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It defines sex acts in dry language and forbids receiving payment for certain ones. Also, running a business of prostitution is not allowed, but being one yourself is. As long as you pay your taxes and don't con people. Based on that, it seems very frowned upon but ultimately accepted as a fact of life.

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Good to know.

 

It would be good to find a place to stay, can they find that? Also to figure out the monetary system.

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There are a bunch of hotels and boarding houses right by the docks that cater to visitors! Money mostly goes by weight-of-metal. This town has paper banknotes for convenient standard amounts they can get some of those for a 2% fee. Their gold will go a fairly long way.

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They will exchange some money and get a room. They would like an inexpensive room but one that is theirs alone, is that possible?

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(The price is higher than three beds in the bunkroom, but sure. Breakfast not included be out by 10 AM.)

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If they can afford it, some privacy while they're learning how to live here better might be better.

"Thank you." Does it seem safe to leave some things in the room?

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It's probably safe. There's a cheap lock on the door. Safe as any shady motel, anyway.

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Not a very high standard.

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They'll leave things they mind losing less if anything, and that seem less at risk for it, and take their other things. 

And, it would be good to find somewhere to buy local clothes and bags. 

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There are stores that sell those! The city is very vertically-oriented, there are stairs and ramps everywhere, apartments stacked on top of businesses, rooftop parks. There are elevators and trolleys that hang from wires travelling from place to place - the fare isn't too pricey on most of them, either.

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They can walk for free, if that's possible. They look at clothes for sale and clothes people are wearing. Are there categories of people that seem to be distinguished by clothing?

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Leather and big coats are popular near the docks, and seems to indicates sailors, fighters, and so on. Most people carrying weapons are dressed like that. The more elaborate and loose your clothing is, the more money you have, it seems. Short sleeves, short hair, tight shirts, and rough-cut metal jewelry seems correlated to - troublemakers? It's definitely a style, and people wearing it get vaguely unfriendly and worried looks on the street, anyway.

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Can they afford leather alright?

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Is there something like laborer clothing?

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They can afford leather.

Slightly more practical versions of the swoopy robe-style things the rich have seem to serve as laborer clothes.

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She'll get fighters-and-so-on-leather, then.

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She'll get cheap laborer clothes. They'll both get bags and such that go with what they'll have.

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She wants pretty clothes, can she have pretty clothes?

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Is there inexpensive pretty clothing that doesn't look like it signals anything that would be a problem?

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Most of the really pretty clothes are fairly expensive, but there's some relatively cheap stuff that is pretty, and not elaborate enough to scream 'I'm rich!'.

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They'll buy some, then.

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And if they go back to their room and change, and go in a different direction than they did before, does this help with how they seem to be looked at?

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Yeah, they're much less suspicious with less foreign and high-tech looking clothes. Mia still gets given space, but not in the same way.

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That is good. Is there somewhere inexpensive they could eat where they would be near locals?

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