Scribe and Messenger Service
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A writer’s ability without the cramp
Description
Culver Trask and Janus Domenici Trask a husband-and-wife team, endeavor to provide decent service for the nobles of The Heights. He is a tall middle-aged merchant with hair still jet black, and piercing gray eyes. Possessed of a humble self-image, he is genuinely grateful for his modest business successes, and strives to provide rapid service for his customers (he will make urgent or private personal deliveries himself, and can be trusted to keep a confidence - except from his wife, whom he worships completely). Janus is the daughter of Pietro Domenici, a local ship’s captain and explorer of some small renown, who was lost at sea when she was a young woman. She is still a striking woman with hip length auburn hair and greenish eyes, but the years of indoor labor have left her pale and wan, and she seems to have forgotten how to smile. She will not travel by water since her father’s tragedy, though she loved to sail in her youth.
Exterior
The shop occupies the lower floor of a two-story white wood-frame building with Tudor styling. It is one of a long row of closely bunched buildings of the same construction, which line one side of Boutique Lane. A sign above the door depicts a winged messenger skimming the heavens with a scroll tucked underneath his arm.
Interior
The entry to the shop proper is at the end of a narrow hallway. Customers are handled by Culver at an “L”-shaped marble counter just inside the door. Behind the counter, toward the actual front of the building, are heavy oaken writing tables with slanted tops, at which Janus and two other scribes are normally hard at work. Each work area is lit by a small globe set into the ceiling beam above it (these are enchanted and embedded with Daylight spells to provide adequate illumination). Over the customer counter hangs a long hempen cord, which is attached to a bell in the alleyway beside the shop, and is used to summon the young messengers employed by the Trasks to make deliveries.
Hours
8:00am to 7:00pm.
Price Range
Fair.
Quality
Good, although limited in scope.
Cash Box
Not locked or hidden, a small bowl rests on a shelf beneath the counter, and usually contains 1d20 x 1d6gp in assorted coins and small gems.
Staff
Janus and Culver and the other two scribes are daily within the shop. There are several young boys who hang about outside, waiting to be summoned by the bell for messenger duty - they will usually investigate loud noises within the shop (usually the result of some flimflammery on the part of the occupant of the upper floor).
Customers
The clientele is primarily guild families, with an occasional commission from a noble house. There will normally be 1d100:
- 01-70 = no customers
- 71-90 = 1 customer
- 91-97 = 2 customers
- 98-00 = 3 customers
Outstanding Items
The Trasks produce well-calligraphed invitations, personal messages, and public notices, and will provide for distribution of these materials inside the city or within a 25 mile radius (they did the invitations for both the betrothal ball and the wedding ceremony for the Duke’s niece just recently). The cost is 1gp per sheet (additional for special inks and parchments). Almost all work is produced in the Common tongue, as the staff has very limited facility with other languages.
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Courier (Service)
Owner: Culver Trask
District: The Heights
Grid (Key) Ref.: G20 (CE)
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Type: Transportation station
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Ruler/Owner: Culver Trask
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World Anvil Metadata
Id: 3f6dab82-2a47-4013-99bd-788ba412cd1a
Entity Type: Article / landmark
Category: Places: The Heights
Tags: fcoh,the-heights-location,cat-transportation,type-courier,guild-of-drayers-location,transportation
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