The Odd Jobs Board

Choice adventure number: 985

The Odd Jobs Board

You look at the Odd Jobs Board to see what weird tasks people are currently hiring for.

Small Jobs

Wanted: Chip Stacker The Head Croupier at the Thatch-Roof Casino needs someone to sort the poker chips by color and weight, then stack them neatly. It's an obsessive-compulsive's dream job. Wages: 300 Do This Job (3 Adventures)

Wanted: Graffiti Transplanter The Sleazy Back Alley is covered in gross and explicit graffiti. The Council is outraged, and wants someone to erase all of that filth--and painstakingly transcribe it onto the Graffiti Wall, where it belongs. Wages: 300 Do This Job (3 Adventures)

Wanted: Manor Painter The exterior of Spookyraven Manor needs a fresh coat of whitewash, to cover the horrors that lurk within (and the dry rot that lurks without). Wages: 300 Do This Job (3 Adventures)

Wanted: Stock-Taker The General Store's General needs someone to take inventory for him, so he knows how much of which goods he will need to reorder. Upon reflection, this is more of a regular job than an odd job. Wages: 200 chewing gum on a string (3) Do This Job (3 Adventures)

Wanted: Window Breaker The Council of Loathing wants able-bodied Adventurers to break a bunch of the windows on the Wrong Side of the Tracks in Seaside Town, so that all of the windows will match, making the derelict buildings more aesthetically pleasing. The Broken Windows Theory suggests that this will reduce crime. Wages: 300 Do This Job (3 Adventures)

Muscle Jobs

Wanted: Apple Harvester Molly Applecore, the owner of Loathing's only apple orchard, needs a hired hand to help harvest and crate her daily apple crop. Once all the apples have been loaded into crates, she'll ship all of them to Distant Lands, because everyone knows there's no market for apples in the Kingdom. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Forge Bellower The Meatsmith wants to hire someone to work the bellows at his forge. Not, he wants to make clear, to stand around shouting loudly, which is apparently a miscommunication that has happened before. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Stockroom Assistant Warren, the Armorer and Leggerer, needs someone to help him rearrange his stockroom, for obvious reasons. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Mysticality Jobs

Wanted: Lunacy-Tolerant Scribe The Captain of the Gourd needs someone to help him transcribe his insane ramblings from a teetering stack of old composition books into a teetering stack of fresh composition books. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Meal Deliverer A local restaurant has begin a program of delivering meals to the elderly and shut-ins, and needs someone to make deliveries. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Wall Shaver One of the broom closets in Spookyraven Manor has become a hellish, obscenely biological nightmare, its wallpapered walls transfigured into human flesh. Even worse, that flesh is covered in gross hair! The ideal applicant will be able to shave the walls without going mad from the tortured whispering leaking under the doorway. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Moxious Jobs

Wanted: Ballroom Blitzer The musicians in the Spookyraven Manor ballroom have gotten bored of playing the same waltzes for several hundred years, and would like someone to come teach them some new tunes. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Card Shuffler The Thatched-Roof Casino, in an attempt to make games play more quickly, has decided to hire card shufflers to keep a stock of pre-shuffled decks of cards on-hand. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Death-Quip Writer Secret agent Ionic Bond (who always tells people his real, full name, because that's what a good secret agent does) seeks a moxious writer to write pun-based, badass quips he can make after offing a villain. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Salad Spinner A local health-food restaurant wants to increase awareness of their location by hiring someone to stand outside the restaurant juggling vegetables. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Twister The secret dance club in the Sleazy Back Alley is suffering from an empty dance floor. The club's mysterious owner seeks a moxious applicant to do the Twist on their dance floor, encouraging other patrons to join in. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Wanted: Tracks Cleaner Kids keep putting bits of meat on the Tracks. The Council doesn't understand why anyone would do that, but needs someone to go clean up the mess. Wages: 1000 Do This Job (10 Adventures)

Notes

• The job board shows one of each type of job at a time.

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Occurs at Seaside Town.