These ones don't taste weird!

Yay!

This is the part where they wait a lot for the weather to improve. This is a thing he is qualified to do, just like going out in the cold to follow rules there.

It is perhaps not what other people are highly qualified in, they seem pretty dismayed by cancelled flights.

Relatedly, Blai has been invited to movie showings and to come have drinks, none of which Chris would actually recommend. None of this actually has any bearing on the airplane situation but people get prone to halfway believing false things.

Blai is familiar with the concept of alcohol and does not generally partake! He started trading away his alcohol ration for extra dried fruit almost immediately upon being deployed to the Wound! If everybody is very bored they could have a Tears to Wine party instead?

"The, er, theory is that if they're hungover and flying would be unpleasant then it's more likely to occur, I don't know if Tears to Wine does that."

"...no, it does not do that."

"There's a reason I'm not actually suggesting you go and I don't think you should actually switch away from your flight spell list for this."

Blai nods. He will watch some movies, though, they're decent for English practice and cultural exposure.

This one has not been selected for being about chess or any modern country and instead has a green guy as the protagonist. It also maybe has something weird instead of actors.

That's really weird! Also the green guy has an odd accent Blai hasn't heard other examples of, which is hard to follow. The baseline nonviolence level between the human civilization and the adjacent monsters is also really weird. They wanted to use the swamp for something and did not kill the ogre to get it uncontested? They wanted rid of all the creatures and they just... moved them? The princess rescue plot and its subversion land fine though.

Well, it's good that some of it translates.

He's maybe slightly uncomfortable about the entire concept of a romance plot but not in a way where anyone should be able to tell.

In addition to Blai being Chelish, he's also in a dark room with people looking at a screen. Nobody notices.

Great, all according to plan.

Unfortunately it turns out that watching a movie does not actually summon good weather conditions and the next flight turns around before reaching the Pole.

"We call that a 'boomerang', referring to a thrown tool designed to return to the thrower, I don't know if Golarion has those."

"I don't know about everything that Golarion has, but I haven't heard of it."

"They don't require any of our recent technological developments so I wouldn't be surprised if Golarion had them. You will not have any practical reason to use one but if you decide you would like one to play with you can get one later."

"What is the boomerang meant to accomplish?"

"I think historically they've been used for hunting."

"Huh. There are weapons that return when thrown by magic..."

"I think a boomerang just interacts with the air correctly, people just carve them out of wood. But if it's secretly magic I suppose we wouldn't know, we can see if you detect magic on one sometime."

"Certainly. Are there other plausibly magical things?"

"Plausible to whom? I've been assuming that you've looked at anything that seemed plausibly magic to you on the base already by now."