User blog comment:Faeyrin/The Importance of Communication/@comment-4536066-20131230030618/@comment-4536066-20131230031205

That aside, I honestly think this should be treated normally IC. If I decided to drive to Kentucky tomorrow, I wouldn't immediately know all of the idiosyncratic laws of Kentucky culture, standards, and traffic. If I wanted to be careful, I would have to actually make a point of looking stuff up, or else risk slipping up and hoping whatever cop catches me is sympathetic to the fact that I'm not a native and it was an honest mistake. Every place has all the basics you can rely on - don't kill, don't steal, don't harrass, don't behave dangerously, don't vandalize or tresspass - but beyond that there's always a little variation.

Is your character the sort who checks carefully behind herself? Then play true to the character and check behind her. Is your character the sort who brazenly enters new places and just wings it? Then don't worry about it and let her face the consequences if/when they come.