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"Fortune Teller" turns out to be a brief recording of a woman looking into a crystal ball and intoning that the viewer's luck will be neutral today.

"Livin' Off the Land" offers the following advice: "This one's for all you greenhorns out there: chop wood and search for wild forage to earn some cash while waiting on your first harvest!"

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Okay, so they only put a small and reasonably affordable amount of effort into doing up the videos.  But damned if Oliver isn't impressed that they messed with the TV to have exactly those three channels.

He might... actually like it here?

Oliver leaves his luggage in the cabin, feeling safer about it now, and heads off to Gus's Tavern.

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The Stardrop Saloon is a small brick building with ivy growing up the side.

The inside is surprisingly wide compared to the outside!

There's a long bar and four small round tables with chairs. In one back corner there's a jukebox and in the other, a wooden statue of a bear standing on its hind legs and clawing at the air. There's another room off to the right.

Behind the bar are a stout man and a smiling girl with blue hair.

Down at the end of the bar, a haggard woman with overdone blonde hair is nursing a beer.

At one of the tables, a man with a ginger goatee is eating a plate of food. He seems to be wearing a heavy apron.

At another table, an apple-cheeked older woman is talking to a younger man with long, glossy, golden hair.

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Oliver will not, at this point, actually fail to notice, if "surprisingly wide compared to the outside" implies TARDIS-level space shenanigans.  Does it?

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It really does seem to imply that, yes.

Huh.

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"HUH" is not an appropriately small reaction!

Oliver will instantly storm out of this tavern and check his previous impression of how large it appears from the outside.

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It seems to be about five meters wide on the outside.

 

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Back inside.

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The main room alone seems to be maybe 16 meters wide and that doesn't count the room off to the right.

 

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Back out.  Physically walk around this building.

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It's a pretty quick walk. Seems about five meters on each side, roughly square. The entrance is on the south. There's a trash can on the east. Nothing in particular on the north. A tree on the west. And back to the beginning.

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Inside again and physically walk the length of the room.

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It sure does seem to be about 16ish meters wide still.

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Go up to the bar.

Address bartender.

"If I said that I was new in town, here to inherit from my Grandpa, and this place seemed a little odd in some ways, would that sound... familiar to you.  Like you might have a pamphlet."

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"Howdy, there! You must be Greenie's grandson! Welcome to Pelican Town!"

"I don't rightly know what you mean about it being 'odd' here and I don't have any pamphlets, but can I pour you a beer?"

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"Depends!  What does a beer cost and what does it do to me in terms of buffs and debuffs?"

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"It's 400G and... have you never had a beer before, son?"

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"Not a Pelican Town beer!"

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"All right! Okay!"

"A beer will make you Tipsy, which gives you -1 to Speed for a little while."

"What does it do where you're from? I kinda thought it was the same all over when it came to beer."

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"Depending on your alchohol tolerance, it renders you slightly or more than slightly Drunk until the alcohol is filtered out of your bloodstream by biological processes, mildly debuffing your Intelligence and Dexterity and Wisdom - bad idea to drive a car while that's on, or make important life decisions - but potentially increasing your Charisma and letting you relax and let go of your usual emotional control and self-consciousness.  Potentially buffs artistic skills that suffer from too much self-control."

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