Shared WIP Tag - Part 3

If you were dropped into the storyworld, what would your life be like? Things cannot change (i.e. your job description, clothing choices, etc) except for obvious world differences. Like you can’t imagine yourself to be a warrior princess...if you are a farmer IRL, you are a farmer in your storyworld. Answers must be as close to real life as possible.

What sort of job would you have in your storyworld?

So I would be the bookkeeper for the harbor master in Genady port, and also help out with the little tavern that's built onto his office. I'd spend time doing the books and keeping track on who is coming in and out of the harbor, and then helping out at the tavern when things got busy there. I'd get to spend my days talking to new folks arriving and leaving on ships and chatting with sailors and locals over mugs of ale and bowls of sea dragon chowder.

What sort of house would you live in?

I'd live outside of the city, in a house overlooking the ocean. My family has a boat and feels like there's always one of us out on the water. The house has faced many a wild storm, and the gray stone has now become grey and green like the rocks on the edges of the shore. The horses in the pasture are shaggy to protect against the salty spray, and run as fast as the wind.

What sort of community would you live in?

The port of Genady is a busy community, what with ships coming and going and the royal family living uptown in their fancy castle and all. If it isn't a new ship arriving with a load of goods from Riyar, it's some fancy noble from Belhallen coming to visit to Kashinda's. The people make most of their livings off trading, buying, and selling - especially when the yearly Scaera Dumeda comes along and visitors from all over can be found walking the streets.

Would you be valued in the community or not? (Not just job specific.)

As I have managed to secure a job working for the harbormaster, I would say that yes, I would be valued. Keeping taxes and payments straight and maybe giving visitors directions to get to places of interest.

Wait...not job specific?

Um, well, I'd say maybe. I'd be helpful to people and be willing to help rebuild a blown-over barn or watch kids or whatever else my neighbors need done. I'd certainly get to know some of the locals and try to keep a good relationship up with them.

What sort of religious practices would you be doing? 

We haven't really delved into religious practices in our storyworld, tbh, so not sure what to say here.

What would you be doing in your free time? 

Um....what free time???

Okay. JK. Mostly.

I'd probably be out on the water with my siblings, fishing or playing in the water or maybe riding the horses along the beach. Or just hanging out at work talking to people. Helping with chores on the farm. All that fun stuff.

What would you be eating? 

Lots of seafood.

If you could change your current position in the storyworld and do something else (like join the heroes) would you?

NO. NO. NO. 

I am not going out sailing and fighting pirates and sea dragons and assassins. I may be kind of brace, but I don't think I'm that ready to stare down the mouth of a cannon and scream shoot me I dare you.

That being said, if I somehow accidently ended up on board the Red Wind, I wouldn't have too much of a panic attack about it. Like, I don't really seek out adventure, but if it comes, I'm chill about it.

Would you have the opportunity to run into your characters in every-day life?

Cool thing, yes. They'd come in to pay their docking fees and any taxes they felt they needed to pay (does bringing in pirates need a sales tax??) and then they'd go to the tavern for a drink or two and I'd listen to their tales of where they've been and where they're going and then I'd tell them where the best shops are for anything they would need.

Would you be friends with your characters or would they have no idea you “exist” in their storyworld?

Since they sail into Genady fairly often, I'd probably to get to know a few if not all of them. Maybe not all by name, but by sight at least as tavern regulars. They'd probably know me as "the girl who works for the harbor master and the tavern" and we'd wave and trade a story or two, but that would possibly be as far as our relationships go.

Hard to believe NaNo is reaching the end...but let me tell ya, this story is SO AMAZINGGGGG