I've run a game or two starting players in an adventuring group called Goldmin. It's a handy way to get players together without a tavern and get them going. Anyway, today I was thinking about HQ Supporting Staff and came across the Tabaxi Theif Talker and Fence (yes. They are cat burglars)... and how the spies and thieves related to Goldmin actually stashed their stolen treasure before fencing it.
The idea was a large open air hourglass that pours into a box with a cat statue just in front of the sand stream. The box itself is called the "great litter box". Tossing stolen jewelry and the like into the stream itself behind the statue quickly hides it and makes it easy to retrieve it later. The theif then explains to the Collector what they threw in and when the sand is shoveled out each night and sifted through later, it's found, collected and held safely until it can be fenced.
An iteration or two later made it much larger, turning the clock from Goldmin's personal clock to a clock in the town square. Barrels at the top are full of sand and poured into the funnel each hour making telling time very easy. Maybe even the full ones are out of sight and put on display once emptied. Twelve O'Clock would be Twelve Barrels. One O'Clock would be One Barrel... or something like that. And if it's available to the public, it can be turned into a sand based wishing well, and thus anything glittery inside can easilly be explained away as a coin from a wish.
As long as you are going for comedy then a great litter box would work. I'm not sure from the description how the hourglass helps stop searchers from finding the goods? Is it like a bag of holding where there's more space inside than out? Then it would be the person thinking of the right item to pull from the pocket dimension and a searcher would find nothing but sand. It feels like the smaller version would be more practical, a clock tower size structure needing a dozen barrels of sand shovelled from the bottom and carried back to the top would need a lot of manpower.
Labor intensive yes, but nearly all old clocks are. Heck, so was irrigation. That's what made Archimedes' Screw such an important invention.
And Thieves Cant is 100% a thing we've all heard of. If you've ever heard a woman called a chick, a cop called a pig, or about fencing your swag, you've heard bits of thieves cant that have permeated into common language. The Wishing Clock can be what most people call it, and the Litter Box can be code for a specific spot.
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I've run a game or two starting players in an adventuring group called Goldmin. It's a handy way to get players together without a tavern and get them going. Anyway, today I was thinking about HQ Supporting Staff and came across the Tabaxi Theif Talker and Fence (yes. They are cat burglars)... and how the spies and thieves related to Goldmin actually stashed their stolen treasure before fencing it.
The idea was a large open air hourglass that pours into a box with a cat statue just in front of the sand stream. The box itself is called the "great litter box". Tossing stolen jewelry and the like into the stream itself behind the statue quickly hides it and makes it easy to retrieve it later. The theif then explains to the Collector what they threw in and when the sand is shoveled out each night and sifted through later, it's found, collected and held safely until it can be fenced.
An iteration or two later made it much larger, turning the clock from Goldmin's personal clock to a clock in the town square. Barrels at the top are full of sand and poured into the funnel each hour making telling time very easy. Maybe even the full ones are out of sight and put on display once emptied. Twelve O'Clock would be Twelve Barrels. One O'Clock would be One Barrel... or something like that. And if it's available to the public, it can be turned into a sand based wishing well, and thus anything glittery inside can easilly be explained away as a coin from a wish.
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As long as you are going for comedy then a great litter box would work. I'm not sure from the description how the hourglass helps stop searchers from finding the goods? Is it like a bag of holding where there's more space inside than out? Then it would be the person thinking of the right item to pull from the pocket dimension and a searcher would find nothing but sand. It feels like the smaller version would be more practical, a clock tower size structure needing a dozen barrels of sand shovelled from the bottom and carried back to the top would need a lot of manpower.
Labor intensive yes, but nearly all old clocks are. Heck, so was irrigation. That's what made Archimedes' Screw such an important invention.
And Thieves Cant is 100% a thing we've all heard of. If you've ever heard a woman called a chick, a cop called a pig, or about fencing your swag, you've heard bits of thieves cant that have permeated into common language. The Wishing Clock can be what most people call it, and the Litter Box can be code for a specific spot.