to the kitchen for the morning meal.
2) Soiled clothing, rags, towels, etc.
gathered, washed and replaced.
3) Bottles rearranged daily so that the racks
in the kitchen/coldroom/ice shed have a a full look
(cool room warmest bottles on the bottom.
4) Fruit checked daily for freshness.
5) Scraps gathered and fed to the tarns and kailla.
Tarns and kailla need raw meat
(check the servery for scraps of meat and other refuse)
6) Feeding the animals (kaillas, tarns,verr,volu, milk bosk, etc.)
This is pretty much putting hay into their feeding troughs.
7) Fresh flowers picked for the Hall
8) Bosk milked so W/we have a continuous supply of fresh milk,
cream and butter.
Milking bosk:
1)The three- legged milking stool and sterile pails are kept in the storage shed.
2) The bosk are milked by pulling of the teats.
3) The buckets are then emptied into a vat in the cool room of the servery.
(do not forget to skim
the cream once a week for the butter churn and cream pitchers)
9)Chalets cleaned including cleaning the Great Hall and also the
rooms off the Great Hall.
10) Beating the furs and airing them, on a rock, line, railing, etc.
11) Picking up the dishes scattered around Hall
from when the Free are finished with what They were served.
12) Washing dishes and cleaning the kitchen.
This will include cleaning around the fires
and banking the fires after the Steading retires.
13)A meal needs to be cooked by each kajira daily.
14) Baking every morning, pies, breads, etc.
15) Filling the woodboxes for fires. It is to be collected
at the wood pile on the outside of the Inn to the left.
(there are several wood boxes)
1) main hearth
2) fire pit in serving area
3) LadyLif's chambers
4) each of the residents chambers
5) training room
16) Maintaining the sand pit.
Check the sandpit for anything that may harm feet.
Inspect the pole to make sure it is smooth and free of splinters.
Oil and polish the pole weekly.
17) Weeding the pathways(or clearing them of snow in the winter).
Also, check the pathways for rocks and other sharp objects as many who
walk them are barefooted.
Weekly Chores
1)Washing the animals (kaillas, milk bosk, verr, etc.) Washing the animals includes actually washing them, plus combing the long,
shaggy coats of the bosk and verr (keeping the hair for
the spinning room), polishing and oiling their hooves and horns.
2)Making bandages.
1) Find rags in good shape (don't use the silk ones though).
2) Wash them and rip them into long strips.
3) Boil them so they're sterile, dry them and roll them up.
4) Finally store them in the Medicine Room.
3) Making butter:
1) Skim off the cream from the milk vat in the cool room.
2) Pour it into the butter churn and then pump the handle up and down,
(this will move the paddle inside the churn and eventually make butter).
3) You'll feel the mixture become thick and it will be harder
to move the handle,(eventually you will feel a ball of butter inside the churn).
3) Take the butter and press it into a mold and put it in the cool room,
pour off the whey (buttermilk) and check to see if there is some in the kitchen,
(if the supply is sufficient, feed the whey to the pet panthers.)
4) For the cheese:
1) Move some of the milk from the vat to the cheese vat.
2) Light the fire, add the starter and cook until curds form.
3) Add rennet and any flavorings you desire.
4) Cook until its the right consistency.
5) Drain
6) Wrap the cheese in cheesecloth.
7) Set it in the cool room to age.
5) Mending clothing and embroidering:
1)The clothes needing mending are kept in a large basket in a storage room off of the
Great Hall.
2) Three mending kits within this basket.
3) Vests, FW clothing, tunics, etc. can be embroidered with nearly any design.
4) Supplies for embroidering are also kept in small box in the sewing room.
5) Permission is not needed to use a sewing needle.
Monthly Chores
1) Making healing salve:1)This is a combination of kanda leaf and brak bush,
cooked with bosk lard and then
packaged in small vials.
2) Store most of the vials in the medicine room
but make sure there are a couple in the kitchen.
2) Making needles:
Carve little slender bits of bone, sharpen one end and
put an eye in the
other (use a quiva, this is a chore for Free only)
3) Weaving cloth
(i.e. different color silks/veils for dances, blankets,
cloth for Masters'
tunics and FWs' robes).
1)Threads and yarns are in the sewing room.
2) You must warp up the loom (that's putting the thread/yarn on)
3) You weave by going under and over each string. you use a shuttle
to push what you have woven tightly together (pull on the shuttle every few rows)
4) The design can be as intricate as you wish
5) When you have finished the piece, you must tie off the ends and
then have a Free cut it from the loom (using a quiva to cut it off the loom).
4)Sewing leather for Masters:
1) Masters should be measured for the leathers
(get their waist, hip size and inseam),
2) Make the pattern, cut out the leathers
(leather is in the storage shed, use a needle and
sew the leather.)
the next sets of chores will not be done on a regular scheduled basis....
most are done as needed though some are more hobbies than
actual chores.
a girl must be sure all daily chores are done before doing
any of the chores listed as hobbies...
any broach of this will be met with punishment...
As Needed Chores
1) Catching & cleaning fish.1) Fish must be gutted, scaled and filleted, then put in the cooler.
2) The scales, if pretty, should be offered to those making jewelry
3) The guts fed to the panthers,
2) Planting flowers
(spring, summer, fall occasional work)
1) Use the straw/dung for fertilizer.
3) Curing skins:
1) The skins will be in the storage shed.
2) First clean them of any fleshy debris
3) Then stake them out in the sun for a couple of days.
4) Once they are completely dried.
5) You rub the skin side with a stick or rock
until it is soft and smooth (those to be used as furs).
6) Other hides you remove the fur by scraping it away
with a scoop then rub both sides until soft and smooth.
( store the hides in the shed. )
4) Second method of curing skins:
1) Smoke tanning :
1) A method of tannage (used in combination with an oil tannage),
the fat-saturated skins are subjected to the smoke of wood fires.
The smoke from the charring wood contains
aldehydes,acetaldehyde,
and formaldehyde, which have tanning properties. The heat also assists
in the oxidation of the oil, promoting further aldehyde and polymer production.
Some volatile tarry substances also often become included in the skin.
Smoke tanning,simply because it involves aldehyde formation
from the partial oxidation of woody materials,
can be used to tan hides and skins without the need to use fats.
5) Cleaning game:
1) If the Master is around ask if he wants to keep the rack (horns),
( if not, remove them and put them in the storage shed
for those who are making things from the horns).
2) Skin the animal carefully, keeping the hide in one piece.
3) Put it in the shed for the ones who are curing hides.
4) Then gut the animal:
1) Save the gut for casings for sausages
(you must sterilize them in a solution of water
and disinfectant, then hang them up to dry)
2) The bladders (sterilize them and then set them to dry).
3) Store both bladders and the guts in the shed for those who need them.
5) Then cut the meat into roasts, etc.,
6) Put the meat in the cool room.
6) Curing, preserving meats:
1) Meats can be dried and made into jerky, hung up
and smoked like hams, salted down in barrels, canned or frozen
in the winter. jerky; potting meat; preserving wild
game; drying foods; drying seeds, nuts, fruit, leathers; canning.
Occasional Chores
1) Making arrows:(Frees Only)1) Gather straight sticks and feathers from the storage shed.
2) Strip the stick of the bark, shape it so one end is narrower than the other.
3) Attach a metal arrow tip to one end of the stick (get from the shed).
4) Use leather twine to attach the arrows to the other end.
5) Attach the feathers to the arrow ( slaves may do this part)
2) Making spears:
(kailla lances).
1) Same as making arrows but on a larger scale.
3) Making bows:
1) Find a pliant stick (size can vary, you make large or small bows).
2) Strip it of bark.
3) Shape it so it's flat on both long sides and tapers toward the ends.
(have a Free do this)
4) Notch the two ends.
5) Attach the string (you will probably need to bend the bow
over your leg in order to attach the string to the second end)
4)Gathering Ice, storing it:
(winter chore)
1) Chip ice off .
2) Carry the blocks to the cooling room.
3) Stack them .
4) Sprinkle sawdust over each layer to keep the blocks from sticking to each other.
5) Making kurts and whips from leather:
1) Get the leather from the shed.
2) The strands of the whip are usually braided.
3) The handle can be made from horn or wood (beg a Free carve the handle)
6) Making rope and twine.
1) Rope and twine is make from fibers( such as come from rep cloth or
from hair kailla,bosk)
2) They can either be braided into rope or rolled into twine.
Hobbies
1) Weave baskets, using twine, twigs, etc.2) Making purses, boots, etc. from leather:
1) Leather is found in the storage shed.
2) Make a pattern then cut out the leather (use scissors ).
3) Then sew the leather .
4) You may then tool a design (tooling means cutting slightly
into the leather to make the design).
5) Dye the leather with a design or leave it plain.
3) Beading, making earrings, belly chains, bracelets, binas:
1) Beads, wires, chains, etc., are kept in a chest by the serving furs.
2) Use your imagination, make them as intricate as you like.
3) If you beg a Free they might let you use gold, silver, jewels, etc.,
to make jewelry for Free people.(gold, silver has to be melted and
poured into a mold or beaten into shape)
4) Carving little animals/novelties:
1) The un-carved horns are kept in a storage shed behind the servery.
2) These carvings can be Gorean animals, Rarii, FWs, etc.
3) These items can be colored with dyes also.
(Anything carved belongs to a slaves Owner.)
4) Permission must be giving before a girl may give these items to A/another.
5) Many carved items are sold or used as trade.
5) Painting goblets and bowls:
1) Pretty self-explanatory, can be as intricate or simple as you'd like.
2) Supplies for painting are in the storage shed behind the servery,
or can be stored in a box in the training once a project is started.
