Perform common tasks for gold [2802]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.20.2: Perform common tasks for gold [2802]

      Usage:  USE 2802
      Time to learn: 14 days.
      Time to use: 7 days.

Even powerful magicians sometimes require gold to further their plans. This skill allows the magician to perform trivial or common tasks for the local population of a city or province to earn gold.

Examples of common tasks are curing runny noses, concocting love potions, dowsing for water, or performing conjuring tricks.

The amount earned depends upon the experience level of the magician:

      Description      Amount
      -----------      ------
      apprentice       35 gold
      journeyman       56 gold
      adept            70 gold
      master           84 gold
      grand master     91 gold

Of course, this skill depends upon the peasants having money to spend. Any money paid to the magician comes out of the peasants' accumulated wealth. If they have no gold, the magician will come away empty-handed. The skill ends as soon as the peasants run out of money, e.g., if they only have money for four days of the magician's services, the skill will end after four days.

The services the magician provides are genuinely valuable, and every day the magician is providing paid services to the peasants, 1-5 new peasants will be attracted to the province.

This skill cannot be used in provinces with less than 100 peasants. Using this skill in a city is the same as using it in the province the city is in.

In provinces which contain a temple, the peasants will not associate with a magician, so this skill will fail.