"Infanticide is Evil though I confess to some confusion about the matter when the typical person raised in Cheliax goes to Hell and the baby in the Boneyard may end up anywhere. It may be a mindset thing, maybe it's not Evil if you have that top of mind."

"Huh. That's interesting, I'm not sure what to make of it. The mindset idea sounds plausible, but things can sound plausible without being true and it would be good to know what's true."

"Yes, I'm working without half so much catechism as I'd have liked."

"And you're pretty unlikely to find any around here."

She takes a turn that brings them through an alley from which no graveyards are visible.

"Quite. If it weren't presumably expensive for Heaven I might try to get it from lantern archons." He takes up a looking-over-his-shoulder practice once they're hemmed in quite automatically. Creates a gulp of water for himself and swigs it.

That's certainly an implication of Create Water that she hadn't quite put together until now.

"Hmm... do you suppose there's anything we could do to make it worth Heaven's while?"

"I think it is easily possible to make it worth Axis's while. I think inevitables will just want things like diamonds. And they may be able to sell me books. It'll just be at an absolutely hideous markup. I am less confident about what kinds of resources Heaven can use and the information itself is expensive."

"Diamonds are a bit pricey around here but we can look into ways to afford some... why diamonds in particular?"

"They're valuable spell components. I can't cast anything that wants them yet but if you want anyone to be raised from the dead then I will be able to do that in a couple of circles with a diamond yea big." Gesture. Shoulder-look. "I'm not absolutely certain this holds in Axis, but if it didn't I would think that the place people would get diamonds from would be Axis, instead of mining operations in the elemental plane of Earth. - you can also get them out of mines on Golarion but it is sometimes worth the expedition to the plane of Earth."

"Huh. Are there limitations on who you can resurrect that way?"

"Yes, at fifth circle they have to be either recently dead or the window of opportunity has to be regularly expanded with the second-circle Gentle Repose, and they have to be mostly intact, and they come back weaker; fourth-circle Restoration wants diamond dust but can fix that. Seventh circle introduces Resurrection, which requires some remains but they can be unrecognizable and small and from decades ago. True Resurrection takes a ninth-circle spell and does not even require remains. - I should not plan on reaching any circle greater than I presently have. It requires enough exposure to danger that people who plan on that often just die. But if I do happen to survive many fights and Iomedae isn't too budget-constrained to grant the circles I earn."

"People who are the Slayer also often just die, and yet I plan on living. But I take your point. Not safe to assume, but still a good possibility to be aware of."

"If I reach fourth circle I'll get Sending, which is a major logistics spell on Golarion - it may not rate here but it would let me attempt to get in touch with people from there."

"Yeah, we have widgets that do very well at communication within the reach of their infrastructure but they certainly won't contact another planet."

"I know less about fourth-circle options than about the ones I have ever been able to prepare, of course. ...Neutralize Poison is fourth, I think... clerics get Tongues at that point, wizards have it lower... Death Ward maybe... Order's Wrath and the matching Holy Smite, and there's an Evil one and probably also a Chaos one."

"Heh." That last bit makes her smile.

"The evil one is Unholy Blight if that matters but I haven't encountered the chaos one, most demon cultists are not fourth circle and we get less cultist activity up north than any of the outposts with nearby civilian populations for them to hide in."

"Ah, yeah, that makes sense."

They have emerged from the other end of the alley. She takes a right. There's a graveyard visible ahead.

It makes sense that there are this many graveyards considering what he knows about the town, but. "...people can in fact see all these graveyards, right? They are just impaired at drawing some conclusions about the implied death rate?"

"Yes. I hear them joke about it, every so often, that Sunnydale has the highest number of graves per resident than anywhere else in the country. Just a weird little fun fact. They don't seem to consider the implications."

"Oh good, I'd have - I'm not sure exactly what kind of concerns but slightly different ones about invisible graveyards."

"Yes."

They reach the graveyard and once more turn to walk alongside it.

"What is a normal density of vampire or other monster encounters on a typical night?"

"On a slow night I'll see zero, one, or maybe two vampires. On a medium-busy night I might see four or five. Exceptional nights are ones with other monsters or larger concentrations of vampires."

Okay. He can settle in to a probably otherwise uneventful night of tromping around and keeping an eye out.