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Mia cleans Besnitt’s Bank
Thursday, February 24th, 2011i was walking through Besnitt’s city square when i came across The Master of Many Talents, Master Yuroki. i must confess i could not help admiring how handsome His features were, i was drawn like a magnet to his carefully groomed dreadlocks and would have happily sat dreaming over His looks while appearing to be attentively waiting for permission to continue on my way, when i was surprised out of my reverie by His command for me to follow Him.
i was curious, for i knew His tasks were always slightly out of the ordinary. He called me into Besnitt’s Banking office, a place i had never entered before. i casually looked around; one of it’s bare stone walls was decorated with a classic painting while another had a gorean calendar clock quietly ticking away; today was the 5th day of the second hand of the twelfth month of the year 1017. The Master, ever businesslike, ignored my rather obvious curves and ordered me to open a heavy metal door, one whose significance i quickly realised once i had entered and heard it close very firmly behind me.
i was told by Master Yuroki, in a cold, distant voice through the door, “i want you to clean the strong room and the bank, we had to build a lot in the last days and had a lot of customers, everything is dirty”
i had barely heard His words, for my eyes were drawn to a glowing crate at the far end of the room, its contents unmistakably filled with gold. i stood in awe, knowing that as a slave who owned nothing and had no use for coin, i was in a place where many a Free longed to be.
i could see builder’s dust everywhere, and my small nose tickled by it, longed to sneeze. Instead, i picked up a duster and started from the ceiling downwards, not missing the tops of the windows, shifting clouds of dust downward, watching them fall in spirals as i worked my way around the strong room and office.
When finished, i brushed the dust off my slender shoulders, knowing only a bath in the river would remove the dirt which had settled on the tip of my breast, left exposed by my worn, white camisk. i sighed, knowing as a city slavel i had little hope of ever wearing anything but threadbare camisks made of old rep cloth.
i swiftly looked for a broom and started to sweep, humming a familiar song in my head. Before i even realised it, i was dancing around the long handle, my feet skipping over and around its base, while i teased the handle, circling around it before finally giving in and, with my back to its pole, slid up and down it.
i heard it clatter to the ground as i stood up. i realised
no sweeping would get done if i continued to fool around, So, somewhat more soberly, i picked up the broom and continued sweeping until the floor was dust free.
i walked to the well and filled a bucket with water and collected a clean rep cloth from the kennels, then returned to the bank. On my hands and knees, my rounded buttocks heralding my movements around the bank, i scrubbed and cleaned the floor until it sparkled.
i looked around, genuinely pleased with the gleam of polish that was evident throughout the bank. i said a silent prayer to the Priest Kings, thankful that i had been chosen for such a task and that the many brave…and extremely handsome… warriors of Besnitt who protected our Homestone, would remain safe in their battles while doing so.
Finally, i locked the door of the strong room, and firmly closed the door on my way out of the bank, taking my cleaning tools with me. i was hopeful that the Master of Many Talents would be pleased with me.
Trade Report No. 3
Sunday, February 20th, 2011The following is a report on banking and trade activity with the cities of Torcadino, Turia and Port Kar.
I have traded medicinal goods with Torcadino and Turia. I got copper from Torcadino and I got gold and silver from Turia. I learned that Turia has its own bank and currency and they are willing to become part of the large currency compatibility system we are developing. And Torcadino is interested in our banking system. The visit Port Kar is to see if we can befriend their banking system there too.
I aquired the medical products from a source I learned when I was an information broker. A slaver called CHI and a veteran warrior called Vini helped me ‘retrieve’ the items from a group of pirates. These items for trade were stocked for some time in a camp in the southern margin of the Lower Fayeen River, near Kasra. These products were split into two caravans. I refer to them as the northern caravan and the southern caravan. The latest using a camp in the outerskirts of Kasra as homebase; The former has no homebase. It is a dismemberment of the original caravan.
This northern caravan is heading to Torcadino from Kasra now with:
40 Kanda leaves barrels
10 marigold barrels
20 ka-la-na wine barrels
I have traded with Torcadino many products for 100 copper ingots. I think this is copper for a good many coin mint batches.
The following amount of 20 talu barrels carried on kaiila back have already been paid for the copper:
4 matchweed barrels
1 hemp barrel
1 capture scent barrel
2 kanda root barrels
20 cayenne pepper barrels
I had to pay for the caravan camping outside the city:
1 purple verminium perfume oil for hand washing barrel
I also gifted one barrel of green paga as a present for the city head slaver; he was my contact there and I was there when he got himself a free companionship.
I left Torcadino by tarn and met my caravan and checked if all was right. It was. Headed to Turia – long legs in this part of the trip. Not able to produce many pasangs a day since I couldnt change tarn every few hundred pasangs as i do near our city. Reached Turia and traded the following:
6 black pepper barrels
6 cayenne pepper barrels
8 green paga barrels
4 green herbal powder
8 kanda leaves barrels
8 kanda root barrels
for (believe me):
60 silver ingots
and 5 gold ingots!
The entire operation is costly. We are talking about caravans, many tarns to be used in almost non-stop travels, messages to Besnitt and the supplier. I will use some of the ingots to keep up with the costs.
I will ask for escort of our own swords next time. I don´t trust hired sword for such a mission… What I did this time was the following. I had the barrels refilled with unimportant material to look like I was trading my products for Turia´s production – not precious metals. This way I wouldn´t be robbed by my own escort… And to keep secrecy, I killed all the slaves I used to refill the barrels.
I went to Port Kar just to find out you had already reached them. It happens. So I went to Besnitt and worked my banking duties there for a day and left.
I am looking for coins minted by other cities to insert them in our city since currency is needed there. It seems a moron (who is well known to be a spoiled kid who enjoys to think of himself as a loose cannon) decided he would pay a silver ingot for damaging a slave and now the city´s economy needs 50 silver tarks to balast that ridicoulous non-gorean action.
By the way, how did one like that ever come across a silver ingot?
Perseus
second banker
Job Offer: Merchant Caste
Saturday, February 19th, 2011I need a merchant who makes a written agreement with the merchant caste of Sais that they will accept our coins there, ask Rarius Yuroki for more details. ONE SILVER!
Foreign Currency Exchange Rates, update
Saturday, February 19th, 2011The Bank of Besnitt accepts and converts
Coins of Port of Victoria
Coins of Treve (Tarn system)
Coins of Oasis of Klima
Coins of Vonda (made by Jarvis Quan)
Coins of Thentis
Coins of Port Kar
Coins of Sais (only copper)
Fluctuations in exchange rates are possible.
Foreign Currency
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011The Bank of Besnitt convertet a lot coin coins from Vonda, Treve and Port Kar yesterday. If you need to go there you can get those coins from the Bank of Besnitt, also coins of Victoria.
Rarius Yuroki
Besnitt Coinage Pronounced Success
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Great news, citizens.
The spread of the currency system seems unstoppable. Yet again this paper is pleased to announce that yet another city has joined wih us in an agreementto exchange coinage. We welcome Port Kar into the family of cities whose coinage is acceptable to the others.
With the spread comes a wider choice of interraction.Indeed, sources close to the ubar have commented favourably on the introduction of a workable coinage system. All citizens are urged to participate, so as to enrich the life of all the others.
House of Yuroki Bank Branch in Klima
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The House of Yuroki Bank – which is working under licence from of the city of Besnitt – opened a new branch in the Oasis of Klima. Drakkon and Coban, merchants of Klima, have been hired as bankers. Yuroki’s younger brother Raschid (picture) runs the bank.
Picture below: Bank owner Yuroki talking with his brother Raschid
Trade Report from Turia
Saturday, February 5th, 2011So far I have a trade agreement with Turia. We will get gold and silver from them. I am also looking for their tem wood too. I will be able to sell it on the way and pay part of the caravan costs.
I got the initial arrangements fror copper supply from Torcadilo. I will attend the FC of the slave master there. He who was one of my contacts in my information network I used to keep before becoming a bank and a trader.
Right now, my caravan has:
hemp
black pepper
cayenne pepper
purple verminium perfume oil for hand washing
ka-la-na root
ka-la-na wine
kanda leaves
kanda root
green paga
green herbal powder
matchweed
capture scent
marigold
I fly by tarn. The caravan goes slowly on kaiila back. Two 20 talu barrels on each beast. I might split the caravan if I need to go two different places. I still keep some of my trade goods in the vicinities of Kasra – where I still have a villa by the Lower Fayeen margin.
Hope my messenger reaches you safely, so word of my whereabouts in known.
Perseus