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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:41:39 GMT

Probist and the Carters

Back at the end of the last Pass when Interval was drawing near, holders in various locales planned to take advantage of easy Thread-free transportation and set up business as carters. Their goal was to haul goods from point A to point B for a fee, giving buyers and sellers more control than if they just sold to traders who would sell to someone else. As the Interval kicked into gear, things were going great, business was expanding in a rush to fill the niche before someone else did ... and then the freak Threadfalls hit. Some businesses folded and others are struggling.

One of those still making it is run by Probist, based out of Trebek Hold on the Crom River between Crom Hold and Keogh. His ~~truckers~~ carters are known for carrying bulky basic goods with a few relative luxuries thrown in: grain, wheels, tools, cloth, Cromcoal, ale, a herdbeast or two, that sort of thing ... sometimes spices, maybe, or a wineflask of uncertain vintage, but they definitely wouldn't be thought the "right sort" for Benden red or Bitran-blooded runners. Probist and his people aren't standards of moral purity, and greasing the right hands to make their cargoes arrive easily is just part of everyday business, but then they aren't renegades either. They have the reputation of getting the job done.

Probist is getting older now, and his young heir Peoghan is the bookish sort with too many pipe dreams and not nearly enough street smarts. The boy's nearly twenty now, though, and has to prove himself by handling at least one delivery run to TBA. To make it as easy as he could without being completely obvious about it, Probist has planned a milk run for Peoghan and given him an able manager, Cekrest, as well as several other workers including young thugs-in-training Sajak and Navarro in case muscle is required. Probist has privately instructed Cekrest that this run will be on the straight and narrow with no side trips, no smuggling, nothing....

Last edited September 28th, 2007.

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