The kiosk worker thanks him three times for his tip, and picks up a similar metal plate to the one he saw the front desk woman use to leave a message for Dr. Bishop. The kiosk worker speaks with the same careful enunciation. "Postal. Address of Hounder Hocklerson." She pauses for a moment. "Dear Pup. There's a guy who is exactly your type from out of town, name of Conrad Ferrer, who is looking to get into the local dueling scene."

She holds the plate away from her mouth for a moment as she asks Conrad, "How should he contact you? Or should I tell him to expect you at the training hall I know he likes?"

He feels...weird...about being thanked like that. He's not sure how to interpret that.

He's very interested in this magic item of at-will Sending, and he really wants to get one. After he gets an automobile.

"I work at the echoic research facility about an hour's ride away from here." A lie, but which will become truth soon, if his plans don't change. "He can leave a message for me there, although in case I'm in town, it will be good for me to know which training hall he goes to so I can drop by."

On an unrelated note, once she deactivates the metal plate, he'll ask whether there are any places that sell pocket watches or similar portable timekeeping instruments.

She moves the plate back towards her mouth. "He works at the research facility up the valley, if you want to reach him. Also telling him where to find Hockler's Hall, so you might see him around. Love, Moony"

Then she stows the plate and points out Hockler's Hall (Hounder's father is the owner and founder) on Conrad's map, as well as the one consumer clockworks shop in town (situated right in the middle of the uppest-class section of the riverside district). "Safe travels! Maybe I'll see you around; Hounder, I and some of our other friends usually get drinks at a pub near the training hall on weekends."

Now, off to the men's clothes store!

It's only a short walk from the bus station to the nearest store. which is one of the bigger buildings in the area. It's very clean, tastefully decorated, and well-advertised from the street-level. The inside is pleasantly warm and dry in a way that may remind him of the highway and seems indicative of a similar metabolic effect, perhaps laid into the floor. Barely even a round after he's entered, a modestly but very clean and crisply dressed store clerk will approach him with a smile and asks, "Good morning sir! How can the Prosperous Clothier help you today?"

"Thank you for your help. See you," he says, and walks to the clothing store.

The metabolic effect is still surprising, but not surprising enough that he startles. It's very pleasant. He's surprised at how much metabolic effects are used. Is it that the metabolic wind is easiest to inscribe? Or is it that it's simply the most versatile and useful of the four winds? 

Very heretical. Lord Echo is the greatest of the winds.

Hm. He actually has no idea what fashions are like here. But also, he doesn't want to give off the impression that he's a tourist (even though he probably has), because he's afraid they might upcharge him. Not good. This does seem like a fancy place, even ignoring Chelish commoner standards. Should he be here? Well, it's fine. It's not like anything will happen if he just walks away without buying anything.

"I'm looking for simple workwear, the sort you might find in an office. And also something more outdoorsy, like I'm going hiking, as well as warm clothes and furs, if you have them. Oh, and bags. Do you have those?"

"We certainly do!" The clerk takes him on a bit of tour of the store, just to the places relevant to Conrad's requests. Even for the office casual and hiking clothes there's a considerable selection, including indeed variously inscribed hiking clothes to help regulate body heat, conserve body moisture, protect from inclement weather, protect from stinging and biting pests, protect from falls, scrapes, and other injuries, or even provide some outright physical augmentations like enhanced strength, endurance, and agility, though as the inscriptions increase the price quickly balloons to multiple ducats for single pieces of clothing. There are also some specialized cold-weather clothes and furs, though the variety is lesser here.

The variety for the bags is simply bewildering, though. Bags of all shapes, sizes, and fabrics, different ways of being carried, different internal divisions with pockets and sub-pockets and sub-sub-pockets, different ways of being opened and closed, bags with inscribed security measures, bags with load-lifting inscriptions that bear some (or even almost all) of the weight, bags with inscribed sorting systems so that you always know what's inside and where, and that's really just scratching the surface. Whatever else Conrad knows, he now also knows that the people of this land, or at least this city, care a great deal about bags. The highly inscribed bags are just as expensive as comparably magical clothing, but some of the lesser inscriptions are surprisingly affordable.

Wow. He loves clothes now. A shirt of Bull's Strength...okay, he should not indulge his intense hunger for enhancement items and instead buy stuff that looks fine and professional and will cover his body. 

Wizards have good Will saves, and Conrad has a relatively high Wisdom for a Wizard...but the Will save DC of this check is very high. He doesn't make it, but it's close. There may be some motivated thinking that will occur. Or rationalizations.

Can he try on the clothes? He's interested in the body heat regulation clothes and the pest protection clothes – he hates mosquitoes. One of the few good things about being at the Worldwound is that there aren't any. He's also interested in a coat to wear if it's especially chilly outside. And also the shirt that boosts strength. Of course. Although he's very unlikely to buy that, because money. He'll ask how much they cost, as well as how much the non-inscribed clothing costs.

Oh, and what about shoes? His combat boots are fine, but maybe he should get dress shoes.

Wow, but more wow. They don't have Bags of Holding here, but the bags here might even be better than those. He's thinking of getting a large backpack, perhaps even approaching duffel bag sized. Is there one which could, if it contains little, shrink? And then expand when you put more into it? He'd love that. He scoffs (to himself) at the load-bearing bag. He can carry things just fine because he's not weak, thank you. How much is that? 

He's also interested in getting a bag with the security measures. Either with the duffel bag, or perhaps in a messenger bag type configuration. He doesn't anticipate actually going around lugging that much stuff with him all the time.

He's looking to buy a whole second outfit, perhaps a third (but not including shoes). He has Mending and Prestidigitation, so these clothes will last a long, long time, but even though he doesn't care about fashion, he does prefer to like, not go around wearing exactly the same thing every day. 

He thinks about budgeting. He has at least some idea of how much things cost now.

He was given two hundred ducats. He'll set aside one hundred and fifty ducats for housing and food for one month, since those seem like the largest expense categories. He could eat less, but he really doesn't like that. Hunger is not conducive to thinking, and thinking is like, half his job. Or used to be his job, anyway, before he quit.

Ten ducats will go to transport and miscellany, like the tip and the bus ride. He's already spent some of this money.

Ten ducats for clothes.

Ten ducats for his """""spellbook""""" and writing materials, although that's a really generous budget amount. He'd be surprised if they had a notebook so valuable that it would go for that much money, unless it's some sort of status symbol. 

Ten ducats for a portable timekeeping device.

Ten ducats for a bag.

He isn't sure whether these are reasonable prices, but they seem good enough. He wonders how much they'll pay him at the research facility.

Well, he knows that Dr. Bishop had (and thus, could afford to have) at least 200 ducats squirreled away in a secret compartment in her office desk. She's probably some kind of senior researcher, but Conrad's a Recognizant, so who knows?

There are definitely shoes! There's actually almost as many options for shoes as there are for bags. Fewer inscriptions though, mostly just for basic stuff like improved durability and what not, which given Conrad's upkeep abilities he can probably skimp on for now.

Here's a neat little echoic trinket that will let Conrad realistically experience wearing the clothes without having to actually change! Including letting him see how he looks in one of the many mirrors strategically placed around the store. Naturally there aren't any stinging or biting pests in the store to notice the absence of, though. All of the inscribed items come with a warranty guaranteeing repair, replacement, or refund if the inscription fails to satisfy the label within the guaranteed product lifetime (which varies between products, but is usually two years for cloth items and eighteen months for shoes).

Individual pieces of uninscribed clothes of the sort he's looking for generally top out at around one and a half ducats for individual articles, though shoes sometimes go up to two and a half. There are also a few different outfit discounts that will let him pick up a complete set of clothes all from the same manufacturer for just 2 or 3 ducats. Spending carefully, Conrad can get an office casual outfit, a hiking outfit, cold-weather layers that go with the hiking outfit, and augment the hiking outfit with heat-regulating and anti-pest inscriptions all for 8 ducats 10 pounds. He'd have to break the outfit discount to get the strength-enhancing shirt, requiring him to drop both the other inscriptions and raising his total clothing pricetag to 9 ducats 8 pounds.

There are indeed inscriptions that fold and reweave the pack to compact down when empty or only partially filled! They're actually quite cheap, too. He can even get one that's quite big and has a detachable sling-bag as a sub-division, which he could have the security inscription included in. That'd only cost him 5 ducats 6 pounds. If he uses the extra for clothes, that would give him enough to buy the non-outfit strength-enhancing shirt without having to sacrifice anything from his hiking outfit, or to pick up another full uninscribed outfit to let him vary up his colors and designs.

The echoic item is definitely very neat. See, this is why Lord Echo is the best.

The warranty sounds good, although he expects Mending to make them last much longer than the warranty time. He's very glad that he just so happened to have Mending prepared, although he does usually prepare it most days. It's a transmutation spell.

Provided that the office casual outfit has shoes, he'll happily take advantage of the full outfit discount. He's surprised that the bag costs that little, given the amount of features he has, and will transfer the money in the Bag Budget to the Frivolous Clothes Budget, so that he can get his whole two outfits plus the strength-boosting shirt, and the inscriptions on the hiking outfit. Does the security inscription for the bag cost extra? If it isn't too much, can he get it along with the fancy shirt? He doesn't care to have another uninscribed outfit.

The casual outfit, hiking outfit, and cold weather layers cost eight ducats ten pounds. The bag costs five ducats six pounds. How much does the strength-enhancing shirt cost, and how much would it cost to add the security inscription to the bag? 

And, a close second in importance, what do the clothes and bags look like? What are they made of? How are they cut? Do they actually fit him, or will he have to additionally pay for a tailor to fit them to him? He has seen ready-made clothing in Laekastel, but it's very rare. Probably more popular in Egorian or big cities like that. He had his body measured for his Worldwound uniforms, of which he got two sets.

He takes a closer look at the echoic reflection of himself in the mirror.

The office outfit has a button-down plain white shirt – that's too tight in the chest but too loose at the waist – and dark gray slacks that are too tight at the thighs but too loose at the calves. He's kind of used to that being the case though, although that means he'll have to get the clothes tailored. It looks good, though. He feels the fabric through his hands. It's very fine linen, and a good thickness. The shoes are brown leather dress shoes – no ornamentation save for the shoe box being shined. He likes that.

The hiking outfit is a loose pullover dark green long-sleeved shirt in thick cotton. He could do with this one not being tailored, although it would be good to have if the tailoring isn't expensive. It comes with khaki corduroy pants. Also on the thicker side. He won't be wearing this one in summer, he thinks. Although summer is two seasons away: by that point, if he doesn't have the money to buy summer clothes, something has gone horribly wrong. 

The strength-enhancing shirt is another button down, but it's bright red in color. Really quite bright – he wonders briefly whether there was magic involved in the dyeing of the shirt. He's not sure what to feel about it being so flashy. It feels good on the skin. The fabric is soft, and it's shiny too, like satin. Is this silk? He's heard of silk, but never actually seen any silk clothes before – it's a Tian Xia import, so it's extremely expensive.

The cold weather layer is a black double breasted pea coat with metal buttons, made of wool, or at least a wool-like material. It's not what he would wear at the Worldwound, but this place definitely does not get as cold as the Worldwound. He likes the way it looks and hugs his body.

The bag is a rectangular-ish duffel bag looking thing made of brown leather, with big straps. He likes that. It means it won't dig into your shoulders if you put in a lot of stuff. He can see how it shrinks down when he puts it on, given that there's nothing on it, and then, when he takes it off and opens the clasp, it suddenly 'inflates' into its full size. The top compartment has its own strap that comes out when you unclasp it from the main compartment, which is the sling bag bit. It's two bags in one. Great deal!

The security inscription actually comes with and is pre-factored into the cost of that particular bag! The sling-bag sub-item is specifically for that sort of sensitive-carry situation.

The strength-enhancing shirt on its own costs 4 ducats, 6 pounds, so adding it to the two outfits brings the clothing total up to 12 ducats, 16 pounds. He could actually afford another one of the cheaper uninscribed outfits as well.

Noticing Conrad looking at his outfits in the mirror, the clerk also mentions that the Prosperous Clothier is one of the very few stores where a fitting with the auto-tailor is included with every purchase, for even greater value!

That's good. He was afraid it was going to raise the price some more.

Granted, he doesn't have a job yet, so he may have just spent the equivalent of half a year's income on this. But he wants the strength shirt and he wants it now. He's definitely going to run them all through Detect Magic later. Hm, he's not sure he wants to buy an uninscribed outfit. He knows of rich nobles that always go around in enchanted clothes, and he kind of wants to be that kind of noble. Very Prideful thought.

...auto-tailor? What does this auto-tailor look like? He's very tempted to run Detect Magic on it too, but Detect Magic has both a verbal and somatic component, and he's not sure if the clerk will take him chanting and waving for half a round well. In any case, what does it look like?

The clerk takes him to a fitting booth! It's a little room that has a platform with an adjustable rack for holding various clothes, a sort of mechanical arm that stretches up from the platform, and a slot that looks like it could hold the clothes-testing item. "By attuning the clothes-tester to the clothes, placing them on the labeled section of the auto-tailor's rack, and inserting the attuned clothes-tester, the auto-tailor will detect the fit, calculate the required alterations, select the needed metabolic tools, and perform the alterations automatically. All in just a couple minutes. It's quite something to see, the first time especially."

Oh yeah. Let's do this. He puts the office clothes on the racks first, then puts the echoic clothes-tester into the slot. Lord Echo for the win. Best wind. Truly.

He's excited to see what it'll look like. 

The clerk goes and presses a button to activate the machine. There's a bit of start up time, the rack adjusts slightly to give the clothes just the right amount of tension, and then the arm flies into motion, whirling around the rack, retrieving little inscribed devices from under the platform, stroking them along the clothes at various points, stowing one device and then grabbing another, the processing proceeding with a quickness that will naturally remind Conrad of the great speed the bus was able to reach while driving down the highway, though the auto-tailor's movements are much more contained, limited as it is to its stationary platform.

For the first minute and a couple rounds after, it was honestly kind of hard to tell what specific alterations the auto-tailor was doing, and Conrad may have even been a little worried that something had gone wrong or that the machine was simply not living up to the clerk's hype. Then, over the course of maybe five rounds, the outfit rapidly transforms from looking almost mangled to being back in perfectly wearable shape. When the clerk retrieves the clothes-tester from the auto-tailor's slot and tests the now-altered outfit, it will fit perfectly.

He knows that enchanted clothes can resize themselves like that, but he hasn't actually worn any. It's great that magic items are so affordable in this world. He doesn't even need to become an adventurer to be able to afford that. Just...become a cleric Recognized. He is aching to Detect Magic the thing, but he doesn't want to cause a scene.

He wants to put on the clothes now, but then realizes that people might get upset if he just takes off his clothes in the shop, so he doesn't do that. He'll let the clerk alter the other sets of clothes he has, and will put on his stuff at home, after he's laundered them with Prestidigitation. And after he's procured a home.

Should he pay now? It takes a moment for him to figure out which ducat notes to give to the clerk.

After the alterations have been made, the clerk will lead him to a pay counter and leave him the care of the cashier, who will ring up his purchases (17 ducats 22 pounds, for the outfits and bag) and will provide change if Conrad needs it (which he does). Then the clothes are folded up neatly and packed into Conrad's new bag by a store worker whose jobs appears to be specifically and only packing customer's purchases into bags, which if they aren't some kind of slave might seem like an utterly profligate decision by the Prosperous Clothier's management. They do care a lot about bags here though so maybe it makes some kind of sense. Certainly they packed the bag very quickly and efficiently, while still treating the items delicately and with respect.

With that, Conrad has acquired clothes! Where to next?

They got rid of their nobility, which seems like the sort of thing that would correlate with also forbidding slavery – that's what Andoran did – but it doesn't logically necessitate it. He'll still thank the maybe-slave and leave the shop. Great service. At least, from his perspective. He actually hasn't been to any other shop.

He thinks he wants to settle the hotel/inn thing last, perhaps even after he meets with Bishop. The earlier plan of meeting the Lord Echo worshippers will probably have to be delayed until tomorrow, unless they're fine with meeting at night.

He wants to go to the stationery shop now. He'll probably buy one notebook, though he might buy two, in the case he wants to sustain the hope of actually figuring out how to rederive spellbook diagrams here, and use the other one as a diary. He'll have to see how expensive paper is first. Will the shop have Cool and Fancy inscribed devices as before? 

...actually, wouldn't inscribed paper literally just be a Golarion magic scroll? Well, no, scrolls are made of parchment, not paper, but close enough, right? Could he read an echoic invocation scroll? He's an echoic recognizant, so it should be on his spell list.

Assuming Conrad goes to the one that 'Moony' recommended, it'll be a bit of a walk, and will involve crossing a road-bridge over the highway, which has become somewhat busier than earlier this morning, producing a strange sort of sound from the rumbling of numerous automobiles. At a distance it almost sounds like the crashing of waves on the shore.

The paper-shop, Jewel's Handmade Books & Things, is much, much smaller than the Prosperous Clothier, and with a much narrower range of prices, with most of the proper notebooks being in the two to four pound range depending on size and page count, with the most expensive ones being 14 pounds and including inscriptions for increased durability, particularly resistance to water damage. There's also various sorts of packs of loose paper, folders, binders, paper-clips, writing utensils, and other paper-adjacent products, mostly in the 4 to 8 ounce range, though there are also metabolic pens that don't need ink that cost 2 pounds 6 ounces a piece. He can easily splurge for two quite good notebooks and a metabolic pen for each and have ducats to spare.

Conrad will go to the one Moony recommended.

Hm, he's looking for a big (in the sense of having many pages) notebook. Very sturdy. It's fine if it's somewhat bulky and heavy, but it has to be sturdy. If there are notebooks bound in metal, he'll get those, but he doesn't think he'll find any. Leather or wood bound will be fine, if they have the inscription. He likes that they have Permanent Book Ward – although in this case it's weaker than Book Ward, since it doesn't say it protects against fire or acid damage, only water. Do they have anything like that?

He doesn't care about the visual aesthetics of the notebooks and pens, but he demands that they have good tactile sensations, that they feel good to the hand and fingers when he holds them. He cares very deeply about that sort of thing. If worst comes to worst, he'll use what he can, but given that he has choice, he wants to get something really good.

He'll probably buy two fancy warded notebooks and two fancy metabolic pens. What's the warding inscription? He'll guess it's a chorismic effect, since the secret compartment was chorismic too.

Hm, he's curious about why the pens are metabolic, and not poetic. Metabolic effects can only change, not create, no? If it can make ink indefinitely, shouldn't that be a poetic effect? Although it could be that the metabolic pen is directly changing the color of the surface it's writing on. What do the pens look like?

He'll also want to get a pack of plain paper, something like fifty sheets, plus some sort of folder or case to keep papers in to keep them from getting crumpled.

The clerk currently running the shop (Maple, a close friend and business partner of Jewel, who apparently suffers from social anxiety and prefers to not meet customers without an appointment) thinks that if Conrad wants maximum durability he might be better off getting a tablet rather than a notebook. They're outside of Jewel's specialty, since they're made of metal rather than paper, but Maple can recommend a good tabulary to him. They are quite a bit more expensive than a notebook, though. He might be able to commission a custom from Jewel for increased durability, but that would be quite expensive as well and Maple would need to check Jewel's backlog to know how long it'd take before it got made.

Fortunately, Jewel evidently has a similar appreciation for the tactile experience to Conrad. He will struggle to find anything in the shop that doesn't feel at least good, if not great to the touch.

The durability inscription is primarily chorismic, yes, with a bit of metabolic as well.

Conrad has intuited the mechanism of the metabolic pens! Maple explains that poetic effects are subject to more regulations than metabolic ones because poetic effects permanently add 'stuff' to the world, which can have lots of different negative effects if it's not balanced out with an equal amount of 'stuff' being removed by a chorismic effect. It's wasteful to just destroy stuff for no reason, though, so it's better to be conservative with poetic effects instead. The pens themselves are a rolled metal tube with the inscription on the inside, ending in a nib similar to an ink pen's, with an optional enamel shell that comes with lots of different colors or patterns and can swapped out with other shells.

A half-pack of paper (which is 72 pages, technically, but close enough) and a folder will go for 6 ounces, which brings Conrad's total up to 1 ducat, 9 pounds, 6 ounces.

Conrad will continue to wonder how their society is so prosperous that you can buy these delightful magic items for cheap. His new hypothesis is that there's an Underdark here, like in Golarion, where they have legions of slaves toiling away making magic items and other things and keeping everything running, while all the free people live aboveground. It wouldn't be the Chelish way to do it – people want to show off how many slaves they own – but he thinks that they might see slaves as 'untouchable' and so prefer not to see them or be in the vicinity of them.

"What does a tablet look like? Do you have one I can look at?" he asks. In that case, he thinks that he'll get one fancy notebook as a spellbook (although he won't say that he's going to use it as a spellbook). He'll appreciate it if she gives him the tabulary's address. He at first thinks of stone tablets you carve runes into, but given the way Maple says it, he guesses it's more magical and engineered than that.

She definitely does. He finds a beautiful dark red boiled leather notebook with two straps to hold the book closed. The leather feels luxurious yet strong. Again, how do they get such good things!?

He asks offhandedly, "In that case, what about echoic effects? What's the regulation for them?" The thought of Lord Echo's power being limited and restricted by petty mortals is definitely heretical and any government that does it is worthy of being smote. Or, well, smiting with energy seems like a poetic effect, so what about...causing a great earth-shattering sonic boom that wrecks every building in a hundred-mile radius. Yes. He'll go with that.

The metal tube isn't the best thing to hold. He's used to using dip pens to write, occasionally quills. Dip pens are more common and convenient nowadays, but Scrivener's Chant only works with quills because it is a very old spell. What enamel shells are available, and how much are they? He might get two for his pens. Again, he cares less about patterns and colors, and more about the weight and texture of the shells.

What folders do they have for sale? What materials are they made of? What color is the paper, actually? Is it brownish, or white? If they sell white paper for cheap, the "how do they have such nice things" feeling will intensify even more, because he knows bleaching paper white takes expensive chemicals.

Cross-referencing his map, Conrad will find the tabulary is in the riverside district, so it's probably pretty up-scale. Maple will also open up a drawer in her desk and retrieve a large metal plate, similar looking but longer and wider than the ones he's seen Moony and the front desk woman speak into. She presses a finger into a little circle nestled in the corner of the plate, and suddenly the plate's front face appears like paper. Maple draws a finger across the surface and it leaves a trail of black behind it as if it were a pen, then presses a different section of the surface, which causes a list to appear with various utensils listed. She touches 'inkbrush', which causes the text to disappear, and then draws a finger across the surface again, leaving another much more fluid-looking trail of black. "Pretty neat, right?"

Maple shrugs. "I'm not a lawyer or anything. It's not as much of an issue I know, though of course there's laws against stuff like using it to trick or hurt people."

The shells cost six ounces a piece, and they come in various sizes, shapes, and materials. It will not be hard to find one that has good grip and feels comfortable in Conrad's hand.

There are card and leather folders of various sizes and designs. The one Maple priced earlier is a simple card one but a leather one of the same make is just two ounces more.

The paper is, in fact, stark white, like pure snow.

Conrad will again fail to contain his expressions of wonder at the tablet. "Very neat. Does it only have one page, or is there some sort of...hidden storage mechanism that lets it store and retrieve pages you've already written or drawn on?"

He's glad that Lord Echo's domain has the least restrictions, as befits Them.

He'll get two different ones: one is jet black with a matte finish, whereas the other one is egg-white with a waffle-like pattern on the part near the nib for better grip.

...okay. The hidden underground slaves is looking very likely now. Maybe they have dwarf slaves. They need to eat less, like halflings, which Cheliax uses, which would make them more economical to keep, and they're great and crafting. That would successfully explain what he's seeing.

He'll get the leather case for an extra two ounces. Adding that as well as the the two enamel cases will bring up his total to...one ducat twenty three pounds nine ounces, yes? 

"Oh yeah, this can store loads and loads of stuff." Maple taps one it some more, navigating menus to bring up a couple different sketches, some hand-written notes, and an impossibly detailed and full-color picture of what looks like a family of four playing on a beach. "Some of the cheaper models don't have as much memory or all the functions but even so I think the cheapest ones still have at least a few hundred pages of storage."

1 ducat, 10 pounds, 8 ounces by Maple's count. Two fancy notebooks, two inkless pens, two pen shells, half-pack of plain paper, and a leather folder, right? And Maple can make change.

He's marveling at how complex the operation of the tablet is. It's not a powerful effect, but he can't imagine how nightmarish the spellform of it must be like, if he tried to recreate it using a Golarion illusion item. For the tablet to know what to display, and also to respond accurately to touches by the fingertip...truly wonderful.

He thanks Maple and pays, carefully stowing all the items in his new bag. What time is it now? Would it be polite to eat before going to Bishop's apartment? He might decide to have lunch before going there, in that case. Otherwise, he'll go to...hm. He considers going to the library again, but Bishop is likely to have better recommendations, or even have her own books he could borrow. And, unusually for a wizard, he doesn't love reading. He's fine with reading, but he very rarely reads for fun on his own. He prefers more tactile and intuitive forms of learning.

Hm. He realizes he still has his ring of protection +1 on his left ring finger. Are there jewelry stores here? He wonders whether there's inscribed jewelry he can buy that has the same effect as Golarion rings. If there's still time in the day, he might go there.