It's well past the worst depths of winter, even here on the north edge of the Worldwound- the temperature ekes its way above freezing occasionally, the days are only short and not miserably short, last night's snowstorm wasn't quite a blizzard. It is, nonetheless, fairly surprising when the patrol on their way to Fort #11 spots three figures in the distance trudging towards them from the north.
Okay yeah she's going to need definitions of both of those words. Context is giving her nothing here.
She makes a face at them and stumps along in silence for a bit, marshalling her sentences. (They can probably tell the laughing got to her so she doesn't really feel a need to badly pretend it didn't. )
So first of all, almost any sentence that starts with 'everyone' is going to be technically false, because all it takes is one person being super weird? And it's not that weird at all to only fuck one or the other.
Same difference for the second question, if they're ever in Sothis trying to hire someone to fuck they should look for the houses with thus and such sort of sign, or the women who wait around in taverns with their scarves half falling off. (She is not blushing. Nope.) Boy whores are trickier because the same guy might be in the market or not depending on the day, but there's particular taverns where people know to go looking.
Oh shit okay. She can stick close and be ready to cast and not do anything stupid. And she can tap anyone who wants it with her new orison, she's almost certain it does something helpful but not sure what exactly.
Honestly very fair of them. She'll tap herself with it and not blow up, but can't really explain what it feels like.
Once they have formally assessed what information they can get from the footprints, including following them for a while but only on the east side to see how far they go and indicate to the next patrol that they've done this but that one more redundant report is called for, they can move on along the wardstone border.
Once they seem to be through the protocol and back to trudging, she'll ask "What manner of demon makes those footprints?
She doesn't recall how or why it works but she knows the gambling method of hedge-divination exists; she'll listen with mild interest and ask a couple of clarifying questions.
Well, it has to be something strong enough to get over the wardstone line (if they see, like, a dretch, still inside, they're supposed to attack it at range across the line, hoping to kill it before it can deliver information to anybody) and big enough to leave those footprints, but some demons are smart enough to falsify their footprints, and it could have had other demons with it.
Like, flying, or riding on it, or just stepping in its footprints?
If it seems to be an open pool kind of deal, she'll put a Mending on whatever the current most common guess is, why not.
The guy was thinking stepping on its footprints - demons that can fly will tend to still be stunned and they'd see a crash landing in the snow, that's one reason they have to hike out yea far is to check for a high-momentum crash that isn't right next to the wardstone line - or it'd be on foot for a while and then there'd be a place it took off. Riding or carried is also possible.
Most of the bets are complicated fiddly things with conditionals, which might never be confidently resolved, and nobody's sure how to value a Mending against their coppers.
Nah, if it's individual bets she won't barge in then.
If they're bored enough to want an Abadaran sermon she can probably dredge up the teachings on pricing things, but she'd be just as happy to hear more war stories and/or Weird Demon Facts.
Nethys doesn't particularly have opinions about pricing methods? At least not that she's ever heard of.
She's never heard of Nethys being mad about people following other gods? And it's barely even secondary worship, if she's repeating the teachings she grew up hearing that's just sharing knowledge, which as far as most people can tell Nethys is probably in favor of. But she really does not care about pricing enough to make it worth being stressed about it, she can tell them dire crocodile stories or they can tell her about the kinds of flying demons, and then they're still sharing knowledge on totally unobjectionable subjects.
Yeah she's pretty sure it's literally just Him she does not say this, because they have several hours of walking ahead of them and that is not a very challenging Wisdom save.
She will be appropriately impressed and/or spooked and/or grossed out by the demon stories! (Well, 'appropriate' at a level that's still closer to foreign standards than Chelish, but she's trying to adjust.) She can reciprocate with stories about hyena packs and giant scorpions and that one time they all nearly fell in an antlion pit, although she needs to pause for vocabulary every so often.