Anthropia: The Mages (Chanters Edited)
Upper class citizens have been known to hire freelancing mages to support their troops in battle, or commune with the spirits to help them run their territories more effectively, such as conjuring rain to end a drought, or laying waste to one's enemies with
MAGI: Chapter 04 - Reveal
Seems like all that time i spent freelancing actually's worth a damn." the horse barely flinched as he spotted the bared teeth and gums from the wolf. he had struck a nerve. "you ungrateful..."
Mistakes Happen
He was a freelance writer, taking whatever writing job that came his way. twilight couldn't stop herself from giggling at a few of his really bad jokes. during the whole time there, she never felt like he was trying to forcing her to do anything.
Shattered Feathers: Blockade. Chapter 1
That fleet is coming to stomp out the resistance and cut down the freelance pirates." aleutian glanced around the table. "they are delayed, for one reason only. biliskner is damaged.
Here, There Be Dragons - Ch. 5 - Catbulgar and a Stowaway
They were the reason grottos were established, and they were the reason people like her lived off the grid and her official job title was "freelance acquisitioneer."
Navigating in a Changed World - Consulting the Enforcers
Heck, for a job like that they could even have paid a freelancer. they surely are interested in her." "yeah, it seems like it." emilia admitted, "i still don't really get why." "that is a matter for the upper rankings." the tod said to her.
Navigating in a Changed World - An Assignment in Sahara Square
"no one trusts freelancers." the panther said back, "especially not the ones like you, blackwall." the rat looked back at him. "yes, of course.... pads?"
Shrika: the Hunt Begins
Backup; the cti corporation, the business founded by the uppity dolphin morph who'd ended the war, paid her for every one of those devils she brought in, and paid her well, as well as providing her equipment and occassional backup, despite her being termed a 'freelancer
Borrowed Space, Part 1 [Patreon Commission]
Then it was two weeks after that in an entirely different star system where kobaj received one of his first freelance repair calls, and showed up at the location of interest only for the door to open to show that same white tiger, this time clad in
Navigating in a Changed World - Leaked Information
"but you also have become careless enough to abandon the package, the package that we worked so hard into tracking and that we had to resort to a freelancer to bring to us, as soon as the situation became too difficult to you."
A Lamb Among Wolves Ch:44
But now that the ewe was working her own hours as a freelance author, she had just as easily slipped back into a steady pattern of waking up around eight in the morning even when she had very little to actually do.
The Risen Curtain - Chapter 17: The Interview - The Mage's Association
Some chose to embrace the lives of freelancers, but these are looked down by the mage community. some use of... 'less honorable' ways of making money.