<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=294097.msg14430560#msg14430560">Quote from: Giantmutantcrab on 03-10-2018, 03:34:38</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Right-o!<br/><br/>So R'Van is a gladiator-slave. He might know the other lovely gladiator-slave because they are basically work colleagues?<br/><br/>And perhaps the talented Zebra bard Zkulu has heard of some Rhino savage who plays the drums in the gladiator pens in the evenings? Hell I would be happy to be part of Zkulu's band if he has one. The Travelling Wilder-beasts.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I can't really see Zkulu having a band of his own.<br/><br/>I'm kind of visualizing use of public (officially owned by the King) slaves as being something like it was in the Ottoman empire, where slaves of the Sultan resided in diverse barracks depending on their jobs (you didn't put a dancer in with a bunch of manual laborers, for instance), and had managers who made sure they were put to use doing whatever was reasonable.<br/><br/>Oddly, the closest thing I can think of is checking out a book from the library. If it's in use, you might be able to put a hold on it. Popular books are likely to have a waiting list...Maybe even a long waiting list. If you're somebody important (a Professor at a uni library) you might have the ability to jump the line. You're responsible for returning books on time and you're penalized heavily if you damage/lose them (royal property, natch).<br/><br/>Zkulu, being more than 1st level, is a bit of a high-end item. Not famous as such, but has caught the attention of nobles and courtiers and might be requested by name for dances, being predominantly a musician and dancer, and at times a more refined companion (again, thinking Geisha). He's not a mere bedwarmer (but obviously that is what some people expect - and get - from him), he's got a lot of talents beyond the bedroom for making an evening pleasant. No doubt he practices his music and dance constantly with other slaves in his quarters, and someone who wants musicians may reserve a group of them, but he's not specifically 'paired' with any sort of band.<br/><br/>In the Ottoman empire, such slaves were rented from the Sultan, and the rent varied by capability and task (an illiterate worker to scrape barnacles from the hull of a merchant's ship would be quite cheap, a high-end 'courtesan' who spoke multiple languages and could be expected to interpret and entertain with song and dance might be quite expensive). I'm not sure if that's how Memphia works, but one has to imagine the King has some reason for maintaining ownership of 'public' slaves, and fattening the treasury is always a good idea for a King...<br/><br/>Zkulu speaks and is literate in four languages, plays multiple instruments, sings and dances, and is decidedly in the 'young and pretty' phase of his life. If slaves like him are rented, he certainly doesn't command TOP dollar, but he's still a long way above a laborer's rates. (I actually went with Courtier for his background to represent a slave who has been around and knows well the ways of the nobility and court).<br/><br/>Certainly he might be hired as a reward to entertain a successful gladiator (this works for Neylus as well), or for that matter pretty much anyone else. Additionally, he might've met any of the non-humans during his sneaking-exploring "me-time" escapades, during which he's just as much of a pleasant companion looking for ways to make the people around him happy. And as mentioned before, that doesn't necessarily mean horizontal entertainment (although it certainly could be).<br/><br/>And I'm actually really close to being finished with his sheet, finally! Almost! Just need to sort out a few little final confusions due to my lack of 5e knowledge.<br/><br/>Am I right in thinking that we don't get Feats<em>at all</em>unless we trade an attribute-point-upgrade for them? Which mostly seems to happen around level 4?