"I don't know that they'll be capable of manufacturing them on this presumed lack of an industrial base but I'll do my best."

"They have magic, maybe that can close the gap, I don't know, I haven't had a chance to study it yet because people keep landing on us."

"Notebook, pharaoh?"

A servant provides one. She starts writing.

"That'll be helpful. Thank you."

"Well, you know, killing babies, probably evil or something."

"It is, yes. Most places have some sort of atonement ritual."

"What does that do?"

"It counts as about as Good as killing a baby counts as Evil so you're back to having some hope of a decent afterlife. Osirion still permits it, under exceptional circumstances."

"- what happens to dead babies?"

"They go to judgment and mostly get judged neutral since they haven't done anything yet and then they grow up in the neutral afterlife, which is called the Boneyard. It's - dreary but it's not horrible. I think usually the older souls there try to help the babies."

Nod.

"Are there other inventions like contraception that we should know about."

"Vaccines? Do you have vaccines, you should have vaccines."

"What's that?"

" - huh. Uh, you take a disease and you make a weaker form of the disease that the immune system can successfully fight, or a dead version for some diseases, and then you expose people to that and they develop an immune response and now won't get the original disease."

"Huh. And they'll agree to get the weakened version?"

"The benefits to your odds of survival are substantial and the public health benefits are also big enough that I think you should mandate it. Are we all going to get the pox because no one here has modern medicine -"

"If I start to get something I can warn you but I'd expect susceptibility to vary."

"I am a cleric."

"By which he means that Abadar gave him the ability to cure everything up to and including death, dozens of times a day, and you do not need to worry about this."

"...well, maybe you should get rid of all the diseases at some point, then? You're probably going to tell me that isn't low hanging fruit but we never really... regretted doing that..."

"They - come back - you don't just get rid of them once and then that's everything set - and there are new ones that develop -"

"Are your evil gods releasing new ones all the time?"

"Probably, but also diseases will crop up without any evil gods doing anything, I think."

"They will evolve from other diseases and from viruses and bacteria that didn't previously affect people and from bacteria that previously coexisted peacefully with people and from disease strains in animals. Modern sanitation will help a lot - you do have, like, running water and so on -"