#sapling town

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Albert retiring

The shop got the news that Albert our artificer and tinker will be retiring from the shop.  He will stay on to teach the guild trainee for a bit. He said he hasn’t been able to keep with his work since the town open. The trainee has helped, but he still had to turns away work.

With Albert stepping down from his job, we would be left without an artificer and tinker. I was going to put out an ad in the guild paper when Albert told me that he had a replacement in mind. His granddaughter has recently finished her master quest and looking for a place to work and live. He wanted to move into one of the empty houses and let his granddaughter use his old house. With the help of the workers, we moved Albert into one of the other houses in town.

When Alison our new artificer and tinker and Albert granddaughter got to town, we helped her move in and to set up her shop. She isn’t a gnome like her granddad, but a gnome soul. She really hit it off with Kirt and was happy to get to work with the others. She couldn’t believe that she would to work with the realms. She was a bit surprised to meet the elementals. She seem overjoyed to when we told her she gets her own realms space. She also guild that have Flora guild her around the realms and the items the workers made for traveling in the realms. She would like to have another ways to travel the reams then walking. I think she spent a week of her free time wondering around the realms looking for her realm space. Once she did find a spot for the space, it was set up much like the others. Albert seems happy to work with Alison and teaching the trainees while she worked. She makes a great addition to the shop.

That’s the tale of Albert retiring.

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Meeting the town people

There are a few other towns’ people that don’t work in the market or the shop and the guilds. I skipped them because I wanted to write about the guilds and other workers first. They are the bank workers, the head guild clerk, the school and our guard captain.

The head guild clerk is more like a supervisor than a normal clerk. They take care of the daily work of the guild and looking over the other clerks. Our head guild clerk is an older guy named Levi and he heard about the job from our guild master Margret.

The bank is owned and run by the bank guild master, Vanna. She told the other bank workers about the new jobs in the town. There is the bank manager Grant, a dwarf and the teller Bridget, a fey soul. The guard’s office and jail is next to the bank. There are always two guards around the bank. The captain of the guards is Drake, a dragon beast kin. The town’s school is small and there are only a few teachers. The principal is Nolan, an owl soul and the head teacher is Vikki, a fox soul.

That’s the people living in our town other than the trainees and the clerks in the guilds and shops. I would talk to them, but most of the trainees are only here for a month or less. Writing about everyone in town would take to long. The town is still growing as more people pass through the town since it was added to the guild list of market towns. We have been getting more work too. The town’s caravan helps bring more people to the town as well.

That’s the tale of meeting the town’s people.

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Meeting the market workers

After I finished talking with the shop keeps, I went to talk with the market place workers. The stall owners work closely with the green house realm. Clover the gardener helps tend the plants used by the market place. Rosalina and Hanna help her from time to time.

There are a few empty stalls for rent. A few of the shops have stalls as well. I know Jin has some of her trainees run the shop’s stall. It’s a good way of getting new customers. The market mostly sells produce and other crops. Most of the market’s produce is stocked in a store house in the green house realm.

The market is run by the merchant guild. There is a small group that works in the market it. There is Corbin a raven soul runs the fruit stall. Bernetta a rabbit soul runs the vegetable stall. Harlan a hare soul runs the herb stall. Chip a chipmunk soul runs the spice stall. Moss a mouse soul runs the grain stall. Qun a squirrel soul runs the nut and seed stall. Lita a raccoon soul runs the bean stall. Jim an otter soul runs the fish stall. They are a nice group of people that are willing to help the shop’s realms. They also have great prices for their produce. Jim the fish stall owner is the brother of Jenny the seafood merchant.

That’s the town market workers. There are few other people I’ll write about later. I wanted to write about the guild masters, shop keeps and market place first.

That’s the tale of meeting the market workers.

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Meeting the shop keeps

I’m writing about the shops keeps in town. Since I already wrote about the guild the group of people I’m talking to next is the shop owners. There are quite a few other shops in town other than ours. Along with the Inn, tavern, general store, and trading post we have a book binder and printer, book shop, upholster, gardener, butcher, baker, seafood shop and the town has its own porter and caravan. That’s not including the market stalls.

I’m only going to write about the shops outside of the market place. I’ll write about the market later. The first people I talked to was Hanna, Holly’s best friend. She has a flower shop in town and runs a stall in the market sometimes. She told me that she’s glad to be back in the Center Kingdom and to be able to open her shop for the town. I know Holly is glad that Hanna lives in our town. Next I went to talk to my sister Angela. She runs a healers clinic outside our shop and she has a small healer office in our shop as well. Since the training started she has been spending most of her time in her shop office. We did set up a realm door from her office to her clinic when we build the dorms for the trainees.

The first group of people I talked to was the Inn workers. The Inn keep is Lumi a yuki-onna soul. She’s sweet and kind. Lumi let a few of the newer people in town stay in the Inn for free until their houses were finished being built. The Inn’s cook is Eira a snow spirit soul, she’s bit like our Yukiko. The Inn’s clerk is Boris a snow elemental soul. Holly and I met them on our trip in the Northern Kingdom. They wanted a new place for their Inn. They came to the town after we contacted them about the plans for the town.

Next I met with the Tavern workers. The owner is Kyo an oni one of the yokai’s from the Eastern Empire. I met him on my journeyman’s trip. It was just Kyo and his waiter Ren a half oni then. When Holly and I visited them on our trip they had picked up a new bartender Brandy an oni soul and a brewer and wine maker Kiku an oni soul. Kyo was looking to open a bigger tavern and wanted to move out of the Empire. When I contacted our contacts he was one of the first to reply.

I met with the diner workers next. The owner is Owen. He only recently finished his master quest and he wanted to open a diner with Trisha the diner’s cook. She finished her master quest around the same time as Owen. The waiter Kate is still working on her master quest. After I visited the diner, I talked to the general store and trading post workers. The owner of the general store is Tory. She runs the store with her son Victor the clerk of the store. The trading post owner is Liam. His daughter Amber is the clerk.

I met with Clover the alraune gardener. She takes care of our greenhouse realm. After that I met with Alvar and Alba. Alvar is our book binder and printer and Alba is the book shop owner. They are both elves. Then I met with the butcher Tora a tiger beast kin and Tany the lamb beast kin baker. Next I met with the caravan owner and driver and the porter. Henry is the owner of the caravan and Dorian is the drive. Henry and Dorian are oxen a bit like Ken. Kira the porter is a horse beast kin. Then I meet with the upholster Pete a goat then our sea food merchant Jenny an otter soul.

That’s the tale of meeting the shop keeps.

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Meeting the guild masters

I will be writing about the people living in the town. Once the shop got back to normal and the training started, I went to meet the people of the town. I talked to them and did small interviews with them. I started with the guild masters, the leaders of the guilds.

The first person I met with was the guild hall master. They run the guild hall and oversee the guilds. They also act as mayor of guild or market towns like ours. Our guild master is an older woman named Margret. She’s nice and kind. She told me she worked as a sub guild master. She would fill in for other guild masters if they were sick, away or other reasons. Interestingly, she has been following my articles for a while. When she read about our plan to start a new town she wanted to join the town and have her own guild to run. Being the mayor of the town was a bonus for her.

There are many other guild masters that run one of the guilds in the hall. It would take a while to meet all of them. So I met with the guild masters I would be working with. I met with the merchant and banker guild master. They are a pair of tanuki sisters like Jin, but they are a few years older than Jin. Yin is the Banker guild master and Vanna is the merchant guild master. They worked for a guild in another town. They were waiting to work at a lord’s town, but that plan fell through. They don’t know what happen to the lord’s town plan. They heard about our town and came here to work.

That’s the tale of meeting the guild masters. I’ll write about the shop keeps next.

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Guild training

The shop started guild training. We got a few journeyman and apprentices staying at the shop. It seems the workers are doing more since the training started. The trainees help to prep new projects and keep the shops stocked. When Sid’s new ranch realm was built, we added a new stock room for wool, fur, hide and skins from the ranch. Mei, Tawny and Ken mostly use those items. We also sell the items for Sid as well. Angela has been getting more work with the apprentices staying at the shop.

Flora has been a big help with the trainees in the realms. She has been guiding them through the realms and helping to find the samples they need. She also helped Albert and the smiths make new locator and summoning necklaces for the trainees to wear in the realms. The necklaces can track the trainees and summon Flora or one of the elementals if they get lost or need help. Kirt also added a new ward to the training hub that won’t let a trainee into the realms if they aren’t wearing one of the necklaces. Tawny also added new shifter cloaks for the trainees to protect against the weather of some of the realms.

The shop has been doing well. The training has been great. I have taught a few of the supplier’s guild classes, but most of the classes are taught by guild teachers. The workers mostly teach the journeyman and a few of the hands on classes for the apprentices. A few of the workers have gone to the school to teach some novice guild classes.

That’s our tale of starting the guild training. I’ll write more about the town later.

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Opening the town

When the company finished building the town, I contacted our contacts and told them they could move into the town. The move didn’t take that long, but setting up the shops did take longer than I thought it would. We also had to set up the two new realms. That was simple to do with the help of the elementals. We supplied the new shops with their materials to work with, that was one of the biggest jobs the shop has done outside of a lord’s town request.

I’m glad the town is finished and officially opened. I sent out a letter to the rest of our contacts and the guild saying the town is open and ready for work and to move into. We have a few empty houses that haven’t been claimed by anyone. I also let the guilds know the shop is ready to start guild training and to add the town to the list of guild towns.

Once the move in was finished and the market and shops were supplied, the shop went back to normal. We started to do more work and take on bigger projects. We did meet the rest of the shop owners and workers in the town. We have a lot of interesting people in the town. With the new Inn, tavern and diner we have new places to eat without having to travel far. With a guild in the town we don’t have to go to the next town to use their guild.

Holly is using the new greenhouse to grow some Desert Kingdom foods. A few of the workers and shops are doing the same. Sid is glad to have his own realm and doesn’t have to take up space in the shop’s realm. His herd and beasts have more room to roam. We also set up a few different environments for his summoning beasts. His realms are smaller than the realms the shop uses.

That’s the tale of our opening our town. I’ll write once the guild training starts.

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Building the market place

Once the shops were finished the company started building the market place. I helped build the market with my elemental powers. I wanted a part of the market stalls to be trees. The tree would be the polls that are holding up the stalls. I got a few seeds from our realm and planted them where the stalls would be. I made the trees grow to full size. The company used the trees to build the rest of the stalls.

The market place is set between our shop and the workers houses. There are a few shops passed the market. Once the market is finished the town would be finished. All that’s left is the furniture. Taylor and the twins can handle that. The town will be opening after they are finished with the rest of the work for the town. The rest of the people that will be living here will move in then.

After the move, I’m going to be opening the shop to the guilds for training. I’ll write more about that later. I’m also going to write more about the new people and shops in the town once I meet the rest of the people moving here. Along with the market work we had our normal shop work to do as well. The shop has been busy with the town and the workers haven’t taken on many big projects. Once the town is finished things will go back to normal.

That’s our tale of building the market. I’ll write once the town is finished.