Contraptor
A contraptor is a criminal operating in the black market of machinery.
Career
Qualifications
Typically contraptors are unsuccessful inventors or engineers that have turned a blind eye on morality and the law and attempt to ensnare unwitting cusomers into buying a useless piece of machinery.
To be a successful contraptor one must be able to convince customers in some way that the product is authentic and fulfills the needs of the customer, often requiring a certain degree of social skill.
One must also have a keen eye for spotting the technologically informed to prevent detection and be wise enough to avoid the Black Market Operative, both of which would spell the end of one's career and a considerable amount of time in a hold, possibly even as a class one offender.
A knowledge of industry design can come in very practical, allowing the contraptor to construct a product that appears more convincing, perhaps even having a slight degree of functionality to woo a customer.
To be a successful contraptor one must be able to convince customers in some way that the product is authentic and fulfills the needs of the customer, often requiring a certain degree of social skill.
One must also have a keen eye for spotting the technologically informed to prevent detection and be wise enough to avoid the Black Market Operative, both of which would spell the end of one's career and a considerable amount of time in a hold, possibly even as a class one offender.
A knowledge of industry design can come in very practical, allowing the contraptor to construct a product that appears more convincing, perhaps even having a slight degree of functionality to woo a customer.
Career Progression
Contraptors usually remain fairly low-profile and do not have much room for progression.
In the black market the reputation of a contraptor, not unlike many other such dubious professions, scales with the amount of years they have been on the market.
This often corresponds with the amount of experience they have gained in this profession and how much profit they can extract in a transaction.
In the black market the reputation of a contraptor, not unlike many other such dubious professions, scales with the amount of years they have been on the market.
This often corresponds with the amount of experience they have gained in this profession and how much profit they can extract in a transaction.
Operations
Provided Services
Contraptors will construct various contraptions with little to no functionality using any craps that may be salvaged and tough them up to look authentic.
They then seek people likely to be fooled, following in their shadow and trying to find out what they might need or want.
At a convenient moment the contraptor introduces themselves and notes how they couldn't help but to overhear their conversation, and believe they have just the right contraption to do the job.
They then lead the customer to their workshop and make an impressive display of what all the various components do to fulfil the customer's needs.
The customer buys the product and teh contraptor goes looking for a new workshop.
If possible, they may also provide reparation services of the cheapest kind, which rarely last long enough to be useful.
They then seek people likely to be fooled, following in their shadow and trying to find out what they might need or want.
At a convenient moment the contraptor introduces themselves and notes how they couldn't help but to overhear their conversation, and believe they have just the right contraption to do the job.
They then lead the customer to their workshop and make an impressive display of what all the various components do to fulfil the customer's needs.
The customer buys the product and teh contraptor goes looking for a new workshop.
If possible, they may also provide reparation services of the cheapest kind, which rarely last long enough to be useful.
Type
Illicit
Legality
Being a practitioning horologist is an entirely legal condition, and so long as the contraptor is not sued they are working in an entirely legal capacity.
Should they however be brought to court by an unhappy customer they can face various charges, the most common being offence EE2-M according to the Book of the Crown's Justice, which stands for double-economical offence type 2 (fraud), more specifically economic harm due to mechanical causes caused by fraud.
The sentence usually results in a class 3 offence, though there have been cases of higher offender classes if the failure of their contraption causes further harm.
Should they however be brought to court by an unhappy customer they can face various charges, the most common being offence EE2-M according to the Book of the Crown's Justice, which stands for double-economical offence type 2 (fraud), more specifically economic harm due to mechanical causes caused by fraud.
The sentence usually results in a class 3 offence, though there have been cases of higher offender classes if the failure of their contraption causes further harm.
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