"First circle clerics start with only three orison slots, not four, and it's not ridiculous to get attached to Detect Magic, or Stabilize, or Light, and there are situations where you want daily access to Purify Food and Drink or Create Water, or where Resistance is the better tradeoff in the situations you expect than Guidance, and sometimes people have jobs that want Scrivener's Chant."

"Sure. But Light, Create Water, and Purify Food and Drink are all pretty redundant in the local context, and Guidance is hard to make redundant anywhere unless you have another way of doing its job that's equally abundant, better, and doesn't stack."

Nod. (Maybe a little twitch about Create Water.)

It's not clear whether she caught it but given her professed hobbies it's likely she did. She doesn't comment, though. Plays chess instead.

Yay chess!

Indeed.

Chris comes downstairs for dinner a few hours later, around when the sun is starting to get low.

Eliza indicates they should head out on patrol after they eat.

Sounds good. Dinner is presumably: Not Worldwound Stew.

Spaghetti with meatballs.

He's not accustomed to tomatoes in this form but they prove to be delightful. Then he can armor up for the patrol.

Eliza leads the way down the street. "At some point I can get you a map and show you my patrol routes but for now you can just follow me. Remind me, are there any spells we were interested in testing that you have available at the moment?"

"I have a Bless and a Weapons Against Evil and a Burst of Radiance and a Dispel Magic, plus Divine Favor and Qualm and Prayer."

"All right. We should get Weapons Against Evil going when we see vampires. Burst of Radiance is the blinding light one, right? Also something we should try on vampires if we see any. Remind me how long Bless and Divine Favour last, those are buffs, right? And Prayer?"

"You have Burst correct. Bless about five minutes, Divine Favor one minute, Prayer only about thirty seconds."

"Okay. So first batch of vampires we see, we should make sure to try Weapons Against Evil; first batch of vampires we see that aren't intermingled with civilians, Burst of Radiance; if it's a busy night and we get more chances to test spells, I do want to get a feel for how the buffs affect combat but I do not at all have a tactical intuition for how to time them so I leave that to you. Preference for testing the ones that work on me but I don't object to you also showing off the self-targeted one if you see a good opportunity, it's useful to me to get a feel for that too even though it's not as easily observed from my perspective. Seem reasonable?"

"Yes, I understand."

Nod nod.

Their path is taking them past a large graveyard. She keeps an eye out in that direction, though she's not exactly neglecting the other side of the street either.

"I wonder if Golarion's practices for burying the dead in a way that tends to reduce undead would work here at all or not."

"What are Golarion's practices?"

"I was never much of the sermons and funerals sort so I don't know a lot, but - I suppose I can presumably cast Consecrate now, I think I forgot about it earlier, that would do it if anything does, there are workarounds for Evil people but they aren't as thorough because of the negative energy association. I don't know a lot about how Consecrate works including things like how long it lasts, though."

"I should write that one down when I get home, then, and we should try it out sometime - I do make sure to keep an eye on burials of suspected vampire victims so I can be waiting for them when they get back up again, it's always the third night after they died."

"Huh. I'd be surprised if Consecrate lasted long enough to cover that whole duration on its own but it might suffice if cast at any intervening point or it might need to be active at the moment they'd otherwise rise."

"Yeah, I'd try it during the downtime interval and then see if—"

A stranger walking on the other side of the street calls out to them in a tone of voice that sounds like trouble.

"Normal harassment or vampire?" she murmurs, half to herself, glancing at the individual in question. She yells something back with a smile as though cheerfully letting herself in on the joke, and when the stranger veers across the street angling to intercept them, she looks him up and down, considers very briefly, and concludes, "Vampire. Burst of Radiance viable?"

"Yes." He can aim it behind the vampire so it won't catch him and Eliza. "Burst of Radiance."