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So the gang has some time to cool their heels and I'm looking for a few minor jobs/events they could do before the main plot finds them again.So feel free to suggest jobs/hijinks that could happen in the biggest city in The Tower.Some things to note:Everyone living there is at least level 20, even the bathhouse ladies and the homeless living on the street.There are either no children or very few children as babies born into miasma are stillborn or die quickly, meaning a child will be an exception to the rule, and generally the team are the youngest people there, because most young adults spend a couple years on floor 2 mastering their powers, acquiring relics and Party members before risking floor 3-4.Alicia is Rich as Hell, and her father owns a large portion of the city, in cooperation with Uncle Akul.Exotic goods and services are outlandishly expensive compared to outside the tower, but the availability is also higher, so yes, you might find a guy on the street selling rare Sacrifices/Relics out of his coat, but also living on the street.

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JhanicManifold

- Underground PVP arena for our boy with the goat mask - Obligatory Auction-House Arc for meeting lords and stealing from them

Jacob

An old lady has a pet/summon that runs away constantly and needs to be brought back. It is super cunning and almost impossible to catch via conventional methods as it has a phase sort of power. It also enjoys being chased and always goes home at the end of the day. The old lady still pays anyone taking the job half the fee as it is the cheapest way for her to pay for pet sitting/letting her pet have fun/exercise. If that makes sense - also no one has ever brought it back before

Domy

The team have to kill ten rats in the basement, which turn out to be an experiment on trying to make farm animals bigger. Edit, the rats could also be criminals as a pun

austin kutz

The gang can accept a robbery mission, not knowing the target was one of Alicia's distant relatives. That could potentially be fun. I would say a generic sewer cleaning mission but that doesn't work with only kaiju spawning on this floor. If you want to lean more towards the "good" side of things, retrieving stolen goods from a bandit organization is also good, potentially kicking off another round of unintentional political declarations. You could also work in Alicia's distant relative being shocked that she's with the party that retrieved her stolen knickknacks. For a floor like this, I'm certain that the best and most expensive items are city protecting weapons that can help deal with kaiju. After all, who cares about sacrifices if you can't live or keep your city

Thomas Issa

Auction house, there is definitely an auction house

Domy

Alicia does a flower delivery quest but doesn’t understand the concept of economics.

austin kutz

Underground boxing sounds good, but no one's going to believe he's actually William Oh considering that he's hardly more than a skinny orphan with one hand. Auction house arcs are best when the MC counter kills the bandits and takes their stuff, including the money they used to try to bid on the item the MC bought. But they'll be in a VIP stand by default if they go with Alicia. Actually, I bet she refuses to go because there'll be too many people

Hollowlce

A job where they have to chase down sentient art pieces from some lvl 20+ Master artist.

MorningDawn

He's gotta use that hand in gambling somehow

Gaunt

Locust job: a major figure has been assassinated. They need to get in and clear his house before the competition

Gavin Olsen

A friend was a roller coaster engineer at Coney Island if they have theme parks

Chris

I mean in a place where there is a lot of relic/item throughput it seems like the perfect place to use sourdough to buy low cost stuff to feed into higher. Especially if he can find a source of stuff he can use that other people basically consider junk. Of course once he starts outputting economically there's gonna be some people who take notice and try and figure out how he's doing it and take advantage. Also depending on how markets work in town potentially use loths insects to monitor/transport things to try and buy and sell common stuff to make money on the margins

Michael

Test subject for potions/alchemical goods There are bound to be people who learn to make potions in a big city like this. Test subjects could be in high demand

Lee

No kids mean no William oh birthday party impersonation for some rich kid ? Awwww

God

William lets himself get kidnapped, then loots the kidnappers.

David Weller

We need street performers. People that can do actual magic. Maybe even a Class called Street Performer who's whole goal in life is to make it to the city of Akul and work there.

Mariposa

Alicia works at a brothel as a bodyguard for a high end courtesan that is being targeted stalked. She doesn't realize everyone's naked 😅

Kingtie

Ditch digger (outdoor poop man)

In-Game_Name

A quick tournament could be fun Or a job where they have to catch a thief who keep turning parts of the city into candy

Finn

Someone stole a bathhouse

Jacob

Quest to deliver 5 apples, reward is 4 apples

DM

I’m thinking a scam involving lazy mercs and a fake kaiju that keeps “not appearing yet”.

DM

Arson for hire that the group manages to get paid for, and ends up worse for the employer than he could imagine.

rwn

William would make the absolute worst test subject, it'd be hilarious

Opportunity Drive

Loth gives a guest lecture at a place of learning, gains many admirers who attempt to entice her away from party. No real danger but June explains and causes will to freak out bc losing Loth is suddenly very scary. Develop the frienship!

Imagine Baggins

What about dealing with an infestation of some kind of insect that snuck its way down or up from a different floor? Maybe they're actually escaped from someone's collection but the original owner is trying to keep it on the hush-hush, and Loth gets a buddy in the entomology world in exchange for keeping mum about how those insects got there.

Jake Malony

Underground goat racing a la Tokyo drift

Uroš

Find a lost pet to return to a nice old granny that then gives them a nice home-cooked meal as a reward.

Cyrus McEnnis

First up - weren't there some insects on the 4th floor that Loth wanted? Did she ever get them? Second - insect racing & betting thereof. Cockroaches or similar. I'm thinking less "Loth enters and wins big" and more "Organised crime boss kidnaps someone other than Will this time".

E

High stakes card game where will bets his other hand

Edmango

Some sort of job that deals with cleaning shit but has a fancy name like "sublevel excrement explorer" which Loth has to be like "shit, you clean shit" just to have a funny two sentence banter there

Edmango

Ooooh I love this idea of a street performer/busker etc kind of deal that wants to be there to chronicle Kaiju fighting tales, maybe they are regaling people with a William oh defeated 3 Kaiju tale or smth

Pseudo

10 ivory to go skydiving! Courtesy of will.

Exrotes

Will joins the local postal service and parkours across the city to deliver letters and packages while rogues try to steal valuable ones.

Ryan Berends

Poison *Cough* I mean potion tester for an alchemist.

TheLost

Well taming is a thing so how about a race with tamed creatures with sacrifices and items as prizes

A

Bodyguard job protecting a minor noble from assassins for a week until their higher level relative comes back to help deal with it. Gives the party a chance to make a high level connection.

A

Woman was literally “ghosted” by an ex-lover that can turn invisible. Find her ex and retrieve a precious item he stole from her before he left and give him a beating.

Scott

H e could have avoided it but was like"what the hell, why not".

Chris C

Dealing with a slave situation. Moral, ethical, and monetary conundrum.

A

Loth uses her trap-building and engineering expertise to construct a virtually Kaiju-proof suspension bridge with the party’s help. Bridges are so regularly destroyed by Kaiju on the floor that the party gets a bonus for every week the bridge goes without being destroyed.

Scott

He gets a job offer to play the part of William Oh in a play as the original actor is sick or absent. (Got kidnapped instead of the real William)

A

Weed a garden full of venomous and carnivorous plants.

Lee

Can William set up a mmet n greet booth for Alicia with the nobles in the city. A charity party with proceeds going to orphans namely William Ohs orphanage

Lee

Like why work for peanuts like a pleb. William oh can start some sort MLM to earn boatloads of money. Or maybe win a pie eating contest

Lee

William oh looks down on small tamed pets. It's Kaiju races with lots of betting

Paratus

Lloth could run a series of seminars on trap making and charge admission.

gabriel hutcherson

private eye he has an infiltrator class might as well use it

RageBone

Garbage disposal aka garbage relics noone wants and that aren't worth the space. Thousands of them.

alex ayala

Tourist trap camera guy; conjures a pane of glass with your image snapshot inside

Apotheosis

Sewer run! The cities sewage is all fed to a giant slime kaiju locked underneath it, but every now and then teams have to go through and either trim it back down to size or clear out its young

RepossessedSoul

Package delivery that is actually a game of tag between high level rogues who don't want the package and try to avoid getting it.

RepossessedSoul

Other idea is something like that Malcolm in the middle episode where the mall has a competition for how long you can hold onto a car and last one holding it gets it,but in this instance it's some sort of device that will either help the relic farm or will make their travels across floors easier.

RepossessedSoul

Final idea would be something dealing with Alicia's many suitors on the floor and why she doesn't have good experiences interacting with people. Could be some slap stick humor of a bunch of rich lordlings all chasing after her but also something a bit more serious mixed in showing that her personal interaction problems stem from being in a powerful family that has played games within games since she was born but she never got started understanding them. Which can tie into why she has an ability to see through things because she is tired of not being able to see people's true intentions

Fleisch

A flurry of woman chase after William all across the city. He must now hide his identity.

Mousehowl

Invest in the local bakery, need to influence the bakers

Andrew Tobin

I was going to say sewer. The thing is, Alicia’s dad may be grateful to Will though, for her return. But Will coming from his background would probably aim pretty low for jobs. Loth would kill it though. An eradicating insect army.

Andrew Tobin

Turns out the noble is triplets and they keep switching out so they can go off and crime with plausible deniability, and only Alicia catches on because she can see something in their internals.

Andrew Tobin

The group gets invited to a party for Alicia’s family. Alicia: is socially awkward Reggie: spends too much time in proximity to Alicia for her dads liking. Mason: tries to network, but people aren’t interested June: tries to wrangle people but all she wants to really do is enjoy the party Travis: Is the life of the party but some noble takes offense and Travis end up taunting him Loth: is the person everyone wants to meet, but they keep assuming Will is Loth, because a kobold being Loth the Luminary?! Will: just really wants baked goods, but is kept being confused for Loth and being asked where William Oh is. Loth keeps secretly creating traps to prevent the people Travis is pissing off from actually grabbing him. June gives up on the lot of them and finds some other party “leaders” to commiserate with her. Mason ends up impressing some bigwig who immediately decides they’re nemiseses and it colossally backfires on him. And Will gets some baked goods, while making himself repugnant to some idealic baker girl.

Andrew Tobin

There’s a bunch of William Ohs causing a ruckus in town, building debts and bad reputations and Will needs the team to track them down and clear it up.

Andrew Tobin

It’d be interesting if an assassin or someone paid to have themselves tracked down and beaten up to practice their skills. Sheparding the bus to the key point down. A hunt for a sacrifice on someone’s behalf, through the markets and private sellers. Rather than a single one-on-one like someone suggested, a short team vs team training match.

Andrew Tobin

Someone wants a piece of the latest Kaiju that Akul killed, but he’s grabbed it all up already, so they need to convince him to part with some of it. He sends them on various errands to make up for it. But it turns out the person who wanted it was a set up, so that Uncle Akul could mess with them for the day. I’m thinking left-handed hammers, horizontal striped paint, 10-ft of shoreline, type gags. Maybe something sacrifice or relic joke related. If someone can think of something that can’t be sacrificed. Warhammer of sharpness, bow of the emu, etc.

Andrew Tobin

Fruit picking at a carnivorous orchard. Harvesting honey from Zombees. Fresh victims for a training academy’s students. Day labourers - with Will’s movement skills, he’d be superb at cleaning or repairing tall buildings. Loth could have some bugs that could build. Mason could lava some materials. Reggie could be a safety person, who took the hits for anyone falling

David Burchfield

Hunt down rare insects for Loth. (Some ideas: Future Kaiju that are still managable in size so Loth can include that in her hybrids as a recessive trait to be brought out if needed later. Something with excessively strong or difficult to see webbing (or just some other rare trait she wants to work into her weavers). Something that can secrete a really hard fast drying resin (for trap making).) William Oh joins an underground fight club and finds he likes it way too much. Heist Job to get a rare sacrifice for the party (or for a client who will offer them something they really want). I do like slice of life as a day laborer but I really have trouble imagining the group doing it, could be fun as part of a cover for another job.

Andrew Tobin

No baby kaiju larva for Loth?

Fleisch

Get This Man on a Date: A man would like to meet a beautiful woman and take her on a date. Cough Cough - Alicia - Cough Cough. This man ends up being Tony Avita. They meet up and its super awkward on Alicia's side of things. The man is super smooth but kinda superficial. He ends up saying something profound though that shakes Alicia to her core.

Fleisch

Capture a star: Someone wants a star and Will is the man for the job. He shoots up farther than any man has ever dreamt of with his magical hand and some little pebbles. He plucks a beautiful, small, and fragile star from the sky for the young maiden(Or old). Here he is given wise words which lead him to find the ultimate sacrifice for one of his abilities.

Fleisch

We need the BOOTS: Someone wants a bunch of swamp stompers for a good price. His team is going back down in order to get an upgrade for one of his members and will be down there for a while.

Jonathan Kibler

Messengers. Acting troupe or entertaining (loths insects help). Detectives Political /gang dispute subcontracting. Training / sparring partners for another team. Help an orphanage. Gambling. Edit: Dirty jobs Arbitrage Carnival games / fleecing people using skills.

ParadoxFox

I think Will is too rational and survival focused to get addicted to a fight club. If he’s drugged maybe, but that’s a different scenario and much darker.

Tate Browder

Kaiju parasite that becomes a strong ass bug for loth

Andrew Tobin

Unfortunately there’s no kids (the original post). Loth having a flea circus sounds great tho!

Robert Nolan

While the girls of the party are on their own job, boys of the party are hired aquire, meaning steal, a small box from the office of Liala Spanner. Miss Spanner just happens to run an exclusive womens only club. They have to somehow get in, maybe Travis dresses up as a woman, maybe Reggie and Will try to get hired as "talent", the possibilities are endless. Then you also get to come up with a girls night out story to develop the relationship between Loth, June and Alicia.