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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9705356" data-attributes="member: 4937">#31 Huggins Mudtoes the Fishmonger: Gnome Exp4Huggins “Mudtoes” the fishmonger lives some miles out of town at the confluence of the main river and a small tributary.  There he fishes for a living, bringing his catch (and those of any neighbors wishing to sell fish) in as soon as the gates open, selling all he can before noon, then leaving to repeat the process.  He is a red cheeked and golden bearded gnome fond of smoking a pipe when in the market, known for his high boots which are always caked with mud.  He is fond of music, sings badly, and dances well.  He talks to himself in a muttering tone when nervous.  At home he has a wife and a newborn infant to care for #32 Rollons West the Bearleader: Elf Brd1/Exp7Rollons is a travelling tutor with a covered wagon who sets up a tent for a few weeks at a time in the marketplace, before moving on to neighboring towns for months at a time.  For three coppers for a child and five coppers for an adult, he will teach how to read and write and perform sums and anything else someone pays to learn – though if there are too many different subjects being paid for each person may find themselves forced to listen to lectures that didn’t pay for.  His clientele is mostly of the lower class and the poorer merchants, some of whom treat him as more or less a baby sitter to get unruly children out from underfoot.  If his class is already full (8 or more students), he will offer “scholarships” at a discount as low as a single copper.  The winter months are his busiest time, and he raises prices to cover the cost of wood for a fire.  He is on friendly terms with all the buskers and most of the marketplace, though he counts only Galter (#29) and Algond (#22) as friends.  Rollons in fact could earn a much finer living as a private tutor to wealthy families, but prefers the travelling life and not being tied down.#33 Gunther the Teamster: Human Ftr2Gunther is a teamster for hire with a large wain and a team of four horses.  He can be paid 6 s.p. a day to cover 20 miles with a load of up to four tons, however he will not go more than a day from the city without armed escort consisting of at least one armed footman and two outriders on light horses.  Gunther is thirty years of age, of medium height with a bushy black mustache and broad shoulders.  He wears dark colored traveler’s clothes and a dark blue cloak.  He carries an iron shod cudgel and has a crossbow stashed under the driver’s seat of his wain.  He’s fond of gambling and drink and women, and so despite his success as a teamster has never saved up enough money to settle down.  While known in the market place, the market folk do not consider him one of their own.  The day laborers dislike him owning to the number of flagstones he occupies when idle.  However, this is generally rare, for there is always something that needs moving in the city, and most days he is moving stone or bricks for the masons.  He has a fondness for the music of Galter (#29) and is often in whatever tavern he plays in the evening.  He’s also been known to give free rides to Amiwold the Piper (#28) and less often to Wigmar (#6) and his apprentice.#34 Brili Rockskull the Tentmaker: Drawf Exp4Brilli Rockskull is a succressful tent maker that sells his wares out of his own tent as is traditional to his craft, for no tent maker has so little pride as to own a shop of brick or stone.  He is thus in the market place on all days except grand parades when he must take down his tent on city orders.  He employs day laborers for a few coppers each to help erect his tent and tear it down again each evening, and so is well liked by the day laborers.  He tolerates “Tiny Torvald” as part of the cost of doing business, considering it none of his affair as long as the work gets done.  Most of the stalls and tents of the market are at least in part of his craft.  He lives only a block from the marketplace in a good home of stone with his wife and two children.  His wife also helps with the sewing and wire cutting as a full partner, though she is shy and retiring and speaks only the dwarven tongue.  Brilli has few close friends at the market, and typically associates only with the small dwarf diaspora in the city.  Civilized, polite and clean, he passively dislikes Zephyr Ironsoles (#2) as a country bumpkin, but is too well mannered to voice this allowed.  He’s tolerates humans as being nearly dwarflike in their business affairs, law and curiosity, but actively dislikes elves and half-orcs (including both Sondburt and Synred).  Brilli is quite a gourmet, with a weakness for finely prepared and exotic foods.#35 Everard Trinder the Buckle Wright: Human Exp2Everard is a 25 year old buckle wright with a stall and a small mobile forge he loads each day into a cart to carry away.  He works as a brownsmith generally making cheap buckles for shoes and belts.  He will on commission make just about anything else if paid up front – hinges, keys, simple locks, candle holders, sconces, coat pegs, buttons, and so forth.  He lives in a poorer part of town, the best he can afford, and has a sweet young wife six years his junior who is round with the couple’s first child.  Hardworking and devoted to his wife, he keeps to himself except as it pertains to his work.  He is in the market on fair days and most other days goes about to cobblers and the like trying to get them to buy his wares.  He hopes one day to have a shop and branch out into more profitable work like pots and kettles.  #36 Frodrick the Button Maker: Human Exp3Frodrick makes buttons, beads and other fasteners of shell, bone, and wood mostly for the cheap clothing of the working class.  He is a tall man over six foot with large hands and features, greasy black hair, and a hooked nose.  He is dour and unfriendly.  He’s assisted by a wife Buckge who is equally unattractive, having a pudgy face and a wart on her nose, but who short and plump and continually merry – as kind and friendly as her husband is cold.  They have six children varying from infancy to 10 years old.  Generally the three younger are with them in the tent while the three older are left to roam to their own devices among the street urchins.  The older boy of 10 his father wants to him to enter trade as a clerk’s apprentice, a position he has secured, but the free-spirited boy is being recruited by a kidsmann as a pickpocket – a life that seems more adventurous than learning sums and cleaning for the clerks.  They have an apartment in a poorer part of town barely big enough for everyone to lay down in.</blockquote>

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