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[blackshadow]

Job Offer

Looking for one or two servants to work full time.

- Room and board provided
- Pay on a weekly basis
- Responsibilities include cleaning and pet care
- Prior experience required

The house is four stories including a large basement, patio, eight bedrooms, and six bathrooms. Only two of the bedrooms are currently occupied and need to be consistently attended to. The main areas in need of attention are the bathrooms and kitchen.

Despite their appearance, the patched holes in the walls and floors, water stains, and study are completely safe now. The study is off-limits in any case.

Pet care is required. We have a large dog, seven cats, and a handful of sheep that need to be fed, bathed, and cleaned up after.

Cooking isn't a required skill, but it is desirable.

Wage is three blues, given at the end of the first and third week of the month.

Contact me here if you have other questions or are interested in the position.

[ooc: Or just bug him. That's okay too.]

Comments

/bugs

[unflagging]

You're keeping sheep in a house?

/is bugged!

[blackshadow]

Not usually... They have a sort of pen, but I'm not really sure how to deal with them. Should they always be outside?

[unflagging]

Where I come from, critters like sheep and cows and pigs live outside.

[blackshadow]

I never had to deal with them back home, but I guess that's true for my world, too...

So they should stay outside in storms as well?

[unflagging]

You don't know anything about keeping animals, do you? Well, if you never had to deal with them, I guess you wouldn't.

Build them a barn or a shelter. They can hide out there until the storm's over. Make 'em their own Sheep House.

[blackshadow]

I inherited all of the animals here when I moved in, but I didn't think I'd be stuck taking care of all of them, too.

But building their own shelter doesn't sound that hard... It'll make it easier than herding them into the basement.

[negativegate]

Someone better bite.

[She hates cleaning up enough that even servants in the house are preferable. As long as they aren't too nosy.]

[blackshadow]

I'm offering enough cash for someone to...

[ He hopes. His servants didn't even need pay... ]

[negativegate]

There must be someone here who likes cleaning up, anyway.

[If only Rita could make a blastia to do it...But even that seems a little out of her league right now.]

[blackshadow]

[ Tyr thinks they have better things to do than study making cleaning blastia, though he's surprised her world didn't already develop them. ]

Even if there aren't, someone needs to be desperate.

[negativegate]

[There are some eccentrics--as Rita would call them--into that kind of thing. If they can get someone to come do it, they can work on much more important blastia, anyway.]

And hey, they get pay and a house. Someone needs to take it, already!

[valentineluke]

Why not get a smaller home?

[blackshadow]

Why should I? I don't mind paying for one servant anymore than I mind paying for two...

[valentineluke]

Never learned how to keep house or are you just lazy?

[blackshadow]

Do you say the same thing to people who go to restaurants? I have better things to do than clean the house, and one of the people I live with actually doesn't know how to clean up.

[valentineluke]

I see, it's both bad excuses.

[anatural]

Man. That is a big house.

[blackshadow]

Yeah- It's hard to imagine it was full at one point...

[anatural]

How many people lived there?

[blackshadow]

I have no idea.

[ He pauses, trying to think... ]

There was Yuri, Flynn, Estelle, that black-haired guy... [ He pauses, then adds to that list: ] Guy, Judith...and then Rita's always lived there too...

[ He shakes his head. ] The place was built before I arrived, but I know all those people lived there once. I only moved in after most of the people I lived with left, and at that point, it was just Yuri, Flynn, Estelle, and Rita there...

[mortemscintilla]

Wow. Eight bedrooms?

[ It seems so superfluous. As long as you have a roof over your head, a bathroom and a fridge, what more do you need? Even beds or TVs aren't essential. ]

[blackshadow]

I guess they needed all of them when they asked to have the house...

[ People need to stop assuming that Tyr just chose to live in a huge empty house with his friend and fiancée... He comes from money, but even he knows this is a lot of space for three people. ]

[mortemscintilla]

Oh! There were more people there when you first started out, huh?

[blackshadow]

When I first got here, there wouldn't have even been room for me to move in if I wanted to. And I only moved in after it was just Riou and I living together...

[mortemscintilla]

Riou...?

[ Don't play dumb, Li. You already spy on everyone. ]

Well, why not move somewhere smaller, then?