Tangled Tapestries and Woven Wonders

[Fiora Radacke]

Tangled Tapestries and Woven Wonders Where weavers braid the colors of the world into your home! Owned by Fiora Radacke Business Type: Goods and Services All products are of good or fine quality. The tapestries, blankets, throws, and pillows are all very colorful (the majority with a lot of indigo threads) while the rugs are either white, tan, or indigo with other colors available as commissions. There is a selection of imported tapestries and rugs from buying and bartering with merchants that stay right near the shop at the Traveler's Inn. There are repair services offered, commissions, and periodic interior design services. Items Sold: Goods Pre-made Tapestries: Local Small Tapestry, Good: 3 G and 5 SM Small Tapestry, Fine: 5 GM Medium Tapestry, Good: 12 G and 5 SM Medium Tapestry, Fine: 15 GM Large Tapestry, Good: 28 G and 5 SM Large Tapestry, Fine: 32 GM Extra-Large Tapestry, Good: 55 G and 5 SM Extra-Large Tapestry, Fine: 58 GM Oversize Tapestry, Good: 80 GM Oversize Tapestry, Fine: 85 GM Tapestry Rod, Small: 6 SM Tapestry Rod, Medium: 8 SM Tapestry Rod, Large: 10 SM Tapestry Rod, Extra-Large: 12 SM (1 G and 1 SM) Tassels: 4 SM per tassel Tapestries: Imported Small Tapestry, Unusual: 6 GM Medium Tapestry, Unusual: 14 G and 5 SM Large Tapestry, Unusual: 25 GM Small Tapestry, Rare: 8 GM Medium Tapestry, Rare: 18 GM Large Tapestry, Rare: 30 G and 5 SM Small Tapestry, Exotic: 34 GM Medium Tapestry, Exotic: 48 G and 5 SM Large Tapestry, Exotic: 60 GM Pre-Made Woven Blankets: Small Blanket, Good: 12 GM Small Blanket, Fine: 14 GM Large Blanket, Good: 18 GM Large Blanket, Fine: 20 GM Pre-Made Decorative Throws: Small Throw, Good: 7 GM Small Throw, Fine: 8 GM Large Throw, Good: 11 GM Large Throw, Fine: 12 GM Pre-Made Woven Pillows: Small Pillow, Good: 3 GM Small Pillow, Fine: 4 GM Medium Pillow, Good: 6 GM Medium Pillow, Fine: 7 GM Body Pillow, Good: 9 GM Body Pillow, Fine: 10 GM Pillow with Wooden Buttons: 8 GM Pillow with Tassels: 8 GM Pillow with Wooden Buttons and Tassels: 10 GM Pre-Made Rugs: Local Small Rug, Good: 6 G and 5 SM Small Rug, Fine: 8 GM Medium Rug, Good: 9 G and 5 SM Medium Rug, Fine: 11 GM Large Rug, Good: 12 G and 5 SM Large Rug, Fine: 13 GM Rugs: Imported Small Rug, Unusual: 6 GM Medium Rug, Unusual: 10 GM Large Rug, Unusual: 14 GM Small Rug, Rare: 8 GM Medium Rug, Rare: 15 GM Large Rug, Rare: 24 GM Small Rug, Exotic: 30 GM Medium Rug, Exotic: 40 GM Large Rug, Exotic: 55 GM Pre-Made Accessories: Pre-Made Woven Bracelets: 6 SM Pre-Made Woven Necklaces: 1 GM Pre-Made Woven Headbands: 1 G and 5 SM Pre-Made Woven Belts: 2 G and 5 SM Items Sold: Services Repairs: Any woven products that need repair can be brought here. Prices for repairs are based on the severity of the damage to the piece. Minor repairs: 5 SM to 2 GM Major repairs 4 GM to 8 GM Commissions: Any customer can commission a tapestry, throw, blanket, pillow, or rug in their preferred colors, family symbols, famous historical scenes, etc. Please consult with Fiora Radacke for such commissions but know that the above prices will be an estimate. If you would like an Extra-Oversize Tapestry, such as one that is about 12' by 8', please allow up to 30 days for it to be completed and be prepared to pay upwards of 100 GM. Interior Design Services: Fiora offers her interior design skills, both for houses and businesses. Interior Design services include color schemes, layout of furniture, and decoration styling. The general fee is 12 GM per empty room, unless the room is gigantic, not counting decoration and furniture fees. If there is already furniture and some decorations, she will generally charge 8 GM. She will shop for all interior choices and if the Radackes are building a new building, Fiora's decorating services can be sought in addition to the purchase of the building. Shopkeeping and Weaving Slave: Name: Kizou Race: Human DoB: 476 AV PoB: Kenash Title: Weaver Slave, works at Tangled Tapestries and Woven Wonders Skills: Weaving: 45 xp; Spinning: 5 xp Gnosis: N/A Additional Info: Born a slave on the Radacke plantation, Kizou was always very skinny and unhealthy growing up. He got moved around from the fields to the house and back again, but he didn't seem to work well anywhere. Thus, he was rather forgotten about for awhile and he spent a great deal of his time in the weaving room with his mother, learning to make rugs and tapestries. As a result, he is quiet, a little near-sighted, and pays great attention to detail. It is rumored that his father was one of the Dynasty men, but it has never been confirmed. One day, Jahk Radacke came across him and wondering how he had missed the man, took Kizou to the Breaking Grounds where he was beaten nearly to death. Once he recovered from the ordeal, he was sent to the indigo fields where Bice Radacke whipped him endlessly for his slow movements. Finally, it was deemed that he was not really valuable as anything but a weaver, so he was sent to Fiora. The wife of Bice made him her full-time slave at the Tangled Tapestries and Woven Wonders where we works on the tapestries every day when not attending customers. Many who visit the shop are impressed with his work but can sometimes get weary of his morose demeanor. Base Income: Weaver 3 gm/day Skill Bonus: Competent Weaver 1 GM/day Sale's Bonus TBD by ST 1 Slave’s Living Expenses: 1.5 GM/day Total Income: 2.5 GM/day so far Assets: Shop (Simple) 400 sq. ft.: 600 GM 1 Simple Bedroom (Attached at Back): 350 GM Total= 950 GM -25% Used Structure ( 237.5 GM) = 712.5 GM 1 Bed, Poor: 1 GM 1 Dresser, Average: 2 GM 1 Good Cupboard: 2 GM 1 Stool, Average: 7 SM 1 Good Chair: 1 GM 2 Large Looms: 10 GM Unusual, Rare, Exotic Tapestries (to start): 86 GM Unusual, Rare, Exotic Rugs (to start): 55 GM Total = 157 G, 7 SM 1 Light Horse: 75 GM 1 Mule: 8 GM 1 Cart (3 person): 15 GM 1 Cart Harness: 2 GM Total = 100 GM Total (so far) = 970 G, 2 SM Debt: 970 G, 2 SM owed to the Radacke family

[Gillar]

Looking very nice so far. Before I can give approval, I have a few items of note that actually relate to your own questions at the end of your posted plan. You chose weaver for the skill your business is based on which is appropriate if you are looking to weave the various items yourself and/or with the aid of your slave. The potential problem is that with a competent skill in weaving, you are probably not going to be able to craft the "Fine" quality items yourself. With a higher end L2 Weaving and of course with an L3, you could craft such quality items. Otherwise you will probably only be able to achieve "Good" quality at this point. With the imported items, that is all fine as the cost of acquiring such items is already built into the whole business system. However, if you are basing your business off of your own Weaving skill, which it appears that you are, you want to keep a strong focus on the goods that you, yourself create and offer over those you import. Perhaps, at least in your shop location, you could somehow provide emphasis on your own crafted items, going so far as to offer special, unique, one-of-a-kind items that you crafted in-thread; seasonal specials if you will.

[Fiora Radacke]

Thanks for looking over my tapestry shop BP. I wanted the shop to be a mix of what Fiora makes, what her slaves make at her plantation (they take the cotton crop, spin it into thread and then weave rugs and tapestries) and her one slave that will be at the shop full time (with a weaving skill of 30) as well as what she buys and trades with traveling merchants. Her shop's location was chosen deliberately because it's next to the Traveler's Inn so she does bring in a lot of imported goods.

The specials that you suggested would be the commissions. Anyone can commission anything they like and these would be made by Fiora herself or the slaves, depending on size and complexity....does that make sense?

So, the business is not just based off of Fiora's skills, but her slave's skills, and the traveling merchants trades and purchases...I didn't really want one over the other; I wanted an equal mix of imports and locally made products.

As a starting character, Fiora herself cannot go much higher in Weaving than she already has, but she will gain experience quickly as I play her. Thus, I'd like to keep the Fine tapestries, there just won't be that many in stock until her skill goes up and those that are will have been woven by slaves.

[Gillar]

My apologies, I initially gave an approval with the only stipulation being the separate approval of the NPC through Help Desk. However, it just dawned on me that the skill level of the NPC as it is written is too high. A Slave NPC can't have more than 30 points in any one skill so your NPC would not get approved. That said, with your PC and NPC both having Competent levels of Weaving, I could see that by working together they may be able to come up with Fine Quality items. So, that said, I will grant approval for the business but you will have to change the skills of the NPC.