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Hailey

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Overview

Hailey is the kind shopkeeper at the General Goods Store in the King's Demesne. Her current route focuses on everyday conversations, a one-time wisdom activity, community scenes and an optional Christmas task. She is not recruitable as a brothel worker and has no personal romance, date, apartment or pregnancy route.

Quick Stats

Attribute Value
Age / era / alignment 35 / Medieval / Neutral
Location and hours General Goods Store, 6 AM–9 PM, every game day
Favorite stats Strength 35; Stamina 40; Ability 45
Special relationship skill Empathy; doubles the applicable relationship reward
Talk 15 minutes; 1 actual base point; five per game day
Ordinary gifts or skill lessons None configured
One-time activity Empathy Wisdom: Known and Communication 46
  1. Go to the Merchants Quarter in the King's Demesne, then General Goods Store, during 6 AM–9 PM. The General Goods Store introduction starts automatically once. Choose Caring for 9 base Hailey points: 5 completion points plus 4 for the response.
  2. Use Talk to Hailey, up to five times per game day. Favorite stats and already knowing Empathy can improve the final gain. The handler records 1 base point, despite the action metadata listing 2.
  3. At Acknowledged, check the shared community scenes below. Some require Sophie, Willow or Nerida to reach their own stages; Hailey's affection alone does not start them.
  4. At Known, raise Communication to 46 and choose Empathy Wisdom. This takes 30 minutes, awards 8 fixed Hailey affection, and can be completed once.
  5. With Hailey Known, Kalb Acknowledged and Ben Arthur Acknowledged, return to the store during 6–9 PM for The Missing Ingredients Mystery. The guide gives its entry conditions without revealing the mystery's answer.
  6. If Christmas activities are enabled, use Holiday Cheer for Hailey while she is Known for a separate one-time affection and Token reward.
Buying shop supplies is useful for your inventory, but purchases do not award Hailey affection. Her higher relationship stages do not unlock an unimplemented date or worker route.

Talk and Empathy Wisdom

Talk costs 15 minutes and records 1 base point on each of the first five daily uses. Further attempts record −1 and use the shared over-limit handling. Ordinary base points are adjusted by favorite-stat, special-skill and general relationship bonuses.
Empathy Wisdom requires Known and Communication 46, at the store during Hailey's schedule. It has no money, energy or calm payment configured beyond its 30-minute time cost. Its 8 affection is added directly and is therefore fixed.
The activity advertises “+1 Empathy”, but the current reward tries to increase a core stat named Empathy. Empathy is a skill, not a core stat, so this does not increase a stat or teach the Empathy skill. The fixed affection reward and one-time completion still apply. Learn Empathy through an actual skill lesson elsewhere if you want its relationship bonus.
The introduction, Talk and Empathy Wisdom are separate rewards; the one-time activities do not consume the Talk allowance.

Community Scenes

These are one-time automatic scenes at the listed locations. Each has its own requirements and completion flag; they do not form a mandatory single sequence.
Scene Where and when Requirements Reward or choice guidance
The General Goods Store General Goods Store, 6 AM–9 PM Not previously completed 5 base Hailey points; Caring +4, Funny +3, Flirty +2
A Respectable Arrangement General Goods Store during its 6 AM–9 PM opening hours Brothel owned; Elara not vacationing 5 base Hailey and 5 base Elara points; no extra Hailey-stage requirement
Small Kindnesses Remembered General Goods Store, 8 AM–6 PM Hailey and Sophie Acknowledged; Sophie recruited as worker 2 and not vacationing 5 base points each to Hailey and Sophie
The Herbalist's Apprentice General Goods Store, 10 AM–4 PM Hailey, Willow and Nerida Acknowledged; Willow not vacationing Best Hailey response: “Knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied.”, 8 base Hailey points
Herbal Remedies / Herbal Remedies Discussion General Goods Store, 11 AM–3 PM Willow Known and not vacationing Shared discussion; no configured affection reward or extra Hailey-stage requirement
The Missing Ingredients Mystery General Goods Store, 6–9 PM Hailey Known; Kalb and Ben Arthur Acknowledged All three investigation replies continue the scene; no configured affection reward
The Lost Pet Situation Central Plaza, King's Demesne, 8 AM–6 PM Hailey Known; Shadow Known; Sophie Acknowledged and recruited as worker 2; Sophie and Shadow not vacationing Help search for +3 base Hailey and Sophie points
For The Herbalist's Apprentice, the three response rewards are:
Reply Hailey Willow Nerida
“That's a wonderful idea for community health.” 7 8 6
“People should learn to help themselves.” 6 6 8
“Knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied.” 8 10 5
These are base relationship points; there is no additional completion affection configured for this scene. The philosophical reply is best for Hailey and Willow; the practical reply is best for Nerida.
For The Lost Pet Situation, choose “Of course we'll help. Tell us where you saw her last.” for +3 base points each to Hailey and Sophie and Good alignment. Delegating gives +1 each and Neutral alignment; the cruel reply gives −2 each and Evil alignment; walking away gives no configured affection reward. The scene's outcome is left for you to discover.
Hailey's housing location is Residential Demesne, but her current playable schedule is the store only. These automatic encounters use their own gates; do not wait for all participating portraits to share Hailey's store schedule.

General Goods Store Purchases

The store opens 6 AM–9 PM. Its shopping actions are location services, separate from Hailey's relationship menu; none requires a Hailey affection stage or increases her affection.
Purchase Price Time Inventory result
Common Ingredients $20 10 minutes 5 common Ingredients
Rare Herb $20 10 minutes 1 rare Ingredient
Common Goods $20 10 minutes 5 common Materials
Rations $100 15 minutes 10 Food
Pillow $25 10 minutes 1 Comfort item
Pillow x3 $75 15 minutes 3 Comfort items
Sturdy Broom $300 Maid equipment purchase Adds the item to maid inventory; +3 Cleaning when used as maid equipment; requires brothel owned
Personal Polish Cloth $350 Maid equipment purchase Adds the item to maid inventory; +4 Cleaning when used as maid equipment; requires brothel owned
Rare Herb here grants a rare crafting Ingredient; it is not a consumable gift for Hailey. Its normal shop purchase does not use the Black Market's Deception bonus. Maid items must be equipped through the maid system to supply their equipment bonuses.

Christmas Activity

When Christmas activities are enabled, visit the store during 6 AM–9 PM with Hailey Known and choose Holiday Cheer for Hailey. It takes 10 minutes, can be completed once, gives 10 fixed Hailey affection and awards 1 Token. It has no gift item or money payment configured.
This is Christmas task 14 and does not require a real-world holiday date. Enable the event's activities through the Christmas setting. The task's fixed affection is separate from the modified base points used by Talk and community scenes.

Optional Store Theft

The location also offers Steal Coins with Thieves Guild clout 10 and Sleight of Hand. It takes 20 minutes, is available once per game day, and uses Rogue as its success percentage, capped at 85%.
On success it gives $10–50 plus the Luck/2 stat bonus and has a 25% chance of +1 Thieves Guild clout. The action separately has a 25% chance of +1 Evil alignment, regardless of success. It does not raise Hailey affection or advance her community scenes.

Troubleshooting

  • Store or Hailey unavailable: return during 6 AM–9 PM; the store itself has opening hours.
  • Talk gain differs from its description: the current handler uses 1 base point, with five daily uses and ordinary relationship modifiers.
  • Empathy Wisdom missing: reach Known and Communication 46, and check whether you already completed it.
  • No Empathy skill after Wisdom: its current core-stat reward does not teach the skill; the fixed +8 affection still applies.
  • Community scene missing: check every participant's listed stage, Sophie's recruitment where required, vacation status and the scene's individual time window.
  • No romance or recruitment: Hailey's current content is a community and shopkeeper route. Higher affection does not add a worker, apartment or date activity.

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