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Message: <blockquote data-quote="n_8dog" data-source="post: 1370164" data-attributes="member: 16717">Lucid Persicant Rogue and craftsmanHuman Rogue/Skilled craftsman:Lucid is a true craftsman by day.  He can be found instructing his employees on either of his workshops’ floors, pouring over financials, negotiating a sale or taking an order for a special client.  Usually he is toiling over a client’s special order, personally making sure all is going well.  The order could be a horse saddle, some shackles, a hammer, a trap or weapon.  He is known for his adept knowledge of many skilled trades like leather working and trap making among others.  He makes very good money taking orders from noblemen, various thieves guilds who’s members specialize in using, not making weapons and traps, and farmers and laborers who need his services.  He owns a couple wagons and horse teams.  They board and feed with a local businessman for a price.  He allows community members to borrow them for very small payments.  He also has a personal travel horse boarding at the same location.Lucid’s shop consists of 4 ground level rooms; 1 central display room surrounded by 3 large shop floors all containing specific tools and machines to accomplish various jobs.  These three rooms can be accessed from the central room, but the public is not welcome to just walk through and see what goes on.  Each of the adjacent shop floor rooms can be accessed through separate shop-to-shop doorways.  One set of stair visible but not accessible to the pubic leads to a second floor consisting of the same layout as the bottom floor.  One room serves as Lucid’s quarters.  The other rooms can serve as dwellings for rent, but currently house a number of stock piled and surplus materials for making orders.  There is 1 window for each room, and a flight of steps from the top floor to the alley in the back.  There are 4 chimneys.  All possible entrances are booby-trapped.  There are a few secret rooms where he keeps highly sensitive items that he has been asked to prepare.  He has had offers from local and semi local lords and ladies to work exclusively for them.  He hasn’t accepted an offer yet.  Now that full blown war has diminished in the lands, smaller scale requests for special items is booming, and blacksmith communities are no longer required to pump out magnitudes of bulk weapons and shields.The nature of Lucid’s business gives rise to him being able to offer his rogue services when clients request items generally used by rogues.  He even performs private investigative tasks for a jaded lover now and then.  Which really suits him since his training is in infiltration and ex-filtration.  Lucid is known to leave his business in the capable hands of his seemingly trustworthy and well-paid employees.  It isn’t known what he does when he leaves, but rumors abound and they usually lean towards him being involved with freelance rogue services.  Sometimes a nobleman might be seen striking a deal, but never seen picking up a product.  Lucid always seems to have a good excuse that reduces the ability for hearsay to take a firm hold on his reputation.He eats well and treats his employees like family buying them gifts and giving bonuses.He is liked by most in his community.  However, there are those that view his business as shady.  There are also those who think they know the truth about his rogue nature and look down upon him.He speaks MANY languages where as others in his field may not.  Thus he gets business requests from orcs, gnols etc. from time to time.  He has many casual contacts.  Not really many he can pull favors with.  But many clients recognize him for his crafts and still others recognize him from secret services rendered.His parent’s are both dead, having chosen to support different sides during the Civil War.  Lucid believes his father to have died during a castle catapult barrage on an interior garrisoned food storage house in which he was preparing food rations.  His mother was captured by barbarians who were looting a battlefield after one of their own barbarian magic users cast a spell creating a swarm of insects to drive away the victors from collecting their wounded comrades and reusable supplies.  She is assumed to be dead.  He would recognize either on site.  His parents both assumed dead, and blessed with the gift of thought over strength.  He learned to provide for himself through honest work, and then found himself accompanying some of his clients to show them how his traps worked, that bridged him into learning rogue skills.</blockquote>

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