"Probably, but I'm not sure what the instructions and procedures would... be."

"If you want to fill in the rest but delay submission until you've gone over them, we can. But saying that you will follow what BPD says and you will have yourself trained formally on their procedures is sufficient, and the Commission also holds regular courses on safe handling where we share our best practices with a range of other groups for useful cross-training and experience sharing. You're not obligated to stick with the Boston Police Department, just be following procedures at least as secure as some government entity at all times."

"The only artifact I want to handle is the book, which - no, I guess that's not true, if all magic is technically also a Mythos artifact my mace and armor would also qualify, but I'd miss them less. Do you have some general sense of whether I would be allowed to read my book, perhaps exclusively in private while obliged not to try to translate it into English, under some accessible set of procedures?"

"Creating Mythos media in an accessible language, for example, one widely spoken on earth and not Enochian, R'lyehan, or Yithian, would be much more legally complicated. I would advise against it, at least for now. Possessing the book and reading from it would be acceptable in almost all areas provided that while doing so you remain conscious and capable of physically defending it and you are willing to certify that you are a capable combatant. You said magic is used in self-defense and warfare and that you can use magic to cure blindness, and you're wearing armor, so I imagine that you are as capable as a police officer is required to be. You would probably have to lock the book up in a safe when not in use, and I don't remember the key-handling procedures off the top of my head but I know cops take work home sometimes."

"What do your armor and mace do?"

"I think locking up the Acts when I'm not reading them would probably be fine. I have twenty years of military experience at an active front on my home planet. They're not very interesting, they're just slightly better at being armor and a weapon respectively. My mace was taken when I was brought in but they didn't seem to want the chainmail and I don't have a place to put it."

"I'm going to chew Caiden and quite possibly a few other people out about that later, but it isn't your fault or your problem. Just take it off and submit it to them to be stored with your mace before I make it back to my office and everything will be legal."

"You will swear that the Church of Iomedae has not had more than one accidental mass casualty event, one causing more than fifty deaths, in the past century per thousand worshippers? That would include armed conflict if the deaths were unintended and caused by the Church of Iomedae in the sense that a member of the Church cast a spell, not including "we were attacked and not everybody survived". You can instead swear to the best of your knowledge and that you reasonably believe you would know if so, and if you find out otherwise will immediately report it."

He starts the process of removing the chaimail. "I actually probably wouldn't know, my history education was - wait, per thousand worshipers, like it doesn't count if this happened ten times as long as there are more than ten thousand people who worship Iomedae at any given time? I think that rate would be sufficiently embarrassing for the church of Iomedae that I would in fact have heard about it from hostile sources, actually, and I do not believe it to be the case that there are accidental mass casualty events where the casualties are unintended and precipitated by a church member at anywhere near that rate. I could imagine - suicide attacks, declining to come to the aid of allies in an unsalvageable position, somebody channeling positive energy and killing an unexpected friendly dhampir, casting through hostages to get at an urgent threat like a demon - but it's actually pretty hard to kill more than fifty people by casting a single spell in any normal combat situation."

He has the fitness of someone with 20 years of experience at active fronts. Not nearly as many scars as she would have expected, though. Presumably people at a tech level where they still wear chainmail just die if they're injured that badly. 

"This would include a single person in the church deciding to kill more than 50 members or civilians without blackmail or a similar mitigating factor, with insanity pointedly not being such a mitigating factor, even if it took them multiple spells. I suspect that many mass casualty events are the result of a person casting a spell multiple times. But it seems like none of those occur at a high frequency in the Church of Iomedae. You are very lucky, to have magic so friendly."

"Tell me about your plans and goals for the next two years, as an organization. You said you wanted to use magic to support yourself financially and aid good causes, right?"

"If someone tried to spend multiple spells to continue killing a lot of people who were not supposed to be dead, Iomedae would take their magic away, unless something especially weird were going on. I suppose if you mean to include wizards who are signed on to Iomedaean knightly orders or suchlike it would be slightly less unlikely because She wouldn't be able to pull their spells, but not by enough that it could possibly approach that rate of fatality.

"I am flexible about the details, as I have been on this planet for less than a day and don't know where it most needs the kinds of support I am able to provide. Cleric magic is, compared to other Golarion magic, most specialized for healing, but I could also be preparing divinations, including translation spells that could have obviated the 'pony' spell cast on me earlier today to grant me English, or providing assorted protective and enhancing spells to law enforcement - which, to be clear, I strongly expect will not drive anyone even slightly insane - or participating directly in combat situations. I am not religiously required to charge money for these services but I expect to need to, since I don't have a lot of other skills that will make sense on another planet. Even if the military experience were useful it's all against demons and involved a lot of magic use, for instance, and it doesn't sound like it'd be a good idea at all for me to try to start a church, which is fine because I'm not qualified and Iomedae is having some budgetary issues which makes it unlikely She could invest in one right now."

Either everyone in the Iomedean cult church is mildly possessed somehow, or something strange about his magic is going on. It's not on the form, and she doesn't want to cause him trouble. He seems like he wants to help.

Sure, probably some religions require charging money for spells. That's a reasonable thing, really, by the standards of the multiverse.

"Alright, magical support to registered organizations, beneficent use of magic, worship without proselytization. If any of that does change, you will have my number and it will be helpful if you give me a heads up. Categories that would be different would include trying to learn new spells and communicating with Mythos entities".  

"I think that, after you have been on this planet for a few years and demonstrated that your style of magic does not drive you or others insane, there may be interest by the Commission in someone other than Iomedae investing in starting a church. But that's something we can talk about later."

"Is Iomedae more like an abstract concept, or a single very powerful non-human entity?"

"The latter. She was originally a human, hundreds of years ago, and ascended to godhood by means of an artifact left for that purpose on my planet by the god Aroden, Whom she worshiped in life and who Himself was an ascended mortal. He died about a hundred years ago, if that matters."

Aroden sounds concerning. That Aroden died sounds much more concerning. Something killed an entity capable of ascending others to something capable of communicating with large numbers of cultists. But there wasn't a sharp uptick in problems a century ago, and she is going to assume it is still not causing problems.

"Do you know the name of the entity that killed Aroden?"

If he has a religious objection to a whitelisted cult that could be an issue.

"The cause of His death is disputed. Asmodeus claims responsibility but other sources suggest it just didn't work very well when He tried to instantiate himself on Golarion to bring about the prophesied Age of Glory. - the present age is instead called Lost Omens, His death caused various problems including breaking prophecy."

She's never heard of that deity. "Could you write down that name for me, Azmodius? Ideally in as many scripts as you know it. He sounds like an entity to be wary of, if the claim was even plausible."

Aroden broke an entire category of magic when he died. It sounds like Blai has a different set of Entities running around, doing very strange things. She still thinks she's jealous of them, with not driving people insane for learning magic. It's why she's never touched spells, as nice as a life of mostly vacation time sounds sometimes.

"Do you have any questions for me, or anything you think I should have asked about but didn't?"

"Yes, I wouldn't recommend whitelisting Him." He writes it down in Taldane and Infernal and does his best to transliterate into Roman characters for her too. "Do I need a travel pass or to register with any other state entities to be able to move about this city?"

It doesn't even slightly hurt to look at the symbols! Good for both of them, really.

"It's mostly intended for Yith, but we've got a form for New Resident Registration. Testimony from Caiden and someone else on his team that you were clearly summoned will be sufficient, and it's designed to let them handle most of the details since many non-humans are not familiar with forms. Since you do not have a specific plan to return, as I understand it, that's probably the easiest route. That will get you a green card in under a week, since it is designed to meet treaty obligations. Until then it is legal to move about within the borders of the United States on public roads and property except in certain designated government locations that will have clear signs saying that you can't. Not having ID could cause a lot of confusion and stress, though, so get Caiden to give you his badge number and phone number in case you run into any problems with police officers. A driver's license will take longer...do you know what a car is? How to operate one?"

"I have been in one but do not know how to operate one."

"They're useful for getting around, but learning to operate one is something you can only do after the rest is sorted. For now I will mark you down as Select Blai Artigas, head of the Church of Iomedae in Massachusetts, social security number pending, address pending, domestic criminal record none, other criminal record none. I'll submit the form when I get back to the office, unless Caiden calls me with something urgent, and I'll make sure it gets handled quickly. You should have your book and armor and mace back in less than a week. We're deliberately overstaffed for most months, and at the moment we're not in a crisis."

Well, submitted after she has someone in the library take a careful look at the scripts for Azmodius and verifies that there's no higher priority action to be taken there. Just another in the very long list of Do Not Engages, most likely. And confirms that none of the scripts he wrote in match something someone knows, or seem to cause harm to the paper, or start spreading to adjacent text, or anything like that.

"Thank you ma'am."

Caiden meets him as he leaves. "How'd it go?"

"I think it went well. I am supposed to ask you to store my armor, as it is magic." Here it is all folded up. "The padding isn't but it would be somewhat ridiculous to wear without the mail."

"Ohhhhhh I am going to get chewed out about that. I am going to chew me out about that."

"The mace is also magic, if that implies different storage procedures than you were using, but it's just those two things, magic items are expensive."

"Well, I mean, you're the expert on storage procedures."

"They don't do anything when not in use. They're just a little better at being armor and a weapon respectively. Magic items that do fancy things like go straight through armor or also make the wearer more resistant to poison or something are more expensive."