Middle-class contacts include guild members, spellcasters, town officials, and other folk who frequent well-kept establishments”Social interaction, it appeared, was surprisingly expensive.”

Carousing covers a workweek of fine food, strong drink, and socializing. Carousing takes 5 days and choice of 10gp, 50gp or 250gp. 

A character can attempt to carouse among lower (10gp), middle (50gp), or upper-class folk (250gp & access to local nobility.) A character can carouse with the following classes, covering all associated expenses for the entire work week using either CHA ability of Persuasion or Deception.

    • An aristocratic lifestyle must be paid (10gp/day) in addition of the 250gp to socialize with the noble class.
    • Alternatively, a character may use a disguise kit if they are proficient-in to pass as a noble visiting from a distant city to avoid the paying the aristocratic lifestyle (50 GP).

Features, spells and items are allowed to be used. Lifestyle is not needed to pay as the carousing downtime cost will cover all fees.

Check Total Result
1-5 Character has made a hostile contact.
6-10 Character has made no new contacts.
11-15 Character has made an allied contact.
16-20 Character has made two allied contacts.
21+ Character has made three allied contacts.

To Attempt Carousing:

    1. State the class status in downtime-log with all features prefaced BEFORE rolling, the character will attempt.
    2. Proceed to roll one of the following.
      • Persuasion.
      • Deception.
    3. See the check total table for outcome of the rolls.
    4. Roll for the chance of complication.
      • If the result is a 1 on a d10 or 1-10 on d100, refer to the section below.

Downtime Example: Esata Spends 5 Dtd, and 50 gold carousing the middle class, with the intent of charming people, who she brings to the warehouse rave to kill them for the Red Queen.

Complications: Characters who carouse risk bar brawls, accumulating a cloud of nasty rumors, and building a bad reputation around town. Refer to the appropriate complication table below to determine the complication. For more information, click here for the Hostiles & Rivals.

    • Hostile Contacts​ give -1 on every skill check involving downtime. Characters are required to spend these until no hostile contacts remaining.
    • Rival Contact give a permanent -1 to all checks involving the downtime performed by that character, until resolve
d8 Lower-Class Complication
1 A pickpocket lifts 1d10 × 5 GP from you.
2 A bar brawl leaves you with a scar.
3 You have fuzzy memories of doing something very, very illegal, but can’t remember exactly what. (Rival)
4 You are banned from a tavern after some obnoxious behavior. (Hostile)
5 After a few drinks, you swore in the town square to pursue a dangerous quest. (Spend additional 5 days.)
6 Surprise! You’re married.
7 Streaking naked through the streets seemed like a great idea at the time.
8 Everyone is calling you by some weird, embarrassing nickname, like Puddle Drinker or Bench Slayer, and no one will say why. (Title gained, ping downtime.)
Lower-class contacts include criminals, laborers, mercenaries, town guard, and any other folk who normally frequent the cheapest taverns in town.
d8 Middle-Class Complication
1 You accidentally insulted a guild master and only a public apology will let you do business with them again. (Apology required to resolve)
2 You swore to complete some quest on behalf of a temple or a guild. (TRP quest.)
3 A social gaffe has made you the talk of the town.
4 A particularly obnoxious person has taken an intense romantic interest in you. (Stalker acquired)
5 You have made a foe out of a local spellcaster. (Rival)
6 You have been recruited to help run a local festival, play, or similar event. (Spend additional 5 days.)
7 You made a drunken toast that scandalized the locals. (Hostile)
8
You spent an additional 100 GP trying to impress people.

Middle-class contacts include guild members, spellcasters, town officials, and other folk who frequent well-kept establishments.

d8 Upper-Class Complication
1 A pushy noble family marries off one of their useless, dramatic daughters to you. (Wife acquired.)
2 You tripped and fell during a dance, and people can’t stop talking about it.
3

You have agreed to take on a noble’s debts. (D6 x 1,000 debt, removed once paid off.)
4 You have been challenged to a joust by a knight. (Hostile)
5 You have made a foe out of a local noble. (Rival)
6 A boring noble insists you visit each day for the next week and listen to long, tedious theories of magic. (Spend additional 5 days.)
7 You have become the target of a variety of embarrassing rumors.
8 You spent an additional 500 GP trying to impress people.

Upper-class contacts include a variety of nobles, knights, sages, and other folk who frequent only the elite establishments in the town.