Innkeeper
Rita's bluffing. Despite her high opinion of herself, she still needs this job.
"Rita, you're out of line. EVERYONE busts their ass around here and I'm not going to show you some sort of favoritism just because your looks are bringing in more people!"
Rita bickers with the rest of you for a while and after threatening to quit several times during the argument she finally agrees to stay, but you still have to give her a small raise. Nothing pocket breaking, but enough to shut her up and keep Wendy from rebelling in the process.
The next few weeks go as well as can be expected, though Rita's constant complaining is an ongoing problem. Eventually you learn to tune her out, but one day she's "tuned out" permanently.
While Rita was still more or less doing her job of bringing in more people, her attitude got a lot worse. This sometimes resulted in her driving away people as opposed to enticing them. This still wouldn't be so bad considering how many losers are willing to put up with abuse from pretty girls.
The problem was when she eventually pissed off the wrong person and this deranged individual decided to "teach the whore a lesson" and waited for her after work. The gruesome details involved rape, the removal of several of her vital parts and death (Not necessarily in that order).
You can't say you exactly liked Rita's personality, but she didn't deserve that. You even feel partially responsible for putting her in that position in the first place. Your mother tries to assure you that it wasn't your fault, but it still doesn't make you feel any better.
You feel even worse when the inn begins to feel the loss. While several regular customers offer their condolences many of the others brought in by Rita in the first place stop coming. You also don't have Rita to help bring in any new people either. Eliza also quits because she's so shook up about Rita's death that she feels it isn't safe to work at the inn anymore.
You manage to pay off Mr. Reynolds, but it's just barely again and you're not optimistic about future payments since he's hinted that he's going to need larger payments in the future. It would seem he realizes that you've almost paid him off and he wants to keep the money flow a little longer. You're so disheartened by this, Rita's death and the other headaches that you've had to put up with that you decide maybe it's time to just give up.
You fought the good fight for as long as you could, but maybe it just wasn't meant to be. You're not going to finish this one, which is a familiar theme to you since you dropped out of college. You tell your mother what you think and she seems just as eager to sell the place off too since the past few months have been pretty stressful.
During the remaining week the inn stays open to make a last bit of change before closing for good and selling to the city. Some of the miners seem a little sad by it, but there were so many changes within such a short period of time that most seemed content on finding a new place since the old one wasn't like how it used to be anymore.
When the inn is sold off, you barely make enough to cover the debt, but at least you and your mother aren't in any immediate danger now.
Your mother finds work as a cook for a short time, but eventually decides she can't really stand living in the city without your father anymore. She leaves to go live with your aunt Enora in Teckleville, which is to the east on the outskirts of the Delantium Kingdom.
After a long time of the inn just sitting untended and forgotten due to the council having more pressing matters and red tape, it's broken into by several homeless people who use it as a place to sleep. The homeless are soon ousted by a local gang who use it as a safe house. Eventually though they cause enough trouble that the Klyton Militia has to take severe action and storm the place, resulting in a small fire.
At this point someone in the council finally notices it, decides that the place isn't worth salvaging and proposes that it be knocked down to build a medical clinic in its place to try to uplift the area. The motion passes.
As for you, you find a job thanks to your education level, but it isn't anywhere in the field that you would've liked. You're a clerk in tax office, filing away items, straightening out reports and such. You never really move up and you never make enough money to save away to get ahead either.
You don't really have a bad life so much as a mind numbingly mundane one. You do have your good days, but ultimately you never really achieve your goals and always have a sense of dissatisfaction with your life.
Sometimes you look back and wonder where you exactly went wrong with the inn and how you could've done things differently.
You'll never know.
"Rita, you're out of line. EVERYONE busts their ass around here and I'm not going to show you some sort of favoritism just because your looks are bringing in more people!"
Rita bickers with the rest of you for a while and after threatening to quit several times during the argument she finally agrees to stay, but you still have to give her a small raise. Nothing pocket breaking, but enough to shut her up and keep Wendy from rebelling in the process.
The next few weeks go as well as can be expected, though Rita's constant complaining is an ongoing problem. Eventually you learn to tune her out, but one day she's "tuned out" permanently.
While Rita was still more or less doing her job of bringing in more people, her attitude got a lot worse. This sometimes resulted in her driving away people as opposed to enticing them. This still wouldn't be so bad considering how many losers are willing to put up with abuse from pretty girls.
The problem was when she eventually pissed off the wrong person and this deranged individual decided to "teach the whore a lesson" and waited for her after work. The gruesome details involved rape, the removal of several of her vital parts and death (Not necessarily in that order).
You can't say you exactly liked Rita's personality, but she didn't deserve that. You even feel partially responsible for putting her in that position in the first place. Your mother tries to assure you that it wasn't your fault, but it still doesn't make you feel any better.
You feel even worse when the inn begins to feel the loss. While several regular customers offer their condolences many of the others brought in by Rita in the first place stop coming. You also don't have Rita to help bring in any new people either. Eliza also quits because she's so shook up about Rita's death that she feels it isn't safe to work at the inn anymore.
You manage to pay off Mr. Reynolds, but it's just barely again and you're not optimistic about future payments since he's hinted that he's going to need larger payments in the future. It would seem he realizes that you've almost paid him off and he wants to keep the money flow a little longer. You're so disheartened by this, Rita's death and the other headaches that you've had to put up with that you decide maybe it's time to just give up.
You fought the good fight for as long as you could, but maybe it just wasn't meant to be. You're not going to finish this one, which is a familiar theme to you since you dropped out of college. You tell your mother what you think and she seems just as eager to sell the place off too since the past few months have been pretty stressful.
During the remaining week the inn stays open to make a last bit of change before closing for good and selling to the city. Some of the miners seem a little sad by it, but there were so many changes within such a short period of time that most seemed content on finding a new place since the old one wasn't like how it used to be anymore.
When the inn is sold off, you barely make enough to cover the debt, but at least you and your mother aren't in any immediate danger now.
Your mother finds work as a cook for a short time, but eventually decides she can't really stand living in the city without your father anymore. She leaves to go live with your aunt Enora in Teckleville, which is to the east on the outskirts of the Delantium Kingdom.
After a long time of the inn just sitting untended and forgotten due to the council having more pressing matters and red tape, it's broken into by several homeless people who use it as a place to sleep. The homeless are soon ousted by a local gang who use it as a safe house. Eventually though they cause enough trouble that the Klyton Militia has to take severe action and storm the place, resulting in a small fire.
At this point someone in the council finally notices it, decides that the place isn't worth salvaging and proposes that it be knocked down to build a medical clinic in its place to try to uplift the area. The motion passes.
As for you, you find a job thanks to your education level, but it isn't anywhere in the field that you would've liked. You're a clerk in tax office, filing away items, straightening out reports and such. You never really move up and you never make enough money to save away to get ahead either.
You don't really have a bad life so much as a mind numbingly mundane one. You do have your good days, but ultimately you never really achieve your goals and always have a sense of dissatisfaction with your life.
Sometimes you look back and wonder where you exactly went wrong with the inn and how you could've done things differently.
You'll never know.
