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Chapter 7: Occupation
Dancer
This occupation and pastime is concerned
with bodily movement, usually to music. Daily wages
are typically 5 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Physical Fitness 90,
Bodily Attractiveness 100, Kinetic Charisma 115,
Agility 115, and Intelligence 80.
Gender: Male dancers are uncommon.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Slave or serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Dance + 5.
Equipment: None.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For each new dance
move mastered, a dancer acquires 10 AP.
Training: None.
Guild: Dancers’ Guild. Each apprentice
must serve 4 years. A masterpiece must be produced
to become a journeywoman.
Once an apprentice for 4 years, she may
make a skill check as she crafts her masterpiece. If
passed at TH 36, then she becomes a journeywoman.
If failed, then she may begin crafting another masterpiece
and make another skill check in 1d10 days.
The Aedile may overrule any masterpiece skill check,
because those in the guild who review the apprentice
may dislike her or choose to keep her as an apprentice
for some corrupt reason.
For a journeywoman to become a mistress,
she must be able financially to open her own shop,
and receive the approval of the guild. To receive
approval, she must pass a Persuasion skill check. The
TH begins at 30 and is decreased by 1 for every
period of 6 months in which the journeywoman
has worked locally with the guild. The Aedile may
overrule this skill check or apply any modifier
deemed appropriate.
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Delouser
This occupation specializes in picking and
removing lice, fleas, and bedbugs from the hair of
characters and beards of males. The removal of
such pests is a saleable service. Profitable delousers
additionally apply the herb lavender, because it repels
these pests.
Elves rarely need delousers, even though they
have hair on their heads (but nowhere else). Underground
races (dwarves, kobolds, and subterranean
trolls) rarely need delousers. Although ogres as well
as surface trolls need delousers, they rarely get serviced.
Daily wages are typically 5 s.p. in a human
culture or 10 s.p. in a bugbear culture, though this is
an annual average. Most delousers charge 1 s.p. for
delousing 1 human, or 2 s.p. for delousing 1 bugbear.
Delousers earn most of their wages in the
summer, and virtually starve in the winter.
Ability Requirements: Hand-Eye Coordination
90 and Intelligence 75.
Gender: Female only.
Race: Bugbear and human are most popular.
Ogres are not delousers.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Delousing + 5 and Haggling + 3.
Equipment: None.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For each customer
who is deloused successfully, the delouser acquires 5
AP.
Training: None.
Guild: None.