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Yennefer went straight into it today with, "Before you take to the open road for a life of adventure and ill-thought-out life choices," but she repeated herself, "you need to sort out the boring, practical considerations. Namely: how are you going to pay your way? If you're independently wealthy, congratulations! Otherwise, things are more complicated."

"You could find a patron," Jaskier suggested. "Which is a wealthy person who finds your work fulfilling and, as such, pays you to continue it."

That was a sugar daddy, Jaskier. Or mommy. Could be either.

"Or you could earn money by working as you go, which means you will need either an idea of what types of menial labor are available or else a skilled trade," Yennefer said. "Ideally one that does not require a great deal of equipment, as you will have to bring it with you."

"Busking works!" No, Jaskier. No. "Or find travel companions to split costs?"

"Is that what you call it?" Yennefer asked archly before turning to address the class. "In worlds such as this one you might be better served by 'remote work' on one of those laptop computer things than attempting to make your living from a lute." Did they even have lutes here? "But this is an area that is more realm-specific. What could you do where you plan to be? What skills do you bring to the table?"

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In a collapsible fashion.

Clare Devlin, just collasping

Belle, maybe about to collapse?

Beta, perpetually on the brink of collapse

Vi, completely done and ready to collapse

Are your teachers really recommending busking as a career choice?

Well. One of them is.

How are you going to make money? What skills do you bring to the table?

Are you seriously going with busking?

"I have absolutely no useful skills," Clare said helpfully.

"At least you know this about yourself," Yennefer said, sounding oddly approving. "What can you do to improve?"

"Dunno," Clare said. "Should I learn t' mend clothing?"

"It would be a start," Yennefer allowed.

"I don't know that anything I'm good at is going to earn me money while adventuring," Belle said. "I work in the library here. Perhaps I could work while not adventuring?"

"That's not a bad idea," Yennefer agreed. "You could work in the winter and travel in the summer, or vice versa, depending on the weather, I suppose."

The question completely threw Beta for a loop; commerce hadn't been a part of her life with the Zeniths at all, and any trade that had been necessary on the trip from the base to the Nora Sacred Lands would have been paid for in metal shards and components harvested from machines that Aloy had taken down. At no point had any of this relied on her own highly specific and rather practically useless skill set.

Even Alva at least knew how to handle a bow in self-defense even if she'd never be on Aloy or Kotallo or Erend's level, even on Zo's. All Beta really knew how to do was find a relatively safe place to huddle until someone told her it was clear.

"I don't have any ideas what I could do that would be marketable," she admitted. Who was going to need, say, advanced code debugging from some itinerant random kid anyway?

Yennefer was beginning to despair a bit, but she said, "Well, that's why you're at school, isn't it? To develop your skills and knowledge."

"I got these," Vi said, holding her hands up in loose fists.

For busking tips, or otherwise.

How is it already Friday again?

The Adventuring Life, Friday Period 3

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