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Chapter 7: Occupation
Engraver
This occupation specializes in engraving
items and then selling the items. Daily wages are
typically 8 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Intelligence 85.
Gender: Female engravers are rare.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Engraving + 5 and Haggling + 3.
Equipment: None.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For each successful
completion of a project, an engraver acquires 1 AP.
Training: None.
Guild: Engravers’ Guild. Each apprentice
must serve 7 years. A masterpiece must be produced
to become a journeyman.
Once an apprentice for 7 years, they may
make a skill check as they craft their masterpiece. If
passed at TH 36, then they become a journeyman.
If failed, then they 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 them or choose to keep them as an
apprentice for some corrupt reason.
For a journeyman to become a master, they
must be able financially to open their own shop,
and receive the approval of the guild. To receive
approval, they 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 journeyman has
worked locally with the guild. The Aedile may overrule
this skill check or apply any modifier deemed
appropriate.
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Farmer
This occupation specializes in plowing, planting,
growing, and harvesting edible plants. Farmers
perform different duties depending on the season
and crop.
Before seeds may be planted, the ground
must be plowed. The fields are plowed in early spring
and early fall. A plow is dragged across the field by
oxen, and breaks up the soil to prepare the field for
planting.
Horse, oxen, and pig defecation is collected
throughout the year and distributed across the fields
prior to planting. This defecation fertilizes the soil.
Seeds are planted by hand in the spring and fall.
Harvesting is the retrieval of crops from the
fields. The harvesting of hay is done in the beginning
of summer, and the harvesting of wheat is done
in the end of summer and beginning of fall. While
harvesting, a farmer uses a scythe to retrieve the
crops. Farmers work from sunrise to sunset during
harvest. Commonly, a festival is held by the lord for
the farmers when the harvest is completed.
Wheat is gathered by women into bundles,
loaded onto a cart, removed from the field, and
stored in a barn so that it can dry. The carts are
drawn by horses or oxen, are piled high, and often
tip over.
SEPTIMA.IAM.PHILEROS.
TIBI.CONDITUR.UXOR.IN.AGRO.
PLUS.NULLI.PHILEROS.QUAM.
TIBI.REDDIT.AGER
Seven wives you’ve had -- all dead
And buried in one field.
Of whom can it be said
His land gives richer yield?