop Saifullah of Sothis."

"Abadar likes Fazil better."

"I have more cleric levels but this is not the only thing that matters."

"How do bishops get picked if it's not so straightforward?"

"Any cleric who has a good track record of service to the church is eligible for an appointment - ah, any male cleric, at least. In practice if you never picked up a level past your first that'll probably be prohibitive, but fifth, sixth, that's not very notable, and only a few of them are ninth or tenth. There aren't very many clerics of eighth level or higher. Seventy clerics of Abadar in Osirion are eighth level or higher, last I heard, and some of them are women or retired. It'd be very restrictive if you had to pick all twelve bishops and four archbishops from that."

"Not even female clerics can wind up in any authority position, huh."

"They can run a place like Saint Hadassah's. They can't be a bishop."

"I suppose the fact that I do not find running Saint Hadassah's appealing is not useful market research about how the people who wind up doing it feel."