Because I was bored, and now my goblin finally getting wages for the work they do.
CRASH!
With a wide sweep of her arm the wooden door slammed open. The small tinkering workshop of Ratchet making a series of clinking noises as vibrations and wind sent a few projects scattering. There were several workshops and emporiums set up by a variety of aspiring engineers in the town, any good decent Goblin port needed several for mandatory market competition reasons. She however liked to find the most desperate and run down workshop wherever she went, always find a diamond in the rough. This particular one had a Goblin and Gnome stood behind the counter with shocked angry faces aimed at her. The workshop itself split in half as if a literal line had been drawn down the middle, each side having a certain Gnomish and Goblin flair to the ongoing projects.
âHow are my fine favourite dysfunctional tinkerers doin on this sunny mornin?â
The bearded Goblin behind the counter began to open his mouth to reply before the angriest squeal possible roared from the Gnome.
âWHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING CRASHING A DOOR OPEN AT THIS TIME OF THE MORNING? DECENT FOLK DO NOT DO THAT!â
Suzie popped a head outside noticing perhaps for the first time the rising sun still very low down raising an eyebrow. Then looking back inside nodding and slowly closing the door.
âApologies, night and day all the same to us corpses ya know. A lack of proper sleepin habits I say, but never the matter. For I have coin and I am willin to pay.â
With a small juggle of her backdated wages in a bag jingling about angry faces turned to forced customer service smiles, the greatest way to make friends was always with a gold coin or two and a pleasant smile.
âI need a new hammer, summin fierce. Summin that can bring down folks bigger than me, maybe summin that packs a lil punch more than just a club ya know. Perhaps a lil runic action goin on, a lil spreadin of the unholy variety. A channel for all sorts of personal forms of magic.â
The two tinkerers pondered for a moment, tapping their chins and scribbling down notes and sketches. They stopped to look at one anothers work and swapped papers making notes on top of each other. Before finally showing a sketch for a massively oversized hammer with lots of wavey lines coming out the head which she took to indicate something impressive.
âI will take it.â
With a slap of the coin purse she smiled at the two of them. At last the Host had begun to pay her wages, not that they knew half the time what they signed. An honest omission, legally covered and all in writing. The best kind of victory.