Table 1: Rookery Encounters
| Roll 2D10 | Encounter | Variations |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Day Nursery | Baby Farmer / Grandmothers’ Creche / Ragged School / No supervision or abandoned infant(s) |
| 3 | Animal Raising | chickens / toy dogs / pigsty / ducks / pet squirrels / pigeons |
| 4 | Workshop | slop-shop / sack-making / sewing machinists or hand sewers / knitters, lacemakers or embroiderers / rag-pickers / carpenters / toy-making/ furniture-finishing / tin smithing / cutlery / leather-workers / coal yard (guarded) / cobblers or shoemakers / brickworks / cigar-butt pickers / umbrella- and hairpiece-makers |
| 5 | Illness | tooth-puller / contagious infection (cholera, smallpox) / family sitting with unburied body |
| 6 | Toilet | pit / queue at overflowing latrine / corner of yard / corner of upstairs room / nightsoil man or dung cart |
| 7 | Kitchen | communal kitchen/ sweet-maker/ sausage-maker |
| 8 | Drinking Den | gin palace / beerhouse / territorial, sullen, belligerent, or unconscious drunk(s) |
| 9 | Blood Sport | dog fight / ratting pit / bare-knuckle boxing |
| 10 | Bedroom | common lodging house or overcrowded dormitory / multi-family rooms divided by hanging blankets / inter- or intra-family argument / sleeping on beds or piles of rags |
| 11 | Crime (non-violent) | fence / pawnbroker / child pickpockets or beggars in training / counterfeit coiners |
| 12 | Crime (violent or threat) | ongoing assault/ flash-house / gang den / attempted robbery |
| 13 | Sex Work | street workers / brothel run by a madam / pimp / hired muscle / ongoing fight |
| 14 | Landlord | rent day / eviction |
| 15 | Butchers | knacker’s yard / tannery / renderers and bone mills / cats’ meat man / glue-boilers / cat skinners |
| 16 | Children | hostile or curious group / playing hoop, skittles, chase, or football / abusing a live, or playing with a dead, animal / working / involved in any of the situations 2–15 above |
| 17 | Courtyard Pump or Standpipe | queues of women waiting to draw water / washing lines / commercial laundry |
| 18 | Visiting Social Reformer | parish priest / evangelist / ladies’ benevolent society / Salvation Army / temperance society / inspection committee from council, church, or charity |
| 19 | Home Improvements | windows stuffed with rags, and doors turned into firewood / false walls and partitions / roof-level bridges / tunnel between cellars or into house next door |
| 20 | Hazards / Obstacles | plank bridge/ open ditch or sewer/ rotted floor/ rickety staircase / ladder / loiterers on stairs / chamber pots emptied from overhead / collapse of shoddy building / flooding (rainwater, river, or sewage) / passage too narrow to negotiate except sideways |