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| {{NeedsContent|comment=Missing Jobs, amount per category unknown.}} | | {{NeedsContent|comment=Missing Jobs, amount per category unknown.}} |
| {{adventuretop|name=The Odd Jobs Board|image=|num=985}} | | {{adventuretop|name=The Odd Jobs Board|image=|num=985}} |
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| You look at the Odd Jobs Board to see what weird tasks people are currently hiring for. | | You look at the Odd Jobs Board to see what weird tasks people are currently hiring for. |
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| ==Small Jobs== | | ==Slight Jobs== |
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| {{OddJob|job=Chip Stacker|desc=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.|meat=300|adv=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Chip Stacker|desc=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.|meat=300|adv=3}}<br /> |
| | You sort the chips and stack the chips and sort the chips and stack the chips. It requires a little dexterity, a little muscle, and a touch of brains to make sure you stack the right amount of each denomination of chip. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Fountain Cleaner|desc=The Council of Loathingneeds someone to fish out all the little bits of meat people keep throwing in the town fountain for some reason. You can keep what you find.|meat=350|adv=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Fountain Cleaner|desc=The Council of Loathingneeds someone to fish out all the little bits of meat people keep throwing in the town fountain for some reason. You can keep what you find.|meat=350|adv=3}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Manor Painter|desc=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).|meat=300|adv=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Manor Painter|desc=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).|meat=300|adv=3}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Museum Cleaner|desc=The Museum docents need someone to help dust the various memorials and plaques, and to repair damage caused by adventurers trying to carve their names on leaderboards after the fact.|meat=300|adv=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Museum Cleaner|desc=The Museum docents need someone to help dust the various memorials and plaques, and to repair damage caused by adventurers trying to carve their names on leaderboards after the fact.|meat=300|adv=3}}<br />You spend a few hours in the museum with a featherduster and a can of Bondo. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Stock-Taker|desc=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.|meat=200|adv=3|item=chewing gum on a string|itemqty=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Stock-Taker|desc=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.|meat=200|adv=3|item=chewing gum on a string|itemqty=3}} |
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| ==Muscle Jobs== | | ==Staunch Jobs== |
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| {{OddJob|job=Apple Harvester|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Apple Harvester|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Hercules Wannabe|desc=Susie the Arena Mistress needs an Adventurer with a strong back and a stronger stomach to clean out the stables at the Cake-Shaped Arena. Bring your own hand sanitizer.|meat=900|adv=10|item=Pine-Fresh air freshener||itemqty=1}} | | {{OddJob|job=Hercules Wannabe|desc=Susie the Arena Mistress needs an Adventurer with a strong back and a stronger stomach to clean out the stables at the Cake-Shaped Arena. Bring your own hand sanitizer.|meat=900|adv=10|item=Pine-Fresh air freshener||itemqty=1}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Hod Carrier|desc=The Pretentious Artist has come up in the world a bit, and is adding a layer of mud to his dirt-walled hovel. He needs someone to kneel before a hod(a flat board with a carrying handle, piled high with mud), lift the hod into the air, and hold it while an artisan daubs mud onto the hovel.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Hod Carrier|desc=The Pretentious Artist has come up in the world a bit, and is adding a layer of mud to his dirt-walled hovel. He needs someone to kneel before a hod(a flat board with a carrying handle, piled high with mud), lift the hod into the air, and hold it while an artisan daubs mud onto the hovel.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />Sweating and straining, you lift the hod and hold it until it's emptied, then slop more mud on it and hoist it again. Children of a lesser hod would've given up halfway through. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Janitor's Aide|desc=Olaf at the Brotherhood of the Smackdown needs someone to spot him while he organizes and polishes the Brotherhood's barbell collection.|meat=900|adv=10|item=strongness elixir|itemqty=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Janitor's Aide|desc=Olaf at the Brotherhood of the Smackdown needs someone to spot him while he organizes and polishes the Brotherhood's barbell collection.|meat=900|adv=10|item=strongness elixir|itemqty=3}} |
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| ==Mysticality Jobs== | | ==Sagacious Jobs== |
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| {{OddJob|job=Crossword Editor|desc=Mysticality Mynthly needs a copy-editor to make sure none of the ancient, forbidden words in this month's crossword will cause dimensional rifts to alternate realities full of betentacled elder gods. |meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Crossword Editor|desc=''Mysticality Mynthly'' needs a copy-editor to make sure none of the ancient, forbidden words in this month's crossword will cause dimensional rifts to alternate realities full of betentacled elder gods. |meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />You check each crossword clue, rolling around the black speech in your head until you feel like you could summon an eldritch horror to lay waste to the entire Kingdom. I mean, you're not going to, but you feel like you could. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Genie Bottler|desc=Wizard Novelties & Boffo Laffs, Inc., just received a new shipment of genies from Distant Lands. Unfortunately, due to a translation error, the genies were shipped unbottled. Instead of waiting around to be released, they're threatening to rend the very fabric of reality. Bottling genies isn't technically challenging, but it is mentally exhausting.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Genie Bottler|desc=Wizard Novelties & Boffo Laffs, Inc., just received a new shipment of genies from Distant Lands. Unfortunately, due to a translation error, the genies were shipped unbottled. Instead of waiting around to be released, they're threatening to rend the very fabric of reality. Bottling genies isn't technically challenging, but it is mentally exhausting.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />You recite the proper incantations to put each genie into a bottle, then perform a series of hexes on each individual bottle to keep the genie imprisoned until the bottle's rubbed the right way. It's pretty mind-expanding work. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Library Organizer|desc=The Librarian who runs the library across the street from the Sleazy Back Alley is looking for someone to organize and reshelve a few stacks of returned books.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Library Organizer|desc=The Librarian who runs the library across the street from the Sleazy Back Alley is looking for someone to organize and reshelve a few stacks of returned books.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />It turned out "a few" stacks of returned books meant nearly the library's entire collection, and it's not like you have the Dewey Decimal System memorized. Fortunately, the judicious application of magic makes the task go by quicker (or more specifically, compresses a week of time spent inside the library into a few hours outside it). |
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| {{OddJob|job=Love-Potion Brewer|desc=The Love Potion Brewers Union #9 is on strike, and Wizard Novelties & Boffo Laffs, Inc. is calling in scabs to brew a batch of their new love potion. It says something about the wizarding world that a beverage with the power to negate someone's free will is considered a "novelty" or a "boffo laff."|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Love-Potion Brewer|desc=The Love Potion Brewers Union #9 is on strike, and Wizard Novelties & Boffo Laffs, Inc. is calling in scabs to brew a batch of their new love potion. It says something about the wizarding world that a beverage with the power to negate someone's free will is considered a "novelty" or a "boffo laff."|meat=1000|adv=10}} |
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| ==Moxious Jobs== | | ==Suave Jobs== |
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| {{OddJob|job=Artist's Model|desc=The Pretentious Artist wants to do some nude paintings, and needs a model who won't object to being looked at by a naked man.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Artist's Model|desc=The Pretentious Artist wants to do some nude paintings, and needs a model who won't object to being looked at by a naked man.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />You spend some time in the Pretentious Artist's hovel, standing very still with your eyes averted and steadfastly keeping a straight face. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Ballroom Blitzer|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Ballroom Blitzer|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Barrel Arranger|desc=The mysterious… organization? Cult? Whatever, that owns the Barrel Full of Barrels needs someone to sweep up all the splinters and metal hoops, and line up some fresh barrels to replace the broken ones.|meat=1000|item=fine wine|itemqty=1}} | | {{OddJob|job=Barrel Arranger|desc=The mysterious… organization? Cult? Whatever, that owns the Barrel Full of Barrels needs someone to sweep up all the splinters and metal hoops, and line up some fresh barrels to replace the broken ones.|meat=1000|item=fine wine|itemqty=1}}<br />The mysterious… organization? Cult? Whatever, that owns the Barrel Full of Barrels needs someone to sweep up all the splinters and metal hoops, and line up some fresh barrels to replace the broken ones. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Card Shuffler|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Card Shuffler|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Cobweb Hanger|desc=Some genius at the Loathing Historical Preservation Society left the window open in the foyer of Spookyraven Manor, and all the cobwebs blew away. The Society seeks someone with an eye for interior decorating to artfully arrange imported cobwebs.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Cobweb Hanger|desc=Some genius at the Loathing Historical Preservation Society left the window open in the foyer of Spookyraven Manor, and all the cobwebs blew away. The Society seeks someone with an eye for interior decorating to artfully arrange imported cobwebs.|meat=1000|adv=10}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Death-Quip Writer|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Death-Quip Writer|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />Mr. Bond provides you with a bunch of death scenarios, and you write a cool quip for each of them. You're particularly proud of, "I guess he should have shuffled away before the cut," for someone stabbed to death with a deck of cards. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Eyebrow Archer|desc=The Council of Loathing's Complaint Department seeks a qualified candidate to sit behind the Complaints desk silently, motionless, and with a sardonically-arched eyebrow. They figure it will cut down substantially on the number of complaints.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Eyebrow Archer|desc=The Council of Loathing's Complaint Department seeks a qualified candidate to sit behind the Complaints desk silently, motionless, and with a sardonically-arched eyebrow. They figure it will cut down substantially on the number of complaints.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />You sit and arch your eyebrow with an air of cool superiority. A few brave souls approach the complaints desk, but are unable to endure your withering contempt. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Pocket Pickee|desc=The Department of Shadowy Arts and Crafts needs someone to stand around while trainees steal their wallet over and over.|meat=900|item=moxie weed|itemqty=3|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Pocket Pickee|desc=The Department of Shadowy Arts and Crafts needs someone to stand around while trainees steal their wallet over and over.|meat=900|item=moxie weed|itemqty=3|adv=10}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Sleight-of-Foot Magician|desc=The Loathing Association of Soccer or Possibly Football (LASPF) seeks an entertainer for their halftime show. The desired applicant will be moxious enough to perform card tricks and close-up illusions without using his or her hands.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Sleight-of-Foot Magician|desc=The Loathing Association of Soccer or Possibly Football (LASPF) seeks an entertainer for their halftime show. The desired applicant will be moxious enough to perform card tricks and close-up illusions without using his or her hands.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />You manage to suavely guess cards, juggle scarves, and pilfer wallets using only your dexterous toes. You feel pretty moxious when it's all done. |
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| {{OddJob|job=Sunglasses Model|desc=Handsome Hank's Modeling School is looking for a cool Adventurer to demonstrate to its students the proper way to wear sunglasses. Lunch is included.|meat=800|adv=10|item=martini|itemqty=3}} | | {{OddJob|job=Sunglasses Model|desc=Handsome Hank's Modeling School is looking for a cool Adventurer to demonstrate to its students the proper way to wear sunglasses. Lunch is included.|meat=800|adv=10|item=martini|itemqty=3}} |
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| {{OddJob|job=Twister|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}} | | {{OddJob|job=Twister|desc=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.|meat=1000|adv=10}}<br />You do the Twist, complete with the little Batusi hand-movements, somehow managing to look cool doing it. The club's owners thank you, pay you, and then wipe your memory of the dance club's location. |
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
| *The job board shows one of each type of job at a time. | | *In addition to the specified rewards, each job yields substats based on its category. |
| | *The Board shows one job of each category at once; slight, staunch, sagacious and suave. Slight jobs yield few substats in equal measure, whereas the others yield more, weighted towards their respective stats. |
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| Occurs at [[Seaside Town]]. | | Occurs at [[Seaside Town]]. |
