Griffith will solicit some introductory fiction recommendations, if that's adequately low-stakes, and also some advice on how to engage with the fact that he has a really flaky chemistry background basically centered around miscellaneous books and other articles that he read for fun, without mentioning the other-world thing.

"Presumably you want stuff which doesn't have much sex in it? Do you want fiction only in book form, or are you fine with plays, whether live or in scripts, LARP, teletype text roleplay, or board games?"

"Hm? What do you mean? Ah, are you concerned that people won't take you seriously? I can just say that you seem to have promising ideas and I feel that you're not lying or misrepresenting yourself – people trust my social intuitions. And you can show that you mean business by staking money or investing in yourself: so, in the case of you being hired by Xaber, you could say that you'll contribute a bunch of your savings into creating the initial prototypes or something, in exchange for you getting a slightly higher percentage of future profit. By putting real money on the line, it will mean that people will take what you say seriously, since you're confident enough to risk losing that amount."

"I'm also interested in stuff with sex in it, but not only that. In terms of format I'd like something I can interact with at home, without having unusual reactions everyone around me notices and may be distracted by, since I'm very new to this form of entertainment. And I'll keep that in mind regarding money, that does sound like a signal that's hard to use dishonestly if you're not outright counterfeiting currency or such."

"Hm, in that case scripts of plays or fiction books would be best. I prefer social stuff like LARPs or board games, but I do read stuff from time to time. Or, more accurately, have my drones read to me."

He'll give a couple of recommendations. He says that he'll give recommendations suited more towards the sort of media he would recommend to an alien to whom he wants to showcase the best of Imperial culture, and less about personal enjoyment to Griffith. Partly because it seems like it would be more useful to him, and partly because he doesn't know enough about Griffith's tastes to confidently make recommendations.

- 'Tempat's Plea' is a historical play about a parent whose partner left him and refused to pay his children's allotment after landing a more lucrative job elsewhere. It's a musical, too! There is sheet music and lyrics along with the dialog.
- 'Eight Courses' is a really expansive series of books about a magic system based on personality types and emotions, where people have to cultivate certain mindstates in order to practice magic. There's a lot of worldbuilding and interiority with the characters as they become stronger, but also change more as practicing stronger magic necessitated cultivating stronger emotions.

"Indeed. Drone expertise is very legible, but Keeper expertise is the reverse. People prefer not to reveal too much about themselves, and prefer not to have the structured courses and exams drone education has. There have been cases of people counterfeiting paper currency, but it's very rare. Someone really really paranoid or skeptical might ask you to put forward gold, but Xaber won't ask that."

"Thank you for the recommendations. I'm not used to the option of privacy, I'll have to see what I want to do with it. I guess it's a sort of convenient thing to have strong cultural norms about if I can't just tell everyone I'm psychologically an alien and have them believe me." For instance, he's going to try not mentioning to anyone besides his drones that he's also interested in young children's fiction.

"Hm, it's not a norm, exactly, more like...everyone mutually understands that people don't really prefer revealing things to each other? At least not with strangers. It's not enforced. You can totally just reveal things about yourself if you want. That's permitted.

But yeah, people won't necessarily believe what you say, and will want evidence or credible signals."

"Reasonable of them, I suppose. Is there any amount of evidence or credible signals I could produce eventually that'd convince people I'm psychologically an alien?"

"I don't know. We haven't exactly had this situation before. Is it important to you? If you want to simply adopt a new identity separate from Gifit, you can sell your possessions, move, and change your name. Or just change your name and say you want to go in a new direction in life. That's fine too. The Church might be able to help with that."

"I want to be able to talk about my past experiences without everyone except maybe you assuming I'm lying. Over the long term I would expect to be very frustrated by the inability to."

"Ah. Usually we have the opposite problem: people being too reticent to share things.

I'm not sure how to help with that. The best thing I could think of is to use hypnosis to reduce that urge to share, but I'm not sure you want that. Sincere condolences. 

Probably if you get close enough to someone and build up enough trust with them they'll treat what you say as fact despite its unbelievability, simply because their prior for you saying the truth is already very high. I think getting people in general to accept your past would be impossible, though. Not unless we all suddenly become like the people in your world."

"I'm going to perpetually want to say things like 'in my world, we had a system of people registering patents on inventions and then getting enforced limited-term rights to be the sole entity to profit from them, which led to information being more public and less concentrated in trade secrets, but also it was often at least arguably abused' when trade-secrets-related problems come up, or 'it's possible to develop a liquid-nitrogen-temperature superconductor and use it for neat things, I don't know how to do this and I don't know what laws of materials science suggest it's possible but it will definitely be within our nearish-future capabilities' and it's going to get really annoying. I'm not sure what a normal keeper would want to feel if they had potentially useful information nobody would believe them about and which wasn't very usable in the absence of open discussion of it."