She has definitely noticed the abundance of prostitutes! She is suspending judgment on that; maybe the government is deliberately trying to make everyone a whore for some perfectly good reason. It probably means you're less likely to get attacked if you aren't dressed like that, anyway. 

Do they happen to be having convenient conversations about ways to make a lot of money and also survive to age 30, or about what a Summoned Hero is and whether it's the same sort of thing where Hero's Companions are immortal, and whether this is presently on offer at any price? Do they happen to be having any conversations not in Taldane such that her translation services might not be useless? 

No audible conversations not in Taldane!  Nobody is saying anything about what a Summoned Hero is, let alone mentioning a Hero's Companions!  They seem to be mainly talking about various... adventuring quests?  Only in a weirdly organized fashion where cleaning the undead out of a ruined castle is said to be a "B-ranked quest" and they're wondering if they can find two other "C-ranked parties" to go do that.  There's talk of rare herbs spotted, not valuable in themselves, but indicating that much more valuable rare herbs might be nearby.  A young(-looking) man (probably) is bragging about how many horned rabbits with affinities he's got in his Spatial Bag; people nearby are rolling their eyes or walking away.

Somebody asks Carissa, sounding friendly about it, if she's here looking to form a party.

....maybe the dungeons are faked. A service by the Crown, a completely standardized difficulty, so you can level from them, and you probably level slower in light of everything being completely standardized and sanitized but maybe you do still inch your way along....and of course if that's what everyone does, you'd have to be a loon to go haring off after real danger, people only do that because it's the only way....

"I'm not local," she says flatly to the person asking to form a party. "I'm from Corborel and we rank spellcasters with a different system there; I don't know who I'd match."

"I didn't know there was anywhere that the Adventurer's Guild rankings were different... what's your most powerful Skill?"

"Weapons enchanting." Tea guy said so, and it was true before he said so too. 

"Oh, so you're looking for escorts for a dungeon run so you can level? - or do I have the wrong idea about why you're here in the first place and am just bothering you."

Ah HAH something about this world finally made SENSE. "No, that's about right. I can do a little bit of support spellcasting but mostly I'd like to have some starting capital for magic item making, and once I hit fifth circle I doubt I'll ever step into a ...dungeon.... again."

"I've got no idea what 'fifth circle' is, unless that means Tier 5 in which case ha ha ha ha very funny.  Are you looking to run a goblin dungeon with backup, slay some elder dragons..."

"In Corborel I'd run support for a team of people fighting babaus, nabasus, vrocks, the occasional omox. ... we had a lot of casualties. I guess while I'm learning a new system I'd want to go a step down from that."

"I've never heard of any of those monsters.  Who wins if an omox fights a two-hundred-year-old purple dragon?"

Okay, despite Carissa's determination to hate this entire flaming planet, this girl is growing on her. What a good way to invent cross-world monster comparisons. Dragons presumably are the same everywhere. (In Golarion they aren't usually purple, but dragon color only affects the difficulty of fighting them by a little.) "Dragon and it's not that close. The omox could probably take a younger dragon outside its lair, though."

"Taking out a dragon too young to be a caster is two upper-C-rank teams.  Taking out a young dragon with excessive casualties is two mid-C-rank teams.  If you were running support for a team like that, and want to take a step down but still benefit from the dungeon run at all, you're looking at a D-rank dungeon run."

"Cross-check so I don't send you somewhere overranked and get you killed, what's the most powerful weapon you've enchanted?"

Do they really have it down to that much of a system? Can it be gotten down to that much of a system?

"I've done a brilliant energy longsword, but - uh, as far as we know, all third-circle wizards, which I am, are about as hard to kill whether they paid attention in enchanting class or not?"

"I don't recognize 'third-circle' or 'wizard'... but if you can do weapons I've never heard of, and my Social Skills aren't telling me that you're insane or bullshitting, that sounds like maybe you should just, like, make a couple of weapons that nobody's ever heard of and sell those?  What's a brilliant energy longsword do, combatwise, and what kind of mats do you need to make it?"

"Goes through all unliving matter. They're pretty cool, but I'd need thirty two ounces of spellsilver, minimum, and I don't think anyone's going to front me that."

"'Spellsilver'?"

"...have you not heard of it. I hate this place. I should have asked so many more questions of the asshole who dragged me here. It's shiny, silver, corrodes in the air and has to be stored in oil, worth its weight in gold. If you don't have it here then I guess I'm a support caster who can't do any enchanting at all."

"That does sound like a difficult position to be in, but I know a person and I might be able to get you sorted there.  Pure metal or alloy?  Would you know it if you were brought into its presence?  Does it need to have an affinity, imbued magic, or other Skill-added or dungeon-added qualities?  How much of it would you want, if somebody was making a one-time purchase for you?"

"Iiiii don't think it's an alloy. I will know it if I see it. It doesn't - where I'm from it doesn't need to have imbued magic, you do that while you enchant it, but for all I know that works differently here. I would want to owe them less than five years of my life and have at least a couple pounds of it."

"I've got some savings, and, like I said, I know people.  Follow me and I'll see if I can get you sorted?"

Well, if she dies, she'll know that next time she should not trust the first person to try to invent an interworld monster-comparison scale for her.

Detect Thoughts, though, when they're weaving through enough people to help cover the spellcasting.

The mysterious woman being insane, running a scam, or her being the Summoned Hero from far beyond Kekaro, are the only reasonable ways she could not know about how cheap any pure metal is to create now that Transmuter Devices have been popularized, not to mention the woman's total unfamiliarity with the rest of the planet.  Her running a scam reasonably has to be most likely, but Almys does not particularly want to chance the woman being actually the Summoned Hero, what with that being Kekaro's basically only hope at this point.

Fifty pounds of 'spellsilver' will be cheap, if it's an elementary metal that the woman can identify and Almys can get transmuted.  She'll see what the putative Summoned Hero does with that; if she can turn some ordinary metal with no affinities into an entirely new kind of magical weapon, then...

...Almys doesn't really know what she'll do after that.  She'll play it by ear.

......does that mean. this stupid planet has infinite cheap spellsilver. maybe it deserves to live just for that.