And he will quite gamely (so to speak) put his new vocabulary into various sentence patterns he has in his notes. This makes him play worse (if the only thing he can think of to say is drawing attention to a threat that, strategically, he would have wanted overlooked, he'll still do it, because the point is English practice) but not by that much.

Once it is clear that he is doing that his opponents will also do that some of the time.

They will also congratulate him when he wins, say 'good game' when they win, and in general make an effort to speak slowly and clearly.

Chess IS a good game, he agrees.

Time passes. Kevin becomes less excitable. There's an aurora-viewing opportunity. Someone puts together a list of chess-centric movies with subtitles they have.

Also, the United States would like to issue Blai some identity documents, does he know exactly when he was born and how he'd like to spell his name and hometown and such?

He knows the year he was born and what year it is now on Golarion and... he was smaller than the other kids his age in school at first so maybe it was late in the year but he doesn't in fact know, he could have just been small? With a Comp Lang up he can look at candidate lists of spellings for "Blai Artigas" and "Dekarium" and "Cheliax" and identify which looks most right.

The aurora is lovely. Do they go out, to look at it?

Some people do go out and he is invited to be one of them.

They're going to need to pick a day for their records. They could use the day he arrived on Earth, or the day of some Iomedan holiday, maybe? It's common on Earth for people to have parties and receive gifts on their birthdays, and while Blai is not obligated to host any parties himself, if he decides to get into the habit it might be nice for his official birthday to be a day he likes.

Blai is not actually sure Iomedaeans do holidays - they are supposed to have fun once a month but if everybody tries to do it on the same day that doesn't sound ideal? But he's never been around a critical mass of Iomedaeans, maybe they celebrate the day of her ascension, the date of that is in the book. But even though on inspection it turns out that Golarion and Earth years are pretty similar it's an Earth day he needs for official Earthing purposes so probably they should just use the day he arrived.

Well, does he know the exact date he left on, then they could sync up the calendars which would be nice to do anyway… but yeah they can use the day he arrived and pick a year appropriately reflective of his estimated age.

Yes, he knows the date he left on, and the approximate time of day.

…it is really weird how, not only do the lengths of Golarion years match Earth years, the calendar systems also match. The Gregorian calendar may be a logical reform of the Julian calendar, but how did Golarion and Earth end up with that calendar system matching?

They are going to try to not bother Blai about this since he seems to not be that interested in them being surprised by things. He's already brought up the traveling archmage theory. This is more evidence towards that, maybe.

They can just call the redacted months by the corresponding Earth names, maybe?

Sure! Abadius February Pharast Gozran Desnus Sarenith Erastus Arodus September October Neth December. Can they go back through the Acts and when a redacted thing is a month name he can tell them which month to put in, instead of leaving it blank?

Sure thing.

They put together a bundle of earth stuff for Blai to take home, if he goes home. Spare machine parts that will be useful for bootstrapping, general industrialization literature, a guide to diamond synthesis, various Earth constitutions and brief discussions of how the associated countries are doing and feel about the constitutions, some information on modern medicine. The essentials are on paper with flimsy binding making it into 'books', a lot of other stuff is on an e-reader with associated hand-crank charger. (They don't have solar chargers around.)

Some important things have also been translated into mediocre and loanword-rich Taldane.

He can have medical supplies, too, if he thinks those would be useful references at all. (It would potentially be good for Golarion if they could infect Blai with cowpox but they don't have a sample and it would take a heck of a lot of persuasion even if they did, he'd probably have to skip multiple rounds of food for truth spells.)

Also it's not specially selected for Golarion supplies, but he can have a fancy load-balancing backpack, and some shelf-stable food if he wants that, and bring the clothes and the watch and whatnot if he likes.

He can also have someone's diamond ring … if he tries to give an introduction to magic before he goes and leaves the spell page. They understand it will take a lot of time and not show results for a while.

He's not sure why they translated anything into mediocre Taldane; if it's important, it's worth a first-circle spell.

He does not really want to have cowpox and, anyway, might throw it off, being as he is a third circle cleric. Food does not in the main trade off against truth spells, Zone of Truth is second circle.

He will take the backpack but even just the weight of his armor slows him down quite a bit so he doesn't really want to carry food - the watch and change of clothes he can justify.

He hasn't been able to Zone of Truth anybody who would have been responsible for the redactions going through properly, yet, so he cannot get started on trying to teach anybody Prestidigitation.

…well, see, if he disappears in the next few weeks, then the archmages can presumably check on the situation, and if he doesn't, he can stop doing any lessons until he can Zone of Truth more people. Chris thinks he's adequately pushed for Blai's preferred outcome, could Blai Zone of Truth him about that? And other people of his choice on the base, if he'd like, though they'll have less context?

If Chris is confident he would know, Blai can Zone of Truth him, twice, and then start. Do they want to use the Zone for anything else while it's up? It's an area effect.

…presumably it doesn't do objective truth, right, because then Blai would be using it a lot more?

How does he feel about a bunch of people trying out the experience of being compelled to say true things by a magical effect and possibly attempting to resolve interpersonal disagreements? Because that's what he'll probably get if he offers.

It doesn't do objective truth but can sometimes catch lies to oneself if they're fairly superficial. He doesn't mind, the spell will last as long as it lasts and cover as much area as it covers. Provided the people in charge here don't think it will cause disorderly commotion.

Would Blai like to target Chris with the Wisdom-enhancing spell prior to this, to reassure himself that Chris is not, uh, trying to avoid understanding things that it would be convenient for him to not understand?

That would actually make him better at resisting the Zone of Truth, though possibly if they wait for it to wear off it'd make sense.

They can wait.

They could do the Zones on successive days, or the Owl's first and the Zones the next day? He probably wants at least one Share Language, maybe two, and they compete for space.

Owl's first, Zones the next day, probably? He won't need any Taldane or Chelish just for the Owl's.

Sure. Blai prepares accordingly and the Owl's can be at whatever point in the day works for Chris.