7. THE SHITSWEEPERS’ GUILD
Master: Zulgoss Helberad (2nd level cleric of Lathander)
Headquarters: Muleskull Tavern, #263, Ship Street, Dock
Ward
Livery: cap with red and orange feathers
Entrance: 1 gp (by application to the Elder
Shitsweepers—6 senior members—their decision absolute,
but may be questioned 1 year after being made or
reversed)
Dues: 1 gp/year
Contact: the Master

This is a poor guild, consisting of those who clean the
streets (and, for a fee, the stables of others) in Waterdeep.
Normally, they do not do sewer work, the province
of another Guild, but the City, for security reasons,
reserves the right when necessary to contact the Master
of this Guild to hire (by the day; the City pays 5 sp to the
worker and 3 sp to the Guild, per worker) Guild members
to help in such work.

The Dungsweepers have a traditional right to “glean
the sweepings”, keeping anything discarded for their
own use. Obvious valuables are to be turned in to the
Master for sale, the individual Sweeper receiving half the
sale value and the Guild the other half. Guild members
bring their sweepings to Fishgut Court, where large wagons
provided by the Guild take the refuse once per day
under guard by a mounted patrol of fourteen Guardsmen,
to a refuse dump south of the City, the “Rat Hills,” a
site chosen years ago to discourage hostile landings on
the shallow shore between the City and the River Dessarin.
The dump is also known sardonically as “the Palace
of the Rats.” Prospective smugglers should note that
the guardsmen inspect the wagons and their loads carefully
as they are being filled and emptied, and as they reenter
the City, looking underneath and with an attendant
low-level mage employing detect magic and detect invisible.
There is little interest in joining this Guild, as few fancy
the working conditions. Despite its work and its
poverty, this Guild can be quite influential when the Master
gets upset about something. He can quietly threaten
to withhold Guild services, or dump the dung in specified
(embarrassing, and inconvenient) areas, such as in front
of a food market, festhall, or tavern. Wisely for all
involved, the Master uses this power sparingly.