"See you!"

"You're very pleased with yourself, aren't you."

"Extremely. We might actually make it home. What are you gonna do tomorrow?"

"Find something that looks like a temple and ask about the laws, so I don't get myself killed in the next week."

"I totally support this endeavor. We could go today if you wanted, even. Might be a good idea, so I don't do anything illegal while out adventuring. Kind of tired of talking to people, though. Might take a nap instead. In an actual bed, while we have them."

"I'm sure I can avoid being mugged for all of our money. - you should hold the gold. And the treaties. And maybe my entire backpack. But, like, conditional on not having anything worth stealing, I'm pretty sure I can make it back in one piece."

"Maybe take North, too? Just out of an abundance of caution, especially while you don't have your magic? But yeah, sounds good. Lemme know what you find out."

Well. He'll just head out and look for something temple-shaped, then.

Like this enormous elaborate stone building with a domed roof and a lot of gilding?

...yeah, sure, he can investigate that.

The interior is equally elaborate, with lots of stone statues of importantly-dressed people and counters on one side and alters to various gods on the other. There's some sort of religious service happening at one end; gold-robed people are singing.

He can head to the counters and try talking? He kind of hates the experience of trying to talk to people and hoping that they spontaneously cast a spell on him, but he doesn't see that he has a lot of other options here.

They try quite a few languages but don't seem to have the spell handy. Unless he has gold, in which case he should go over there.

Sigh.

If they killed for breaking some law they could not possibly have predicted then the gold will be pretty worthless, won't it.

He has five gold sovereigns. If it's more than that he's gonna need to go back to the hotel and get some more out of his backpack.

Nah that's enough (it's possible that fewer would have been enough but they take all five). 

What can they help him with?

He's from a really long way away, ended up here by accident, was told he was responsible for following all of the laws here, is not remotely confident that he can guess what those are, and was told that he should go to a temple to have them explained.

Huh. Uh, okay. Has he any family or did he end up here all on his own?

He has one friend who also ended up here by accident and also has no other connections.

That's difficult. All right. Uh, this novice here with nothing better to do can explain the laws to him. Where in the city is he staying, different parts have different laws.

They have a room at the Adventurer's Cradle right now? It's not that far from here.

Then he can get a lecture on the laws of Osirion. Osirion has a pharaoh. He's appointed by Abadar and the closest thing to a god in this world and his word is law. Because he is a perfect representative of Abadar his laws are all very just. Obeying unjust laws is an important virtue and some people think it's more effective for cultivating your own lawfulness than obeying just laws but Osirion has just laws all the same. You can get practice at the other thing by obeying unjust relatives, or whatever. 

You aren't allowed to steal or assault people or try to kill them except in self-defense and it's not self-defense if they aren't trying to kill you or someone else right at that very moment. You cannot slip drugs or poisons into peoples' foods. You cannot set magical traps except on your own property and only then if you have filed the appropriate paperwork. You can't interfere with or lie to the city guard or the royal guard or a church official or anyone else acting on the pharaoh's behalf. You have to pay taxes and so on. You cannot file false police reports. On some streets you are not allowed to set up a vending cart and on others you have to have a permit and others are closed to non-residents at night, here's a map. You cannot offer people bribes. If you offer someone a bribe and they accept, you can report them and they'll serve the sentence for whatever crime you stood accused of and you get your money back. If Osirion is invaded you can be conscripted to defend it. You cannot maim or rape your slaves and if you do they will get taken away. You can marry only as many women as you have the income to keep in separate households and if any of your households are uninsured or underinsured or if one of your wives or children has died in the last year you can't marry any more women. You can marry men only with special permission from the church. You cannot proselytize for chaotic gods, or evil ones.

He takes notes. That all seems vaguely sane. It'll be obvious if he has to pay taxes, or does he have to know to do that in certain situations - ?

Unless he's starting a business it should be really obvious, some sales will be taxed and the business will handle that and some jobs are a tenth for the pharaoh and the work orders will reflect this.

Cool. - and the self defense thing, if someone attacks him without intent to actually kill him and he can't run or yell, is he, like, in the clear as long as he doesn't try to kill them about it, or can he just not take aggressive actions in the course of escaping at all -

Should be proportionate, so, like, if someone shoves him he can shove them or if they punch him he can punch them but if they shove him he can't knife them, even nonlethally.