"I do not necessarily have to have my mace on my person if the risk that anything will attack me is low enough but I would mislike its being lost, it's magic and I can't replace it. Same with the chainmail. I would appreciate your company on this journey if you are not needed elsewhere."

"Anything? I really doubt you're going to be attacked by an animal in an airplane or airport. The only risk there is that a human would try to kill you, and if that somehow did happen they'd probably try to do it at range with a firearm. You can maybe wear the chainmail except when you're going through security checkpoints, if you want, I could ask about it. And once flights are going the government should be able to arrange to fly in my replacement as soon as possible so I can leave early with you."

"...are security checkpoints not a relatively obvious place where someone might attempt to attack me with a firearm if I will predictably be unarmored?"

"Security checkpoints have other people with firearms right there running the checkpoint."

"And these are to be presumed incorruptible and also highly observant?"

"I would in fact expect them to not take bribes to let someone kill you. That's the sort of thing that leads to serious consequences. And at least some of them are observant. I also don't think your chainmail would help that much with a firearm, honestly, though I don't know what its magic does."

"It makes it a little better at being armor, is all. Why would it not help with a firearm?"

"Firearms accelerate bullets to very high speeds which would break the rings, I think? When we have a connection to the outside world again I can look into it. We manufacture chainmail, sometimes people who are only worried about stabbings or shark bites use it, but we don't issue it to soldiers and we would if it helped."

"The rings break before I do, is the idea. It is quite heavy and if you have - technological equivalents of Mage Armor - then of course that would be preferable."

"We have armor designed for people being shot at and could have a set shipped to you when things open up, but the most effective stuff is still heavy."

"Maybe it's worth shooting at both of them on some sort of dummy target at some point. In any event, I would be surprised if it were of no help at all and do not want to lose the only magic armor on the planet."

"I'm not arguing otherwise. It's very nice."

"Should I be deriving, from your general attitude here, that it is not likely that reports of my existence have already alerted powerful interests capable of deploying assassins? Because on my planet that would be something I would have to worry about if I were somehow this unique."

"I would expect the other major countries to prefer you alive, to the extent that they believe you exist as opposed to the more plausible theory that a group of isolated people has gone mad or decided to collectively lie. We are not currently having a great power war or so far as I can tell about to have one, if that's relevant. If you appear key to decisively winning a future great power war that might change. As it stands I think major powers are much more likely to prefer spying on you or luring you to their side or kidnapping you and any threats to your life are more likely to be crazy people. I'm not an expert, though."

"Understood. In that case I can carry the armor in my bag."

"There might actually also be issues with your holy symbol in an airport, seeing as how it looks like you could stab someone with it. I think there are some people who are commanded to carry knives by their religion and it's possible there might be some kind of exception, I don't know."

"...it won't help that in an emergency I can use a different blade, will it."

"Is there a minimum length or sharpness requirement?"

"I think insofar as it's not sharp enough to theoretically function as a weapon it has to be more symbologically accurate, but I have not interrogated an expert."

"What would be more symbologically accurate? We could maybe make something."

"This one is pretty close, I believe, but the cover of the nice copy of the Acts has a more precise rendering. I do not actually think I am religiously required to carry a holy symbol at all, in the sense that if, for example, I were lawfully surrendering and whoever was taking me prisoner wanted me without the ability to cast spells, I could hand it over; does that mean that the religious exception does not apply to me?"

"I actually don't know the details of the policy, I'm just guessing one exists to some extent because there's a religion that tells people to carry knives, which I also don't know the details of. Is cutting a flat piece of plastic in the shape on the cover of the Acts and then having someone paint it worth a try? The M&M players have painted miniatures, they might have an appropriate paint set and if not we can figure something else out."

"It is worth trying, though obviously plastic has not been invented on Golarion so as far as I know it has literally never been tried."

"Is Iomedae otherwise picky about materials?"

"Again, I haven't interrogated an expert. I don't think so."