Ghyll:Careers
Dibbed. --John Cowan 22:33, 30 May 2005 (EDT)
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After their marriage, Bavarian Creame's career rapidly progressed. She became a Core Advisor to (then) Mayor Hew Loan and served at that rank in a number of offices. She was perceived as Mayor Loan's 'troubleshooter' and was widely viewed as responsible for preventing the destruction of museums, jobs and even preventing several wars. When she inherited her father's title and became Lady Smallwood, her succession to the post of mayor seemed inevitable as high society's golden goose.
A somewhat shambolic thinker, Dok has been consistently mediocre throughout his entire career.
After 16 years of research in Folktown University, Talliesin completed his doctoral thesis "To say or not, an exploration of etiquette with particular focus of whether you should let a woman know her underwear is showing or that her clothes are practically transparent when the light is right". Two years later he sued the University and they reluctantly handed him his doctorate. It was however clear that he would not become a professor and his academic career was destroyed.
Darus Ixa is young, not terribly ambitious scholar who plans not to die in the near future. A onetime member of the Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy, he quit his group because they made him do things resembling actual work. He chose a career in the scholarly pursuits because it's the one job most unlike real work he could think of. He specializes in Occultology, Technology, Demonology and the Unbelievable/Paranormal. And random bits of History.
The beasts are extremely intelligent, and respond very unfavorably to anyone carrying anything that might be construed as a weapon. They make friends very hesitantly, and usually will allow only a single individual to ride on their back. Thus, the courier-drovers are typically paired with a particular pachyderm for their entire career, and become very attached to them. Usually, they are paired with their beast at birth, and the two grow up together.
Doc Rockett began his career as a writer of elementary and advanced textbooks for students, and made a limited success of this profession; however, the form was not really suited to his talents, as it limited his wide-ranging imagination too greatly.
Harv Gretborn's earliest inventions were relatively straightforward, like the Fountain Spray and the Blue Ice, though the military-mindedness that was so prominent a feature of his later career was already apparent in the first of them, the disgusting but effective Snotgun.
t was after having discovered the joys of hard work that Johnny Lightning decided to dedicate himself to the easy life. He and Jimmy Cashews found themselves in the same chain gang in the Mines and immediately started planning their escape. This was the beginning of a life-long working relationship for these two compatriots of crime.
M'Kev D'wal enjoyed fame and popularity during his early career, but is now in semi-retirement.
Earlier in his career as a journalist, Fausto Sorensen was assigned by his paper to investigate the assassination of Iain Underholm Smallwood.
Baron James Horkmanifester: businessman.
Rater Goldfish: Freege Horn artist.
The most famous rejah in recent Ghyll history is undoubtedly Odgar Iv (the capital V commonly seen is a folly without warrant), who held the post for an unprecedented 27 years. Most rejahs are out of office within ten years as a result of a recall election or cirrhosis of the liver, whichever comes first. Odgar's longevity was probably a result of his second career as a musician and composer, which required him to stay sober in order to put pen to paper or finger to flute.
The famous developmental psychoalchemist, Dr. B. J. Spook, spent quite a bit of his early professional career researching the effects that toilet training variation and mishap had on later mental development.
Whostley has only published a single composition in his professional career. The tune, entitled Onomatopoeia is the only known composition for a single-horn, solo Freege Horn. His composition, however simple, is ideally suited to those learning the craft of becoming a keys-man and so is very popular with students of the instrument.
Olaff Devork was a drunken hypermegolomaniac womanizing hipster freakazoid lowlife scumpot druggie skankball crapfaced smellbag of cessily corruptionated assstain scandalousitynesses in his later financial career, as was the fashion of the time.
Theophenes is a very brave, courageous, and curious Ghyllian. His Hive-Lord asked him the Question, "What is the greatest job of Ghyll?" He wandered around for about seven days, observing such things. He then publically,and unabashedly proclaimed that all jobs were equally important, as they were all interdependent upon one another. The pay is only relevant to difficulty and market forces, and had nothing to do with the actual importance of the duties.
It was at this point that the transcriber reported Windsor Creame becoming more shifty, nervous, and red-in-the-face, "unbecoming of a job [agony uncle] where understanding and civility were crucial."
Bysted Timperton is thought to have been born in -70 EC, in a spot somewhere on the Ghyllian Map. Next to nothing is known about his childhood, but we can easily infer that he was an exceptional student. He graduated at the top of the class body at Bute University, further cementing his status at the top of the scholarly world. As an early adult, he married Menia Pyre. They quickly had a son, the brilliant but rebellious Tim Timperton. Close to the date of Tim's birth, the Council for Quezlarian Research offered Bysted a job. He quickly moved up the ranks to his current position, which he has held for a considerable time.
Since it is certain that these DermPachyges drovers were completely aware of the nature of their partners, it is unlikely that there was ever any real thought, at least on the part of the drovers, that guards were needed. Thus, it is likely that these guards were merely travelling companions gradually elevated to employees, and given a job to justify their employment.
The Boxing Day referee presides over the bartering session, though most of the time he delegates the job to the first person he sees and goes about wandering the Session looking for things he wants. He is also in charge of carting all the unclaimed items to Charity, and it isn't unheard of for the referee to donate anything he likes to the charity of himself. It is generally viewed that this is the referee's fee for not being able to participate in the festivities, and thus particuraly canny members of the community are known to hold the office of referee for years at a time. A referee's name is often mentioned as a candidate for any political offices that open up after a good Boxing Day.
