The note was neatly written, and pinned up somewhere where it could be seen but without obscuring any of the other notices.
Skills & ServicesDear Patrons of the establishment of The Golden Tether,
I, Quintia, slave of the House of Hastings, am seeking rentals in order to supplement the income of my Owner by offering my skills and services to the patrons of the island. These are aforementioned below, copied from my papers. I am to be found either in the Main Hall within the Harem pen, or in any of the other main locales - look for the human woman with the golden lace choker.
The cost per rental is 25 gold. Some of the services may incur an increased cost due to if they put her in any danger, or if any additional supplies are needed outside of what she already has.
Ornatrix
As per the culture that she has taken on as her own, an Ornatrix is a slave specifically trained in the ways of styling the hair of their owners, including the elaborate pinned-up and curled styles of the ladies and in maintaining a Masters' look, such as plucking out or colouring grey hairs. She has the skill and knowledge to make wigs, be it in natural or dyed colours using herbs such as indigo, woad and henna.
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Make-Up Artist & Crafter
Using naturally-sourced powders and ingredients, she can produce make-up in a broad range from eye-shadows to lipstick, blusher to dark inks for use in tattooing and for beauty marks. The ingredients can include red ochre, kohl, henna, beeswax, resin, crushed flowers and more. In addition to crafting it, she can also apply it. While not vastly experience in applying henna for aesthetic and bridal purposes, she is willing to learn and practise.
Handmaiden
A ladies servant, a slave-in-waiting. She can attend to a Mistress as both a companion and a body-slave, tending to her beautification needs through the removal of body hair, application of make-up, hairstyling and massage skills. She can and will assist a Mistress in bathing and dressing, even being so bold as to offer attire advice if it is asked. She takes great pride in polishing someone up to look the best that they are able, and in the past has grown quite close to women that she has served in this way although never to the point of it being sexual.
Translation & Writing Services
Given the languages that she has under her belt, it is only natural that she is able to offer translation and dictation services. She specialises in what some might consider to be dead languages. She can also dictate letters as they are spoken aloud, and read aloud any letters that she is requested to deliver; she is a superb secret-keeper, although how much duress she can withstand if questioned is entirely open to debate and untested.
Weaving
Cotton, linen and wool and presumably more. She can work on both hand looms and larger looms with weights, as well as a myriad of other contraptions designed to make a woman's traditional work easier. She is a deft hand at braiding and weaving, by hand and by implement, and has a good eye for colour combinations when it comes to threads and patterns. She can also design, pattern and sew garments, although naturally she prefers to do so when the style is one that she is accustomed to.
Healing
While she possesses no healing skills in the form of magic, she does have quite the knowledge of herbal healing ranging from treating wounds and reducing fevers, to soothing a teething child, abortion-inducing herbs and natural contraceptives that produce little to no side effects. She knows plants that can both poison and heal in equal measure, although naturally she truly only openly offers her knowledge of the latter! In this vein, she is quite adept at gardening and can maintain a herbal quarter if the raw ground is offered to her; she can also forage for herbs for both medicinal purposes and for use in cooking. She can treat toothache, fix clogged ears, set bones in a rudimentary manner, stitch up wounds, treat burns and knows how to remove cataracts - the latter more in theory than in practise, but she possesses a set of tools that would allow her to do the operation, and has a knowledge of what herbs would be required to remove any pain. She also knows how to put a patient into a death-like coma state for a period of three days before bringing them out of it; often used to allow the body to heal all the better from a grievous injury.
Body-Slave
The uses of a body-slave are many, but best associated with the famous bathing circuits and high standards of personal hygiene prized by the culture that enslaved her. This can include the act itself of bathing a customer with soaps and oils, the use of a strigil and seeing them through the circuit of rooms depending on the complexity of the bathing suite that is available. She can also remove body hair for both men and women - she is swift, and so the pain is blessedly lessened that it might be for one of less skill! She can also give massages, to either relax or invigorate, and to lessen any knots in the body. It also is in the most literal sense, as her body belongs to that of her owner for their intimate use.
Dancer
Roman music, like that of Hellenic origin, often comes in two distinct forms. One, is the percussion-based which often has an easier beat to follow resulting in dances such as the former while the second is far slower but more graceful, designed to be artful, relaxing but no less aesthetically pleasing on the eyes. Castanets were popular with dancers to additionally accentuate their movements and steps. Quintia personally prefers the more beat-based dancing if only for the speed and surge of energy that she finds it gives, that delight in being alive more easily expressed in such a form.
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Household Slave
She can, through means of observation and practise put into use, effectively manage a household to a high standard. She has before now taken on the role of 'head' slave in the temporary absence of an owner, and could be even called something close to shrewd when in such a role. She can readily go about the myriad of tasks required as well; cleaning out the hearth, fetching water for the cook, cleaning and any polishing of ornaments, tending to any offspring or pets and whatever other duties are required to ensure that the Master and/or Mistress of the house does not have to put in significant effort.
Companionship
Quiet yet not to the point of silence, and spirited without breaking the appealing demeanour of being submissive. While not educated in the sense of pouring over books, she has picked up quite an amount of knowledge through listening and immersing herself within what was offered by those that owned her before. She has a decent grasp of mathematics, a commendable awareness of societal intricacies and an interest in the cultures of far-flung places that she has never personally seen. She makes for a good shoulder to cry on, and would protect any secrets with her life if need be.
