>>52731
You make your way into town and try to act polite and friendly. No one understands you, but you don't get anyone acting openly hostile. You eventually manage to get someone to put you up for a while, an old man gesturing you to follow him into his house. You stay with him while trying to learn to communicate with these people. In the meanwhile, you also try to find work. This village is too small to find any written work like you wanted, so you have to settle with helping out raising some goats. It does endear you a bit more to the villagers though, and after a while, they treat you warmly rather than distantly.
During your stay in the village, you test yourself to determine your new properties. It becomes evident quickly that you do not need to eat or drink, and if you do, it comes out mostly without getting processed. You also don't need to sleep, though you make a habit of doing it anyway for your own mental health. You don't become fatigued, and nothing from the past can hurt you. Anything you attempt it with gives way before you do, without any pain on your part. However, you can pinch or scratch yourself, or jab yourself with something you brought, like the corner of your ID card, and it will still hurt. On that note, you discover that the stuff you had on you is also just as immutable as you are.
After one year, your language skills have progressed, though slowly. You are still speaking in simple sentences, and complex ideas are impossible to get across. But basic communication is perfectly possible.
>+Languages:Aramaic(Basic)
>>52732
As you roll into the village, you put on your preaching voice and smile to try and offer help to anyone that needs it. You make a few villagers uneasy, but eventually find a man hauling a heavy cart and take it up in his place, which he seems to appreciate. After that you help out a handful of other villagers, and you seem to start being regarded less suspiciously. You notice in the course of doing this that you don't seem to get tired for some reason.
You can't speak a word of the language here, but with gestures, you manage to get a family you helped out to let you stay in a storeroom behind their house. Though you discover that you don't grow hungry, you join them for dinner anyway to listen to them speak and try to learn. During the day, you go around doing odd jobs for the village, and working on your language skills. After one year of study, you become fairly fluent, though you expect it will still take some time to be able to convey everything you can in English.
As your language skills improve, you begin to ask the villagers about their faith. You discover that most are Hindu, and each family worships their own patron gods of choice. However, some have recently taken up some Buddhist practices, though these few are still the exception for now.
>+Languages:Ancient Hindi
>>52733
You find a raised area, a decent sized hill just off the river, and start setting up. Without proper tools the work is slow and lower quality than you'd like, but you do manage to make a decent shack. In the process of making a fishing pole you realize you don't get hungry, and don't even seem to need to eat. All your work also hasn't left you tired at all, and sleep seems to be voluntary. You make some pottery easy enough, but most of your carving time goes into the shack and the boat. You don't get to work on that water wheel, or have time to try and farm.
You get to work on a longboat, but the task is tougher than you'd thought. You've only got the knife you had on you to work the wood with, so it takes an extremely long time to carve out the trees. You're also sure that you could definitely have measured it out better. By the time you're done, you've got a usable boat, but not your proudest work. It should fare fine on the river, but you doubt it would last on any turbulent sea.
During the course of the year, you get a few visits from the occasional curious native. You try act all friendly, and they don't seem to be hostile. They even seem somewhat interested in your work. You spare some time to try and learn their language, but it goes slowly. You end up just managing to pick up some basics, enough to make brief conversation. You don't manage to convince any of them to row your boat for you, though.
>+Languages:Ancient Choctaw(Basic)