"Well, if it fails then we still have a cool necklace."

Nod.

"Should I go over what to do if you encounter large scary wildlife like bears or wolves or should we skip that because you can avoid it if you stay in cities? …I guess sometimes coyotes are in cities, we maybe should discuss that. It's not important to international politics but you sounded sort of concerned earlier."

"If there is some particular thing I should do in case of encountering bears or wolves that isn't 'kill the bears or wolves' yes. Also I don't know what a coyote looks like."

"It isn't 'kill the bears or wolves or coyotes'. Coyotes are a lot like wolves, if you see what might be a wolf it might also be a coyote. If they pose an immediate danger to human lives, or they've killed a human, then go ahead and kill one. But they usually don't do that. We, uh. For a while we killed large predators when it was convenient and it turns out it's possible to do it too much, and then, for one example, you get too many deer and the deer get sick. So now a lot of the large predators are in nature preserves like national parks that are specifically supposed to have them. And when they do kill humans it often involves scenarios where people were feeding them or getting super close to them or such even though we tell people not to do that."

"I will not feed a wolf, bear, or coyote, nor disobey guidelines on whether to approach them that seem meant to include me. People don't eat the deer?"

"People sometimes eat the deer but I think the demand for hunting deer is lower than the oversupply, or maybe the hunting permit system is too strict? I don't know. And the sick enough deer aren't safe to eat."

"There's a spell for that."

"If you personally would like to make some diseased deer edible you can but you're the only spellcaster we know of on the planet."

"It doesn't seem a good use of me but if clerics were to start being commoner."

"Ah, okay. Probably if clerics become commoner we'll want to encourage them to work in hospitals, we haven't called on you for healing much but in a big city a lot of people get injured in a day."

"Yes, but people have a limited number of channels a day. I'm below average at that but the normal number is still only three. You want someone staffing the - hospital - at any given moment, but a given person's shift might be short."

"I could imagine someone doing this as a hobby or out of particular care for some rural community but if someone was trying to feed the hungry or resolve ecological problems they could probably do so more efficiently."

"If you say so."

Chris shrugs and has a glance at his phone.

"Oh, the Mazes & Minotaurs players say they don't have a paint set, it's the Aegis Fantasy Tactics players who have a plastic-appropriate paint set, and they want to know if you want to look at the paint colors or if they should just go with, uh, Chrysomallos and Selenite Silver and Zorba Red, the first of which I'm assuming is a gold paint."

"Maybe I should look at the colors."

Chris makes some clicking noises with his mouth and does some typing.

"They can bring the paint set to dinner and you can have a look then?"

"Sounds good."

"Great. Anyway, we were going to discuss publicity."

"Yes. I'm not likely to generate novel and usable ideas on my own with this little background in the topic or the Earth-specific manifestation."

"There's a lot to be said for waiting. I think the main question here is whether you are in a massive hurry to get people to seriously read the Acts."

"I would not say I'm in a massive hurry, no."

"All right. Then we wait, and hopefully we can get you all the way to the US before too many random people figure out who you are."

Chris tilts his head. "We maybe want to make a few extra holy symbols, assuming it's not a symbol of office that we shouldn't use, to create a bit more ambiguity if necessary."

"It would be a little weird to wear a symbol without being empowered because it would cause people to think you could cast spells and they might attempt to go to you for that purpose but it is not otherwise a problem or unheard of for someone to - hm. For someone who is broadly speaking on Iomedae's side to wear Her symbol. It would be a bit troubling for someone who did not find themselves to be one of Her allies to do it, though I think against this much backdrop of ignorance it would not be a serious problem."

"From what I've heard she sounds pretty neat and I'm sure other people here feel similarly. Your call if that's adequate. We can probably find someone on base with stronger feelings. You could also lend someone the clothes you came here wearing, it'd be a bit blatant but we're not aiming to confuse smart people here."