The Goblet Housing Authority
Type: Organization
Public Knowledge:Â Highly public, to the extreme consternation of the adventuring class.
Description:Â The Goblet Housing Authority (or GHA) exists as a bureaucratic arm of the Immortal Flames charged with overseeing the care and maintenance of the Goblet housing districts and their many residents. Unlike many branches of the Flames, this is a largely civilian-run entity which relies on the support of Flames assigned to the wards as a security and enforcement measure.
The GHA's goals are twofold - ensure that the Goblet maintains its status as an adventurers-only housing center, and that the Goblet remains attractive enough a housing district that adventurers choose it over the Mist and the Lavender Beds. They fail at both in an awe-inspiring fashion.
With regards to their first goal, a number of non-adventuring entities like mercantile groups, criminal syndicates, small business and research centers have managed to enter the Goblet by registering their organizations as adventuring companies through legal loopholes and through maintaining a minimum monthly amount of leves performed by their members. There is very little the GHA can do about this given the influence wielded by these collective groups.
With regards to the second goal, the GHA would be much more effective at making the Goblet attractive to adventurers if they weren't so fixated on fulfilling the first goal through the second. In their efforts to remove illegal residents through the careful examination of their lawns and estates for damage, garish decoration, and other property violations, the group have become fussbudgets in the extreme, more interested in whether the grass on one man's lawn is too high than in ensuring the vacant building nearby isn't full of marmots. Every so often this attitude provides a success for the organization, ousting a "free company" that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
As such, the GHA are largely regarded as a nuisance to most residents of the Goblet, but one they must pay even a tiny amount of lip-service to if they wish to keep their posh lodgings.Â
As an organization, the GHA is divided into branches for each of the Goblet's wards. Each branch has a divisional chief who manages a number of different housing inspectors. The work is regarded as not being well-paid enough to be worth the hassle of dealing with adventurers and their petty intrigues, but housing enthusiasts clamor for the posts all the same.
Where to find it:Â Live in the Goblet. They'll turn up.
Type: Organization
Public Knowledge:Â Highly public, to the extreme consternation of the adventuring class.
Description:Â The Goblet Housing Authority (or GHA) exists as a bureaucratic arm of the Immortal Flames charged with overseeing the care and maintenance of the Goblet housing districts and their many residents. Unlike many branches of the Flames, this is a largely civilian-run entity which relies on the support of Flames assigned to the wards as a security and enforcement measure.
The GHA's goals are twofold - ensure that the Goblet maintains its status as an adventurers-only housing center, and that the Goblet remains attractive enough a housing district that adventurers choose it over the Mist and the Lavender Beds. They fail at both in an awe-inspiring fashion.
With regards to their first goal, a number of non-adventuring entities like mercantile groups, criminal syndicates, small business and research centers have managed to enter the Goblet by registering their organizations as adventuring companies through legal loopholes and through maintaining a minimum monthly amount of leves performed by their members. There is very little the GHA can do about this given the influence wielded by these collective groups.
With regards to the second goal, the GHA would be much more effective at making the Goblet attractive to adventurers if they weren't so fixated on fulfilling the first goal through the second. In their efforts to remove illegal residents through the careful examination of their lawns and estates for damage, garish decoration, and other property violations, the group have become fussbudgets in the extreme, more interested in whether the grass on one man's lawn is too high than in ensuring the vacant building nearby isn't full of marmots. Every so often this attitude provides a success for the organization, ousting a "free company" that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
As such, the GHA are largely regarded as a nuisance to most residents of the Goblet, but one they must pay even a tiny amount of lip-service to if they wish to keep their posh lodgings.Â
As an organization, the GHA is divided into branches for each of the Goblet's wards. Each branch has a divisional chief who manages a number of different housing inspectors. The work is regarded as not being well-paid enough to be worth the hassle of dealing with adventurers and their petty intrigues, but housing enthusiasts clamor for the posts all the same.
Where to find it:Â Live in the Goblet. They'll turn up.
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Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
Current Fate-14 Storyline:Â Merchant, Marine
