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Trade and Market Hall / Seeking tailoring apprenticeship

« on: January 23, 2007, 02:23:24 pm »

Looking for a skilled tailor

I have achieved modest skill with the needle, but my budget and martial skill needed to acquire more challenging materials have not increased in a commensurate fashion. Thus, I am seeking an apprenticeship. The details can be worked out, but basically I am proposing to supply items that can be made easily (any patterns, thread, cotton or silk cloth and padding), in exchange for time given supervising and instructing my tailoring, and some help acquiring supplies that are beyond my means.

Please contact Drexia Faison if you are interested.


//Since one cannot game-mechanically teach tradeskills, I'm not sure if this sort of exchange will actually work, but if nothing else I would be interested in RPing an apprenticeship.

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Development Journals and Discussion / Drexia's Journal-excerpts

« on: January 09, 2007, 12:31:56 pm »

It has taken me a little while to do this. Although I have been outside for a while now, I have not yet grown accustomed to paper being anything other than sheer luxury. Being able to afford a material that cannot be eaten, worn, or used to build tools or shelter is somewhat thrilling. Of course, I have written on papers and parchments before, but only when scribing the dictations of one of the elder monks, or copying treatises. Recording my own thoughts, my own words in anything other than a box of sand or piece of bark is. . . well, I don't think it has really struck me until now just how different my life is now. I remember, many years ago, I and some of the other children, writing with sticks in the dirt, pretending to be monks writing Important Things.
It seems a bit wasteful to be writing my mental meanderings, when I have no great thoughts nor earthshaking ideas. And though I can afford it now, paper is still not cheap. A part of me thinks that such money would be better saved, and put towards my project. Still, there are two reasons I bought this book. Firstly, I feel that  expressing myself like this could be a valuable aid on my path. The last instruction I was given, after I received my monk's robes, was "learn who you are, act in accordance with your ki, and your road will become smooth." What better way to understand myself than keeping a record of my thoughts, and reading what I write? Secondly, I have been outside but a short time, and already I forget some of the names of those who helped me when I first arrived in Hlint. I train my mind diligently, but somehow there are always things which elude my memory. I do not intend to use this journal as a mental crutch, but rather to reinforce my training.
Thus, I dedicate this journal: to better know my own mind, and to better know this world in which I find myself.

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Trade and Market Hall / Patterns for sale

« on: January 07, 2007, 09:06:41 pm »

*Written in a very neat handwriting*

Attention all tailors:

I know a lot of you are really good at sewing, but may not want to do some of the more mundane work. Thus, I'm selling 20 cloth patterns for a fair price.
I can also make other patterns for people, if you let me know ahead of time.
Thanks, Drexia Faison.


*at the foot of the page, in smaller writing*

I don't really know what a fair price for this is, so just write an offer and your name. Or, you can just come and find me. I'm an elf, and I usually wear a plain light colored robe.

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Roleplaying / Monk question

« on: January 07, 2007, 06:49:31 pm »

Hi, I'm playing an Elf Monk, and I'm wondering if there is a standard on Layonara for weapon usage for monks. I.e. Since I'm an elf, I could use bows, would that be kosher? Especially against animals: it just feels really silly to run up to a deer and kick it in the side. I could use a sling instead, and thus far I have been, because I've been unsure about whether a monk using a bow is considered appropriate.