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Chores
Chores are very important to the slaves of Port Kar....it keeps ones busy,
skilled, and shows one's passion to be pleasing when not serving.
all slaves do chores and post to the message board (this will be created and
added to website) at least three times a week if not more.
Chores will be assigned rotate them if necessary.
Be creative in your chores and make Port Kar proud.
Daily Chores
1. Shaking, beating, washing, airing out, fluffing, and combing the Free's
furs, polishing Free's chairs at the same time.
2. Feed and water the animals
Bosk
3 buckets of water in trough.
2 buckets of feed grain and one pale of hay.
Kailla
2 buckets of water in trough per pen.
And place any scraps from servery in the food trough.
Once a week you should take an old or injured Verr live into the pens That
Kailla need the kill as much as the meat.
Sleen
1 bucket of water in trough per pen.
2 buckets of left overs from a slaughter. The sleen hunt at night when guarding
the city. So it’s not a big worry if there are no scraps to feed them.
VERR
2 buckets of water in trough and 2 buckets of feed grain.
Vulo
1 bucket of water
1 bucket of grain, also gather the eggs, 3/4 going to the cities servery,
and leaving 1/4 of the eggs, for hatchlings, for butchering when grown.
3. Wash the animals
4. Walking the animals
5. Muck the animal pens
6. Milk the bosk/verr
7. Picking/cutting flowers for Mistresses room from the garden.
8. Weeding/watering/tending the garden
Turning compost pile.
When weeding the garden
(Save weeds and grasses for the animals, in bags)
When pruning back fruit bushes or vines
(Place trimmings in compose pile)
Old fruit
not moulding to be put in pails for animal, any thing mouldy goes to the compost
pile.
Picking and laying the herbs out to dry from the garden/restock the servery
with herbs.
10. Sweeping and mopping the servery, wiping benches and counters.
11. Cleaning the storage closet in the servery.
12. Tidying/"fronting" shelves and restocking supplies in the servery.
13. Washing, drying, and putting away dishes and utensils.
14. Washing, restocking, filling, and rotating botas for the bota rake/same
for wine rack.
15. Cleaning fish/game for meals.
16. Churn butter.
17. Make cheese.
18. Pick and restock fresh fruit for the servery/Hall.
19. The cooking of meals.
20. Baking sweets and breads.
21. Gather vulo eggs.
22. Curing/preserving meats.
23. Sweep and mop the Hall.
24. Sweep and mop the slave quarters.
25. Cleaning/raking of the sand pits for dances/spars.
26. Oil the dancing pole.
27. Cleaning of the Free's cylinder (owned slaves will do their Owner's/City
slaves will be given a Free's that does not have a slave or a Guest cylinder
28. Fill the lamps with thalarion oil.
29. Making soap.
30. Grinding sa-tarna grain into flour.
31. Drawing water from the well/river for the servery and cooking fires
32. Stacking fire wood.
33. Tending the fires (cooking and the Hall fire).
34. Restocking/checking medical kits
35. Washing leather/tunics/robes/silks.
36. Mending clothing.
37. Making cloth/tunics/leathers/silks.
38. Making bandages.
39. Making slave beading (earrings, belly chains, and bracelets).
40. Painting goblets and bowls.
41. Wine making.
42. Sweep, Mop, and polish dance tiles. Clean out the cages, around the auction
block and around the Dias.
43. Take their dose of slavewyne the first week of every month....and post
it.
44. Making rugs and pillows.
45. Basket weaving.
46. Make healing salve.
47. Keep a kettle of water and a fresh kettle of blackwyne over the fire.
48. Sand and oil the dancing pole. Make sure that it is smooth and re-oiled
when done sanding.
"This list by no means exhausts the chores that can be done, and may
be added to from time to time”.
Weekly Chores
• Monday •
Wine making, cheese making, churn butter, filling the lamps with thalarion
oil
• Tuesday •
Making soap, cleaning the sand pit, restocking/rotating botas and wine racks,
mucking animal pens
• Wednesday •
Washing of leathers/tunics/silks/robes, cleaning of cylinders and slave quarters
• Thursday •
Cleaning of furs, grinding of sa-tarna for baking, restocking/checking medical
kits
• Friday •
Restocking/taking inventory of servery, cleaning shelves and storage closet,
cleaning of chillery
• Saturday •
Gardening day, planting flowers, weeding garden, tending herb garden and restocking
servery with herbs, weeding path ways, cleaning out the fire circle/pit
• Sunday •
Dance day and day of rest
• Med Cylinder •
Check to make sure this is ready for use at all times
Daily Duties
• Servery chores •
Check the City for any dishes etc. laying about. Remove any food scraps and
place them into the scrap bucket for the animals or the compost bucket.....which
will need to be emptied each evening and returned to the servery for the nex
day.
• Wash and dry all dishes you have collected, placing them back in their
proper placing ("fronting").
• Clean up after you have finished a serve and have been released to
do so.
• Feed the animals •
this pretty much putting hay into their feed troughs, though the sleen/tarn/kailla
need raw meat, check the servery for scraps of meat and other refuse. Don’t
forget to feed the pets in the City too.
• Stacking wood •
The Masters frequently chop the wood, you should gather it and put most of
it in the shed, though make sure there is a good supply by the fire in Hall
and the cooking fire out back of the servery.
• Mucking the stables •
Use a pitchfork (get permission) and clean out the old straw in the stables,
place in a pile behind the stables for gardening use, then spread fresh straw
about.
• Laundry chore list •
Make sure all your Master's/Mistress' furs and clothing are washed daily.
Replace washed furs with dry one from the slave quarters. Before you leave
for the night, make sure His/Her belongings are back in the proper place.
• Make sure your Master's/Mistress' Cylinders are cleaned. Masters/Mistresses
like neatness. Add your own special touch to your Master's/Mistress' Quarters.
• Furs that are used for serving on, and a slaves' silks will be cleaned
weekly on a specific day. But fresh furs should be placed down once a day.
• Making botas •
Botas are really bladders. Get one form the shed (it will already have been
sterilized), rub it carefully with a rock or blunt stick until it is soft
and pliant (be careful not to rip the skin), then carve a horn/bone stopper
to fit the opening (get permission to use something to carve with), then decorate
the bota with dyes.
• Making bandages •
Find rags in good shape (don’t use silk ones though), wash them, then
rip them into long strips, then boil them so they are sterile, dry them and
roll them up, store them in the medical cylinder.
• Making healing salve •
This is a combination of kanda leaf and brak bush, cooked with bosk lard and
then packaged in small vials, store most of the vials in the medicine cylinder
but make sure there are a couple in the severy.
• Making slave wine •
you must gather sip root, then seep it in kalana for a long time (watch it
carefully so it does not burn), then cool and store it in botas.
• Making kalana, paga •
The first ones that do this will need to construct a still, others will need
to make certain that the still is in good working condition, kalana is made
from the fruit of kalana, paga comes from grain, sul paga is made from sul
(like urthen potatoes).
•Basically, all of these are added to some sugar, allowed to ferment,
the liquid produced from the fermentation goes through the still and drips
into a bucket, the finished product then is put into botas, wine bottles,
and casks.
• Weeding the pathways •
Pulling weeds and removing rocks, sand, sharp objects, and twigs from the
pathways. In the winter make sure snows and such are cleared from the pathways.
• Planting flowers, trees, etc.
•
Use the straw/dung behind the stables for fertilizer
• Beating the furs •
Airing them on a rock or railing, you might even have a clothes line. Whack
them with a stick. Comb and fluff them when returned to their proper placing.
• Tending the animals •
Animals need be exercised regularly (walking), wash them, combing the coats,
feeding, polishing and oiling hooves and horns
• Curing, preserving meats •
Meats can be dried and made into jerky, hung up and smoked liked hams, salted
down in barrels, canned or frozen in winter, potting meat, preserving wild
game, drying foods, drying seeds, nuts, fruits, and leathers.
• Leatherwork •
Make a pattern and cut out the leather, (Might need Free to cut it out, or
permission to use a leather cutting tool), sew the leather, then tool on the
leather (tooling is cutting slightly into the leather to make a design), dye
the leather with a design or leave it plain.......boots; decorating; stitching.
• Maintenance of spar/dancing pit
•
Check sand pit, looking for things in the sand. Inspect the pole, making sure
it is smooth (no splinters). Then polish and/or oil the pole.
• Making kurts •
Braid strands of the whip made from leather, handles can be made from horn
or wood.
• Making needles •
Carved bits of bone sharpened on one end, the other end will have the eye
placed in it (this will need to be done with a sharp tool, and thus permission
needs to be obtained or have a Free do it)
• Beading •
this is very versatile...earrings, belly chains, bracelets. These can be made
of bina (beads) with wire or thread (gut) and chain.
• Painting goblets and bowls • Pretty simple idea. Take a plain item and decorate with dyes and paints.
• Pick flowers •
you can put them in vases, hang them to dry, or weave them into a garland
• Gather herbs •
same as flowers, just decide what herb you are looking for. Can be dried,
placed in the chiller, or crushed for oils.
• Fetching water •
Take a bucket, fill it with water from either one of the wells or the river,
place the water in a water barrel outside the servery, the one in the servery,
or the one in the chillery.
• Milk the bosk or verr •
Get a sterile bucket and a three legged stool, with thumb and fore finger,
milk the bosk/verr, by pulling upon the teats. The buckets are emptied into
a vat in the chillery.
• Cleaning animals and fish from the hunt•
this is a large chore and can be fairly elaborate. One hands it on hooks or
packs in the chillery when done.
Cleaning fresh kill
• 1 •Remove the horns. If the Free who killed the animal is there
ask if they would like the horn, if not, store it away.
• 2 •Skin the animal carefully. Keep the hide in one piece.
• 3 •Gut the animal. Save the gut for casing for sausages in a
solution of water and disinfectants, and then hang them up to dry.
• 4•And the bladders, sterilize them and hang them up to be used
for botas.
• 5 •Cut the meat into quarter sections and from there into roasts,
steaks, ect (can be hung in the chillery in quarter sections).
Cleaning Fish
• 1 • Scrape off scales with a cutting shell.
• 2 • Cut head from body.
• 3 • Cutting carefully (filet); looking for bones.
• 4 • Take filets to chillery.
• 5 • Take heads and fins to compost bucket for sleens.
• 6 • Store any fine bones away to dry for the making of needles.
Churning butter
• 1 • Skim off the cream from the milk vat.
• 2 • Pour into the butter churn.
• 3 • Pump the handle up and down.
• 4 • Pumping the paddle inside the churn, the contents will start
to feel thick and it will be harder to move the handle. Eventually you will
feel a ball of butter in the churn.
• 5 • Press the butter into a mould.
• 6 • Pour off the whey or buttermilk.
• 7 • Place the butter in the chillery.
Making Cheese
• 1 • Take milk from the milk vat.
• 2 • Take to the fire.
• 3 • Add the starter and cook until curds (lumps) form.
• 4 • Add rennet and any flavourings desired.
• 5 • Cook until it is the proper thickness or consistency.
• 6 • Drain.
• 7 • Wrap in cheese cloth.....tie if possible so it will not
fall open.
• 8 • Place in chillery to age.
Fresh Fruit
• Can be set out in bowls, placed in chillery, cooked, baked or dried.
Baking
• In cooking use sa-tarna flour, fruits, sugars, and vulo eggs
Weaving Cloth
• 1 • Warp up (affix the threads to the loom) the loom.
• 2 • Weave by going under and over each string.
• 3 • Use a shuttle to push what you weave tightly together pulling
on it every other row.
• 4 • Finish it by pushing tying off the ends for the cutting
(a special shell is used for cutting).
Embroidery and Mending
• Working needle and thread into a colourful pattern to form a design
• Sewing rips and repairing hems.
“These are just basic steps.......you should do all that you
can to add your own style to them. Tell of the things around you and the items
you work with. Always remember to paint your picture and do it with pride
and creativity.”