Bazaar
The link in point is in the middle of a large room. Behind you is a locked door you can't open (note: this is for technical reasons - until it becomes possible to have a lot of semi-independent characters, the population of this Age is going to have to stay inaccessible). The lock seems to be keyed to a specific person, and you aren't that person. There are no windows in the door wall.
To the right is an area furnished with an ornate lounge and several shelves. Beside it is a kitchenette. The style is like Arabic steampunk. A large multiple-arched window with stained glass decoration allows light into the room, and ornate air vents let in light and air. The walls are stucco over stone.
You can hear distant voices in an unfamiliar language. When you go to the window and look out, you see a street filled with people. You are two or three stories above them, and all the buildings you can see are several levels high with ornate fronts and no windows at ground level. The favorite decoration is gold and blue in geometric patterns.
The wall opposite the door has no windows. The kitchenette and a small dining area take up this wall.
To the left of the door, a large, curtained bed with spiral wooden posts and drawers built into the base sits beside a much smaller window. This window is shuttered, and when you look, you see an enclosed courtyard with a clear lake and a single-level, windowless building that you guess must be the bath house the Writer mentioned.
The bed curtains are heavy brocade, thick enough to block out light and most sound, and even though you suspect it would be hot outside the room is comfortably cool. A large chest is beside the bed.
As you explore the room, you find a number of items that you suspect will help you to reach the Writer's secret passage. In the top drawer of the bedside chest is a key that looks like it will fit the writing desk in the third of the Materials links. The third drawer holds the rest of the torn piece of paper you found in that age, allowing you to see the diagram of the whole mechanism - but not how to open it.
On the other side of the bed, you find a crumpled photo tucked under a pillow. It shows an attractive young woman standing outside the farm-house that started you on this adventure. The back of the photo has a message: "Dear Jessie, I thought you'd like this one of you and the house. Love, Mom." The words are blurred by several drops of liquid. Water - or tears?
The shelves in the living area are almost empty. There's a lamp, a note that reads simply "Red cover, third shelf.", and a sketch of a star-shaped ring being inserted into a star-shaped depression.
The kitchenette is just as bare, and it doesn't look as though the dining area has ever been used.
You return to Lagoon.