Un: TerribleTinkerer [Text]

[badnewsandshitlist]

I had not originally intended to make any formal announcement regarding my workshop. However, after seeing Sophie’s recent notice advertising her own establishment, I was reminded that certain opportunities are best stated plainly rather than left to rumor. With that in mind, I am opening a limited number of workshop roles and apprenticeship positions at my facility, Contingency Plan, located at Guardiandocks.

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APPRENTICES, SPECIALIZED ASSISTANTS, AND COMMISSION LIAISON SOUGHT - CONTINGENCY PLAN

Location: Guardiandocks
Proprietor: Percival Fredrickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III

About the Workshop
Contingency Plan is a private commission workshop dedicated to precision mechanisms, fine instrumentation, custom-designed devices, restoration of delicate constructs, and experimental craftsmanship requiring exceptional technical accuracy. Work conducted here is specialized, often singular, and demands patience, discipline, and refined hands.

Open Roles

- Precision Craft Assistants
- Fine Mechanism Assemblers
- Instrument and Device Restoration Assistants
- Drafting and Measurement Assistants
- Client Liaison and Commission Coordinator
- Apprentices (limited positions)

Apprenticeship Opportunities
Candidates who possess curiosity, patience, and a genuine desire to learn advanced craftsmanship are encouraged to apply, even if formal training is limited. Applicants without prior workshop experience should present a small drafted design, schematic, or blueprint of their own creation demonstrating attention to measurement, structural logic, or mechanical imagination. Apprentices will receive direct instruction in specialized fabrication methods, tool mastery, and commission-based workshop practices.

Client Liaison Position
Applicants with strong interpersonal skills may apply to serve as Commission Coordinator, responsible for greeting clients, clarifying commission requests, maintaining orderly records, and managing consultations that require tact and composure.

Application Instructions
Interested candidates should present themselves in person during consultation hours with:

1. A brief description of any prior experience (formal or informal)
2. Examples of prior handwork or a drafted schematic/blueprint (required for applicants without experience)
3. A short written note describing what they hope to learn or contribute

Applications are accepted only at Contingency Plan during posted consultation hours.
Those seeking routine labor should apply elsewhere. Precision, curiosity, and discipline are valued here.

Comments

[badnewsandshitlist]

An exchange of resources suits me. While your own workshop settles, you are welcome to make use of the stations here, and I would be interested in seeing what we produce when a project has both our hands in it.

My only request is that anything prone to explosive failure be tested somewhere other than my building. I have grown rather fond of the walls.

[sweetmilk]

For transparency, I do work odd hours, but I am willing to adjust them temporarily for project work when necessary.

And, should it alleviate your concerns, my last explosive failure was 24 years ago.

[badnewsandshitlist]

Odd hours do not concern me. I keep much the same schedule, and the workshop is rarely idle.

I will have a workshop access key cut for you so you may come and go as needed. It will grant entry to the fabrication level and shared stations. The more sensitive storage remains separate, as I am sure you understand.

Maintain your impressive record of non-explosive operation, and I expect the arrangement will serve us both quite well.

[sweetmilk]

That is acceptable. I have no interest or reason to infringe on what you consider sensitive. It would be hypocritical of me to demand otherwise.

I would hate to ruin my record, so you have nothing to worry about.

[badnewsandshitlist]

Let us try not to tempt fate quite so enthusiastically, Viktor. Statements like that almost make one curious to see whether the record can survive deliberate testing.






Almost.

I will have the key prepared for you shortly.

[sweetmilk]

I do not believe in fate, so there is nothing to tempt as far as I am concerned, but if you are superstitious, I will avoid voicing such things.

Deliberate stress testing, however, I do believe in and have no issues with.

Tell me when it is ready and I will pick it up.

[badnewsandshitlist]

I am not superstitious. I am simply familiar with how often confidence precedes an inconvenience. I once had a friend who declared herself a god shortly before discovering what a thousand-foot impact actually entails. Since then, I have preferred deliberate stress testing to accidental discovery. It tends to be less messy, cheaper on the coin purse, and far less likely to require a resurrection spell.

With that philosophy in mind, I will send word when the key is ready.

[sweetmilk]

That does not sound like confidence but arrogance. Regardless, I let my work speak for itself. I do not need to seek praise nor am I interested in fueling an ego. Neither are valuable uses for my time.

If you need anything from me in the meantime, you know how to reach me.