Could someone give me an idea of the “going rate” for IC music?
I don’t think there is one.
I know our “laugh at you”/“bite your hand off” rates but I’m sure it varies hugely from person to person.
[quote=“Daisy”]I don’t think there is one.
I know our “laugh at you”/“bite your hand off” rates but I’m sure it varies hugely from person to person.[/quote]
Well, that would be useful to know… then I can adjust my expectations accordingly 
That’s the kind of thing I like to do in the field. Come find us IC 
Ok. It would be nice to get some kind of an idea from someone.
I understand the principle behind keeping this kind of discussion in the game itself, but the careful lack of documentation about what various things are worth relative to one another in-game isn’t the least intimidating thing I have ever encountered coming to this new…
Well everyone gets 19 rings money entirely apart from what their resource brings in, and for some that’s your spending money for the summit for cake, drink and entertainment. At the other end of things a Business or Farm brings in 9 Crowns, some of which they might want to spend on hiring an entertainer or entertainers for a few hours of an evening.
Anything more than that it really does depend on how much you can get people to pay for your services. The commonest way I’ve seen musicians and singers get paid is to pass the hat around afterwards in a tavern.
A drink in a bar is 3-5 rings. I’d say a drink for a song isn’t a bad starting point, so a crown for 20-30 minutes of music isn’t a big ask. Or as Mark suggests, passing the hat/busking may net you more/less than that depending on where you go. That’s my gut feeling as a musician who plays around the fire and doesn’t seek payment typically, but that’s probably what I’d charge if I was interested in doing so.
There’s likely no standard rate of any kind. Depends what you’re after, as well. Do you want someone to sing you a song? Write you a song? Perform for an hour? Perform a song for an Eternal with half an hour’s notice to write the thing, so the Eternal becomes impressed with you?
Thanks! Good to know.
For a vague ballpark, something measured in rings is pocket change; a wage of several crowns is a fair amount of money; anything from a Throne onwards will tend to get people’s ears perked up as a significant amount of cash, especially for a service like that. If you paid a Throne for a song, or a drink, or similar, that would be a very notable thing indeed, and you’d expect that to be a pretty bloody good song or drink or sandwich or what-have-you. A business turns over a little over a Throne a season, so imagine a bar owner putting all of their profits from three months into one thing.
Of course, to some people a Throne is spare change - but those people are the IC 1%!
Otherwise known as the League.
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