All of these places have important people and things in them. Special perks of spending time there, communities that love/hate you.
Rolling dice
You can 'resist' everything.
To resist take an attribute (like insight) and roll a dice for each action that has a point in it. 6-roof(attrRole) = stress
Folks dress like this, but poor
The city looks like this, but haunted
Duskwall moves around you
Hurt others, make money
Duskwall responds, you prepare