The Byn - what do you see?

[musashi]

Never played in the Byn. That shit's for newbs 

[CravenMadness]

Gotta' say... I loved the Byn.  I would have stayed Sergeant of the Obsidian Fist for as long as my star character was alive... If.. things hadn't gone the road they did and I had a little falling out...


Loved it all, down to the regimented daily routines for Runners, to the sitting around the Gaj getting drunk and brawling with anyone who happened to have a funny key-word.. To running through the Red Desert being chased by raptors... To digging around in rubble for gemmer components to schlupping out the latrines... Ahh... Sewer Horrors... Memories...


As a sergeant, I took -everyone-... I was an elf though, so what can you expect.  As a sergeant, I never paid Runners for -anything-, no money for Runners until they made Trooper.  Everything they could possibly need is provided for them (which they of course pay off or return once they hit Trooper or leave).  Sergeants paid for all mount/stable fees and even held tickets for excess mounts in case members of the Unit didn't have a mount.

Jobs, I'd take everything from small escorts, someone going from 'Nak to Luir's with a load of obsidian for example... I'd take grebber jobs, I'd take 'collection' jobs (I need ten piles of bones, four rantarri hides, and eight quirri skins for X amount of 'sid.)  I'd take protection jobs for people who wanted to stay out a few days mining.  And if there were no jobs to be done immediately, I'd randomly take my Unit or anyone who was available, and we'd go out and make ourselves seen.  Ride along the North road or something, drift through town in a big noisy group.. Unfortunately in my time, nobody ever contacted us for any sort of strong-arm job or intimidation type work, it was all pretty straight forward stuff.

The trick to making money on the jobs, is to allocate reasonable numbers of mercs.  If it's a one way escort job, a single Trooper should be skilled enough to protect them, so you send a Trooper and a couple Runners.  The one Trooper gets a larger portion of the pay than if there'd been a whole Unit, and the Runners get some exercise and get to see the world a bit, and the Byn gets it's share.  Got a collection job, well designate a Trooper or two to do the collecting and split the pay between the fewer people.  Got to remember, if the Customer wants to be stingy, give them what they pay for.  Sergeants should hardly -ever- go on jobs personally unless it's something like escorting a Wagon for some House, or a big job something like clearing out the old spider nests and gith holes.

[RogueGunslinger]

Never played in the Byn. That shit's for newbs 

Mushashi is a noobie!?

[solera]

Family.  For the dispossessed.