You walk a long distance, approaching a city. Eventually, you find yourself on a typical, busy street. Well, typical except for three peculiar men...
(The Eastern puzzle was authored by Jaime Kikpole ("Data Scavengers"), and was incorporated into his bulletin board, CyberText. It is reproduced here with his permission, and with some loss of puzzle content due to the limitations of HTML. All rights to this material belong to him.)