"Games with... gryphons?" says Blai blankly. "Like... gladiatorial fights, or...?"

"No, we don't have gladiator fights, the closest things we have are fencing matches and wrestling. Games like … instead of showing you moving pictures of real people, a machine shows you moving pictures of fake people, and minotaurs and griffins and such, and you tell the machine what you want your fake person to do."

"I will take your word for that."

"You could probably watch or play one if you wanted to, I'm sure some people brought some here, but you don't seem the type."

"There's a type?"

"Yes. It's like how not everyone likes playing chess."

"I've noticed that, admittedly." Acts.

Chris keeps annotating.

"This has a lot of quotes."

"It mentions in the Fourth Act that no one was systematically writing down things she said until around then so the quotes from earlier may be misremembered and any of them may have been adjusted slightly in ways that Iomedae accepted to suit verse."

"Including all these ones that are said to be from another holy book?"

"Oh, those are from Aroden's holy books. I haven't read them so most of what I know about Aroden is from this one."

Chris nods.

"He's dead, I don't recall if I mentioned that. About a hundred years ago."

"You did, actually. Which continues to suggest he's not the same god as Jesus, Jesus didn't stay dead when he was killed."

"...as far as I know Golarion gods stay dead when killed. A moon god died long ago, I've heard, and left his companion god catatonic."

"I really wish we still had a chaplain out here, like we did when this was run by the Navy. They would do a much better job of explaining all this."

"I am accustomed to getting very limited views of other people's gods."

"All right."

More annotations.

"The way this goes, I think, is 'God so loved the world that he sent his only son' – well, there's a sense in which we're all his children, but this is one he had more personally, with a human woman Mary, and the son is also him – 'to die for our sins, and then he rose from the dead after 3 days, and if you repent of your sins and accept him as your lord and savior then you can receive eternal life' – not some unaging on earth kind, the kind where you go to heaven after you die."

"...anyone who repents of their sins can go to - well, not specifically Heaven. A way to coordinate on specifically Heaven instead of people splitting between various Good afterlives without requiring high standards of Law is pretty useful though I'd expect it to be easier to pull off with Nirvana."

"My understanding is that there's just Heaven and Hell."

"Some people simplify it that way, or just collapse all the good afterlives and Axis as 'Paradise', and it captures that the most important distinction is between the Lower Planes and any other destination, but it's not correct."

Chris asks what another word means and eats a bit of food and then then asks "how so?".

"There are nine afterlives for all the combinations of Law, Neutrality, and Chaos with Good, Neutrality, and Evil. Hell is the Lawful Evil one, Heaven is the Lawful Good one. Axis between them. Nirvana is Neutral Good."

"…so in that theory, people get separated from their families forever even if they all did the right thing?"

"Yes. That's why it might still be worth arranging a pass to Heaven even for people who by stipulation have repented of their sins. But Nirvana would make more sense. They reportedly send a representative to every soul trial and have particular expertise in handling the occasional cases where they win a dispositionally Evil soul."