How to use a Job/Contract Board?

Stories/Quests

The Most important part of the Contract.
Where are you going & Why?
What is your Goal?

Save/Rescue/Free Someone
- A certain person is maintained captive
- You must help this person escape her cell
- The Sponsor will generally wait for her at the exit or in a nearby hidden location
- Can easily be combined with Protect/Escort

Protect/Escort
- Guide an individual to a known or unknown location
- This person must survive
- Extra Escort can be provided by the Sponsor
- Can easily be combined with Save/Rescue/Free

Escape
- You have been imprisoned
- You must survive & find a way out of your cell
- Can be combined with Save/Rescue/Free

Kill/Assassinate
- Receive a Target Profile
- Find the Target
- Eliminate the Target
- This Quest can be qualified as Assassination if the premeditation time is sufficient

Hinder/Thwart
- Impeach someone to reach a certain outcome
- By force, wit or surprise
- Brute Force will often be key
- For best results the Target must be left with pure Fear
- Frustration & Anger would lead to retaliation and waste efforts
- In some cases the Person should survive
- Can easily be combined with Kill/Assassinate
- Cannot be combined with Negotiate
- Cannot be combined with Prevent

Prevent/Trap
- Impeach an Entity to reach a certain outcome
- By Constrain
- Brute/Physical Force will not work
- The Entity you’re facing is often stronger than you
- The Key is to alter the Entity’s Environment to Trap her
- The Menace is perceived
- Capturing a relative of the Entity is the most effective way
- Cannot be combined with Hinder/Thwart

Collect/Exhume
- Retrieve a Lost or Hidden object
- Preliminary information on the Object’s location can be provided by the Sponsor
- The Object must be brought back
- In most cases, the Object must still be usable
- Cannot be combined with Hide/Destroy proofs

Investigate/Find
- Retrieve a Lost or Hidden Object/Person
- Preliminary information on the Object’s location can be provided by the Sponsor
- The Object/Person needs not to be brought back
- Only Information on the Location must be reported to the Sponsor
- Can easily be combined with Protect/Escort
- Can easily be combined with Save/Rescue/Free
- Cannot be combined with Hide/Destroy proofs

Hide/Destroy proofs
- Retrieve a Lost or Hidden object
- Preliminary information on the Object’s location can be provided by the Sponsor
- The Object must be not be found
- The Object can be a person
- In most cases, the Object must still be usable
- Can easily be combined with Kill/Assassinate
- Can easily be combined with Prevent/Trap
- Cannot be combined with Collect/Exhume

Negotiate
- Help someone to reach a certain outcome
- By Free Will, the outcome must be consensual
- Modifying the original Setting is possible
- Acquiring new Intelligence is necessary
- Can be combined with Prevent/Trap, under conditions

You can display Stories/Quests into Known Locations.
It’s a way to present an unknown aspect of the environment/setting.
You could also introduce a new character which is not directly bounded to this environment.

Nobles will offer larger rewards & may propose more difficult contracts.
Nobles may also threaten the Character’s team.
Laypeople will offer more modest physical rewards, but the task may not be less difficult.
Laypeople will need to attract the Character’s team sympathy.
Professionals will offer rewards & quests related to their profession.
Quests/Stories proposed by Professionals may be the most interesting ones as they allow you to develop specifically a part of the Story.

Organizations will offer the largest & more diverse rewards.
They can more easily accommodate to Contractors.
- Legal organizations can help the Character’s team to defend themselves against enemies
- Criminal organizations can help the Character’s team to get rid of enemies
- Both may use force, only in a different way
- Remember, Legal doesn’t Good, nor Illegal Bad
They will often provide Supply/Material for the quest execution.
They may provide Escorts, which will serve as observers.
They may offer a position & rank in the organization as reward.

The reward may be enacting for or against the Person.
The privilege to Save or Kill the Person may be perceived as a reward by the Character’s team.

Your Characters could also ask a Favor from the Sponsor.
The favor can be refused and a change of side could occur if Another Party was willing to help the Character’s team.

Your Characters could be awarded a Status &/or a Title.
Though it exposes them to new Dangers.
And it also grants them New Responsibilities.
Be more mindful with these quests/stories for they engage your Characters for a longer period & require a denser continuity.

Catharsis
Some quests, Unusual quests can be given to offer the Characters to make Choices.
Doing the Terrible Thing?
Doing the Right Thing?

Difficulty is another form of Reward.
Wherever the Characters trample over an imposing Enemy or they win a Competition, difficulty is the factor.

An Evolving World
Consequences produce Enticement.
Your Characters will have to Organize their trips & Prioritize.
The Most important/enjoyable Quests 1st.
Some Quest may not be doable because the constrain is too high for the Characters actual status.