Here at Hidden Valley, we want to see what you as patrons can build. We've of course got our own businesses (which will be listed in the first reply to this thread, and occasionally updated as things change) but HVR is meant to be shaped by the community at large! Please feel free to add your local business concepts. This can be something your character runs, or just something you've thought up and want to add to the canon.
If your idea is accepted as totally canon, a mod will edit your post with a little acceptance message! If it doesn't entirely fit we'll reach out to help you fit it in, though we're pretty easy going around here so you should be fine.
This board is also meant to be used to help inspire and encourage interaction. By posting a character owned business, you're giving the okay for people to reach out and ask for roleplay involving it! Have fun and get to know each other and what the city is about.
Business Form
Name of Business:
Business Owner: (Please specify if character or NPC!)
Type of Business:
Date Founded:
City Location: Fire Valley or Gem Point (if outside the city, specify which it's closer to!)
Profit/Non Profit: (Optional)
Hiring Status: (Optional)
Employee(s): (Optional)
Business Description:
Exciting Extras: (Optional)
Feel free to add to this list; you can never add too much information. We're so excited to see what you come up with!
If your idea is accepted as totally canon, a mod will edit your post with a little acceptance message! If it doesn't entirely fit we'll reach out to help you fit it in, though we're pretty easy going around here so you should be fine.
This board is also meant to be used to help inspire and encourage interaction. By posting a character owned business, you're giving the okay for people to reach out and ask for roleplay involving it! Have fun and get to know each other and what the city is about.
Business Form
Name of Business:
Business Owner: (Please specify if character or NPC!)
Type of Business:
Date Founded:
City Location: Fire Valley or Gem Point (if outside the city, specify which it's closer to!)
Profit/Non Profit: (Optional)
Hiring Status: (Optional)
Employee(s): (Optional)
Business Description:
Exciting Extras: (Optional)
Feel free to add to this list; you can never add too much information. We're so excited to see what you come up with!
Official Businesses
Name of Business: Nolen's Tall Tails
Business Owner: Marshall Nolen & Devin Starr
Type of Business: Cat Cafe & Supernatural Book "Store"
Date Founded: January 2019
City Location: Fire Valley
Profit/Non Profit: Profit
Hiring Status: Not openly seeking, but hiring.
Employee(s): Marshall Nolen, Devin Starr, Russel.
Business Description: Nolen's Tall Tail's started as just a hole in the wall book trade store; but as Mr. Nolen has moved from place to place and finally settled down, it's evolved into a cozy place to come and sit, pet some cats (or a silly dragon, when he's in the mood) and read through old tomes, diaries and study up on various supernatural species. While Nolen does not like to sell the books in his possession, he can be persuaded to trade for them, or lend them out on occasion.
Exciting Extras: The store has magical wards throughout it to keep violence to a minimum. Anyone who attempts to steal or start a fight will find themselves thrown out, by forces unknown. Sometimes through the window. Sometimes.
Name of Business: Pending
Business Owner: Keyton Sauer
Type of Business: Hospital, Emergency Department & Medical Research.
Date Founded: Pending
Profit/Non Profit: Non Profit
Hiring Status: Hiring
Employee(s): Casey Hawthorne (Medical), Shane --- (Law Team), Ericc Hart (Law Team).
Business Description: Pending
Exciting Extras: Pending
Name of Business: Tilly's Trader
Business Owner: Matilda Hatford (NPC)
Type of Business: Grocery Store
Date Founded: August 2nd, 1955
Profit/Non Profit: Profit
Hiring Status: Hiring
Employee(s): Jason Hatford (NPC), Manager. Leona Williams (NPC), Cashier. Elenore Hatford (NPC), Cashier.
Business Description: Locally owned, locally sourced. Matilda Hatford opened up her own grocery store in 1955 when the local grocer raised prices to a level that many residents struggled to keep up with. She found the best deals she could over the years, and was thrilled to be able to cut prices even lower when she entered into a partnership with Hidden Valley shortly after they opened. HVR is the number one source of produce for the Island, and a lot of it comes right out of Tilly's.
Exciting Extras: Tilly is a human who stumbled onto the Island and spent several years a little oblivious. She's a proud mother to many adopted supernatural kids, with seemingly endless grandchildren. She hires a lot of local youth, and the store offers a small sitting are in their deli department for kids to sit, eat and do homework- one free meal a week!
Name of Business: Nolen's Tall Tails
Business Owner: Marshall Nolen & Devin Starr
Type of Business: Cat Cafe & Supernatural Book "Store"
Date Founded: January 2019
City Location: Fire Valley
Profit/Non Profit: Profit
Hiring Status: Not openly seeking, but hiring.
Employee(s): Marshall Nolen, Devin Starr, Russel.
Business Description: Nolen's Tall Tail's started as just a hole in the wall book trade store; but as Mr. Nolen has moved from place to place and finally settled down, it's evolved into a cozy place to come and sit, pet some cats (or a silly dragon, when he's in the mood) and read through old tomes, diaries and study up on various supernatural species. While Nolen does not like to sell the books in his possession, he can be persuaded to trade for them, or lend them out on occasion.
Exciting Extras: The store has magical wards throughout it to keep violence to a minimum. Anyone who attempts to steal or start a fight will find themselves thrown out, by forces unknown. Sometimes through the window. Sometimes.
Name of Business: Pending
Business Owner: Keyton Sauer
Type of Business: Hospital, Emergency Department & Medical Research.
Date Founded: Pending
Profit/Non Profit: Non Profit
Hiring Status: Hiring
Employee(s): Casey Hawthorne (Medical), Shane --- (Law Team), Ericc Hart (Law Team).
Business Description: Pending
Exciting Extras: Pending
Name of Business: Tilly's Trader
Business Owner: Matilda Hatford (NPC)
Type of Business: Grocery Store
Date Founded: August 2nd, 1955
Profit/Non Profit: Profit
Hiring Status: Hiring
Employee(s): Jason Hatford (NPC), Manager. Leona Williams (NPC), Cashier. Elenore Hatford (NPC), Cashier.
Business Description: Locally owned, locally sourced. Matilda Hatford opened up her own grocery store in 1955 when the local grocer raised prices to a level that many residents struggled to keep up with. She found the best deals she could over the years, and was thrilled to be able to cut prices even lower when she entered into a partnership with Hidden Valley shortly after they opened. HVR is the number one source of produce for the Island, and a lot of it comes right out of Tilly's.
Exciting Extras: Tilly is a human who stumbled onto the Island and spent several years a little oblivious. She's a proud mother to many adopted supernatural kids, with seemingly endless grandchildren. She hires a lot of local youth, and the store offers a small sitting are in their deli department for kids to sit, eat and do homework- one free meal a week!
Name of Business: The Teakettle
Business Owner: Samir Kerem
Type of Business: Tea cafe and used book shop.
Date Founded: October 2019
Profit/Non Profit: Profit (questionable because Samir likes to give away things)
Hiring Status: Always willing to offer work to someone who needs it
Employee(s): Nyrikki (sometimes), Vuokko Thorn (sometimes)
Business Description: Samir also owns a night club and bar in California, so he's rather new to the idea of a quite cafe and book shop. His goal has always been to offer a place for super naturals to be able to be themselves--although it seems Fenikso Isle has a lot of those already! The cafe serves all kinds of loose leaf tea and somehow seems to always have the flavor someone is looking for! They also serve small prepackaged treats and have shelves upon shelves of used books for sale.
Exciting Extras: There is heavy glamour magic that can be used by anyone familiar with the magic, it can allow them to show off/hide any non-human features to to anyone they want. The glamour feels like a weighted blanket placed on the shoulders to those who can sense it. Sometimes the glamour is used to flavor teas.
Thursdays are bingo nights!
Business Owner: Samir Kerem
Type of Business: Tea cafe and used book shop.
Date Founded: October 2019
Profit/Non Profit: Profit (questionable because Samir likes to give away things)
Hiring Status: Always willing to offer work to someone who needs it
Employee(s): Nyrikki (sometimes), Vuokko Thorn (sometimes)
Business Description: Samir also owns a night club and bar in California, so he's rather new to the idea of a quite cafe and book shop. His goal has always been to offer a place for super naturals to be able to be themselves--although it seems Fenikso Isle has a lot of those already! The cafe serves all kinds of loose leaf tea and somehow seems to always have the flavor someone is looking for! They also serve small prepackaged treats and have shelves upon shelves of used books for sale.
Exciting Extras: There is heavy glamour magic that can be used by anyone familiar with the magic, it can allow them to show off/hide any non-human features to to anyone they want. The glamour feels like a weighted blanket placed on the shoulders to those who can sense it. Sometimes the glamour is used to flavor teas.
Thursdays are bingo nights!
Name of Business:
Fire Valley Historical Archive and Library
Business Owner:
Finn Orin Ros (Recent)
Type of Business:
Local Library
Date Founded:
July 19, 1878
City Location:
Fire Valley
Profit/Non Profit:
Profit, the establishment also receives donations from local family figures that have resided upon Fenisko Island, holds charity events, receives a minute stipend from the college for providing services to and for the college, and charges a single time membership fee of $20 (which helps pay for internet, coffee, tea, and librarian services for technicians, teaching, etc).
Hiring Status:
Hiring
- Library Manager will be the assistant director and middle managers responsible for the operation of the library As manager they are responsible for work schedules, employee evaluations, training, and managing budgets.
Librarians help people with homework and research questions, decide what items to purchase and to discard, offer programs and training, help people use the internet, build websites, and more. Specialized librarians may run computer systems, work with seniors and non-English speaking populations, become specialists in a specific subject area, or maintain the records for the online catalog. Librarian jobs are full-time.- Library Assistants or Technicians perform clerical duties and are the first face people see, since most libraries' checkout desks are near the entrance. Library assistants often check materials out and in, collect fines and fees, answer general phone questions, issue library cards, process new library materials, and assist with items on reserve. Library assistant jobs may be part- or full-time.
- Pages are usually responsible for putting returned books and other items in their proper places on the shelves. They are also responsible for keeping items in the right order. Some handle requests for retrieving materials that are in secured areas, and others may be responsible for checking items back in. Page jobs are part-time.
Current Employee(s):
Owner and Library Director:
"Finn" Ros
Librarians:
Henry "Henz" Przybelski
NPC: Lillian "Lilly" Marshall, an older librarian that Finn is convinced she is as old as the establishment itself. She can be short, rude, and down right old school, but if you know what you are looking for she can find it at a moment's notice, and if they don't have it she can get it for you.Business Description:
This library was formed as a way to educate the locals but also a place to archive "historical" and "supernatural" artifacts. It has your normal run of the mill novels, fiction, non- fiction, educational, etc type books. There is a study hall area for the local college students, a small area for coffee and tea for free for those who have a purchased membership to the library.
The library also has a restricted area that is only for those of the supernatural persuasion, protected and bound by magic, these artifacts, grimoires and journals can never leave the library, but people may come in to study, learn, and decipher what they will of these found or donated relics.
Exciting Extras: Will be updated as things come up.
Name of Business: Apotheosis De la Cour.
Business Owner: Godryc Aurelius (OC).
Type of Business: Beauty and self care/professional cosmetic designer.
Date Founded: 1991
City Location: On the outskirts of Gem Point, rather eccentrically.
Profit/Non Profit: Profit. Baby needs that paycheck.
Hiring Status: Not actively hiring but willing to take on trainees looking to get into the business.
Employee(s): Godryc, and anyone who catches his interest (PenelopeNPC will occasionally man the front desk if Ryc has more than four appointments that day).
Business Description: The world sure does love to put a damper on self worth. Here at Apotheosis De la Cour, be it from piercings, ointment baths, skin treatment, embalming procedures, and even getting the bride and groom ready for their big day with a dash of eyeliner and a pinch of foundation. We strive to provide service to all living things, that beauty is no longer seen as vain and elitist. But something to be cherished and enjoyed. So come in, sit down, and feel unabashedly pampered.... I won't tell a soul~
Our doors are always
open.
Exciting Extras: Keep a lookout for weekly sales! 10-25% off for first-timers and patients in need of physical therapy! (Your insurance covers any additional charges
)
Manicure/pedicure: Starting at 50$ with 10$ increase per added service.
Aroma therapy: 9.58 $ an hour.
Herbal bath: 90$ (150$ for supes who wish to bathe in their beast/natural form) an hour, comes with free complimentary twenty minute massage.
Hot Stone Massage: 85$ an hour.
Chakra Balancing: 200$ with 5$ additional services.
Makeovers/Facials: 76$ an hour (feel free to bring your own beauty products, you know better than anyone what's best for your face!)
Other Services: For things like funerary preparation, wedding planning, or other specialized cases. Please inquire at ApotheosisDLC.net or call toll free at XXX-234-XX091. Prices can be arranged once the details are outlined*.
*We accept payment plans. All products used within the premises are organic and pet friendly, and have never been tested on lab animals.
Business Owner: Godryc Aurelius (OC).
Type of Business: Beauty and self care/professional cosmetic designer.
Date Founded: 1991
City Location: On the outskirts of Gem Point, rather eccentrically.
Profit/Non Profit: Profit. Baby needs that paycheck.
Hiring Status: Not actively hiring but willing to take on trainees looking to get into the business.
Employee(s): Godryc, and anyone who catches his interest (PenelopeNPC will occasionally man the front desk if Ryc has more than four appointments that day).
Business Description: The world sure does love to put a damper on self worth. Here at Apotheosis De la Cour, be it from piercings, ointment baths, skin treatment, embalming procedures, and even getting the bride and groom ready for their big day with a dash of eyeliner and a pinch of foundation. We strive to provide service to all living things, that beauty is no longer seen as vain and elitist. But something to be cherished and enjoyed. So come in, sit down, and feel unabashedly pampered.... I won't tell a soul~
Our doors are always
open.Exciting Extras: Keep a lookout for weekly sales! 10-25% off for first-timers and patients in need of physical therapy! (Your insurance covers any additional charges
)
PRICELIST
Manicure/pedicure: Starting at 50$ with 10$ increase per added service.
Aroma therapy: 9.58 $ an hour.
Herbal bath: 90$ (150$ for supes who wish to bathe in their beast/natural form) an hour, comes with free complimentary twenty minute massage.
Hot Stone Massage: 85$ an hour.
Chakra Balancing: 200$ with 5$ additional services.
Makeovers/Facials: 76$ an hour (feel free to bring your own beauty products, you know better than anyone what's best for your face!)
Other Services: For things like funerary preparation, wedding planning, or other specialized cases. Please inquire at ApotheosisDLC.net or call toll free at XXX-234-XX091. Prices can be arranged once the details are outlined*.
*We accept payment plans. All products used within the premises are organic and pet friendly, and have never been tested on lab animals.
Business Form
Name of Business: Willapa Hearth Community Center
Business Owner: Board of Directors (NPCs)
Type of Business: Community Center
Date Founded: 9/15/2004
City Location: Fire Valley
Profit/Non Profit: non profit
Hiring Status: Always accepting volunteers.
Employee(s):
One NPC maintenance person
one NPC security guard
5 NPC board of directors
one NPC chef
one NPC events and volunteers coordinator
one art director (in development/wip)
Business Description: Willapa Hearth Community Center was designed to provide a safe and welcoming environment for the Fenikso Isle community. It includes a community space, commercial kitchen, education space, and art studio. Community members are encouraged to volunteer to host classes-- all classes are free to Fenikso Isle residents. Classes regularly available at the Community Center include: cooking, yoga, ceramics, photography, zine making, creative writing, community theater, ASL, and more!
Exciting Extras: The Community Center hosts a weekly soup kitchen on Thursday evenings, as well as a community garden from April to October.
OOC: Feel free to claim your character teaches at the Community Center and/or attends classes there, regardless of whether they're listed here.