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Blai in Vatican Miracle Examiner
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The buildings on this street are about four stories tall, with lots of windows, in an unfamiliar architectural style. There are metal poles by the street corners, with what seems to be writing in an unfamiliar language. 

There are a couple dozen people on this city block, and more on the next block over. They mostly look vaguely Andorani, but it's hard to tell for sure; there's a group on the corner that looks Tien, and the clothing style is unfamiliar. Several of them are looking in his direction, visibly surprised; one of those is rifling through some kind of bag.

It's chilly, but not cold. (Definitely warmer than the Worldwound.)

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He's not currently dressed for the Worldwound, though, he's dressed for summertime in Cheliax (with the concession that he is wearing armor, since you don't have time to put it on if a monster attacks, not that it... helped...)

It would be a weird monster that teleported its prey to another land altogether but, well, here he is. He will put his mace back on his belt and approach empty-handed. The one looking through the bag is conceivably going for a scroll or something, which might be best since he himself did not prepare Comprehend Languages.

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Nope! She pulls out some kind of metal item, pokes at it, and starts talking in a language he doesn't recognize.

Someone else is pointing a small metal box with a smaller glass panel at him. She smiles and says something in what sounds like probably the same language; it makes a clicking sound.

Most of the street has stopped walking and started to stare at him.

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"Do any of you speak Chelish, Common Taldane, Infernal..."

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The person with the box says more things he doesn't understand! It might be a different language?

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Blai shakes his head apologetically.

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Some other people on the street chime in. Between them they have lots of unfamiliar languages, or possibly are doing a really bad job of coordinating on not trying the same language multiple times. You wouldn't normally expect there to be people who know this many different languages anywhere but Absalom.

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Maybe it's Absalom! Though he thought the place was less majority human. This could be a human neighborhood, maybe. He shakes his head at all the languages and repeats his three a few times.

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No one on this street seems to know any of them! Is he inclined to stay in the area or try wandering off elsewhere in the city?

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Is there a bench he can just sit on for a while?

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No benches, but a little ways down the street there's a group of three small tables, each with two chairs.

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If there is an unoccupied table he will go sit at one of those and tell curious passersby what languages he speaks. Maybe they will fetch a wizard or cleric who did prepare Comprehend Language this morning.

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Eventually he's approached by a pair of men wearing what could be an unusual style of cleric garments โ€” long, black robes with wings embroidered on the collar and a design that could possibly be a weird variant design for a Sarenrite angelic ankh taking up roughly the bottom quarter. Both of them are wearing necklaces that depict an injured man hanging from something shaped vaguely like a window frame and stoles with a number of symbols โ€” one looks kind of like Milani's, one could theoretically be Shelyn's but realistically is more likely to be some other bird-associated deity, and the rest are unfamiliar.

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...so probably some god he's never heard of. "Good day. I speak Chelish, Common Taldane, and Infernal."

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Roberto Nicolas speaks nine languages and he's not going to let the fact that some of them are things like "Old Aramaic" stop him from trying all of them!

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Hiraga only speaks five, and two of them are languages Roberto already knows. But if the ?miraculously appearing stranger? doesn't seem to recognize any of Roberto's languages, he'll try as well.

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No dice. Blai is at this point kind of expecting to pull an all-nighter here and get some language spells in the morning if these people inexplicably don't have any either.

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They do not seem to have any language spells.

Eventually the possible-Andorani will gesture at him to follow him, while the Tien one starts talking to other people nearby.

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...sure, okay, he can follow along if this is an inconvenient place for him to be.

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Then Roberto will lead him through the city for a while! Once they get off their current street several of the other streets have metal-and-glass wagons making loud noises. Apart from the buildings, they pass by some statues, cross a river, and cut through a small park.

Eventually Roberto will stop at one of the buildings, unlock it, and gesture Blai inside.

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In for a penny. Actually, no, that is a terrible thought process. Instead he will have a better thought process before doing the exact same thing: these people seem friendly and might be bringing him to their superiors or colleagues who can cast Tongues prepared Share Language or something.

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There aren't any other people inside, so at the very least their colleagues aren't there yet.

Roberto gestures at a couch, gestures at another room, says some incomprehensible things, and then goes into the room he just gestured to.

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Couch is good. He sits on couch.

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The other man eventually shows up at the same building and goes into the same room.

A little while after that, he comes back out to the room where Blai is sitting and gestures Blai to follow him into the other room.

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Okay. Do they have a Share Language yet. Did they have to go find a wizard with a free slot or something.

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They don't attempt to cast any sort of spell on him.

The other room has a large table with three place settings and a bowl full of some kind of complicated-looking pasta dish. (Also more doors leading to other rooms. Anyone who could afford a place this big in a Chelish city would have to be pretty wealthy.)

The man who brought him here gestures at the table and smiles.

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