Just for the Record

Print PDF Just for the record Zak Smith is a friend of mine and I am trans.
 I have not found him to be transphobic or anything he has done to be transphobic.

People are calling him transphobic or passing on that other people are saying he is transphobic without checking that out.
 Which is shit because
a) It's a fucking lie
b) Transphobia is something that is bad and important and as a transperson I fucking hate you if you are using it to shore up some shitty argument you are having. Show me why you are saying this so I can know and make effective decisions or all you are proving is transphobia means fuck all to you.



Anyway here is collection of tables I did on g+ UPDATED I found the cleric one

DUELS OF THE GUILD ELDERS:
1. The tea makers : Scald match: a large kettle each of boiling water. Stances like knife fighters, feints and lures to encourage the other to waste a splash , some stay out of range until the kettle has cooled and then charge at use it as a bludgeon, the more water kept the heavier the kettle. Others little strategic splashs to the face or hands.
Duel goes to submission, unconsciousness or death as dictated previously
2. The bakers : each duelist bakes an army of gingerbread men, muffin marauders, swiss rollers, croissant crabs and the like and sends them to the bakery of the other. A simultaneous siege and marathon bake off, each baker desperately replenishing their forces, juggling bake time schedules , and the merits of scale and economy and their own fatigue. The loser will be forced into their own oven by the others army when they can defend their kitchen no longer.

3.The wig makers A simple hand to hand combat. Except any weapons or allies are legal as long they can be concealed in the duelists wig before the duel is commenced.

4. The candle makers Both are covered in pitch a


5 The Grave diggers With shovels in a pit being slowly filled from above

6 The tailors A duel with foot long needles , suspended above even more needles, by a tangle fabric scraps and tiny threads. Each duelist must sewn and weave a secure position anchor point before risking attack


7 Cheese makers have a month to prepare their bodies with custom diets and then a month in a dark room to make and hone whatever weapons and armour they can out of cheese. They must provide the milk with their bodiesnd then must navigate a dangerous trap filled maze with only a small candle to initially light their way, and from there may make additional candles from anything they find or catch. The duel ends when one is set a flame by the other.



THIEFS AND SPYS:
more than just criminals , these clandestine fellows are:
1 Believe they are all the same person, just different aspects of them. Everything belongs to them for they dream everything into existence. When they want it back they have to sneak it back, directly confronting the dream risks shattering it and forcing them to dream another into existence.

2. Learn their skills from a shadow group of alien documenters, in exchange for fulfilling various weird research and espionage assignments.
Alien documenters desire to bring city consciousness through painstaking manipulations of the flow of information in it


3. Thuggee cult

4. Revolutionarys splintered endlessly into in esoteric factions, generations ago. Now political discourse serves as dogma and arcane shibboleths and dictates the style, targets and methods of their crimes

5. The members believe being in life means being in debt ala original sin and all just laws gain their authority from this. Their initiaon is to die and then sneak out of the shaded realm (go look for resurrection side effect tables) , thus getting out of the contract. Then believe no laws apply to them, yet still believe in the rightness of law as it applies to everyone else


6. Run by members of a proud untouchable caste. Train more members who are not members of the caste so the wrathful ghosts of the betrayed ruling caste will claim them instead when they escape out of the hellish afterlife bondage the undercaste tricked them into.

7. What bizarre environment would allow for the professional codification of criminal talents? (okay other than this one) Some kind of hellish Apokolips planet megacity which folds its way into all other possible cities by virtue of its density and bullshit., that is what! So thieves are basically all mister miracles.

8.  Agent Provocateurs , misdirectors and sowers of vast suggestions of conspiracy . Editors of history and archeological vandal, defilers of vaults and tombs. What for? To always confuse the actual history of the world. They do not know the true history,but just know it never should be known. The possibility of It gnaws at them. The founder knew but took his own memory before starting the guild. This is one story. Others are told. Like post-modernist but even more neurotically driven.

9. reincarnating immortal deviants who have their higher souls stolen and hidden in 1000 different objects as part of an elaborate and amusing scavenger hunt.

10. If illusions become too real they ascend to the next level of reality which is the current campaign one, but now they have thief skills to represent their flickering detachment to physical laws. Even if in the previous reality they were an illusion of a door or a plate of fish.

DUNGEONS
THAT ARE:
1. Wasp galls. Either giant or small but dimensionally twisted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall
2.Enamel formations in giant teeth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinthodontia

3. Hollowed out ossified cloud, still afloat
4. Fog banks
5. Giant bodies and/or stomachs. Either fresh, dead, alive or hard rotten or frozen
6.Dimensionally tunnels in everyday space like those mirror worms in Donnie Darko
7. Flat land style , 2 dimensional cave painting dungeon or rogue geometry book trap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Land

8. Fulgurite formation in a desert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite

9. A syconium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syconium, but like with more Aliens body horror

10. Gods heart, 4 part interlocked

11. Frozen waterfall, more of vertical dungeon

12. Iceberg

13. Fumaroles

Wizard gimmicks:

1. Snail eyes that can extend really far
2. Eats (silences) the speaking of their own name if it is pronounced just right. Wouldn't die from not feeding this way but will go into extreme cranky withdrawal
3. Claims to have pet shape shifter. Might just be talking to random objects and animals.
4. Spare brain in a jar around neck. Memorizes double the amount of spells but needs assistance switching brains.
5. Hat on close expectation seems organically extruded. Can withdraw into hat like a snail but several magnitudes more creepily.
6. A baleful face on their tongue is actually doing the speaking and thinking. Eats via nose straw and grotesqueres.
7. Always looking up. Waiting.
8. Doubled up like a king or queen on a playing card
9. Sleeps in the arms of an ogress nursemaid. Suckles from her.
10. Waters congeal into algae slimes in her presence 

So this oppressive warrior elite are notable in that;

1. Centipede grafts of random size and placement
2. Never make a noise, except when they die, all the words come out at once in a sonic explosion
3.Gain another pair of arms each time they win a duel (from the loser of the duel)
4.They eat only live food which they fight while eating in it
5. Start their initial training with an assigned partner. At some point at the last grueling challenge they and their partner have to decide which one dies and becomes a skeleton armour set for the other to wear the rest of their life. Those that best their partner with force will have an armour that plots against them, those with trickery an armour they can never trust or one too foolish to trust.
6.Value the use of a missile weapon above all else , refusing to fight in melee . If they can be engaged in melee , they have failed in the principals of observation, stealth, surprise, misdirection, and controlling the terrain.
The society in which they lord over can be compared with that prison , the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon combined with Samurai snipers.
7. Like the aztec with their jaguar knights and eagle warriors. But each animal cult is an evasive masked and secret band protecting/marauding the streets at night. Like gangs of aztec batman. Each gang/animal cult has a different month in which it is dominant and different code of laws to enforce.
8. Trepanning their 3rd eyes open to shoot murder beams at you from all the angry spirts they consume and store from the brains of crazy people. Have raids were they capture people to store in asylums in order to drive them insane so they can consume their brains to reload their murder beams.
9.One armed swordswomen.  Their other arm ("the child holding arm")they remove and use to form the bone blade of the sword.
10. Murderous long steel straws they use to literally drink the blood of the working class









Worshipers of gods, intoners of rites, pointers of bone;




1. Dirt eaters. The earth is the mother they worship and she loans them her power by the eating of dirt. 100 grams per spell level. Returned in the usual way.




2. That idea that gods are empowered by belief? Not here. Here the reverse. Belief sucks the strength and essence away from the god in question, everytime certainty is needed or a doubt soothed , the god bleeds. Spells most of all. The gods here are secretive things, big shapeless mass of night , quavering and pitiful. Illuminates seek them out and jealousy guard their names and forms. A god might be good for anywhere from one to a thousand spells before it dissolves utterly.




3:VARIANT: regular believe empowers the god, spells hemorrhage it. Gods shyly present themselves to simple folk, fearful of being discovered and used by the Hierophants, slying updating and changing the canon and scriptures as they drain one god after another.

4. Ancestor ghosts hang around until they are destroyed utterly to power the spells invoked Crematior entrusted with this grim mantle

5.There are no stories of gods here just stories but as long as people discuss, read, debate and believe the stories, and more importantly what people say about people saying about the stories the Canonists can rewrite the world as needed to make it more like the stories

6.Paranoia , apothenia , and the deduction of vast conspiracys empower these Iconclists. They worship nothing , but claim to see the connections and natures to all things others do not and this gives them power.


7. Their gods here are small and personal and curled up their brain , a godworm. The physical limit to how much godworm can be curled inside you acts as a level limit to the Custodians.


8.. The gods dream in a ocean and trash washes up from this ocean. Scavengers go down their secret wells to the astral shores and pick through the debris of divine dreaming , evading the strange crabs there. Their spells are always a mishmash of every pantheon, sometimes satirical , semi-sensical or alien


9.
Inventors who believe in the future, wielding their unstable prototype devices to do great things.

but somehow each device falls apart after a single use, to be angrily discarded and condemned by the inventor.

They move on to their next theory or insight and the practications there-of, not knowing that they consume some of their cultures actual psychic potential for change and advancement with each of these devices, condemning their society to stagnation.



10. Sheppard tend the flock. And the flock should really think about that metaphor harder as they unwittingly consign their souls to be consumed utterly by the godbeasts waiting for them on the otherside. The godbeasts send a few crumbs of power the Shepherds way in order to from them to enact minor miracles.

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The Gentle People

Print PDF Tricksy and whimsy folkf of the wildes and glens to betrixt anf fefoul yourre players:

Peggles Tickeyboo:

A grinning old womans head with a pair of goat legs. She will greet travellers at a crossroad or a lightning split elm with the refrain "sing how ye feel and I'll dance ye a reel"
She will then dance a gleeful dance and also reward particular fine singers with the gift of songbirds bursting from their mouths everytime they sing. Someone who si:ngs mockingly will be rewarded with shitting a goose

Hob-Hush-Don't-Cry:
A orange man with a very wide face. Will come to weary parents and offer to lull the quarrelsome child . If the parent accepts he will sew the childs mouth shut. If the stitching is removed Hob-Hush-Don't-Cry will angrily appear and demand the parent pay a price for ruining his fine work and give them his mouse brides impossibly dainty  dress to fix. Otherwise he and his dozen mouse sons will pinch and worry the child endlessly.

The Gley:
A very big cow with big saucer eyes that follows travellers at night treading silently on the tops of trees. If you make direct eye contact it will let out a frightful howl and disappear. Travel that night will take 3 times as long with 3 times the troubles but your sons and daughters will have moderate success as sailors.

Wrinkle Bag:
Small wee fellows so wrinkly and saggy that their eyes are lost in their folds and crevices. They finds their way good still by sniffing and huffing everywhere and holding his brow up on occasion like a oafsome fringe.
Small bands of them will ruffle through unminded possessions looking for cheese. If there is no cheese they will furiously piss on whatever food and finements there is. IF the people so bedeviled later complain about the food they will throw hornets nests down on them from trees.


The ChildEater:
A wicked woman with long long arms and long long legs and wild fierce hair. Eats up wayward children in 3 tidy bites.

minor cultural eccentricities

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(some of these are historically accurate)
1. Every profession and I mean every profession has a distinctive outfit , not always related to the practicalities related. This outfit is the only clothing permitted for the citizens.
2.A large bunch of unequipped lunatics follow the army around , volunteering for cannon-fodder, zerg rushes, terror raids etc and other near suicidal missions for the chance to be promoted into the army
3. Extremely tolerant, reasonable and aggressive expansionistic at the same time, absorbing countless regions into their own but other than reasonable tithe payments , demand little from it's colonies, content to have each people rule themselves how they were ruled before. The only thing that really winds them up is one particular heresy that they will not tolerate and if conquered peoples can't keep themselves orderly, forcing them to come and politely obliterate the current ruling body.
4. Nomads with distinctive torture arts to make entertaining orphans and animals!
5. Ruler rules for only a month and is kidnapped and forced into the position.
6. Elephants wander the market places sampling wares. They will violent rebuke mis-measurers and bakers and sausage sellers who mix brick dust in their products. OR possibly just violently attack people at randomly and everyone just says it is legit.
7. Everyone is calm and fatalistic but cheery because the exact date of the end of the world is now definitely known now. For certain.
8. The ruler will only be seen in profile. This is not an affection as he doesn't exist in other angles , well he does but as separate people running around the city in seemingly minor but somehow vastly important roles

3 cities skeletal yet fleshy

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Drowning Lions;
located at the edge of a cold tundra-ish desert , a port town, battered by storms , salt spray and dust
Landmarks: Spherical urchin like central palace, concentrically ringed and walled. Impressive and dangerous zoo and bonsai confir arboretum about the only nice things here and they are contained in things looking like a deep sea prison
Architecture; hunkered down, like soviet bunkers or monuments ,flared at the base, occasionally spiked or whimsically gargoyled
Emphasis this in descriptions; stoicism, distrust, dourness. Constant restrictions and rationings, despite not currently at war with anyone. Always assumes the worst in a matter of fact way

peoples; wearing absurd amount of  layers from the cold and dust storms, complain fatalistic about the weather
food: watery stews, dried absurdly tough meats, and wormy potatos

in charge; ring barons and baroness, each with a increasingly large shoulder panther, like half python half panther, which sleeps, acting as scarf and hat. Vote on decisions, with a monkey acting as tie breaker.
enforcing; each ring around the city has different bureaucracy and guard force. Guards badly trained volunteers armed with blunderbusses packed with rock salt, lorded over by impressively hatted heavy infantry ("bristlers") wielding 2 handed swords who work as mercenaries in various lands
special opportunities; hiring the "bristlers" mercenary or robbing their manors, one of the few displays of wealth here. The zoo is always looking for more dangerous specimens. It is rumoured that the entire city was a built as a seal on some kind of portal or vault and it any wealth it has goes towards maintaining the underground fortification.



Suun Gleez
 A city build out of bamboo scaffolding and jury rigged structures completely obscuring the castle it was originally built around. Castle occupied by ghost powered insane warmachines, city founded by exiled servants still loyal to the now dead ruling family.
Landmarks; It's a three dimensional maze with a haunted castle in the middle

Architecture; bamboo and fabric and silks, glazed with fire resistant bug secretions. Fabric lines "tunnels" that act as through-fares
Emphasis this in descriptions: you have to keep climbing everywhere, there is no planning , noise, fabric partitions as walls mean the "inside/outside" thing is not really a thing here. Large pet beetles, moths and birds everywhere. A weird sense of temporariness yet stratification
peoples; Excitable, act like fabric blocks all sound. Brightly dressed, given to big schemes with little planning, always making things out of rope or repairing things. Unconventional thinkers and prone to giving nicknames
foods: roast caterpillars, aerophytes, spicy mushrooms. Spit roast lizards. Bad luck to eat birds or eggs.
in charge; Everyone effected by an issue will have an opinion on it and agency of that opinion. Consensus minus one to make any decision. Anarchy. Everyone talking about everything all the time to make any decisions what so ever is part of the noise and possibly informs the impulsive mentality to plan as little as possible as to avoid talking about it.

in forcing; see above. Everyone will fight you from all directions with lassos , bolas and attack birds.
special opportunities; Everyone talks up how great it is going to be once they get the castle back and will encourage you to go and clear it, but then get really uncomfortable and embarrassed if anyone brings anything back from there and quietly encourage you to take it away and not mention it again.

 Purgatory:

People mined their way to what they thought was hell and then made business opportunities. Half prison half town living off the prison.  Other cities sell them their convicts , and if they are bad enough they are sold into the pit to the alien troglodytes who dwell past there, where they are made into war golems for some kind of subterranean war. Each layer is occupied by increasingly worse people. Like 1984 but with more upward mobility and therapy speak.


Landmarks: a huge gaping hole in the middle of the town. Grim watch towers everywhere with listening cones.


Architecture: Mostly carved into the side of the pit. Stone brick grim buildings everywhere. Horizontal efficient, tend to build up. Occasionally beauty in elaborate stone scrimshaw carving and murals
Emphasis this in descriptions: It's a prison where the inmates guard the inmates in order to not be inmates one day. Utilitarian. Stressed yet hopeful.
peoples: everyone has some kind of personality disorder and has to live with a bunch of other people with personality disorders but is trying their best to manage to be a better person, as not to get demoted a tier and forced to live with even worse people. A lot of self-improvement philosophy and lingo  combined with prison slang.
in-charge: Each tier has a warden with
enforcing: Dangerously reasonable armed forces (called "intervenors")   with big pitbull like rats with almost supernaturally sense of smell. 
special opportunities: entrance to subterranean realms, concentration of criminal knowledge, still a mining town and turns up strange artifacts or dangerous invested tunnels.

Grappling Rules, Stat check saving throws

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From discarding images

I scribbled some notes on grappling rules while avoiding the rain at a friends house and it's been a week(ish) since the last post and now they are here.

Grappling:

Make an attack. Generally this attack will go after all the other attacks happening because it counts as the shortest weapon.
If you successfully hit make an contested stat check. You and the target both choose if you want to use strength or dexterity .

A contested check works by both contestants try and roll under their stat . The one who succeeds by the most wins. The amount you win by is called the outcome

In the result of a tie, whatever was happening before the check keeps happening. So in the result of an attempt to start grappling, no grappling happens.

If neither party succeeds their check , it counts as a tie.

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If you have successfully grappled someone you can inflict the outcome as stat damage to their strength or dexterity (that only lasts while the grapple is maintained) or inflict it straight to their hitpoints (which is treated as normal) via a variety of head butts , knees , body slams or constrictions.

If you have a small weapon or a natural attack like wolf jaws, a cestus,  or a dagger you can add that weapon/attacks damage to the outcome when inflicting hitpoint damage like this.


If reduce your opponent to zero strength or dexterity  they are pinned and can't do stuff other than yell and curse your parentage.

To get out of a grapple , as an attack , you make a contested check (as above) but at a disadvantage (roll twice and take the worst result) . If you win this you can then leave the grapple, or inflict damage as above. Any stat damage you inflict is also restored from any you may of taken.






If you have pinned someone you can then choked them out. It will take a round + their constitution modifier in rounds. They will then be unconscious. After that amount of time again they will be dead.

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STAT CHECK SAVING THROWS

I like stat check saving throws. But they mean spells work a lot less than usual.

So I was thinking about making all spells have a mild effect that usuals happens , a severe effect that happens on a bad safe, and a no effect that happens a good save.

AND THEN I was like oh I could give just give spells a duration of like 5 -outcome and
the damage like 2d10 - outcome
(because I'm into spells being used more often and not being one of the biggest sources of damage in the game, so I'm also scaling the damage down like this)

Haven't put it into practice or really sorted the math but this post dovetailed neatly in covering it.

Inserting A City into People

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It's real important to me that games that I gm-ing have some kind of feel to them. Like you remember this city or this swamp or this cave, it's not just a part of game, there is reality to it somehow.

The game alone is not really enough to keep me interested.

I've realized this from playing playtests and some g+ games , and running a dungeon contest,  when there has been not enough thematic context I've struggled to enjoy it.

So as a g.m  how to do I get my kicks without taking away from what everyone else needs to get their kicks?

Like if you sit the players down through epically long descriptions  when they just wanna buy a crossbow, you are being dumb and punishing.

(One common way to get people to pay attention or remember stuff is to have it try and kill them all the time. That's not always that great either.  Well your mileage is going to vary on this one I think. I don't really dig at as a player, feels like there is no progression if there is no-where you get a break or you are always in the same amount of danger.)

My conclusion on this was try and put the setting on all the moving parts. The stuff that the players can immediately interact with for consequences etc.

And put as much setting on a moving part as the player ask about. So having a brief way of describing said setting on the thing and then if they ask more , give more.


THIS ALL SEEMS PRETTY OBVIOUS
 ACTUALLY BUT THEN I TRIED TO APPLY THIS THINKING TO A CITY WRITEUP
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A decent encounter table is a good way to bring a city to life too, hopefully the below description can be used to reskin a  generic/other city encounter table )

and have descriptions , specific information, usefully adjectives , and adjectives to sprinkle in.

Though if you have spent the time sourcing pictures all of this is freaking redundant because you can go "hey look at this"

Day Of The Lords:
 long, florid:
 A sudden emergence of lazy curves from a wetlands but the begins of it are vague as water way and irrigation languid turn into canal and park lake. Bridges end in third story roof top markets and streets wide around into alleys and parks.
The languid sweet air  seems to inform the temperament of the people, with the occasionally hint of the decaying slurry ponds of the pig eels, also mirrored in the callous decadence that is a subnote here.

 
 Short/pretty much:
Like Venice  but people kept trying to build Sindbad the Sailor sets everywhere and took their time doing it.

Buying Stuff:
markets, street sellers, people in cafes, private saloons, clubs.

A combination of an absurdly complicated money system (more or less like a series of tarot cards with value that shifts depend on the moon and river tides) and fondness of haggling mean you will pay 50% more for anything if you fail your choice of a wisdom/int/or charisma check.
No real shortages of conventionally goods. Fine quality . Things from everywhere find there way here. A good market for selling exotic items , especially jewellery and animal parts. Less so for conventionally weapons and armour


Social Hubs:
Garden parks with polite wandering sales people, cafes which sometimes a just a guy with a pot and a rug and other times are mostly in a building. People here tend to not really bother with clear boundrys with streets, throughfares, homes and places of business .
Every field of knowledge, interest and activity will have a multitude of clubs tending and competing in various social strata niches.
If you want to buy anything more expensive or rare than a chapbook you will need to leave a calling card at the relevant club and then come back later to see if you have been invited to someones private saloon, where they will entertain you and display their wares.




Food And Drink:


Cardamom infused coffee, ginger candys, ginger pickled eels, crabs , lobsters, especially wrapped in river grasses. Slow cooked pigeel. Often sudden bursts of flavour from pepper corns or cloves of spice.



Drugs include a variety of bitter herb based liquors with a swirl of sweet syrup, elaborate water pipes with a range of smoking herbs , sometimes more chosen for their colour of smoke and flavour than effect.

Any food , drink or drug seemingly has to be appealing on more than one level (flavour, effect, aesthetics, contrasting flavour) to be popular or even used at all here.


Security/military:

Day to day disputes will handled by a government arbitator, who have a small boat based office liberally drifting around the city. Sometimes these are symbolically boats in a ceremonially pond. They empowered like a judge able to set sentences , ranging from work details, poetic punishments , fines and death warrents. They will sub contract out to a  "Scholars" of one of the Schools of Pragmatic Discourse (voluntary gladiators) , occasionally leading a small group of a relevant club members. (treat as a fighter level 1-3 with one combat trick , treat club members as zero level people) .
Other more specialized people maybe employed , included detective philosophy, justice poets, snipers, poisoners, impersonators or military units
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The military is lightly armed skirmishers and air rifle platoons with lobotomized brutes as muscle/shock troops. Elite troops are supplied by the various competing Schools of Pragmatic Discourse.

Schools of Pragmatic Discourse are like gladiator schools or martial art schools, and compete extensively but more or less fairly , with a moderate amount of fatalitys in a variety of tournaments , games and competitions.


Who runs this place/ Factions:
"Day of the Lords" is the clan which gives the city its name. No government or high level administrator position can be held by anyone not a member, though it is possible to marry into the family, and many marriages are arranged in order to give a talented person a office. Numerous branches of the family compete , and while assassinations are rare, they are not without occurrence. The current head of the clan is the seemingly undying Moon's Moon's Lake, a old cunning spider of a great grandma. Other factions include the Schools of Pragmatic Discourse, alchemist and other clubs most needful for the cities infrastructure. The Tenders of the Slurry have considerable sway, controlling both the largest pigeel farms, the sewage system and the methane gas production which lights the city at night. No one can make a body disappear like the Tenders of The Slurry



What do these people Look like?
Dark , golden features , not given to hairyness, broad lipped and languid eyed.

Dress is seemingly casual and indifferent but with subtle details and flourishes.

Nose chains and various body piercings are common especially multiple upper ear rings. Clothing is wraps, loose shirts and saris. While which outfits are appropriate for men's and which outfit's are appropriate womens outfits is obvious to a native of the city of New Day of The Lord, an outsider will be constant figure of fun for failing to tell a mans scarf from a womans scarf.
The same goes for what parts of the body it is appropriate to expose and for what context (including time, place, social position, holiday, weather and presence of cinnamon essence) . A good rule of thumb is don't get naked just because everyone else is. They are properly wearing a formal fragrance and hairpins and it's early summers eve and forgoing the customary lace glove and sandals to be scandalous. 

adjectives to use in descriptions :
languid, worn, secretly smiling, humid, intricate, haphazard, contrasting, discrete, teeming, timeless .



Okay that was pretty long and I skipped building descriptions. I caught up in describing the place. Next time I'll try doing like a dozen distinctive cities in a paragraph each or something.