Innkeeper
You don't think you could stop him if you tried, but you do try to minimize the damage by insisting on going with him and trying to talk to your professor first. You suggest going tomorrow night when you know she'll be working late in her lab and there won't be a lot of other people around.
"Alright, but whether or not you manage to talk any sense into this bitch, she's getting her monster tomorrow and forking over the rest of our pay!"
The trip to the university is an awkward coach ride. The daquala is growling loud enough for people to know Benjamin is carrying something alive in the covered cage, but fortunately you get to Dr. Gossey's lab without incident. She of course is surprised to see the three of you.
"Uh hello, I wasn't expecting to see you three wait did you bring the daquala with you?!"
"Damn straight! We've completed your task for you and then some! Time for you to take this fucking thing and pay us the rest of our money!" Hanon yells.
"I'll do no such thing, I haven't managed to clear things up with the dean yet and I still have some look I don't have time for this, you tell them!" Dr. Gossey says to you in an exasperated tone.
"Uh, I don't think that's going to help professor. Look surely there's a good strong container to hold this thing in here at the university and I'm pretty sure it can just be fed any sort of meat. Can't it be held here for now? Just keep it here in your private lab until you clear things up."
"NO! If anyone found out I'd be ruined! I've risked everything to get the beast, and I won't lose it all by keeping it on campus because of stupid rules! Now get it out of here now!"
You've never known professor Gossey to be so irrational, but she's going into overkill with this daquala business. You don't really understand why she can't keep it here. It would probably be better anyway since she could study it while she tries to do whatever "red tape clearing" she says she needs to do.
"Alright fuck this stupid shit, Ben drop the cage over there, we're getting out of here but we're also getting our money. I suggest you pay up, before things get ugly." Hanon warns.
"I'm not paying you anything else! I told you when the job is done I will and not before! What? What will you do, kill me? You'd never get away with it and I assure you I am not as defenseless as you might think! And as for YOU, if you don't stop siding with these glorified mercs you won't only not get the rest of your money, but you also won't be passing your class!"
After a couple more threats back and forth, and you trying to make peace between your professor and the adventurers, Hanon pulls out one of his pistols, Benjamin draws his axe and Dr. Gossey runs to a panel nearby which slams a adamantium shutter on the lab door sealing everyone in, she then produces a vial with a stopper on top.
"Hold it right there! One more move and I fill this place with the black pox plague!"
"Oh fuck! Come on everyone stop fighting!" you say backing away from everyone and looking for someway of getting out of the lab.
"Yeah right! Like you'd infect yourself!"
"Fool! Don't you think I've take the antidote already?"
"Bitch we just spent a month in the Sotakan swamps getting bit, stung and exposed to several diseases they probably don't even have names for yet. I'm pretty sure my magic can cure black pox!"
"Well let's find out then!" Dr. Gossey says and shatters the vial to the floor!
You can only look on in horror and sink to the floor in hopelessness. You don't even pay attention to the events that happen next.
Benjamin chases Dr. Gossey around the lab with his axe and while he's doing that, Hanon casts some sort of spell. Of course with Hanon no longer bothering with up keeping the spell wards on the cage, the daquala manages to finally bust out of its imprisonment due to ravenous hunger.
The daquala leaps on Hanon and tears into his neck releasing an arterial spray all over the surrounding area.
"NO!" Benjamin bellows and charges at the darquala who jumps away from eating Hanon's body and camouflages itself. It doesn't help it much though, the lab isn't like the dark expansive swamp and Ben is a big man with a big axe, he just starts chopping at everything and sure enough he eventually manages to graze the creature.
The daquala and Benjamin engage in a short battle, but ultimately Ben proves to be stronger and better armored. He manages to grab it in mid leap, throws it to the floor, stomps on its body with one of his heavy boots and finally brings his axe down on its head, killing it for good.
"Fuck, I told you bastards to just wait a little while! Now look what you've done! Eat lead asshole!" Dr. Gossey yells and shoots Benjamin in the head twice. He teeters a moment and then falls in a heap near the darquala.
Meanwhile you're still rocking back and forth and babbling about how all you wanted to be was a doctor and how you're going to die.
"If you're worried about black pox, you needn't be, there wasn't anything in the damn vial. I'm not crazy enough to release a plague. Now I'm sure Hanon and Ben coming here was probably out of your hands and you were just trying to play diplomat, but I suggest if you still want to be that doctor you always wanted to be, then you need to do what I say right now "
Dr. Gossey orders you to help her clean up this mess. The corpse of the daquala is placed in a new container. She says she can probably present a dead one without as many problems. She really was hoping for a live one though.
You ask her about the bodies of the adventurers, and she tells you grab that axe and start chopping them up. She then opens up another panel, presses a few buttons to reveal a secret passage. She enters the passage and comes back out with a big dumpster on wheels.
"When you hack them into small enough pieces, put them into this dumpster and feed the wazia in the next room. Don't worry he's quite tame; just make sure you throw the parts at him from a safe distance.
You snap out of your shock. A wazia? Those huge things live in the Cloudspeak Mountains and they've been known to even prey on trolls and small manticores! You're almost about to question Dr. Gossey about how she got one of those things, but you stop yourself. The why's and how's aren't even important right now, what matters is getting out of this mess.
After stopping yourself from vomiting several times during your dismemberment of Ben and Hanon, you proceed to nervously feed the wazia, which isn't even chained up. You half expect it to gobble you up in one gulp or even Dr. Gossey shutting you in, neither happens. You toss limbs near the beast and it eats a few, and ignores the rest. You presume it will eat them later and you get the hell out of there.
"You see why I couldn't have yet another illegal creature on campus? I'm already running a risk with that wazia. If you think what happened here was bad, you should've seen what happened when the adventurers I hired were demanding payment for that thing! Speaking of which I suppose I should pay you the rest of your money. Sorry about the threats before. It was sort of a tense moment you know. I'm sure you understand."
You just nod and don't argue. It's unspoken that you won't be saying anything to anyone about this. What could you say anyway? After Dr. Gossey gives you some new lab clothes to change into, you head home exhausted.
The next day you don't even bother going to class, you sleep in late and spend a majority of the afternoon sitting in your room thinking about some of the shit you've done to achieve your goals. Serving homemade alcohol without a license seems to be the least of your crimes now.
"Okay, okay, I just did what I had to do. It's all for a good cause, I'm just trying to better myself." You say and try to wipe your concerns about the morality of it all. You then head downstairs to the surprise of Wendy who figured you were at school.
"Stayed home today eh? How come you didn't come down when I opened this place up?"
"I was busy."
"Hmm, okay then. I know you left with those two adventurers and that monster last night. I'm guessing that business is settled then?"
"Yeah, it's all settled."
True words in many ways. You have enough money to continue your education and with this financial pressure off, you easily pass the rest of your classes with no worries. You later sell off the inn (Which pisses off Rita and Wendy who now have to find new jobs, Eliza and Alan are a bit upset as well), get a cheap apartment near the campus and given your close relationship with Dr. Gossey you get a good job working at the hospital while you complete medical school. It isn't easy of course, but given what you've already been through you're able to handle it.
Eventually you do fulfill your goals of becoming a doctor. You don't stay in Klyton though. You have too many bad memories and reminders of "bad things" going on there in general. So you move to the Delantium Kingdom, specifically a border city called Sivak, which has great demand for doctors at their new hospital. The rest of your life is a relatively good one.
Still, you do have your bouts of guilt every now and then with some of your choices that got you to where you are, sometimes wondering if you could've handled a few things better at the inn.
Who can say, but in any case your days as an innkeeper are long over.
"Alright, but whether or not you manage to talk any sense into this bitch, she's getting her monster tomorrow and forking over the rest of our pay!"
The trip to the university is an awkward coach ride. The daquala is growling loud enough for people to know Benjamin is carrying something alive in the covered cage, but fortunately you get to Dr. Gossey's lab without incident. She of course is surprised to see the three of you.
"Uh hello, I wasn't expecting to see you three wait did you bring the daquala with you?!"
"Damn straight! We've completed your task for you and then some! Time for you to take this fucking thing and pay us the rest of our money!" Hanon yells.
"I'll do no such thing, I haven't managed to clear things up with the dean yet and I still have some look I don't have time for this, you tell them!" Dr. Gossey says to you in an exasperated tone.
"Uh, I don't think that's going to help professor. Look surely there's a good strong container to hold this thing in here at the university and I'm pretty sure it can just be fed any sort of meat. Can't it be held here for now? Just keep it here in your private lab until you clear things up."
"NO! If anyone found out I'd be ruined! I've risked everything to get the beast, and I won't lose it all by keeping it on campus because of stupid rules! Now get it out of here now!"
You've never known professor Gossey to be so irrational, but she's going into overkill with this daquala business. You don't really understand why she can't keep it here. It would probably be better anyway since she could study it while she tries to do whatever "red tape clearing" she says she needs to do.
"Alright fuck this stupid shit, Ben drop the cage over there, we're getting out of here but we're also getting our money. I suggest you pay up, before things get ugly." Hanon warns.
"I'm not paying you anything else! I told you when the job is done I will and not before! What? What will you do, kill me? You'd never get away with it and I assure you I am not as defenseless as you might think! And as for YOU, if you don't stop siding with these glorified mercs you won't only not get the rest of your money, but you also won't be passing your class!"
After a couple more threats back and forth, and you trying to make peace between your professor and the adventurers, Hanon pulls out one of his pistols, Benjamin draws his axe and Dr. Gossey runs to a panel nearby which slams a adamantium shutter on the lab door sealing everyone in, she then produces a vial with a stopper on top.
"Hold it right there! One more move and I fill this place with the black pox plague!"
"Oh fuck! Come on everyone stop fighting!" you say backing away from everyone and looking for someway of getting out of the lab.
"Yeah right! Like you'd infect yourself!"
"Fool! Don't you think I've take the antidote already?"
"Bitch we just spent a month in the Sotakan swamps getting bit, stung and exposed to several diseases they probably don't even have names for yet. I'm pretty sure my magic can cure black pox!"
"Well let's find out then!" Dr. Gossey says and shatters the vial to the floor!
You can only look on in horror and sink to the floor in hopelessness. You don't even pay attention to the events that happen next.
Benjamin chases Dr. Gossey around the lab with his axe and while he's doing that, Hanon casts some sort of spell. Of course with Hanon no longer bothering with up keeping the spell wards on the cage, the daquala manages to finally bust out of its imprisonment due to ravenous hunger.
The daquala leaps on Hanon and tears into his neck releasing an arterial spray all over the surrounding area.
"NO!" Benjamin bellows and charges at the darquala who jumps away from eating Hanon's body and camouflages itself. It doesn't help it much though, the lab isn't like the dark expansive swamp and Ben is a big man with a big axe, he just starts chopping at everything and sure enough he eventually manages to graze the creature.
The daquala and Benjamin engage in a short battle, but ultimately Ben proves to be stronger and better armored. He manages to grab it in mid leap, throws it to the floor, stomps on its body with one of his heavy boots and finally brings his axe down on its head, killing it for good.
"Fuck, I told you bastards to just wait a little while! Now look what you've done! Eat lead asshole!" Dr. Gossey yells and shoots Benjamin in the head twice. He teeters a moment and then falls in a heap near the darquala.
Meanwhile you're still rocking back and forth and babbling about how all you wanted to be was a doctor and how you're going to die.
"If you're worried about black pox, you needn't be, there wasn't anything in the damn vial. I'm not crazy enough to release a plague. Now I'm sure Hanon and Ben coming here was probably out of your hands and you were just trying to play diplomat, but I suggest if you still want to be that doctor you always wanted to be, then you need to do what I say right now "
Dr. Gossey orders you to help her clean up this mess. The corpse of the daquala is placed in a new container. She says she can probably present a dead one without as many problems. She really was hoping for a live one though.
You ask her about the bodies of the adventurers, and she tells you grab that axe and start chopping them up. She then opens up another panel, presses a few buttons to reveal a secret passage. She enters the passage and comes back out with a big dumpster on wheels.
"When you hack them into small enough pieces, put them into this dumpster and feed the wazia in the next room. Don't worry he's quite tame; just make sure you throw the parts at him from a safe distance.
You snap out of your shock. A wazia? Those huge things live in the Cloudspeak Mountains and they've been known to even prey on trolls and small manticores! You're almost about to question Dr. Gossey about how she got one of those things, but you stop yourself. The why's and how's aren't even important right now, what matters is getting out of this mess.
After stopping yourself from vomiting several times during your dismemberment of Ben and Hanon, you proceed to nervously feed the wazia, which isn't even chained up. You half expect it to gobble you up in one gulp or even Dr. Gossey shutting you in, neither happens. You toss limbs near the beast and it eats a few, and ignores the rest. You presume it will eat them later and you get the hell out of there.
"You see why I couldn't have yet another illegal creature on campus? I'm already running a risk with that wazia. If you think what happened here was bad, you should've seen what happened when the adventurers I hired were demanding payment for that thing! Speaking of which I suppose I should pay you the rest of your money. Sorry about the threats before. It was sort of a tense moment you know. I'm sure you understand."
You just nod and don't argue. It's unspoken that you won't be saying anything to anyone about this. What could you say anyway? After Dr. Gossey gives you some new lab clothes to change into, you head home exhausted.
The next day you don't even bother going to class, you sleep in late and spend a majority of the afternoon sitting in your room thinking about some of the shit you've done to achieve your goals. Serving homemade alcohol without a license seems to be the least of your crimes now.
"Okay, okay, I just did what I had to do. It's all for a good cause, I'm just trying to better myself." You say and try to wipe your concerns about the morality of it all. You then head downstairs to the surprise of Wendy who figured you were at school.
"Stayed home today eh? How come you didn't come down when I opened this place up?"
"I was busy."
"Hmm, okay then. I know you left with those two adventurers and that monster last night. I'm guessing that business is settled then?"
"Yeah, it's all settled."
True words in many ways. You have enough money to continue your education and with this financial pressure off, you easily pass the rest of your classes with no worries. You later sell off the inn (Which pisses off Rita and Wendy who now have to find new jobs, Eliza and Alan are a bit upset as well), get a cheap apartment near the campus and given your close relationship with Dr. Gossey you get a good job working at the hospital while you complete medical school. It isn't easy of course, but given what you've already been through you're able to handle it.
Eventually you do fulfill your goals of becoming a doctor. You don't stay in Klyton though. You have too many bad memories and reminders of "bad things" going on there in general. So you move to the Delantium Kingdom, specifically a border city called Sivak, which has great demand for doctors at their new hospital. The rest of your life is a relatively good one.
Still, you do have your bouts of guilt every now and then with some of your choices that got you to where you are, sometimes wondering if you could've handled a few things better at the inn.
Who can say, but in any case your days as an innkeeper are long over.
