She sees. (She notes this as something to ask about.)

She looks at the hallway for directions to other locations and/or for more magic.

There's similar seals on most of the doors, and a few seem more complete. 

The signs here point to the store rooms, the cafeteria, the school rooms, the work rooms, and the exit.

She will examine the seals for other variations or consistencies, and attempt to notice the difference with the more complete ones.

There's minor variations, but it's difficult to spot a pattern.

The more complete seals are definitely doing more - a common pattern sends a loop of chakra around the door frame, and a thin shield over where the door rests. Some have - not quite tendrils, but paths like an empty riverbed extending outwards, occasionally moving.

Ah. So the less-completeness likely means it can be added to.

She notes the new forms.

And she will go see what 'work rooms' entail. 

There's a small variety, and the corridors around them are much more crowded. Most of them seem to be rooms where people are writing, or reading through thick tomes. There's a few people working on other things - mostly various textile crafts - while chatting with their neighbors. A few people are complaining about having only scavenged or ramshackle tools.

And - there's someone carving fine details into a wooden block, a man about Rian's age but with bright silver hair. He's sitting off on his own, only occasionally talking to the people around him. 

She considers. Is there anyone working in metal, or evidence that anyone does?

(Do the tomes have titles?)

None here, at least. There's some evidence that someone in the past has worked with metal in some capacity - there's certainly metal fixtures, and some people are working with metal tools, not to mention all the weapons - but from here it's unclear where.

And not that she can see - many of them are open, or only the unlabeled spine is visible. 

Well, larger metalworking likely requires... a forge, if she has the technology level right. Though perhaps their magic means they do something different. 

If she walks up to the woodcarver, will he react to her?

He looks up at her when she gets close, though he continues carving. Occasionally he'll brush his fingers over a spot and it'll smooth out. It's difficult to tell from an angle, but it seems to be an illustration of a scene.

"Can I help you?" he asks.

If she reaches out, will she find that to be chakra work?

She is not familiar with local greeting etiquette, and substitutes the Reynan one, slightly more than ducking one's head, less then a bow. 

"Hello. I'm newly arrived, in a manner of speaking. I am looking for some tools; I was told interpersonal acquaintance was the likely way to do so."

Yup, it's chakra work. 

"You're a woodworker?"

And what does this one look like?

Rian did not seem to have in mind her being a secret, and she is likely to learn more through at least limited openness.

"No, I'm a mage. I sometimes work with physical anchors."

It's fleeting, and - more like he's simply reaching into the wood and running over it, the little swirls and eddies of chakra coaxing the wood into shape. There's nothing left behind in the wood itself when he withdraws his fingers.

"A mage?"

This system is certainly relevant to the field of magic theory. Among other things.

She tries to consider for something in the intersection of things that had not been mentioned as basic parts of their magic system and things she can do (and immediately so). Doesn't think she has enough information. 

She briefly turns partially invisible, then turns back (they can likely do that with illusions, but.)

"Yes."

He startles! Then looks fairly intently at her. "Huh. You didn't go anywhere, so invisibility, and not an illusion. Is that all mages can do, or just an example? Can you teach people?"

Well, from that response she predicts she may be pleased to have met him.

"Ah, does an illusion cause one to go somewhere? 

Yes, that was invisibility. And an example. It is much more likely that I can't teach anyone here than that I can, but I could prospectively make items others could use.

By all current indicators I was transported here from a different dimension. Rian saw me arrive and invited me here." 

"She's helpful like that. Kinda surprising, from an Uchiha, they're usually more - focused only on their individual loved ones," he says. "Illusions just twist the minds of the people who're experiencing them. I more meant you didn't teleport halfway somewhere else, I would've sensed that. What sorts of items? Chakra techniques only really make seals and chakra conducting or reactive items, and you have to be trained to use those."

"Usually?

Ah, interesting. That is not how our illusions work." She can't do convincing illusions right now, but she can do an obvious one, projects an image of a rice ball from the kitchen over her hand before dismissing it. 

"Nor can we teleport halfway; is that also something your magic allows, then?"

Well, that's useful information, though requiring of more details.

"Quite a variety. Warding jewelry, clothes spelled for warmth, greater strength into physical items. Translocation relays, repellants for various pests, food preservation. And so on."

"Well, now that there's just two of them, Rian's probably about as usual as any, but most Uchiha I've met wouldn't go out of their way to help a stranger. Though we were enemies, that could've colored things."

He looks with interest at the illusion. "So it's just twisting the light directly? Or is it doing something else?"

"And I haven't really seen halfway teleportation, but it wouldn't surprise me."

"Interesting. I think you could do some of that with seals, but not all of it efficiently. What does the warding do?"

"Two of them?

Yes, this version works on light. 

Oh?

Wards are for protection. Magical, physical, mental..."

"Rian and her sister, Emi. Emi isn't... Fully on our side anymore. I'm not entirely sure what happened there, but some of our people split off to join her.

"It's a good rule of thumb to not rule out what chakra can do. Someone somewhere always has a surprising bloodline.

"Yeah, that's probably better than the seals we have now."

This system really presents as needing some research attention.

"Rian mentioned bloodlines briefly.

What kind of protection do seals do?"

"Protection seals mostly come in the form of barrier seals. You can do things like make cloth stronger, I think, with embroidered seals - I've seen a few of those - but something that physically wards you from danger when it's just worn doesn't really exist yet. Though I don't know that much about seals, they aren't my specialty."

"And barrier seals could not be put on something worn?"