Boots in Osirion
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Involve herself in what capacity, she isn't a freed slave.

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The instructor has a vague impression some people show up just because they feel strongly.

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Noted.

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They spend the rest of the class talking about the merits of international trade. Abadar is really enthusiastic about international trade and so it's been greatly expanded under the present pharaoic dynasty and especially under the present pharaoh. They explain the principle of gains from trade and why it is important and list off various goods that Osirion only has due to imports, such as chocolate and various spices and various magics.

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Nod nod.

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That's all for today, any questions?

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Nope.

She goes and sits in the inn dining room to have dinner, and try to pick up some of the language once her spell wears off.

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People are telling tall tales and complaining about the prevalance of foreigners bidding up adventuring necessities and making crude jokes about women and planning their next trips.

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Acceptable for vocabulary acquisition, anyway. Sigh.

She goes to the next day's class a little early. Is her business license ready yet?

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It is! She can go be a therapist anywhere she pleases in Osirion. 

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Okay. Can she get help writing a newspaper ad before she gets her language spell for class?

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Sure! 

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The ad should mention that she doesn't speak the language and will communicate telepathically, and the confidentiality thing, and some stuff she can help with like missing memories and flashbacks, and subtle artists are rare enough she can imagine people dropping in for the caffeine thing as a quick-and-cheap option so let's mention that.

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Can she do, like, removing temptations and compulsions, people'd be really interested in that.

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I don't have clinical experience with that but I could try.

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Then she'll write up an ad with just the things she mentioned and another mentioning the other stuff if she decides to use it.

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Cool. Where will she go to get this in the paper?

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She will circle a couple newspaper offices on the map.

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Thank you.

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Of course!

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And she will sit through wealth and commerce, though didn't they cover this yesterday?

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There's a lot more theological teachings about wealth and commerce that they barely got into yesterday. Some highlights include that Abadar and his clerics do not give charity, because if you don't ration things with money they get rationed some other way, and that the church does not have tithing but does encourage everyone to buy insurance against various ills that might befall them, as a religious sacrament; the insurance enables the church to provide for them should they end up in a position of need and provides them the security to go about their lives.  Here's how insurance works, conceptually. Here are some examples.  

Here's a little bit more introductory economics about how prices are established and why Abadar prohibits price gouging only under certain circumstances (it's allowed when it might increase supply; it's not for things whose supply is entirely fixed). 

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Do they... have charity around here? Or any non-insurance-based social safety net for kids or anything?

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Some other churches do charity.

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Okay.

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