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an isekai in Kith
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Briseadh barely manages to take that as something other than a threat. Barely. 

"I thank. What else I help you before I go? What else stranger not know but good for stranger to know?" Wouldn't want to look like trouble this early.

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"You can wash your hands at the pump over there and then put the laundry from the clothesline in the basket. If you don't like it on this round, you can see about hopping a ship to another one."

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"I not dislike, I not know what work I best at. I think cut tree. I cut well and hold heavy thing." That is a sentence that is going to sound weird coming from a chronically underfed teenage, however wiry his frame. Oh well. "How much coin hop ship?"

Briseadh will wash his hands and start taking down some laundry, in the process getting a look at what passes for local garb. He doesn't want to give up his robe and leathers but it might be nice to cover it with something.

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"I dunno how much. You might be able to work your passage."

They favor tunic-length shirts and have invented both of pants and buttons but neither elastic nor zippers.

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Do they sew in kneepads though, because that's a surprisingly useful selling point for him.

"What job they lots want work passage?" He guesses that cutting things is not a useful skill on a sail but maybe he's wrong. 

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They do not have kneepads sewn into the pants, though some of them are patched there.

"Cleaning the hull, working in the galley, hauling water and waste? You don't seem likely to know how to work the sails."

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"I do not know how work sails. I can clean and haul." There's a bit of back and forth to get an idea of what a galley is, and then the laundry is folded and he's ready to move on. Has it been long enough he's sleepy or that Shimyamei might be awake yet?

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Not likely, he had two not-very-long conversations. Locals are short sleepers but not that short.

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How about those wise guys?

He'll ask about directions to where he might find one. If they're so wise maybe they'll have advice. Then he's going to try and scout for one while staying as far away as he can thank you. "Wise person who can tell people things and have dissent just stop happening" sounds like someone is abusing Jedi mind tricks. Maybe that's going to mean they have a fight about it if they sense him. He can at least make it hard for them, he's been keeping his temper in check and barely drawing on the force since he woke up.

Does he get directions? Can he spot one of these people before they spot him?

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There are only two wise folks in Oatsfield. They live in that house over that way together. At least one of them is usually awake.

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Thanks old guy! Briseadh will be polite and as unsuspicious as he can at this point.

Anywhere he can be somewhat concealed as he starts a stakeout observing the house until someone leaves?

Opening himself up to the force is a double edged vibrosword. If he can sense them they can almost certainly sense him. So instead he'll just go with good old eyesight and hope.

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He could climb a tree? He could hide behind a bean trellis? The houses around here don't have a ton of windows. There's no smoke coming out of their chimney right now. A cat sleeps on their front walk.

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This doesn't look like a town where loitering for a couple hours will go unnoticed.

Does the bean trellis have a backside that's well concealed, or is he going to be obvious to anyone walking down from the other side of the street? What he'd love is a good bush. A tree might work if it's got enough leaves and stuff to cover him from the ground.

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There's a few rows of bean trellises. He could be seen from the end of the row, but not from behind. The trees are in leaf and he can climb a maple and be pretty hidden if he would like, though someone might see him climb it.

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Maple tree then. He reckons he can climb quickly and pass it off as goofing around if he needs to.

He takes a look around to make sure no one is watching, then risks one quick pull on the force to get started with a powerful leap. It's easy to start, hard to stop, the anger coming quickly when he lets himself think about the smug arrogant Jedi in their clean robes, 'wise persons' dispensing advice nobody questions, the Force gives them the right but it doesn't make it right-

He has to breathe slowly for a few minutes once he's up in the tree, and most of it isn't exertion.

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If he watches the wise folks' house for a while he can eventually see an old man come out to give the cat a fish head.

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Hrm. That's not very useful and Briseadh maybe hasn't thought this all the way through.

Does the old man perchance wear a tan robe with a metal cylinder on his belt? If Briseadh touches the force briefly and softly, does he feel an aura of (nauseating, external, unwanted) peace and serenity from the guy?

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Nope, the old man is wearing yellowish-green trimmed in brown with big wooden buttons and has no unusual Force signature.

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Briseadh is out of ideas then. Why is listening to these people sufficient that they don't have hired muscle?

He'll hang around the tree until the man goes back inside or wanders away, then checks for the coast to be clear and drops back down the trunk. If the man went back into the house he'll go knock and see what kind of rulers these wise people are.

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The man did go back inside, and answers the door, too. Smells like he's got fish in the pot on the fireplace. "Hello, who might you be?"

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"Hi. I name Briseadh. I new in area, not know language well, not know place or rules. I from far away. I told you wise person, people ask if problem? My plan practice language, get work, maybe find way back. I think good plan but maybe I not see flaw."

The obvious flaw is that he can't build a hyperdrive or starship out of rocks and trees, but until someone admits to knowing what a starship is he doesn't have any better ideas.

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"What round are you from, how'd you get here?"

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"I don't know what 'round' is really. Was on Mustafar, a planet. Used hyperdrive badly, wound up over that way." He points vaguely the way he remembers coming from. They don't have a word for hyperdrive so he's just saying that and planet in Basic.

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"I never heard the word 'planet' or 'hyperdrive'. Rounds in this area are -" He can list about twenty of them before he trails off at the lack of recognition.

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Briseadh continues to know about no rounds other than the tree one people keep mentioning, and that because people have mentioned it.

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