Innkeeper / Barkeeper
Description:
The weary and hungry travellers, the lone drinkers and the celebrating friends all gravitate to
places like the local tavern, bar or inn. In there, they know that their immediate desires can
be fulfilled. Other desires are likely to be possible to arrange solutions for there as well
during the darker hours of the nights.
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Qualifications:
To be a good innkeeper, you need to be of an extrovert, good-natured and always sunny
disposition, always ready to lend an ear to the customers' litanies of their trials and
tribulations. You also need to be good with numbers, regularly perform great feats of memory,
while displaying a phenomenal capacity for multi-tasking. The usual run-of-the-mill service
sector miracles, in other words.
Finally, you need some starting capital, as it's a considerable investment to start an inn,
especially in established places like Triskellian
or Harrowgate.
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Applies to:
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Accounting:
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When can you count on getting back all those tabs?
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Administration:
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And don't forget to buy some new beer to keep 'em happy
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Psychology:
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Can you possibly get some cash out of this one?
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Carousing:
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You're always up for a round with your customers
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Other:
Other skills that can be useful for the innkeeper are
Observation, to keep track of what's going on in your inn,
Ciphering to deal with the higher mathematics of decade-spanning bar tabs,
Brawling to keep people from destroying the furniture or each ohter, and
Dodging (mostly beer mugs).
You're likely to have some Area Knowledge of what surrounds your inn.
Snice you deal with a lot of people of various backgrounds and dispositions, Charisma is definitely a useful accompanying trait.
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Famous innkeepers:
Barkie,
O'Hara
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