"Welcome. Good talking to you."

She considers next procedures. Becoming familiar with the base seems advantageous. She will attempt to go walk through it, personally see what is there. Keep her senses out for information she might gain that way. Note places of interest (more magic), but not stop to investigate in detail for the moment.

There's a lot that doesn't seem to be in active use, or that's been taken over for storage. There's plenty of rooms for sparring in, the school rooms, what's probably offices, a few rooms full of scrolls and people working on writing that practically radiate magic, and a couple of other sets of barracks. 

There aren't many people here at all, and it's entirely possible to go a while without running into anyone. The people don't seem to be from any one ethnic group, too - there's a tremendous variety in skin, eye, and hair colors, including one very tall person with outright blue skin and a grin that reveals sharp teeth.

Well. How does this person read to her? (Local human with unusual magic? Different in the way species differ?)

She notes down everyone's basic sense of presence. Is there systematic variation in other things? Rian has mentioned nobles, samurai, shinobi, civilians, daimyo as some categories of people. Anything that looks like it would map? Who if anyone has jewelry, or embroidery on clothes, or finer clothes in general? Who does and doesn't have weapons, and do they vary? Do they move aside as she walks through, do they expect she will do so? Do they look at her or ignore her? How do they carry themselves? She's seen Rian and Tetsuma, both apparently established chakra users. Can she read anything that might map to that?

How many people does she see? Rian had mentioned having a few hundred. What fraction does she run into? Is there any indication of locations the rest might be? (Closed doors and the like).

How many offices are there? How are they identified as offices? Do they give any indication of who works there? What rooms are and aren't locked like the barracks?

Mostly local human with unusual magic. Just, very unusual. 

Pretty much everyone seems to be the same type of magic user as Rian and Tetsuma, although most of them have less of a - presence - that probably corresponds to capacity or something. There's a few people who have barely any presence, who seem to be mostly specialists. Almost no one has any sort of decoration on them; wealth seems to be expressed in durability of clothes and quality of armor pieces. A few women have brooches or hair pieces, or are wearing nicer clothes, but they still have that same sense of presence. Some people have a symbol somewhere on their clothes, including a cluster of blonds who all look an awful lot alike and have the same symbol. Most people have weapons somewhere on their body - a few are wearing swords or other large weapons openly, though most only have knives. 

Most people seem to expect that both people approaching each other will subtly veer to put distance between them, and just about everyone either carries themselves confidently or like they're trying to escape notice. They tend to look at her, occasionally seeming to be sizing her up; there's one boy with hair as red as Mariko's who stares at her a bit longer. 

She'll see perhaps less than a hundred people, even if she swings by the cafeteria. There's plenty of closed doors. 

The handful of offices are usually labeled with what's probably a person's name. A few office doors are open, showing someone at a desk that looks to have been hewn directly from the stone by the same process Rian made her room. Most rooms aren't locked, though some of the rooms on the office stretch are.

Interesting. She makes special note of their sense of presence and magical impression and such.

She notes all of this, including the symbols.

(She does not perceive the brooches-and-so-on-and-also-magic-presence to be something in any way odd or notable, though she notes the skewed distribution of jewelry and, added to Rian's earlier mention of 'tradition', has somewhat of an internal eyeroll of sorts. Given that, the previous thing is somewhat of a 'well, at least', she supposes.)

Any other systematic difference between the 'confidently's' and the 'trying to escape notice'?

She doesn't react in any particular way to the sizing-up or staring. Occasionally gives an acknowledgment. 

She does swing by; she is through and the cafeteria is of clear importance. 

How are the age distributions?

The confident people usually have a larger presence, but not always, and are more likely to have a symbol prominently displayed. They're likely to either be fairly young and brash or relatively old. More women are trying to escape notice than men.

The ages skew heavily towards late teens and twenties, with a few in their thirties, and a small handful of children and people in their early teens. There's very, very few people in their forties or older, and the ones that are have high capacities and carry themselves extremely confidently.

She notes all this as well.

And is that everything?

Pretty much.

If that is everything then she can proceed to more depth. Was anyone sparring in any of the sparring rooms?

(If that isn't actually everything she will continue until it is.)

There were some people in the sparring rooms, mostly working either on their own or in pairs on purely physical techniques, using chakra only internally. A handful showed off the rapid movement Rian had used earlier.

She will watch a few. 

There's very clearly formal rules and rituals around sparring. The level of skill being shown is usually 'extremely good swordsman,' only occasionally going past that to 'clearly supernatural'. Most of the people sparring either look similar to each other or have the same symbol on their clothes.

Is everyone using swords? Anyone doing unarmed?

Any less skilled/experienced people practicing?

(Are the sparring rooms all near each other on in various places? Do they seem to be just a case of the same kind of thing happening in multiple rooms, or do the different rooms vary somehow?)

Mostly a variety of swords, some polearms, some knives, more than a few unarmed. There are less skilled people, who mostly look in the younger range.

(Most are near each other, though there's some spread of clusters, and are clearly intended for this purpose, though they're mostly similar. A few've been decorated with wall hangings.)

She will watch for a while to observe things like fighting styles.

There's a tremendous variety, though usually people with the same symbol will use similar styles.

She considers and analyzes and notes in memory and the like.

She should likely wait to practice in public herself until she has more depth and breadth of magic available, and possibly until she's better acquainted. She'll do some exercises suited to space constraints in her room, until then. Conveniently she knows quite many.

And now for the scroll rooms.

They're quieter, certainly, and there's open desks. 

Since there are multiple rooms again, do different ones seems to specialize, or is it just a matter of needing more rooms? If she can tell.

What was this about radiating magic?

It's unclear.

The writing that's radiating magic seems to be similar to the seals on her room.

Similar but not exactly the same?

And, does that mean it is different from more regular writing?

More of 'same class of thing, different application.' Like shades of the same color.

It's mostly individual words - almost always single kanji - surrounded by smaller writing and symbols, often with specific motifs incorporated that seem to vary between groups of people. A few are more geometric in design, including one person who's carefully creating an incredibly intricate flower-like mandala with a large blank space in the middle.

She observes them. 

(Is anyone doing more regular writing?)

A few.