"Twice a day I can heal injuries within a thirty foot radius, Lesser Restoration will handle a lot of what that doesn't, Remove Disease and Remove Blindness/Deafness are both third circle so I can do those once a day, those are the big ones though there are also some kinds of symptom I can suppress on a temporary basis."

"And just to be clear, when you say victory over evil, you do understand that you are not in charge of the base and if you see someone doing something that looks evil you should not rush in to attack, right?"

"...are you expecting this to happen, if you're expecting that to happen it would really be courteous to warn me. But I understand now that you have said this that it is not within the regulations of the base for me to take on this role and I can comply with that. Do you have similarly restrictive rules about self-defense?"

"Sometimes on our planet when people think that God commanded them to be victorious over evil, they decide to have very violent wars with people who are worshipping the same god but in a slightly different way. I don't know what Iomedae says is evil. You are permitted to defend yourself proportionately. If some idiot gets drunk and tries to punch you, and then you stab him several times, that's probably not going to be seen as proportionate. The thing to remember here is that nobody besides you is capable of leaving this base alive on their own, and we don't have that many people, so if someone commits a crime and you know who it is, we can catch them later."

"...I don't think there are holy wars on Golarion between adherents of the same god except possibly the god of war in particular. I think you are using the drunk idiot punching me example as a particularly clear example and I might benefit from less clearcut cases and your policies on how to handle them. I would not normally stab - well, actually, anyone, my knife is for eating, my weapon is a mace - but I would not normally respond with lethal force to a drunk punching me. If someone stabs me? Stabs a third party? Stabs me but so ineffectually that I'm pretty sure I can just stand there while they do it ten more times, heal myself, and see if they keep going? Since I am being monitored am I limited in where I can run away to should the need arise?"

"I'm not a lawyer. If someone tries to stab you, you can escalate to lethal force. If someone tries to stab a third party who objects you can also escalate to lethal force, but some of our medicine involves putting needles in people and cutting them, and you shouldn't use lethal force on a healer doing that. I can explain more about that if you'd like. If someone stabs you really ineffectually you might still be able to get away with responding lethally, but it would be nice if you, say, took the knife, screamed for help, that sort of thing."

Chris seems to consider saying something else but decides against it.

"I don't know where you'd want to run away to. If you want to leave a building you should give your escort time to dress under normal circumstances. If someone is, I don't know, chasing you with a knife, then it would be reasonable for you to leave even without giving your escort time to dress, and I would say any security issues are to be blamed on the person chasing you with a knife. Most years nobody tries to stab anyone, though."

"Definitely good to know that there is needle based healing, thank you for telling me. If I call for help, what is the help going to do, it's possible I could prepare spells with the desired outcome in mind, or pull strikes if the idea is to have them knocked out but stable, or something -"

"We can't really do knocked out but stable. It happens in stories but in real life a head injury that leaves people unconscious is also at risk of killing them. If you can do that, and the person is just as good at thinking afterwards as they were beforehand, that's likely to be acceptable. Probably we try to restrain the person, take their weapon, keep an eye on them, send them out where there's prisons and courts at the first opportunity. If someone poses a sufficiently imminent danger that can't otherwise be prevented I might kill them, but the hope is that that doesn't happen, people like me in Antarctica haven't had to use lethal force yet. Historic lethal crimes here have mostly looked like someone getting extremely angry in the heat of the moment and usually those people will cooperatively wait for transit to stand trial once they've calmed down."

"I can do that so long as I don't hit hard enough to kill them immediately," Blai confirms.

"That must be nice to be able to do."

"I have not spent any time in combat situations without this ability. Though also most of my combat has been against demons who one does not want to stabilize and restrain."

"What are demons like?"

"They come in an extremely wide variety and sometimes one will pop up that isn't of any known strain. But all of them are Chaotic Evil and the ones that wind up on the material plane are typically there to harm people."

"Are you talking about invisible spirits who arrange harmful coincidences and tell people to hurt each other, or, like, the kinds of beings I could see, if they were in the room with us, who harm people through means like stabbing them? Or a third thing?"

"Some of them can turn invisible but most of them are corporeal and do things like stabbing, or more likely clawing and biting and magic. Though sometimes the magic is mind-affecting and can induce people to hurt each other."

"Oh, unrelatedly, I should ask – do you look like this normally, or did you shapeshift to look like our species since you're here and we seem to be the main species present?"

"This is what I look like. Clerics do not have much in the way of disguise magic."

"I don't suppose you know how your species came to start existing on your planet. I would have expected that someone from another planet wouldn't look quite so much like us."

"...I have heard that elves are originally from another planet, but I have not heard this about any other species. I have heard that gnomes are from another plane, but likewise. But there have been plenty of opportunities for historical knowledge to be lost."

Book-thing poke.

"On Earth, we have animals that look like this." He shows Blai a picture of a chimpanzee. "Do you know if Golarion also has those?"

"I don't recognize it."

"Huh. …I've asked you a lot of questions, you can ask me more if you'd like."

"Should I know anything about how to prepare for the possibility of incursion by other forces who have bases near here?"

"If anyone shows up at … the South Pole … in winter … we do what we did with you and bring them indoors and make sure they don't have frostbite. There's a treaty saying we don't fight wars here and, uh. If we were going to, we'd presumably fight them in the summer. Plus the main concern was us fighting a war with a country that doesn't exist anymore."

"I am accustomed to my prayers happening first thing in the morning and might want to move my sleep schedule to match that if there are people active at all hours here but I can simply not do that if the schedules are synchronized instead. ...also normally I'm prompted to pray for my spells first thing in the morning because it tracks dawn, and I'm not sure what it's tracking here, though mercifully it's still happening at all."