Day 6
Name: Quartz
Occupation: Tour Operator and Town Councillor
Familiar: Moss-Covered Golem
Personality: Suave, dramatic, enigmatic, deceptive, opportunistic, secretive.
I used
the recommended list and rolled 1-549!
Initial roll: I rolled 53, which gives me...
Tutoring Children
I don't think this fits Quartz - I think she'd rather stay as far away from the little terrors as possible. That, and I'm not sure the dragons of Dregsby would trust Quartz to be left with their hatchlings. I'm going to re-roll!
Re-roll: I got 480, which gives me...
Being a History Buff
That's more like it!!
I think the history in question is quite likely to be fabricated for Quartz's gain.
Cheeky informal rolls for extra hobbies:
338 -
Crossword Puzzles
59 -
Arts and Crafts
196 -
People Watching
Quartz Skegg has hobbies, though she would never call them that - it sounds too idle, too provincial, like something one might do between failed marriages or when the allotment gets waterlogged. '
Hobbies' is far too anodyne, evoking images of glue-wielding pensioners and sad weekend markets featuring limp knitwear and jam with suspicious lids. No, Quartz has
pursuits.
Interests.
Structured diversions, carefully curated to project the air of a dragon who is both frightfully cultured and also, somehow, always one step ahead of whatever scandal might currently be nibbling at the council’s heels.
She is, for instance, an
avid historian, particularly of Dregsby-on-Deep, which she claims to tourists was founded by 'a visionary seafaring elite' rather than 'some desperate fishmongers and a very confused Maren with boundary issues.' Her version of events includes considerably more glamour, considerably less sewage, and a recurring cameo by a 'White Dragon Benefactor' - a figure of great influence, immense wealth, and, strangely, no historical record whatsoever, yet is referenced often, usually when approving new funding applications for her own schemes.
She also delights in
writing cryptic crosswords for the Dregsby Gazette, which often contain suspiciously pointed clues like
'Untraceable civic fund, suspiciously absent (8)' and '
Self-appointed councillor, very white, slightly smug (6)'. Entries frequently feature obscure references to ancient Light Flight philosophers, obscure fish, or thinly veiled insults aimed at rival councillors, clues so insufferably smug that solving them feels like being scolded by someone who’s just won a scholarship you didn’t know existed. No one has successfully solved one yet, largely because they aren’t so much crosswords as low-level psychological warfare.
She dabbles in
arts and crafts, though her definition of 'crafts' includes 'forging ancient relics for museum display' and 'making papier-mâché models of buildings that used to exist and charging admission.' She once claimed to have discovered a 'prehistoric dragon toothbrush' which turned out to be a broken spoon she glued moss to. Sold it to the Greater Dregsby Historical Society for a tidy sum. Still talks about it over drinks.
She is also deeply invested in
people-watching, which is less of a hobby and more of a strategic surveillance operation. She sits on a sun-bleached bench near the old pier with mirrored glasses and a notebook labelled '
Bird Census, Confidential'. The birds, of course, are actually local residents, and she keeps meticulous notes on who’s fighting with whom, who’s mysteriously acquired expensive jewellery, and who’s wearing sandals in November (
unacceptable).
Other pursuits include:
- Inventing fictional town awards, like Best-Lit Lantern Post (North Facing) or Most Consistently Operational Door, which she uses to bolster tourism grant applications.
- Inventing conspiracy theories purely to see which ones Adelio picks up.
- Practising plausible deniability.
- Naming things that were never previously named, like 'The Historical Centre for Municipal Innovation' (her shed).
- Reading romance novels, though only the ones with titles like The Baron’s Complicated Tax Situation and Love in the Time of Infrastructure Collapse.
- Passive-aggressive calligraphy (letters of complaint so beautifully penned the recipients frame them out of guilt).
She remains Dregsby’s only citizen banned from both the knitting circle
and the town’s archaeology society, for reasons neither group will put in writing.
daisy ! she/they. uk+8 fr (gmt).