Alexi and Ysabel do not know they're on Al Amarja...yet.  That moment is coming, along with a briefing of sorts (courtesy of the fellow looking for his keys).  Archie is on Al Amarja, and is aware of it--that's where he was meeting his friend Eric, after all.<br/><br/>As Ebb is aware, there are no guns on Al Amarja.  (The real reason for this is that is keeps the party from being wiped out by a drive-by courtesy of Mac-10 and AK-47.)  This is because Madame President takes a dim view of people trying to kill her, so certain things are very tightly controlled (guns and explosives head the list).  Drugs are technically illegal on the island, but those rules are only enforced when the government wants to bother someone.  Fascism is illegal, and the state is as serious about that as it is about guns.<br/><br/>There are very few foreign newspapers because Al Amarja keeps a low profile internationally--no embassies here, no Al Amarjan embassies elsewhere, a lot of effort to keep the place an open secret, and so on.<br/><br/>There's a lovely handout that you get on the plane, if you aren't knocked out, stripped of your passport, and dumped into a cheap hotel room somewhere in Four Points...oh, wait...  ;D<br/><br/>Here's a link to that handout:<br/>http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/OTEWelcome.pdf (http://www.atlas-games.com/pdf_storage/OTEWelcome.pdf)<br/><br/>More later, when I'm not trying to fall asleep at the keyboard!<br/>