Illegal Grocers of Horntoe

What makes things illegal?
Illegality. Taking rights away from other sentient beings. Right to possessions. Right to property. Right to life. When these are taken it is illegal. Usually.
Sometimes illegality is just the effusive greed of a person in high office who wants to put the world in its place, under their feet. This causes all sorts of things to become illegal. Brickwork. Sandals. Short fruit trees.
Thus, in the kingdom of Horntoe squatting good-naturedly on the Evermore Plains beside the Loophorn River, we find our illegal grocers.

Career

Qualifications

A sure knowledge of how to properly box and bag fruits and vegetables to look like other goods.

Career Progression

1. Many grocers begin as Pluckers in the fields nourishing edible plants and demolishing non-edible ones.
2. They work their way up to being a Gatherer in charge of claiming the grown goods from their dirty homes.
3. Boxers come next, doing the important job of preparing grown goods for transport
4. Cartmen take the grown goods to the grocer
5. Grocer's allow the rest of society to enjoy the "fruits" of all this labor.

Other Benefits

To be a Grocer in Horntoe is to be feared. Who knows what skills these people have? Who knows how they manage to get away from the Mayor Fluffnod's Guard? Their fruits and vegetables somehow still find their way into the hands of the populace and few have ever been caught. The people look up to their Grocers. Who wouldn't?

Perception

Purpose

To bring fruit and vegetables to the scurvy ridden populace sick of trying to eat the weeds in their backyards.

History

Grocers were once an invisible part of town life. They puttered about their profession in much the same way everyone else did. Everyone knew them and they knew pretty much everyone in their turn.
Then, by hook and by crook, Mayor Fluffnod came into office. He was a character more interested in his own big nose than in learning the ropes of Mayorhood. He set that nose to find a wife, because it would add to his fame to take a wife from the town not because he was actually in love with anything or anyone apart from himself.
Mayor Fluffnod, surveying his town on Market Day, passed the grocer. He passed by the apples, the potatoes and the unusual squash. He did not, however, pass by the grocer's daughter.
The obvious followed. Mayor Fluffnod was rejected, embittered and some say broken hearted. Though some people are kinder than others. Others said it was simply because his gleaming pride took a scratch. Mayor Fluffnod outlawed the grocer. All grocers! Especially grocers with pretty daughters!

Demand

It is a staple, whatever the Mayor might think.