Barber's

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Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:26 am


Business Name: Barber's

Description of the Business: "If you didn't want it cheap, you'd go to an apothecary."

East Wormwood Street is too narrow for carriages. Between the tall buildings that frame it and the spider web of clothes lines that cross it, little direct light is seen within. Only bicycles and bodies keep the little lane filled, like blood in a vein of private, humble living. 13 E Wormwood Street is an Ironmongery, lucky enough to be flanked on both sides by alleys, due mostly to the smoke it spits out. On either side, addresses 11 and 15 house a baker and a wool weaver. Just across the street is a tight row of more human shops and offices--a dentist, a money lender on top of a cobbler, and a tenement keeper--each crowned by haphazard homes and balconies. This street is a place of business, of diligence and drudgery. It is for living small and running errands.

There is a plain but prominent sign jutting out above the Ironmongery, though it is sometimes covered by hanging laundry. Barber's is scrawled in dark script beside the image of a straight razor and a tonic bottle. A wide window on the second floor reveals little of what lies within, its glass distorted by age and neglect. A short stair path up the side of the building leads a person to the door of the physician known as Mr. Barber, who is more or less true to his name. The door opens to the tune of a small bell, revealing a tidy space that is split long down the middle by a large countertop. Behind it stands a densely-packed assortment of bottles and boxes; atop it sit a till, a pair of thick books, and a long cotton table runner; before it lies a narrow waiting space and a single barber chair, which faces the window.

The counter breaks on either side, leading to one of two back doors that bookend the shelves of merchandise. The right door, beside the shaving station, leads to a private consultation room with a curtained bed and a pair of chairs. It is even more meticulously cleaned than the front room, though its small window is crusted with soot from the chimney the outside. The door on the left opens to an office furnished plainly but professionally, including a bookcase along one wall and a wrought iron spiral staircase in the opposite corner. The window behind the desk chair or a little cleaner than its counterpart; it also sports a small window box growing shade-friendly herbs.

The staircase leads to the physician’s private living quarters. The bookcase leads to a windowless How, a resistance refuge encased on all sides by the buildings stacked around it.

Location: 23 East Wormwood, The Stacks, Brunnhold, Anaxas

Services Offered:
Posted
Haircuts, Shaves, and Stylings
Hand Grooming, including Manicures and Massages
Wound-Dressing, Joint-Setting, and Teeth Pulling
Wellness Tonics, including Sedatives, Laxatives, and other Herbal Remedies
Bloodletting, by Leech or Scalpel
By Request
Amputations, Stitchings, and Bullet Recovery
Cannabis and Opium Derivatives
Contraceptives and Miscarriage Inducements
Criminal Asylum
Home Visits for the Bedridden

Services Cost: Poor [Posted] to Average [By Request]

NPCs:
Offie “Beau” Tolman is a hunter’s daughter from Muffay who can sometimes be found sitting in the barber’s station when there are no customers. Adept with a pistol and crossbow, she serves the How officially as a marksman and unofficially as a smuggler of small items through the furs and leathers she brings through the city gates.
Manuel “Tap” Pruitt is the ironmonger that owns the property beneath Barber’s. While he is a good enough neighbor, he is also the How’s Lookout both physically and through an anonymous connection among the Seventen. He blames himself for the raid that resulted in the capture of four freedom fighters but, knowing the truth, Cutter keeps him on.

Income Tier: Average

Advancement Plan: Mr. Barber does not have many plans for advancement, preferring a low profile to a more comfortable life. If his shop were to gain a tier, it would only be set back again by some necessary investment.


 ! Message from: Muse
Approved. Nice work. I look forward to seeing the Brunnhold How develop out of your business.
Last edited by Cutter on Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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