Gong Farmer

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Gong Farmer

While big cities and the magically inclined can create fantastic systems of sewers and portals to deal with the biological waste they generate, not all small towns and remote tribes are so advanced. They instead rely on a outhouses and cesspits to warehouse their excrement, but those have no easy and fast method of self-cleaning. That’s where you come in. As a gong farmer, you crept through the night to empty such pits of disgust with buckets and shovels so that the solid waste, by far the longer lasting product of most humanoids’ diets, could be transported out of civilization to more distant dumping grounds or a hungry otyugh if you were lucky. On a good day, usually during the lean times at the end of winter when the poop was still mostly frozen, you just had to descend into a tight, un
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: Carpenter’s tools, Mason’s tools
Languages: None
Equipment: A bucket, lamp, set of common clothes, shovel, stained rag, waterproof gloves, waterproof waders, two odd items you found embedded in waste (determined by rolling on any Trinkets table(s) of your choice), and a pouch containing 12gp

Feature: Dung Detective

Your experience in hauling poop has given you the observational analysis skills of an amateur gastroenterologist. By examining a creature’s feces, you will be able to discern their diet, general activity level, any digestive bugs they might be suffering from, and if they have any hemorrhoids. You will also be able to tell how old any turd is with such inspection. If fecal matter from multiple sources or times are mixed together, the information you can glean from any individual poo will be decreased unless you go through the effort to isolate the different samples.

Suggested Characteristics

Personality Traits (d8)

1I’ve crawled through a river of shit, literally and metaphorically, and came out clean on the other side, only metaphorically.
2I don’t mind doing the hardest, smelliest work if it means more gold in my pocket.
3You can discover so much about people by examining their stools.
4My least favorite aspect of my job was fishing the bloated corpses of critters that got trapped and drowned in waste.
5I’m used to working and being on my own. Even off-duty, I was usually by myself.
6I mentally keep track of the excretory habits of myself and those around me for both health and paranoid reasons.
7I always make sure to bury my droppings, preferably around plant life they can nurture.
8I have a crude sense of humor, but shun scatological jokes since I’ve already heard all of them.

Ideals (d6)

1Ambition. I might have started at the bottom, but I will rise to top. I don’t care what I need to do to get there. (Evil)
2Cleanliness. Everything should be kept as clean and proper as possible, even in the messiest circumstances. (Lawful)
3Duty. To keep society humming along, someone has to do the dirty jobs. (Lawful)
4Flexibility. I try to go with the flow, but prefer when that flow is regular. (Neutral)
5Hard Work. Those that do the worst jobs are the ones most deserving of society’s respect. (Any)
6Tolerance. Everybody poops, so what’s the point of hurting each other during all the steps of life between the defecations? (Good)

Bonds (d6)

1A childhood nasal infection cost me my sense of smell and opened up a new job opportunity for me.
2One of my closest coworkers was a grouchy neo-otyugh named Oscar.
3Is it weird that I have a favorite cesspool?
4My favorite color is brown and I try to keep all my clothes in some shade of it.
5I found a cut-up dead body in a privy pit. I disposed of the remains, but the face still haunts me.
6I once saw a bear shit in the woods. We kept eye contact the whole time, so I don’t where it pulled its roll of toilet paper from.

Flaws (d6)

1I don’t trust anything that doesn’t poop. Their inner workings are so… unnatural.
2I know I have no real skills beyond an acceptance for doing tasks no one else wants to do.
3I’m so inured to the foulest of smells that don’t notice when I carry them on me, so I usually need help remembering to bathe.
4I’m lactose intolerant, yet enjoy cheese too much to quit it. The constant farting is worth a good limburger.
5I prefer a nocturnal sleep schedule and get constipated and irritable if forced to be diurnal.
6I will go out of my way to step in and drag away any poops I see lying on a road or in the wilderness.


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