He doesn't have to memorize this stop's name if he remembers where it is.

(Stjernekart, Edda, Stjernekart, Edda...)

Off he goes for a pleasant walk in suburban Minneapolis, then. Maybe he'll look for spirits later, see if those are unique. Those are very nice houses.

They are very nice houses! There is a contest for makers of some kind of food, and ads for a museum, and people on electric bicycles, and a fellow riding a fucking rhinoceros down the street (apparently you, too, can ride the rhinoceros for a small fee!), and an angel repairing some tree-root-disturbed sidewalks, and restaurants, and a public library, and a craft fair, and cars that fly and cars that don't, and somebody having a loud phone conversation, and a robot mowing a lawn, and a lady walking six dogs, and a grocery store, and a sex toy shop, and a place papered with announcements of an upcoming concert, and restaurants.

Amazing. All of it amazing. And far too busy to even try to look for spirits, which is just as well.

Museum! It's translating very oddly (with a compound word that includes all three of library-palace-temple), which makes it something he just has to see. He attempts to figure out where the museum is.

The museum is over there! It's an art museum and they currently have an exhibit on Orcish art in addition to their permanent exhibits. He can't afford admission but they comp him upon having it explained that he's from a newly contacted world.

He'd been planning to busk with magic tricks, but that's very nice! Is silver no good here, then? Possibly because of the thing where the starship had people making mountains of stuff?

Yeah, silver is not a currency here, if his country joins Vanda Nossëo they'll buy up all the precious metals to avoid crashing the economy.

Haha, well, that's all above his head. What could they possibly use instead? ...Actually can he suggest a place to learn that later so he's not asking them to do something that's not their job? Should he just go back to the bus stop info booths?

The library would be better for stuff like that if he's going to have a lot of questions.

Library it is. But in the meantime: Art. What is Revelation art like, and what is orc art like? Just the architecture is pretty grand. He's probably going to be wandering around in awe for hours.

There are definitely hours' worth of awe to be had in here. And plaques about all the awe-inspiring things.

He's getting a bit tired by the time he heads for a library, but his mind is spinning with all the art of a new world and he hasn't even thought about where he's going to eat or sleep.

He wanders into a library and looks around.

The library has books, and computers, and librarians! A librarian waves at him.

"Hello! I'm from a newly contacted world - and aren't those seeming like magic be nice to me words, hah - and I have some questions about how money works around here given-" He jingles a coinpurse.

"Oh, of course! Wow, you must be a very early visitor, I don't think I'd even heard they were scouting a new one yet. Well, everything here is free, the library's a public service, if you borrow a book we ask that you return it within a month. If your polity, or you as an individual, choose to join Vanda Nossëo, you get a basic income every twenty days - I'm not sure how they settled on that number, sometimes it changes - and that'll cover everything you need as long as you don't need anything especially bizarre. Most people wear an ID bracelet or necklace or carry a card or get an implant chip or something, and that connects them to their government account and they can spend their basic from there. If you aren't a Vanda Nossëo citizen you don't get a basic but you can earn money regardless if you like, in a local currency, and you can still keep it in any of those forms, and some places still have cash but not here, we haven't had even paper cash for almost two hundred years now, demons really wreck it as a concept."

"They opened up those stores yesterday morning! Showed up right in the middle of a road and the city guards weren't sure whether to take them to priests or the king, from what I hear. They didn't know about the dragons and nature spirits, either. Of course as a consummate wanderer I couldn't resist seeing another world. Are the computers talking to each other somehow, to tell who's who? Not that I know how to use them, but we have old ruined machines around - and the stories talk about them all talking to each other, in a way."

"Ooh, you've got dragons? Materia's got dragons but I don't think any have been evacuated. And one of the late Ardas had like, two, but they were evil. Dragons and ancient technological ruins, very cool. And yeah the computers talk to each other."

He will solicit a computer lesson while telling charming stories about learning to talk to weird spirits and the legendary Visage of All-Seeing (it's literally just night vision goggles), and then ask if he's likely to be able to busk money with magic tricks or if he has to figure out where to go camping or how to get home.

He can probably busk with magic tricks since his magic is new and exciting but it will be easier if he has a money card or something for people to pay into! She can actually print him one right now. Getting home shouldn't be that hard, if he got turned around in the bus routes he can get help at an info booth.

He knows he has to get to Edda - station number one. Probably. That's where the teleporter dropped him off anyway. But he's not worried about that, this is an adventure! He'd appreciate that card, and maybe something to make a sign with.

Card and a bit of cardboard and a marker! "Not everyone has Allspeak, so aim to write in English," she advises.

"Oh, you can do that? Will do."

I am a spirit-talker with magic from a new world learned over decades. Ask me about it!

elemental manipulation - object reading - illusion shows - personality guessing - minor blessings

Small donations humbly accepted - [payment card taped to cardboard]

"What do you think?" He asks the librarian, grinning.

"Looks good! I'd recommend setting up by the fountain - turn left as you leave the library and go straight, you can't miss it, there's musicians and stuff there all the time and you'll fit right in."

"Thank you once again! Everyone here is so welcoming."

He'll go check out the fountain, say hi to some musicians and look for a reasonably open spot.

There are musicians! Guy with an electric violin, guy with drums who is also singing. There's also a group of dancers. He can find a spot to sit on the edge of the fountain and put up his sign.

Eventually somebody comes up to him. "What does object reading mean?"

He's happy to take in the atmosphere and not actively seek attention yet.

"Hello! I can ask things what they are, and where they've been. Who used them and what they were feeling about it, sometimes. Its sort of the same thing one needs to speak to spirits - though you don't seem to have any of those in this world."