Postmaster
Approved Character
- Messages
- 39
- Race
- Rakshasa
Cat Post
Postmaster
Enterprise Tier:
Small
Purpose:
Cat Post is a delivery service offered by the Rakshasa Postmaster as a way to keep his stable of transfigured cats busy. The cats carry messages and small parcels throughout the city of Rømskog, as well as to surrounding towns and villages. For an additional fee, messages may be sent downriver- for those to whom money is no object, packages of nearly any description can be delivered to anyone in the whole of Ælheim.
Location:
The enterprise consists of a small office and a warehouse located in Rømskog's mercantile port district.
Description:
The Cat Post is unassumingly named in true Rakshasa fashion, and is self-descriptive. Letters and small parcels may be taken to one of the counters inside the office, where it will be collected by the cats inside and can be quickly delivered to any place in Rømskog, with deliveries happening thrice daily. Those who receive the delivery may, of course, choose to write back.
The shop itself is visible mostly as a (fairly compact) building located just one street off the docks, marked with a carved shingle depicting a cat holding an envelope in its mouth. Customers who enter are generally greeted by a small, well-lit office with two desks, each of which is manned by a cat; usually Sphinx and one other. Other cats fill the building- some of these are transformed employees, others are Postmaster's familiars. One of the tigers is usually snoozing near the back of the office, in front of the doorway leading to the warehouse.
Customers are not generally shown inside the warehouse at all, but any who entered would find it a cluttered mess, adapted by the myriad cats to create a convenient series of tunnels and dens.
Goods/Services:
The Cat Post provides cheap delivery services throughout Rømskog, and increasingly expensive services as the distance increases.
- Letters: The Cat Post prefers delivering letters above all else, as even cats are capable of carrying a significant satchel of them. These are typically delivered within hours to anywhere in Rømskog, and may be delivered to outlying towns or villages within days or weeks. For messages to far-flung parts of the forest, increased time may be required.
- Parcels: The Cat Post is capable of delivering larger and heavier parcels, though they charge significantly more to do so. The most valuable and strange delivery requests are fulfilled by Postmaster himself, who may be intrigued enough to cut prices depending on how interesting the requester's story sounds, much to Sphinx's dismay.
