"They were at the stage last I saw of them, but imagine they went to the head table for the meal." Hoid says thinking about where to get the color from now. "I didn't bring any dyes with me. Did you?"
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Over the course of the evening Hoid is struggling to perform an impromptu census of the attendees.
"I will do what I can." Hoid says excited by the challenge
"The problem is that there are very few people in underbridge well enough educated that they could teach, and not many people from elsewhere would be willing to work here. However I have had my eyes on a few people." Hoid says thinking
"It depends on how big you want to build. It would only take as much as the orphanage I would say to be able to school most of the children in under bridge. The bigger issue is finding teachers."
Hoid chuckles at Jimmy's jest and indicates to them to follow him out of the office. As they walk Hoid talks to them. "Currently we have 36 children staying with us. I have had to expand staff slightly to help care for them all. We have some infants and some that are old enough to be learning trades. All that are old enough are receiving schooling and the younger ones are stimulated and take part in crafts and such. We are selling that off and selling excess food from the gardens. We have excess even though we are feeding a good two dozen more children from the poorest families in the area to help them." Hoid gives them a tour as he speaks, showing young children in the common room working clay and older children in the classroom. There are some more older boys working in the garden and some older girls working in the kitchen. "This building and the temple has brought a new brightness to the area, but there is more we can do. I would like to build a full school to teach all the children and I am working on deals with some of the guilds to potentially arrange apprenticeships with some of our more promising children."
"Welcome back Jimmy. How was your trip?" Hoid asks shaking his hand, "Good to see you too Ma'am." He says with a small bow to Gwen
Kinda, but any combat that we could actually attack we rolled so another combat character would have been ridiculous. For consideration, my Shattered Star character and one of Foxy's characters have built an orphanage from scratch, revamped a temple, and are currently saving up to build a housing and business complex. My cohort is basically our financial and real estate manager.
His skill list:
He can add 1d8 for free to all checks of: Bluff, Diplomacy, Disable Device, Disguise, Heal, Intimidate, Knowledge, Linguistics, Perception, Profession, Sense Motive, Spellcraft, and Sleight of Hand. He is really really good at running businesses
"Thank you." Hoid says moving around the desk to look at the ledger with Brios "And thank you Jimmy, Tauriell. Once I am done here I will be heading back to the temple to sort things out there."
"It seems Jimmy is building a new Orphanage and is planning on rejuvenating the whole distract as time goes on."
"A pleasure to meet you Mr Brios, Hoid Cauthon." Hoid says offering his hand
"Say hello to your latest employee." Hoid says chuckling again, "I need you to discuss your plans for the building so I can start managing that and then I would need to be introduced to Mr Brios. Are you okay to start now?"
"Nothing that needs dealing with just yet. Thank you Gwen. Now I need to go find Jimmy to discuss this building so I can start managing that." And with that Hoid heads outside to find Jimmy
"It's something new, that's for sure." Hoid says offering Gwen his hand again
"Well... I have been looking to get rid of my main client anyway... What the hell. I suppose you need someone full time?" Hoid asks getting caught up in the moment
"I do believe I do a good job, otherwise I wouldn't still be in business." Hoid says embarassed
"Well I guess it can't be helped then." Hoid says with a smile, "Promise to let me do the books for any other businesses you start and I will do the books for the orphanage for free. I have the time and earn enough money from my other clients." chuckling to himself
"Perhaps I can help you then. I do the books for some of the businesses in town. They don't keep me very busy though. Besides, you helped me yesterday, so I would love to be of help to you, especially with such an ambitious project."
"Well what plans do you have?"
"What do you mean?" Hoid asks interested
"The cat is good, thank you so much for helping me out." Hoid says shaking Jimmy's hand and placing the coins in it afterwards. "Is it true you are building an orphanage?" He asks
"We haven't met, and I only met your friend so much in that he helped me yesterday. I came to pay him back." Hoid says fishing out a coin purse to give to Jimmy "The name is Hoid. Pleased to meet you."
Coming from the shade on the side of the Temple behind Jimmy, Hoid says "There are quite a few stories spreading about this place." with a smile
I am off to a dinner now. Will stay on my phone as much as possible
I think we are done with Hoid for a while
Cheetahs are very specialist animals. They do one thing, but they do it bloody well. Running
You want to risk the cat getting loose and eating children then? :P
"Thanks." Hoid says, very obviously irritated, but trying his best to be polite. "Well let's get you home then." Hoid says, trying to lead the cat up and away from the party
Hoid successfully leads the cat towards his home where he has somewhat of a managerie
"THANK YOU" Hoid shouts after Jimmy, noting the party around the temple. "200 gold." Hoid turns, placing the money in the hands of the man leading the cart. "You know where to take the cat." Hoid says
"I am 50 gold short to buy that cat, I collect them you see. And this guy wont hold it for me." Hoid complains to Jimmy
I am getting rid of them as soon as you put them across
"I just need you to not sell the thing until I can fetch the last bit of gold for you. Here, see I have 150 gold, I just need to fetch 50 from home. I will even give you my books as collateral." The man says, almost begging now
"Come on, you know I'm good for it!" The black man can be heard shouting after the cart, "Just hold onto the cat for me, please."
I like nerdy and freeman. I think freeman plays better into the backstory though. So freeman it is
There is also this one
How about this one?
I couldnt find anyone else that looked scruffy without looking evil
Say hello to Hoid Scruffy, but friendly. More interested in books than people. But when people force themselves into his focus he is enthused by them |