"Well, I wouldn't bet on them in a fight with Asmodeus but maybe they have long since wandered off."

"Honestly I kind of thought it was just all happening by itself but the existence proof of gods as a thing is an update there."

"It doesn't really seem like the kind of thing that could happen by itself but the creators could be - not very agent-y." And then she is distracted by a shop window with magic items.

Ooh, magic items.

If Carissa manages not to die she's going to be so rich and have so many magic items.

....just the mirrors for now, though.

Mirrors! "Drones don't have a good enough range to get across the ocean without refueling so I'll have to drop this off when we're back over Avistan."

"We probably want to get in really close so that I can make it invisible for the trip."

"What's the duration on that?"

"Seven minutes. I could make some more expensive purchases and make it fourteen."

"Quick drone can do that from miles off, at least."

"That's probably good enough while we're unscryable." She reluctantly tears herself away from the beautiful magic items. "You wanted to ask the church banking questions?"

"I did, can I get a Tongues or should I cross my fingers about the literacy rate?"

"I can get you a Tongues though I bet priests of Abadar can all read."

"Score one for widespread religiosity on Golarion!"

Back to the temple of Abadar. Who is available to ask random questions of?

The desk staff, for free until someone else comes in wanting something, or the priests, for a price per quarter-hour that each of them sets individually.

Cam will try the desk staff! "Hi! I am morbidly curious about the Chelish currency system, do you know things about that here?"

"Chelish? I'm sorry, I don't think I even know where that is."

"Inner Sea area. Apparently their money is backed by souls."

"That sounds....evil? I'd want to check with compliance before we accept money backed in souls. Maybe it's fine."

"Oh, it's probably evil and I don't have any I want to deposit, I was mostly wondering things like whether they could do fractional reserve and stuff, but if you don't know I understand it'd just be speculation."

"Hell does its own banking separately from us, I'm sorry I don't know more about it. We tried fractional reserve banking but a lot of catastrophes are correlated, even globally, like when Aroden died everyone wanted their money back and the banks on Golarion had to take out loans from Axis, so recommendations are much more conservative now."

"That makes sense! But presumably the damned soul supply tends to inflate over time?"

"...I suppose it must? Hell's been around for a long time, the rate of deaths on Golarion who are damned to Hell specifically might be pretty small by comparison to the base population. It's...eight, nine percent, I think."

"Really? How'd you conclude that?"

"Scrying dead people. There's a lot of variance by country but that's what I remember for the overall number. - excuse me." And he waves over another customer.