Rayure, which is Arrent, in NE montaigne.
farming community, all the farmers come from all 'round to trade and
sell their grain and so on.
and of course the taxes.
anyway, posted there in preparation for the festival -- for three
weeks before, the week of the festival, and two weeks after, at which
time the tax monies are taken away and so on. you'll be on treasury
duty in a couple weeks.

1 sol = 12 pistoles

the local boss is Cedric. he's kind of a jerk but OK.
a couple incidents in the first couple days.

  doing normal patrol, a pickpocket -- while they're watching
  the actors perform some kind of play -- Renaldo and Juliana (it's
  the big swordfight scene)
  
  some drunken merchants and farmers get into a brawl one night

  a gambling game going on, people watching

  a duel

  a tavern brawl, other muskeeter regiment, de la flamme

  some reports that some guys out the west gate are extorting an
  additional "entrance tax" on people

  a kid running with a stolen apple, angry merchant pursues.

  fried-thing-onna-stick?

   finally:
      http://www.beyond.fr/villages/lagnes.html is this other village
      they send a thing requesting some muskeeters. of course, as junior
      guys, you get sent.

      the elder, Remy, is this guy. smooth hands, despite being a
      villager. he has a bunch of problems they want solved. there are
      like 20 of them, dropping on successive days.

      problems they need solved:
       1) make sure you're rested from your journey, that kind of thing
       2) property line dispute -- some old historical thing, they can
       maybe dig up the documents from the priest's house (who is
       mysteriously away?)
       3) a couple people want wills up-to-date (arguing about
       different inheritance, need somebody who can do math, etc, etc,
       where's my silver teapot that kind of thing) (one of them is
       dying) also, need to survey his field.
       4) let's have a party
       5) we must go and take a trip to the fountain to show you
          around. or you can go look. it's a nice half-day's journey.
          http://www.beyond.fr/villages/fontvaucluse.html

     anyway, the point is to kill about four days. hrm.

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-- finish late:
   after four days, run out of stuff to do, go back to city, arrested
   then it's kind of a mess. can they prove an alibi?
   maybe some kind of passing guy in a wagon who could witness
   (leaving the festival). then trying to track down the bandits

-- finish early:
   well, if all else fails, they throw a party, tie 'em up

   


More of de la Fleur's boys, eh?  And they're letting in girls, too, I
see.  Well, I always say, if you see a recruit and they're as green as new
apples and don't know which end of their blade is up, they're sure to be from
de la Fleur.  I don't expect any of you know what you're supposed to
be doing here, so let me spell it out.  Every year in Rayure the
farmers come from all 'round to sell their harvest and buy tools for
next year.  There's trading, dancing, performing, that kind of thing. 
I'm sure it doesn't compare to the fancy parties you're all used to,
but it'll do.  Of course when outsiders come into the city, crime goes
up.  We get drinkin', brawlin', con-men, pick-pockets, the works.  So
that's why we called for the extra musketeers.  Now, you boys are
going to need some extra time to learn the lay of the land, I can just 
tell.  So I figure you can do clerking the first week you're here,
then I'll put you on market duty for a while until the festival's
over, treasury duty after the festival, then patrol and cleanup.  
Any questions?