d100 Petty Courtier Problems

These are jobs for people on the first rungs of court who might want influence behind the scenes

One for barbarian chiefs hall was suggested

d10 Quick Type
1 Guards

2 Servants

3 Entertainers

4 Elders

5 Youths

6 Scholars

7 Clergy

8 Diplomat

9 Officials

10 Nobles

d100 Petty Courtier Problems
01 Please fetch the captain special ointment he has to stand on guard at a function for hours tonight

02 Keep an eye out for the officer in charge while we play cards

03 Take this purse to the orphanage with this letter for the watch captain

04 Spy on these guards who are reported to be flirting with servants

05 Take this man and give him a rough time and dump him a mile from town

06 A servant has been stealing items can you please look out for any thieves

07 Part of a guard uniform has been left at a lover's home please fetch it

08 A key has gone missing keep an eye out for it and report to the captain of the guard

09 A guard dog keeps growling at a guest and now the dog is missing can you find him

10 A guard saw an impish child running around but cant leave my post can you look for one
11 Servant needs help with a task and is struggling 

12 Servants in panic have broken a household item

13 A animal escaped the kitchen and needs to be caught fast

14 A senior servant must choose which child page is a liar and needs a beating

15 Upset youthful servant has been mistreated by a mean guest

16 Servant tries to escape, but other servants want them brought back unharmed before there is trouble

17 Find out the secret of this nosy servant  

18 One of the servants has been having a secret affair with a noble, find out who

19 Find out which servant is gossiping about the palace affairs to visiting crafters

20 Servant has a message they need to carry to a shopkeeper outside the place unseen

21 Jester is looking for his pet d4 1=monkey 2=bird 3=piglet 4=toad

22 Minstral has misplaced an instrument in a noble room and needs it back

23 Performing bard after a show has taken a lady's necklace and she could get in trouble if asked how this happened so she needs it back discretely 

24 In a recent feast a performer drank a noble person's wine doing a bit, then died choking and people now want to know why

25 Bernard the bear baiter needs some extra helpers moving this new young owlbear for a show, you mostly just have to hold these chains while the experts do the work

26 Illusionists show fantastic visions at a feast and need a few helpers for an act

27 Visiting jester has been pooping around the palace and if accused without evidence will challenge anyone to a duel, please catch him in the act

28 One of the players in a theatre troop has been snooping about, keep an eye on them

29 A bard staying in the palace has lost their clothes and has only this urn of ashes for modesty  

30 A noble fancies one of the minstrels and wants you to give them this letter and ring
31 Old man can't find his key and must have dropped it somewhere today

32 An old maid thinks a young servant is really the lover of a lord and has no serving experience, try and find out where she is from

33 Old servant wants you to quickly take this chamber pot to the healer and get a report on it

34 Old servant needs rats removed from under the floor and in the roof

35 Old courtier wants two attractive youths brought to one of the master's rooms after midnight

36 Old deranged servant needs to be moved to the country, help them pack, clean up and get on the carriage 

37 Retired courtiers are being blackmailed by a page, take them this gold. be discreet

38 Widow needs face cream from a wise woman of the woods collected 

39 Busy senior servant wants help with a grandchild starting an apprenticeship and not joining a gang 

40 Retired civil servant needs secret letters delivered

41 See pages fighting over a cup and ball and they are getting a bit serious and forget their masters will be angry if they are damaged

42 Pages of guests are fighting with horseshoe knuckledusters or knives or clubs while masters are taking bets which is frowned on 

43 Squires scaring pages with outrageous stories and hazings is ruining their morale

44 Drunken old friar chasing pages after hours 

45 Noble says was robbed by gang of pages while drunk at night can someone get his signet ring back

46 Pages claim a giant sewer python is in the cistern and everyone using upstairs privies, someone stop it

47  A pet is loose in the palace go find it before some pages get in trouble

48 A goat with diareah is trapped on a tower top and pages need help getting it off, its definitely not one of those talking goats

49 Pages all scared of a ghost they hear moaning at nights

50 Page from a foreign land is bullied and would like some help impressing them
51 Scribe would like to chat about what you have seen  

52 Playwrite wants to hear stories of violence and tragedy

53 Wizard needs an ingredient at the market and 

54 Punish these naughty students who cheated on exams 
55 Wizards apprentices all-out getting drunk someone go and chase them home

56 Student vomited in wizards hat, go get it cleaned fast

57 Bookkeeper needs sheep counted 

58 Help librarian sort out books 

59 Take this book outside the city and burn it 

60 Help the old courtier recover his stolen naughty pamphlet collection he thinks the pages took
61 Nobody believes a drunken priest saw a spirit, proved the cleric right or drunk

62 Pages stole the priest's wine and he wants the puckish varlet caught and cursed

63 Priest needs some help filling in some paragraphs of a holy text translation about a saint's exploits, any fabulous suggestions considered 

64 Priest found a dark hole under the altar and needs someone to take a peek

65 Hand copy these hymn lyrics for an important song festival

66 Carpenter found a crawling undead hand in the wall and this scroll he suggested a priest should know about it

67 Old priest needs some helpers to exorcise a sealed room in palace

68 Help the priests bottle beer or wine or mead for a royal order

69 The witch hunter needs a few stout comrades to carry torches tonight 

70 Healer needs helpers to nurse deranged elderly nobles in the attic, cut toenails, change their bandages and chamber pots
71 Diplomat offers coins for any good gossip about court inhabitants

72 See a shifty diplomat hand a person gold coins 

73 Heard a diplomat talking to themself in their room angrily and it seemed pretty strange

74 Saw a diplomat hiding a package in a loose brick wall or wooden paddle

75 Diplomat flogging a servant

76 Diplomat servant asks you to deliver a bottle of exotic brandy 

77 Diplomant gives a bardic performance and tells slanderous tales of a rival nation, local captain wants them watched while visiting

78 Diplomat misses some item from home, go collect a package, please

79 Diplomat wants a local guide to look about town and go shopping

80 Diplomats spending time with pages and giving them gifts and diabolic pamphlets about rewards of making blood oaths to hell's service
81 Chancellor needs these knights to be given these secret letters today

82 Vizier needs his special pipeweed blend and he cant be seen with rif-raf 

83 Councillor needs these meeting minutes copied and taken to these councillors

84 Treasurer requests help spying on a gang of coin clippers

85 Guildmaster visiting court asks servants which of the nobles treat staff best and worse

86 Magistrate wants some character witnesses of a noble before making a decision and is sure something doesn't add up 

87 Marshal believes there is a secret cult in the palace using old passages under the palace. Find some secret doors if you can 

88 General needs someone to carry this message to a lover

89 Mayor visiting court offers coin for reports on fancy fad things the nobles want currently

90 Secret police chief needs you to climb through its sewer to see if it could have been used to enter the palace
91 Squire of a knight needs help finding out what sweetheart wants

92 Knight needs servants for dinner in his quarters to impress guests

93 Take this gift of wine to this night in tomorrow just to wish them luck

94 Require beaters for a royal manticore hunt tomorrow

95 Noble needs this baby out of the palace and to an orphanage, give the orphanage this letter and silver

96 Seen some guest followers fingering their knives and looking around suspiciously

97 Noble lost a horse and needs help finding it

98 Take this ransom money to this waterside smuggler's tavern and give it to a man with an eyepatch

99 Noble's child joined a rake gang of privileged rich thugs who terrorise poor, please talk them out of it or better still scare them out

100 A noble has been dressing peasants as birds to shoot at their wild costume parties, see if this is true and get compelling witnesses