Full Immersion [for what it's worth]

I'll be taking over this investigation thank you. Fine. It was getting boring any way. Draw her face. If her facial structure hasn't changed that much you might be able to make wanted posters or at least ask if anyone recognizes her. Also check out the enchanted items shop and a magesmith for trinkets and gear.

> Visit the Magesmith.

>Magesmith sounds like a place you make spells at. Unfortunately such a place would not be very handy for either of you two. Still, I could be wrong, so you should check it out if you want. I'd suggest the enchanted item shop, that seems like a place the two of you you would get a lot out of.

The enchanted items shop sounds good.

> White Paper: Be a potential quest! That is.. well... leery and seems to have an innuendo or two in it.

She looks at the map, picking out the location of the enchanted items shop. I could try drawing her face, but, well..I'm more of a talker and writer than I am an artist. What I'm trying to say is...I once had trouble drawing a stick figure running, and I haven't gotten much better since then.
Anansi looks at the paper, finally unfolded, for a good several seconds. Then he says, "I think I know what is, but perhaps you would understand more naturally."
It is a handwritten note in ink pen, and says:

Elona-
I'm sorry for this rather cowardly manner of saying this, but as I'm sure you know I'm not very good at talking to people. I'm really sorry I couldn't make an exception in this case. I just wanted to know if you'd like to go out for dinner sometime next week?
-Jacob

"Well, you're not wrong," she mutters. "No direct innuendo, but maybe a bit leery..I'd need to know more of the context to know for sure."

"What do you mean?" says Anansi.
"Oh, sorry. I was..well anyway, what do you think it is?"
"It appears to be a proposal for a staging of the beginning of the..ahm..relationship, of the kind that..my people do not have words for this concept, I apologize."
"Yeah, that's what I think too. Someone's trying to ask that clerk out on a date."
He looks rather confused. "A..fruit?"
She shakes her head a bit, suppressing a giggle. "No, what translated was a homonym for a word that your people don't have. Sort of a..meeting to..what you said, I guess. It implies she's acquainted with him, at least."
"What would be socially acceptable in situation? Should we return the note, or..?"
"I dunno. She said she didn't want to deal with it." By now they are in front of the enchanted item shop, and so stuffs the paper in her inventory. "I'll think on what to do..let's go on in for now."

The shop is full of shelf after shelf, as well as a few locked display cases and a couple of racks on the walls for bigger items. There are countless seemingly miscellaneous objects all over the place, many of which have no immediately clear purpose, but just as many of which look like useful things that have perhaps been made better at their original purpose..or perhaps given a very different one.

The shop's owner, a blond-haired man, doesn't appear to be a wolf-person at first, but he has sharp teeth and on closer inspection (i.e., when it swishes up above the counter for a second) a tail. Turns out he's just missing the ears. He begins moving his hands rapidly as the two enter. And a male voice, seemingly from the air near him, says, "Welcome, visitors! Impressive to see one of your kind down here, miss."
"Uh..what do you mean?"
He looks down at a piece of paper on the counter for a couple of seconds, and looks up, signing again. "Oh! Nothing bad. It's just a lot of winged folks seem real anxious anywhere they can't literally fly out of."
"Well, that's silly. I don't expect to run into any trouble, and I'd just run away like everyone else if I needed to get away."
He looks down, reading again, and then looks back up again, nodding.

"Right. Anyway," he signs/apparently says in the air, "the shop's divided roughly into three sections: Practical easy enchantments, which are quite affordable, more difficult enchantments, which will run you a bit of cash, and the third section has enchantments that are really complicated and hard to pull off, or just plain too esoteric to get most people to do. Those are for..extremely discerning customers, I would say."

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SpoilerOkay, if you ever read Eclipse City by Zerogamer (which is highly recommended though not updated recently) I want to try roughly the same thing with looking for enchanted items here. Suggest they "look for" an item with an enchantment you'd like to see, and I'll decide whether/where they find it.

I'm not sure at this point whether I should say something coy or just keep totally quiet about the other player. I must tell myself "shh, they'll see a bit later!"