....You know what, sure.

Eeeeeee Terel~

He's not at 'eeee Sadde' but is definitely heading that way as time passes.

And after shower (and who needs clothes? Sadde certainly doesn't) there's diagramming!

Terel does, in fact, dress first.

Diagramming goes productively until he actually remembers to go to his 4 PM class.

"Have fun in class, love," he tells Terel, and then it's after other methods of painkilling.

A medium-ish bribe and a 'you didn't get this from me' get him the other two ketamine-equivalents. One does nothing, one knocks him out cold for about twenty minutes until he wakes up very thirsty.

Hoooooly shoot thank goodness he's not near anyone and blood blood blood what the heck was that he has several questions but for now he generates blood. This one is a no.

Amulets, can they be made?

...Yes? This is a world-renowned magic university town, after all. Private commissions are quite pricey for the more rare and esoteric stuff, and take a while too, it might be faster and cheaper to hop over to windvale again and trawl the markets and malls.

Hmm, ballpark of the price?

Hundred thousands or thereabouts.

New:

• Painlessness: 200000, 2 weeks on rush order.
• Oversensitivity cure: 250000, 2 weeks on rush order.
• High-powered defensive thing for squishy squishy Terel: 100000, 1 week on rush order.
• High-powered healing thing for squishy squishy Terel: 150000, 1 week on rush order.
• Lifeline amulet pair, if he still wants one: 125000, 4 days on rush order.

Used:

• Painlessness: 150000, hard to find.
• Oversensitivity cure: 175000, hard to find.
• High-powered defensive thing for squishy squishy Terel: 45000.
• High-powered healing thing for squishy squishy Terel: 65000.
• Lifeline amulet pair, if he still wants one: 75000.

Are the used ones as good as the not used ones, as far as effect goes? How hard to find are we talking, here?

You'd definitely have to go to Windvale, or track down that guy's friend of a friend of a friend, is how hard to find.

The used ones are older and so in worse condition, and have no customization on look, trigger conditions, or any fiddly technical details to make tradeoffs on how they'll work.

Yeah it'll probably be Windvale. But not today. Today he's waiting on a call about sourcing more magic materials and his graduate course will only start in several weeks... So he goes to the library to read/memorise more books.

Books are available! 

What passes for science here, Millennia of magic research, and histories from more different civilizations than Earth has ever heard of. Though the histories seem to glance right over the most violent parts.

...more than Earth history textbooks do?

Yep. He can name just half a dozen generals after 30 books.

Aaand are there books about the wars themselves?

It seems like encyclopedias and long blatantly political rants about how this or that ideology causes peace are the best source of information on wars.

But are they good sources of information?

Not particularly, no.

The encyclopedias are dryly informative on when wars happened and how devastating the fallout was. Numbers like 'estimated 650 tiles, 2 million people lost.' The political rants are by and large sufficiently transparent to be obvious attempts to vilify one's political opponents.

Open wars are really uncommon here, compared to pre-industrial Earth.

Uh... huh. Interesting. He'll ask Terel about it later. He can just keep soaking stuff up.

(That's not to say there aren't plenty of wars mentioned - more people, more time, more wars even at a lower rate of war-per-capita).

A librarian notices him running through hundreds of books and reminds him to treat them carefully.

He promises he is not going to ruin any of them and is very very careful.

He can keep reading then. Any books or particular information he'd like to find? Inter-library loan: is a thing.