Skip finds a website belonging to an organization that preserves heirloom domestic animal breeds, which activity apparently requires a PR team. Up on the wall it goes. "So this is a group we represent and we consulted on this website, though they now only call us in for particularly difficult stuff and I think you probably need us for basically everything you say more complicated than 'pass the salt'." he says. "Yours doesn't have to look exactly like this, but it might have similar kinds of sections: see, they've got FAQ - frequently asked questions, they don't have to actually have been asked frequently, it can also be questions you want to preempt or got asked once but think are pretty good questions. They've got a news feed about what they're up to lately. They've got a statement of values, in their case it's making sure curly horses and fluffy chickens and stuff like that don't die out but yours would be different obviously. They've got links to their organizational buddies - other conservation folks mostly - you could decide to have separate websites for each church and one for the organized world contact effort as a whole if you like. More expensive. They've got their contact information over here. They've got all their legal disclaimers and licenses and everything slapped up over here. They've got a photo gallery - theirs are cute animals, wow that's a weird looking duck, yours'd be neat stuff from your world if you can teach somebody to use a camera. They've got mini bios of people in their organization over here. They've got a 'how to help' page, they want money and pro bono vet services, you probably want other stuff. They've got a non-news blog which is just stuff like, oh, the funny looking duck did something cute today, the weird sheepdog got to be in a period film."

"We should have separate websites for the separate churches, in the long run - I can speak fairly safely for most of the other gods but my church can't. I don't think that's necessary immediately but we should plan for it. And it sounds from what you said earlier like the FAQ would be the most important part for us, to start with?"

"Right. That's useful in both directions, it gets you-collectively in conversation with this-world-collectively. Gotta name these places. Pitch me, crew."

"Pantheon and Revelation," says Jenny.

"Oh damn that's better than mine," says Doug.

"Laniakea and... should be something generated on their end, I'd think, for them," says Ramona.

"'Oerth' is fairly obscure but sometimes used for it. Pantheon is good, though."

Skip nods. "Pantheon and Revelation for casual, Oerth and -"

"Laniakea's a supercluster, not the world, and doesn't include the daeva realms," objects Doug.

"Okay, so we say Pantheon and Revelation and pick up anything snazzy the scientists come up with."

Pelor nods. "What sorts of questions do you think we should cover to start with?"

"Ramona -"

Ramona nods. "'What exactly is an Oerth god', 'what is a cleric', 'who are the Oerth gods operating in Revelation today' - you might want to link to a who's who page for that - 'what happens if I say the name of an Oerth god' -"

"Do you think it's necessary to persist with the 'Oerth god' construction the entire time?" asks Doug.

"It's not only necessary, it won't even be enough," says Jenny. "We have to price in a lot of backlash from every major religion in the system. Maybe lean on the translation thing again."

"Yeah, okay," says Ramona, "'why are you using the word "god"', what does this mean for other religions - the answer had better be it doesn't mean anything, if somebody finds Jesus and Mohammed and Siddartha Gautama and Joseph Smith and four different Dalai Lamas in Limbo and wants to put them on reality TV you stay out of it -"

"Certainly."

    "I don't really understand what we're dealing with, here, with that, is this a good time to explain it?"

Ramona nods at Jenny, who says, "People in Revelation have religions. Not most people, but about forty-five percent, and the ones who don't believe still often hold very dear the cultural trappings of the religion they were raised in or near. And historically, religious persecution was an enormous problem. It drove so many wars and atrocities when people decided that other people were wrong about their religion or that the way the religion had them living made them bad neighbors or that they didn't like this other ethnicity which happened to have a different religion. The coexistence today is pretty solid - it was rocky for a time after Revelation, since angels and demons both sort of resemble some supernatural entities some religions included in their conceptualizations of the world, but that was more than a hundred fifty years ago at this point, religiosity is gradually dropping worldwide. But we have very strong, uh, cultural antibodies - defense mechanisms - against religious discrimination, especially from anyone with power. This can protect you, a little, but maybe not as much as it sounds like - the exceptions to various laws aren't likely to be carved out in places that happen to be important to you, like it'd be a hell of a coincidence if you practiced circumcision, and anything special-cased that doesn't already have an 'unless required for religious reasons' clause, you need to work out separately."

He nods. "Is there anything we can do to reassure people that we don't do that? I imagine seeing us work together with clerics of other Oerth gods won't help very much - maybe if we work with one of your religions here in some way?"

"You could try to get into a interfaith initiative," says Jenny. "A hospital or a rehab or something maybe, that'd play more to your strengths than a school or activist org. It'd be easy to do wrong, though - direct comparisons could seem showoffy, all, 'my god gives me magic powers, what does yours do'. If you do go that route don't try to hook in anywhere they won't use medical angels, you're just not getting anywhere with the Jehovah's Witnesses."

"That's drug rehab? I think - probably not that - we can cure drug addiction magically; we don't have any particular advantage at stopping people from returning to the drug, so it would be a good choice that way, but I think too much showing off to start with."

"Maybe a mental hospital. Do you have spells for that?"

"For some things."

"What do they do?" asks Dave.

"We can cure, uh... we think about this in different ways, the vocabulary doesn't quite match... schizophrenia, epilepsy, dementia... intellectual disability in some cases... brain damage of all types really... we mostly can't do very much about mood disorders, there are magic items that occasionally help but that's still mostly a matter of counseling and support. And there may be things you'd think of as mental conditions that aren't coming to mind for me."

"You'll get very good press if you go around curing those but it might wind up being showoffy for the interfaith thing," says Jenny.

"Interreligious Convention on the Rights of Children," suggests Dave. "Especially if you have a lot of kids working for you."

"We'd be unhappy to be excluded from that."

"Maybe once there's a plan to make damn sure the daeva are all accounted for," says Doug. "Not all their victims were adults."

Raafi nods.

    "Children who are unhappy enough to run away from home are a type of traveler, we really would want Fharlanghn's clerics' input. But maybe we can get started without them, I don't know the details of the situation here."

"What would you be relying on their input for?" asks Jenny.

"Familiarity with the issue in a general sort of way. When children run away from home it's most often Fharlanghn's clerics who end up counseling them - they come back to us eventually, at least some of the time, but we don't know much about what happens in the interim or what children in that situation need, and I expect they know different things than we do about the causes of it because they hear a different sort of perspective about it."

"I mean," says Dave, "they're currently operating without this perspective, so adding you doesn't seem like it loses the Convention anything. Also their current big campaign is about lowering the voting age again."

    "That might seem odd coming from a world that doesn't have voting, but I don't think we'll disagree. Sir, do you have any gnomes-?"

"I can find some gnomes."

        "Gnomes run their towns on a public meeting system; they can be very passionate about it, and there's no limit on children participating."

"Well, it's a specifically religious organization, if the gnomes are interested from a non-religious perspective of some kind maybe you hook them up with the World Youth Rights Foundation or something," says Dave.