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Sheridan transported to the world with a conscience problem
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Useful.

Well, for today she's out of money. Does the map she saw give any idea of where wealthier vs poor areas might be?

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She could guess based on where people would want to live relative to the things marked but otherwise no.

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What things are marked?

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Valanda marked his apartment, the market, the government buildings, a forest, some mountains, a river.

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About how close are the apartment and market to the center vs the edge of town? Also, how does the city seem to be arranged? Some kind of organized layout or not?

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It's a little hard to tell those things from this map. The city edge isn't marked and neither are most streets.

From what she's seen wandering around, it's an organic, unplanned city.

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She will attempt walking toward the center of the city, and see what she can observe.

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A small, historic district of buildings dating back to before the empire. They seem to be used mostly by businesses rather than for residences.

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What kind of businesses? What distinguishes the historic district?

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Businesses that don't mind the limitations of the architecture which does not, for example, include indoor plumbing. The walls rise straight up instead of each floor being a little bigger than the one below. There are more single-story buildings in this district than the entire rest of the city combined, which is to say three.

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And what businesses are those?

Any change in what people are around here as compared to the market?

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There's a smith and a tailor and some others.

There's an agerah buying a new hat and a caralendar getting a knife. A few agerah and a belul wander through the area without stopping to do any shopping.

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What are the prices like compared to the area near the market?

Also, while she's here, what are the smith and tailor like? (The businesses, not the people.)

Can she use whatever she's seen in the not-video so far to hypothesize anything about the caralendar?

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Prices don't differ by a lot. Slightly lower.

The caralendri all seem to be herbivorous humanoids.

The smith is a caralendar whose process seems to involve hitting glowing metal with a hammer. He seems to be a heat mage who can heat and cool metal on his own without fire or water. The tailor is an agerah force mage who can sew two seams at once with magic and has no trouble threading needles.

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Useful.

Are they both working on their own?

What kinds of things do they make?

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The smith has a boy with him, watching but not touching anything right now. The two of them talk a little in Ilan.

The tailor makes a wide variety of garments that are not all designed for humanoids. Most of them are more decorative than functional, for definitions of decorative that include... modesty? It might be modesty. Hard to tell with the information she has.

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She doesn't know Ilan, though maybe she can tell a bit of what it sounds like compared to Hari?

Signs of mistreatment on the (presumably slave) boy?

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The boy sure is a slave but it's not clear that he's being mistreated. He has scratches that are pretty consistent with falling onto pavement or running around in the woods and would be a little unusual for the results of corporal punishment. He seems relaxed and interested in the work and asks questions.

Ilan seems to have five or six phonemes Hari doesn't but no tones. It's not immediately possible to recognize any words as probably cognates.

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Well that's a good thing in as much as she can rely on momentary observations.

She notes what she can of the sounds in case she suddenly needs to fake an accent for some reason.

Can she tell what is on the upper stories of the buildings?

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There are signs in front of some of the entrances!

One has a weaver and one has a carver who sells little wooden statues. One has a couple of apartments for rent. One has empty space for rent by the hour. One conspicuously doesn't say what its top floor has.

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Can she go look in on the weaver and carver? Is there information on the apartments and empty space? What are the prices like?

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Not the weaver, but she can see the front part of the carver's cramped, dim little shop. A curtain divides the front from the back. The carver is a belul who's missing part of his tail. If she gets too near any of the things on display he eyes her suspiciously. He has a knife in easy reach but it's almost certainly for wood, not flesh.

It doesnt actually list a price. She could inquire.

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She has no intention of stealing woodcarvings and can act accordingly.

She doesn't currently know how people here feel about inquiring without intent to buy; she'll avoid it for now.

And, attempting a new direction. 

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She finds a quiet neighborhood without many people out doing things. It seems mostly residential.

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Different in any ways from other residential places?

Apparent economic level relative to other places she's seen?

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