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Chapter 7: Occupation
Wheelwright
This occupation specializes in making and
selling wheels. Daily wages are typically 9 s.p.
Ability Requirements: Intelligence 80.
Gender: Female wheelwrights are rare.
Race: Any but ogre.
Disposition: Any.
Temperament: Any.
Sociality: Serf.
Religion: Any.
Skills: Haggling + 3 and Wheelwrighting +
5.
Equipment: None.
Magic Points: Inapplicable.
Advancement Points: For each wheel
crafted successfully, a wheelwright acquires 1 AP.
Training: None.
Guild: Wheelwrights’ 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.
Whore
This female occupation specializes in charging
fees from men and relieving them of their coital
urges and needs. Whores 1 are also called: prostitutes,
working girls, women common to all, lovely
ladies, daughters of joy, harlots, meretrices, and
street-walkers. All whores gain a bonus of 5 to Debauchery
(see Chap. 6: Sociality). Daily wages for
whores vary considerably. Most of the variance is
accounted for by the whore’s Bodily Attractiveness,
Facial Charisma, and her skill at Massage, Seduction,
and Sexual Adeptness. The majority of whores earn
around 4 s.p. per day, though some earn considerably
more.
Different types of whores exist, including:
public, private, and freelance.
Public whores work for the municipal
brothel, which is owned by the local government.
Public whores are free to solicit in taverns and other
public places, but they are obligated to bring their
clients back to the brothel before performing debauchery.
Private whores work for a privately-owned
brothel, which is both owned and managed by its
brotheler. Some work illegally for a pimp.
Freelance whores frequent inns, taverns, and
markets. Competition is keen, and freelancing is
dangerous. 2 types of freelancing whores exist:
street-walkers and vagabonds. Oftentimes, a streetwalking
whore works with 1 or more ruffians. Vagabond
whores travel from town to town A vagabond
whore usually travels with a ruffian. The vagabond
whore and the ruffian have an arrangement:
she will earn money and he will guarantee her safety,
and that her client will not get away without paying.
Sometimes, the ruffian uses the street-walking or
vagabond whore to attract clients, whom he batters
and robs.
FUREM.FUR.COGNOSCIT .
ET.LUPUM.LUPUS
1. Information on whores has been obtained from Medieval Prostitution, by Jacques Rossiaud. For more information, see the
References section at the end of this book.
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A thief recognizes a thief,
and a whore a whore.