1354 DR Dungsweepers' Guild

Dungsweepers' Guild

Muleskull Tavern, Ship Street, Dock Ward

Personages

Guild Master

Zulgoss Helberad, Master of the Guild, a cleric of Lathander

Primary Contact

Master Zulgoss

Other Guild Members

Membership: 20+ Salben Highhat

Membership

Livery

Cap with orange and red feathers

Dues

Entry Dues: 1 gp, by application to the Elder Dungsweepers - six senior members. Their decision is absolute, but may be questioned 1 year after being made or reversed. • Annual Dues: 1 gp/year (members)

Goods & Services

None

Member Shops

None

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This is a poor guild, consisting of those who clean the streets (and, for a fee, the stables of others) in Waterdeep. Normally, they do not do sewer work, the province of another guild, but the city, for security reasons, reserves the right when necessary to contact the Master of this guild to hire guild members to help in such work (by the day; the city pays 5 silver pieces to the worker and 3 silver pieces to the guild, per worker).

The Dungsweepers have a traditional right to "glean the sweepings," keeping anything discarded for their own use. Obvious valuables are to be turned in to the Master for sale, the individual sweeper receiving half the sale value and the guild the other half. Guild members bring their sweepings to Fishgut Court, where large wagons provided by the guild take the refuse once per day under guard by a mounted patrol of fourteen guardsmen, to the Rat Hills, a refuse dump south of the City.

Prospective smugglers should note that the guardsmen inspect the wagons and their loads carefully as they are being filled and emptied, and as they re-enter the City, looking underneath and with an attendant low-level mage employing detect magic and detect invisible. There is little interest in joining this guild, as few fancy the working conditions. Despite its work and its poverty, this guild can be quite influential when the Master gets upset about something. He can quietly threaten to withhold guild services, or dump the dung in specified (embarrassing and inconvenient) areas, such as in front of a food market, festhall, or tavern. Wisely for all involved, the Master uses this power sparingly.

Notable Members

Salben Highhat Docksides Dungsweeper Old Salben has been a dungsweeper for nearly as long as anyone can remember. He's gotten in trouble with the guild more than once for the "Dungsweeper's Racket" - that is, extorting money from business owners in order to avoid "accidental" overturnings of dung-barrows on their front steps. Nonetheless, he's a stalwart (if somewhat drunken) fellow always ready to support a guild-mate.