Witness the World Engine
A few days pass...
The walls go up, and workers sing songs as they build, although they are singing in a different language than one you have grasped. Magnus learns that "Bar" is not only the term for a small bar of silver - it is a deteriorated form of "barter."
What can he get with one? Depending what's in town:
A night in high luxury & company.
Any weapon, gear or fashion not valuable or hi-tech.
Repair of a piece of hi-tech gear.
A week’s hire of a violent individual as bodyguard.
The material costs for crash resuscitation by a medic.
A month’s tribute to a warlord.
A month’s maintenance and repairs for a hi-performance vehicle well-used.
Bribes, fees and gifts sufficient to get you into almost anyone’s presence.
A week in poor accommodations - two bars will make them tolerable accommodations.
Magnus has three now, due to the steady work contributions. He might have two, depending on his standard of living.
He has learned that he is in District One of the new town, K'mek. Over the course of its set-up, it gained quite the influx of immigrants, all having set up just outside of the walls of this place, called the Skirts, with a new group of smiths and a vintner team among them. There are seven districts - Ein District, and the rest are simply called One through Six, arranged in a clockwise pattern starting from One.
Crude farming and scavenging are always available as work nearly anywhere in K'mek, and minor trade is available anywhere except Ein District. District One is home to a protection racket of some kind, Districts Two and Four have some kind of underground market going through them, District Five has a manufactory, and Ein District offers hunting and lucrative raiding jobs.
On an individual basis, Magnus could hire himself to someone wealthy as an enforcer (which would require careful target selection), a bodyguard, or likely even a raid leader in his own right.
The name of the woman who runs K'mek, or at least who has the tiebreaking vote, is Colonel Lang, known as General Colonel Lang to outsiders.
In addition to Green Andes himself, there are two others in District One who are considered big deals among the inner town. The first is Cybelle, Lang's interrogator and person Magnus has heard many bad things about - especially if his perverse residents are any indication of what the...man...is about. To hear Green Andes speak of him, Cybelle is not homosexual - one would need to have one soul first, before they can lay claim to having two of them.
So we are clear, "two-soul" or "twin-soul" means they are either homosexual, or identify as another gender other than their own.
The other person in town is a twin-souled man named Di Doc, who happens to be one of two reliable medics in the entire town - the other one being Leah Oliver, who is considered someone for little ailments, but serious ones want Doc. Di Doc is a battlefield medic and apparently claims to know how the Engine works, and possesses a working infirmary staffed with people Magnus hasn't gotten to know yet.
This is a lot of detail. Where do you wish to begin?