"We get a lot of fabric from swarm witches with spiders." He seems pretty confused still and she's not actually sure why but probably adding more information won't hurt?

"That does sound useful."

"--Ooh, you know what's really useful? We have these mechanical devices, for planting and harvesting grain more efficiently." If Aroden isn't going to provide the Age of Glory then someone else is just going to have to step in. 

"...well, then I suppose if I can return to Golarion at some point I should bring instructions on how to build and operate them."

"Yeah! ...I don't have any blueprints on me but obtaining them shouldn't be hard. I...think they're probably supposed to be fairly straightforward to operate...but I, uh, never tried, so I don't know for sure." 

It's really not that Taylor is ungrateful that Seshka is the kind of person who decides to resurrect other people's mothers on literally zero acquaintance but sometimes it is very obvious that Seshka grew up richer than anyone has ever needed to be.

His estimate of her wealth dropped considerably when he heard she made the necklace herself! Still very rich though yes. "I'm... going to assume that given that some of you have wings you don't normally live in caves, where are we going?"

"Klokers live underground; Finola live on the surface. Generally speaking. Obviously people get it into their heads to move sometimes. There's a townhouse you can use; we don't generally stay there, for reasons, but you are not currently affiliated with the local equivalent of the Arcanimirium so attempting to house you there would be mildly awkward."

"Yes, the closest I get to arcane spellcasting is shoddy castings of Prestidigitation."

"...It's not actually arcane-only. The Arcanimirium is the closest Golarion example I can think of but it does all kinds of spellcasters. It even has some martial stuff, albeit aimed at, like, sword-mages and paladins, not people who just hit things with pointy sharp things."

Hearing Seshka say wild things about Golarion is usually interesting but it's even more interesting with an actual Golarionite who doesn't know things about normal stuff right there for her to bounce off of.

"...well, I remain unaffiliated, and it sounds like you don't think I should attempt to become so."

"It's--complicated and kind of elitist? To get in you need an invitation, and invitations are traditionally obtained through some combination of--favors changing hands, money changing hands, being of a social class where it's just expected you'll be invited, and doing something so impressive that it would be embarrassing not to invite you. I was invited because I'm rich; Taylor was invited because she accomplished something really impressive and also has a unique swarm ability. Most casters learn though less, uh, snobbish, methods of teaching."

"You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud." 

"I'm also not supposed to punch a duke's son who has actual muscles because he was being mean to a baron's daughter, but I don't care." 

"Understood. I appreciate the hospitality with respect to the house.

"- should I expect that Iomedae can reach me here with new spells in the morning?"

"I have no idea. --Like, even if she normally could, I wouldn't want to bet on it. Soooomething's going on, and we don't fully understand it, but the gods have been kind of...hard to get ahold of...lately. It's been affecting ex-mortals less, so Iomedae has that going for her, but less doesn't mean none."

"...this is the gods that are known and worshipped locally, becoming less responsive?"

"Right. Most days all the god-supported casters can get their non-spell stuff, like channels and smites, just fine, but occasionally even that doesn't work--on about half of days they'll get all their spell slots filled, but only with cures--occasionally you'll get exactly the spells you asked for. This is averaged across all the gods, though; as I said, ex-mortals have been doing better than the ancient gods, and demigods better than full gods--we've had, like, one Commune go through successfully since this started, and it was with the local equivalent of an Empyreal Lord." 

"I... will bear that in mind, whatever happens in the morning, then."

"Have we considered the possibility that the time connection between here and Golarion is deeply Chaotic, and the past thirty-three to thirty-one years took place in the handful of years leading up to when the Age of Glory was supposed to start, and then the past hundred or so years on Golarion have been the past two-ish years here, and the death of Aroden is causing this?"

"Well, I hadn't, but now I am, and I don't like it."

"Does prophecy still work here?"

She makes a so-so hand gesture. "It doesn't categorically fail to work, but it's subject to the same interference as whatever's messing with the gods." 

"And no one has... gone to your Nirvana-ish afterlife and asked the Powers there what's going on?"