crystal / ota

[hornswoggle]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: John Silver
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: Want Ad
WHEN: Nowish, definitely post-Minrathous.
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: but i don't wanna be a pirate

Do we have anyone here skilled at handling accounts and in need of employment?

Comments

[rathercommon]

[ an opportunity to snoop you say ]

What would the pay be like?

action, to silver;

[katabasis]

[Because let's be real, Flint is in the same room as the esteemed Mister Silver to provide his sparkling opinion on any likely candidates--]

Absolutely not.

laughs

[hornswoggle]

What's wrong with this one? She's barely said anything?

[ though she expects to get paid apparently which is already a strike ]

[hornswoggle]

[ nonexistant ]

Assuming we find someone capable, they'd be paid the same as the rest of our crew.

[rathercommon]

So - in shares, right? That's how it works?

[ she's done her pirate research. ]

crystal;

[sclavus]

You'd have to fight.

[ that conversation we had about quartermasters? yeah, even accountants have to fight. everyone fights. ] If they take you on the ship. Stay in Kirkwall, maybe not, but most crew accountants are crew.

[ means: on the ship. and on the ship means fighting. ]

[rathercommon]

[ Excuse. When Kitty speaks to Vane, her voice is a bit less sweet and polite than it is toward Silver. (A sign that she likes him - she's not looking to impress.) ]

Well, that is good to know. But what gives you the impression I can't fight?

[thorndergod]

...Is legitimate pay more difficult to keep track of than stolen goods?

[hornswoggle]

[ why, they never. ]

I'd imagine every ship must have someone tending to the manifest regardless of the type of goods they carry and their worth. [ don't ask john how it's done on actual pirate ships he sure wouldn't know ] If we can't account for our stores, we can't pay our men what they're due.

[thorndergod]

I'd imagine, yes. I would also imagine you had one previously due to all of your... types of carried goods.

[There's implication, and then there's laying insinuation on like a Southern woman pours simple syrup into a pecan pie. Thor is in the latter category.]

Either something has happened to them, or they find honest accounting to be more difficult than what you formerly dealt in.

[swordproof]

What kinds of accounts?

[hornswoggle]

Primarily keeping track of our stores and what we have on hand, at the moment. I'd keep track of it all myself, but it's the sort of position best left to an expert.

private ;

[sclavus]

How low are we running?

[ because they have to be getting low. the ventori ship wasn't a merchant ship, not much in the way of cargo, so not much to make back in what they could sell to pay for repairs. like flint had said when they first arrived here - a crew to pay and no hunting is going to cost them men eventually. ]

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[hornswoggle]

We aren't in the best shape.

[ a very generous description. ]

I'm hoping with someone managing our funds will save us some money while we decide how we're going to proceed here.

[ john's good, but even he'd be laughed out of the room if he told the men they had to get jobs. ]

[summerfae]

So...how much, uh, manual labor would that involve? None, right? You don't need to be doing doing crunches to crunch numbers.

[hornswoggle]

It would be a weight off our shoulders to know that you'd be able to handle yourself in a fight.

[ a beat ]

Can you handle yourself in a fight?

[ also why is this the first question what's your maths skills like!! ]

[exequy]

If we volunteer other people, would it mean you might take them far out to sea for long periods of time?

[foundmyselfagain]

I already have a job.

[hornswoggle]

That kind of inquiry makes it seem less like you have a viable candidate and more like you're looking for us to hold onto an annoyance for you.

[ just saying. ]

[staysail]

Oh, c'mon now. D'you really want to be hiring from the Inquisition?

[hornswoggle]

Can you provide a better option?

private ;

[rowancrowned]

[ helpfully: ] Gwenaëlle Baudin.

[hornswoggle]

I've had mixed luck so far with well-intended suggestions.

[ assuming this is not trolling. ]

She made the journey with us from Minrathous, I believe. My captain is acquainted with her.

[ avoiding the archon in the room ]

[limier]

I trust this work will not interfere with one's duties to the Inquisition.

[ ugh don't poach their accountants!! ]

[hornswoggle]

[ there are only so many accountants :c let him have one!! ]

I wouldn't dream of encroaching on anyone's responsibilities to the Inquisition. This would be strictly extracurricular, of course.

[ maybe ]

It's even a service to the Inquisition, in a way. We're better able to be of service if we have a fair idea of our holdings, and we do so want to be of service.