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"Beyond just bringing in outsiders, there are other possibilities, depending on how pragmatic we want to get. Thought bottles could relay the knowledge necessary. Wands of fabrication could help, but just increase the rate of labour, not the skill. There are a number of spells which could help. Potentially, actual Outsiders could be brought in to provide the skilled hands necessary for a short term bump in productivity to acquire any needed gold. That requires skilled summoners though. Which could well be more expensive than paying a dark elf or a halfling to turn traitor."
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"Significantly more expensive! You're talking about thousands of zlotys to train a single orc in a single skill. I see nothing wrong with the idea of just hiring some unemployed peon with the required skills. There's no need to get extravagant just yet."
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since he cant think of any other good questions for Silas Hocus goes and talks to Drovak and company to offer his two sense regarding the drow idea

"keep in mind that many drow who were trained by the guilds are out of work including myself im sure their are many who would be eager to except a teaching job even if it meant moving here still no matter who we hire to teach the orcs we still need a reliable cash flow in order to pay said teachers in the long term and presumably will have to rent or buy a building to teach in because i doubt the drow will be willing to teach outside were the sun will biol their eyes out seriously how can you surface dwellers stand that insufferable yellow orb! its awful"
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Drovak shrugs vaguely. "Try some smoked glasses, maybe? We orcs have it almost as bad, it's why so many prefer to live under the canopy.

I am quite hopeful that we'll be able to make this vocational training scheme work. The real obstacle is how Lolthwyr's guilds fix prices. Does a member still have to abide by that when taking a job outside the country, without actually crafting merchandise personally? If so, can we afford to hire several experts for a few months, plus the raw materials we need? If not, can we lure in some of the people who the guilds have let go?

I think that a lot of dark elves will have left the guilds if they cannot find work. And if an ex-member practices in another nation, it would be really implausible for the guilds to send ninjas through the windows to kill them when everyone is sleeping. But they'd probably face some consequences if they returned home and tried to work again. After all, training up medium-grade workers here can be seen as stealing from the already-scarce job pool. We'd need to convince our experts that they'd be looked after long-term, I'd expect."
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"What if, in the short term, we employed some orcs already trained in carpentry to build a home, sort of a fancy mansion-dorm for the drow teachers? It would not be much, but having a home given to you, perfectly suited to your needs, with a staff to take care of them. Though perhaps we should compile that staff from non-orcs." Thane grunts in exasperation, "This is getting expensive and complicated. We should see what the others found out and discuss our ideas and next steps."
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Silas will return to the group as well.

"Friends, I believe what we need here is what is needed in every great movement: style and mythology. If the average citizen, cannot distinguish the difference between a fine silken cloak and an average one, then we must help them distinguish the difference. Imagine, if you would, that these expert elven artisans we speak of recruiting have become dissatisfied with the ostentatious work being done in their own lands and dramatically break with their guild, moving to The Korbahl to re-discover the true home of silk-making. We market these traditionally made products towards the upper classes, and brand them with an Arcane mark--wands of such minor magic are scarce worth mentioning when it comes to expense--and keep our dark elf teachers on as training staff and quality inspectors."


(How many D&D campaigns start off with people creating their own boutique fashion label? Our products cost more because they're better, and you can tell they are better because they cost more.)
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"Ha! Of course. 'with tiny bubbles and imperfections to show they were made by the indigenous, hard working people of... wherever.' That would work quite well."
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Hocus frowns "defrauding people in such a way seems petty and cruel and i doubt it would work I have found rich people have a good eye for quality or they don't stay rich for long so unless you can make these aforementioned silk cloths into the next fashion fad the rich wont buy them and in order to do that you have to already be a well know boutique so that plan seems like it would never get off the ground. our best bet would be to produce large amounts of something practical and necessary to everyone this will create jobs and our trained labor force will be able to produce more for less witch means we can undersell the competition"
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"Technically it wouldn't be defrauding, it would be convincing them to see value in another way." Thane thinks on the idea of necessity, "Well, we could poison everyone and sell the antidote..."
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Drovak nods slowly. "I see no reason that we can't pursue both ideas. There are plenty of unemployed right now and from what Thagurz is saying we can probably lure in plenty of people to classes with free lunches. Some silk-workers will prove more talented than others, and the best of these can start working on quality items. If someone is a breakout star, excellent. A few tailored dwarven suits could bring in plenty of foreign gold and publicize the idea of a "Korbahlian Artistic Revolution".

Many people won't have that kind of talent. Thankfully, there should still be more of a market for medium-grade clothing, wall hangings, rope, et cetera than raw silk. See, in Korbahl we have demand for manufactured goods. And most lack the foreign currency to buy them. Sure, your typical orc would rather have a Lolthwyr shirt than something local, and the Guilds make more than enough. But our stuff will be both available and affordably priced.

I'm thinking that if we take a cut of the profits from what our artisans manage to sell, we should break even at least. They'll have enough of an investment in the success of their work to put effort into it, and if we provide some kind of safety net and the dream of striking it famous, we might not need to worry about people leaving and going independent."
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Silas nods at Drovak Thane. "Yes, a small company cannot compete with a large one in economies of scale unless the large one is already mortally wounded. Where a small company can compete is intangible or disruptive qualities--authenticity, style, exclusivity and innovation. Such things have little to do with how many wares you can store before having to buy more land. And many rich people are willing to pay for odd products because being rich often has little to do with what is practical for those who must work in the mud."
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"A little bit of ridiculous ostentation can go a long way as well. Gem studded women's undergarments, for example."
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John laughs openly at Hocus' complaints of the cruelty of selling orcish cloaks at great markup, then composes himself as the others say their piece.

"Thane - I'm all for cash grabs, but killing our potential customers clearly means we have less potential customers." He decides not to make the obvious counterpoint, as he doubts any of the party is strong enough to create the intelligent living dead in any appreciable number.

"Seems we have a plan then. Though, I'm assuming we'd be at least starting out in partnership with - I dunno - Duraweb, or maybe the Directorate, as a financial backer. We're, like, six guys - maybe twelve if you count various undead minions - and crucially none of us are currently in Lolthwyr recruiting.
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"That's why we sell the antidote for a reasonable price. Another idea. Adventures are... something of trend setters, yes? A few gifts of high glamour clothing and there's our marketing." Thane thinks, "We might have an easier time at the directorate after we've got a company or two on board. Lets start with Duraweb."
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"I'm operating under the initial assumption that we'll not get any financial backing until we prove that we have a working model. We can appeal to individuals in Duraweb to leverage their contacts into helping us get the experts we need. We'll improve demand if people are actually using the silk rotting in warehouses, maybe even enough to raise prices noticeably. They have little reason not to give us informational support.

The trick is making ourselves indispensable enough that Duraweb doesn't just jump in and do the same thing better if this idea works. I want to get at least a corporate buy-out if we move onto a different scheme. Hmmm. Actually, Hocus, you're a pointy-ear. Do you know anybody at home who could help? Someone who could teach well enough for our purposes, and has been let go by the guilds? We don't want to be too dependant on Duraweb."
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Hocus makes his will save not to hit drovak after the pointy ears coment

"I was in the mages guild until the cut my wages and I quit and so was my father and his father and his father so. Yeah me and my family have a few friends and I know some mages who were let go or quit but no one in the bakers or the textile guild but being a mage has the side benefit of being very profitable so I doubt any and going to uproot and come here without a very good offer. I know a couple guys who got let go from the alchemist guild but im not sure how helpful they will be"

((sorry i amended the post to not include meta-gaming))
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((strictly speaking, while Thane has broached a couple of morally ambiguous/wrong ideas, he hasn't brought up the addictive clothing, that was just me musing out of character))
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The Duraweb Offices

Even before you go into the building, you note that the hours have been cut and the place is now only open from sunset until midnight, and only on weekends. The older hours of operation ran from twilight to fourth bell, so that represents a substantial cutback.

The front office looks like someone is in the process of a move. Differences in soot accumulation on the walls clearly demarcate places where decorations recently graced the walls and no longer do while bear tacks imply methods by which paintings or tapestries were once hung. There is a pile of boxes in a corner, and it looks like at least the top box is full of papyrus rolls that presumably have writing on them.

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There is a door leading to the back office and it is ajar, revealing that there is a long eared man furiously writing. There is also a desk in the room you are in, behind which is an Orcish woman with red hair. The plate on the desk heavily implies that her name is Meerza the Ax.

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The woman, who you assume is named Meerza regards you blandly and asks "Do you have an appointment?" in a manner that strongly implies that she suspects the answer is "No" and that in turn this will probably lead her to directing you to go pound sand.

[Bluff, Diplomacy, something else?]
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Post by Omegonthesane »

John regards the various evidence of moving and decides not to actively pick up on it.

"We're a team of foreign investors, and we were looking to make an appointment as soon as reasonably practical, to discuss a business proposition."

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The woman you assume is named Meerza looks only mildly dubious and walks over to the door. She leans through the door. [Listen == 17] She says "There's foreigners Morb, they want to talk about business. You said not to bother you unless it was important..." The Orc addressed as Morb cuts her short "Yes yes. That sounds important. Tell them I'm coming."

Meerza closes the door, and turns to you. "Morb the Blind will see you shortly." Behind her, there are some thumps and harrumphs and the sounds of things being dragged around. She returns to her desk and studiously ignores the noises from the other room.

After a number of minutes, Morb the Blind comes out to meet you. He appears to have changed his shirt, and is now wearing a fine ebon spider silk blouse. His face is still ink stained. "Yes yes. I'm Morb the Blind, and I am a managing partner at Duraweb. How may I help you?"
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Return of the Ghouls

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"We are, as John here says, foreign investors. We're seeking to revitalize the economy of The Korbahl and, eventually, the rest of Derpistan. We have some ideas and questions regarding new industries, training unemployed workers for new trades and so forth. Is there somewhere we can all talk at more length?"

Thane will also begin using detect thoughts
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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  • Thoughts present.
  • Two thinking minds (assuming for the moment that you don't catch your compatriots in the cone), Intelligence 13 and 14.
  • You begin reading the surface thoughts of Morb the Blind. The woman's thoughts are hidden behind some sort of mental barrier.
Foreign moneypants Better not screw this up Glorg will feed me to the phase spiders if I screw this up Don't screw this up Don't mention the phase spiders That guy's an orc Probably not very foreign Wait Is that a child Maybe some kind of gnome Are there gnomes that look like human kids Probably whisper gnomes Where do whisper gnomes come from

The woman you have tentatively identified as Meerza looks at you with what is perhaps more detachment than before. Speaking with a Dariah-like mixture of incredulity and contempt she asks "What are you doing?"

Morb the Blind doesn't seem to have noticed and responds to your question directly. "The offices are undergoing something of a remodel at the moment, probably not good for a meeting. There's a restaurant down the street that serves a decent boar. We could discuss things there. It would probably be better to get one of the other partners involved."

Glorg can deal with this Do they like boar in gnomistan They have orcs doing the talking Orcs like boar I like boar Have I screwed up already Fiddlesticks

Meanwhile, you are being glared at by the secretary whose name is presumably Meerza the Ax.
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Drovak raises an eyebrow at the exchange. His hand brushes the surface of the ironwood mask dangling from his neck. "We don't represent foreign investors exclusively. Remember, Thane, part of the Consortium has been localized for longer than any of us have been alive.

Morb, is it? Very well. How long will it take you and your associate to prepare for a meeting? Do you want us to obtain reservations at this establishment?"
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"boar sounds lovely and i think business over dinner is a great idea especially after to long at see eating biscuits and onions every meal. you mentioned your title is managing partner can i assume then that duraweb is a public company and if so what are the price of shares theses days?"
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