hope wrote:
 > Quoting Eris Reddoch :

A few quick notes that a former resident of Mark would know.

Formal address on Mark and Mark is a bit different from the CSA: 
Si is a male, Sian is a married female, Sianna is an unmarried 
female, Sir is a noble (male or female), Sire is *your* noble, 
especially the sitting King/Queen. Like in the CSA, beersi is a 
slang term for beer. On Mark and Sequi, smack is slang for kiss 
and also for good, smacker is very good or outstanding. Coffee is 
grown here, as on most systems in the CSA, and widely used. 
Tobacco is, however, just being introduced from Sequi, is just 
now becoming popular, and is still unknown in the CSA. Smoking in 
the CSA, and generally here on Mark as well, means ground hoki 
leaves (a mild intoxicant) in a water pipe.

 >> April Rose steps from the bus onto the streets of Old City
 >> with a sigh. She hasn't been here in three years, since she
 >> was forced to leave Mark City, but she used to have a flat
 >> two blocks south of here, and...she stops and listens for a
 >> second then hears nine deep gongs...yes, the clocktower at
 >> Lyson Hall still rings on the hour.
 >
 > She smiles to herself enjoying the familiar sound.
 >
 >> Glancing down the street past the colorful street scene of
 >> students and professors on the way to and from classes,
 >> lawyers and judges going from chambers to court or back, and
 >> business sophs arriving for work she spies the three story
 >> brownstone she is looking for.  Brand and Gigo, she'd never
 >> heard of them. She thought the local firm here was...well,
 >> that's not important, and maybe the cousins switched firms
 >> after they got here. In any case, this was the contact she
 >> was given.
 >>
 >> As she walks toward the building she sees a tall woman
 >> standing in front looking up at the number. A pair of
 >> students, a boy and a girl, bump into her, then move on
 >> continuing to talk.

 > April makes her way to the building taking care to make a
 > mental note of the tall woman standing in the front.  She
 > continues her way into the Brownstone and locates the offices
 > of Brand and Gigo.

Looking on a office directory inside the small lobby you see that 
the offices are on the third floor. As you step toward the grav 
lift, you see the woman from outside disappearing up the stairs.

Eris
AKU GM