empatheias_ooc | Task Board: May

In addition to the standard business jobs, there are also independent jobs, or "tasks," that can be done by anyone. These jobs are posted in a large central bulletin board located in a building called The Task Center in Merchant's Square. It's overseen by a group who collects the fees, posts the listings, monitors who takes what, and gives the appropriate payment. These are more "mercenary" like in the sense that anyone can post one and anyone can take it. They range from asking for a helping hand to run an errand to gathering a hard to get item to exterminating a dangerous monster roaming too close to farms. Some jobs may even be related to the plot or an event.

Jobs are an excellent way to not only get money, but also to create emotion drops because most jobs require more than one person. Even if the job itself could be done solo, it is still possible to bring in a friend to help. Unless the job specifies, there is nothing preventing the job taker from asking for aid. We do encourage that those taking the more "quest" like jobs to bring in a partner.

In addition, characters are free to create their own businesses (and subsequently their own tasks), and we double the task board as a way to keep track of them.

Feel free to play around with the jobs. Some can even become mini plot events with the right people, and players can create jobs in relation or as a reaction to a posted job. You don't have to feel like you need to restrict yourself to the small blurb in the description, either, so have fun with it!

For more information on the task board, see this post.

LEGEND:
White for Verens. Yellow for Shaarnath. Pink for Theasthai. Light blue for Briarlan. Red for Plot. Purple for Excursion.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Each task has a code that is linked to its own top-level in the comments section of the post. If you'd like to sign up for a particular task, click on the link for the respective task and put your character's name on the subject line. If the task is done by multiple characters, put all the character names in the subject.

When applicable, threads will be frozen once sign-ups for that particular task are closed.

Questions about the tasks can be directed here. Task suggestions can be made here. In order to make sure that player-submitted tasks can be integrated into the Board in a timely manner, we ask that tasks be submitted no later than five days prior to the start of the coming month. Otherwise, it will be included the following month. Thank you!

GENERAL TASKS
GT0501	Miu Iruma	I really loooove pranks and want to see what the best of the best can do. Come to my house and leave traps for me and you'll be rewarded! Remember to take photos as proof and send them to 54 Peter St.	1,500 sylvs	Open
GT0502	Corsin	I was hungry and didn’t have any money the other day, so I pawned one of my wife’s favourite necklaces. I need some people to break into my house while my wife and I are home, pretend to be a burglar, and steal my wife’s jewelry box for the insurance claim.	300 sylvs plus the jewelry	Open
GT0503	Nela	My wife stole one of my most precious heirlooms: a necklace that belonged to my own mother. I’ve left all her favourite books in the basement. Take them. The basement door is open. (OOC Note: Task GT0502 and GT0503 are related! Encouraging the couple to set their differences aside and forgive each other will net both rewards.)	Any books you want! Most are expensive and worth a pretty penny on the black market.	Open
GT0504	Berith Chalke	I want to leave the mercenary life and fulfil my destiny as the finest poet in all the land, but I need good material to feed the poetry in my soul. If you are in love, or have a favourite soup, talk about it over the network for me to listen to.	350 sylvs and a dedication in my poetry	Open
GT0505	Dr. Diannus	I wish to test sand granules against emotional magic. Namely, which colours are imbued into the properties of the sand by what emotion. I provide samples of the sand in carefully marked test tubes; you’re free to take them home with you. Emote at these tubes with the marked emotion until the colours change.	450 drasks per tube, limit of five tubes per person	Open
GT0506	Melania Meowstro	My troupe of singing cats, the Meowstros, have all decided that union rights for performers are better in Briarlan and have scarpered. Please find them and report back with their location. (OOC Note: These are people in cat costumes seeking collective bargaining rights. This will get weird. Feel free to make up whatever you want for this task!)	An optical telescope	Open
GT0507	Flower Festival Committee	We need help in cleaning up Diateris! Elios has helped us too, but there are still some stray flower petals that need to be cleaned up. We want to put small doses in teas, so testing out the teas we've come up with would be great as well. Thanks! (OOC Note: The flower petals have magic embedded in them that will make the person drinking/eating it more caring and loving. How severe or little the effect is is up to player discretion.)	1,000 sylvs plus a canister of any tea with flower petals	Open

SPECIAL TASKS
ST0501	Dr. Miranda Bloque	I am testing the efficacy of my person-sized carrier bubbles as a mode of transportations. I need people, two or more, willing to let a bubble carry them from Verens to Theasthai and back. Extra pay is available to anyone willing to fill out a comprehensive report about the experience.	1200 sylvs	Open to groups of two or more
ST0502	Anely	Now that the flower festival is over, I would like all the remaining flowers delivered to my house at 516 Torchlight Alley. No more than twelve per bouquet. Each bouquet must have a unique card with heartwarming message from a suitor. The message does not have to be accurate or reflective of any true feelings, nor does the suitor have to exist.	200 sylvs per bouquet	Open
ST0503	Warden Imilia	Recently, we’ve had a bit of a problem with convicted criminals escaping the prison that should be solidly holding them. They only ever seem successful in pairs, which is even more alarming. We would like groups of two to spend a day in one of our cells and then attempt to escape at night. Our guards know to be hands off with any volunteers, but they have been instructed to provide the basic level of resistance and obstruction as necessary to their job. All participants will be interviewed afterward and are expected to be honest about the facility’s flaws. (OOC Note: Feel free to make up anything you want for this task, including NPC involvement of prison staff!)	5000 drasks for a successful escape, 1500 for a failed attempt	Open to groups of two
ST0504	Constable Crispy	The Theasthai Strangler is still on the loose! Everyone we arrested and brought to justice up to this point seemed to be copycats, and we fear that the original one is still out there somewhere. To make matters worse, they're no longer targeting working women, but now stage actresses too! Our sources lead us to believe that it's a staff member at the grand theater, but we're not having any luck with finding evidence or connecting any one person to the crime. Please help? ( OOC Note: The Strangler will not be caught this month, but players can discover a hidden passage from the theater that leads to the sewers. There, they'll find all sorts of concrete evidence that the Strangler is real, but they seem to have fled the scene. In their place, you'll discover giant monster rats. Good luck! )	Crime Fighting Participation Badge (roughly worth 700 sylvs in Verens)	Open
ST0505	Myse Victory	I’m having trouble getting my smithy up and running! I have the space and the skills, but my weapons are lacking that special something to make me stand out among my competitors. I’ve been told that materials that have been imbued with romantic energy make better weapons, but I need some help! Forging weapons with cute girls on my own won’t give me enough stock to get my business going, so I need at least two people to come to my smithy and use their bond to give my materials some extra oomph. You don’t have to be a couple! Just ask each other questions and get to know each other better, although it will definitely help if you kiss. Probably.	450 sylvs per person.	Open to groups of two.
ST0506	Beastmaster Hunting Guild	This month, Port Niras has been the source of inconvenient attacks from invasive creatures. Editor’s note: the guild’s previous copy and ad writer, Melchior, had a bit of a nervous breakdown after some odd requirements from our legal department. My name is Ylena, I have taken over his role. I like long walks barefoot on the sands of Sharnaath and diamonds are pretty cool too. My face once launched a thousand ships. The person who kills the most monsters this month may pledge for my hand. Fogbrute: They’re big, they’re bad, they have muscles for days… even in their cheeks! How audacious. Grotesquely humanoid, but dark red and unpleasant looking -- they don’t have a good personality, either. Their diet consists of human eyeballs. Edibility: Yes, I suppose so, but ick. Attractiveness rating: 4/10. Would I conduct a cross-species affair with this creature? Probably not. Montimoag: I don’t know, they skitter around on all fours, wear diapers made of bark, and have a scream that makes people relive their worst moments and turn against their allies. They mostly live in dark, damp areas, so basements and wine cellars and sewers or whatever. Edibility: Skin is leathery, maybe cook it first, but yes. Attractiveness rating: -6/10. Would I conduct a cross-species affair with this creature: EW. (No.) Wriepy: Seductive men of the sea. They are even more attractive than me, if you can believe it. They will lure you in with such lines as, “can you explain the plot of [book you like], I didn’t understand it,” or, “what kind of food did your mom cook for you when you were a kid?” or, “hey, what’s up.” Truly, the most eloquent men I have ever met! They’ll eat you if you get in the water with them, though. Edibility: Yum yum!! But their blood is acidic, according to our science department. Attractiveness rating: 20/10. Would I conduct a cross-species affair with this creature: Oh, yes.	750 sylvs per Fogbrute 1500 sylvs per every three Montimoags 1200 sylvs per Wriepy	Open to groups of 2 or more.
ST0507	World Restoration Commitee	Workers requested to aid in the restoration of Verens' more run-down districts. Engineers and technicians for physical construction, dunamis and magic users to create protections against emotional effects, transport of materials between locations, clerical and organizational oversight, caterers, medical supervision, and many more are needed to help with this project. Sign up today and help us in giving back to the place that's opened its arms to us and strengthening the bond between natives and Otherworlders!	70 sylvs per day, plus lunch provided	Open

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Task Board: May

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