Honestly Blai did prefer Chris but not by so much as to say anything. Kevin acts like a frustrated wizard who is surprised that not everyone around him is the same. "Is she willing to redact the translation according to my direction? We didn't get to translating any parts with descriptions of evil gods yesterday, but there are some. On Golarion the damage is done, there are months named after evil gods and countries in their possession and their cults spring up everywhere; but not here."

Kevin says something to Chris.

Chris looks concerned and responds.

"Chris says that it would have been better to do that yesterday and we should possibly redact it now and then worry about translation. A copy of the pictures has been sent and there's no translation of evil god descriptions sent yet, since he didn't get that far, but that getting the government to delete information they have as opposed to restricting access to it is difficult. I can show you how to draw over the pictures."

Kevin seems to have some contention he isn't mentioning.

"Ah. I apologize, I don't - have a good sense of what exactly happens to the pictures once they exist. I can go through and do whatever it is you propose now."

Chris says more things.

"Chris says we can explain it, but it's complicated, and what he advises you do is demand it of the Ambassador and convince him that you or your associated archmages can plausibly verify whether the government follows through on it."

"...I can cast a truth spell? It's not perfect but most normal people won't beat it and far fewer of them would beat it twice."

More conversation.

Kevin sounds frustrated when talking to Chris.

"Chris thinks that's plausibly viable."

"I can help you get started on redacting the images. I've set up an alternate, uh, the point is that there's a section of my device which doesn't have my personal stuff on it that you can use. It's going to be confusing and there's going to be text in our language, English, that you can see, but I'm not sure Comprehend Languages will actually help enough to be worth it right now."

"All right. I apologize if I've stumbled on - something political," it's not an amazing guess but it's as close as he's got right now.

"It's not political, I just don't like destroying information. But involving myself in one of the most exciting events in human history has its costs."

"...do you have, uh, clarifying questions about the nature of the information or anything -"

"I've been assuming that I should avoid looking at the descriptions because otherwise I'll be tempted to try to memorize them and then screw up First Contact, but if there's anything you'd like to tell me go ahead. …I guess I don't quite see how cults of evil gods are a big deal, there are Satanic groups in the United States – they worship an entity that Christianity says is evil – and that seems to go fine. But you don't have to argue with me about this if you don't want to."

"You realize, I hope, that worshiping a Golarion god is why I have magic."

"…so it's not that your church taught you, you literally just pray to a Golarion god and they can give you magic if they want. Okay. Sure. Redaction."

Kevin can give Blai a very abridged computer use tutorial. He'll be "drawing" with an imaginary "paintbrush". He can move his finger around on a pad to move the 'brush' on the screen and if he presses down the 'brush' will 'paint' over the words. If he presses this key after making a dot with the brush then he can do a straight line to another point he presses down at. If he makes a mistake he presses these other keys. When he's done with an image he presses another group of keys. The brush can change in size and Kevin can help with that.

Then Blai can tediously page through the Acts and remove the names and epithets for Urgathoa, who comes up the most, and the other incidental mentions of Rovagug or Lamashtu or Asmodeus or a couple of orc gods that come up when she's considering conquering Belkzen or the month of Kuthona.

Kevin looks away from the device Blai is using and pokes at his smaller device, which isn't pointed at anyone.

It takes a couple of hours to be thorough.

"I'm done."

"Great! I'll send over the redacted pages and let Chris know."

He pokes at the larger device again, then his small one.

"He'll send Sarah over. He's going to pester everyone who plausibly downloaded the uncensored version."

Sarah returns and offers Blai a hand.

Nod. "Share Language."

Sarah's getting as close as he can manage to the appropriate archaic Taldane, but it's still going to read a bit Shakespearean.

"Thank you, Select Artigas."

And then she leaves.

Okay, meal is done, redaction is done, translation is presumably now underway. "Is there anything else I should be doing? Water somewhere, perhaps, if she doesn't want me consulting on the Acts?"

"I think they still haven't figured out what happens to our pipes if the water in them vanishes and they don't want to figure it out experimentally. Probably some people would be interested in lukewarm baths in improvised tubs but you don't actually have to help with that, you're free to practice English or play machine chess or ask me for a tour. She'll probably send us questions at some point."