Dungeon Crawling, Round 1!

[Anastasia]

The rope is severed! The remaining rope is sucked down; however, an entirely too long tendril comes up from the depths and lashes out at Ayane in revenge!

> roll 1d20+12 (-2 PA)
<Saulbot> Kotono rolled 1d20+12 (-2 PA) --> [ 1d20=12 ]{24}

The horrible brown tendril slams into the ground next to Ayane before starting to slide back into the water!

You guys can react. If you wanna go all offensive or going into the water, we'll do initiative.

[Dracos]

Ayane smiled widely, "Okay, let's see, the correct technique for this is..."

Krog found himself dragged halfway down the hall before she finished, in a sing song voice, "Run away~"

Returning to the main room, she went towards the remaining unexplored alcove/doorway.

[Merc]

"Krog agree. Never good when seafood see you as food instead," Krog comments as he's pulled back.

[Anastasia]

Into the dark archway the party goes! A few steps in makes Ayane blink. It's not dark at all! Instead, she finds herself in a pleasant, well lit room. A woman is here, with short brown hair. She wears unusual clothes, some sort of coarse blue pants and a knitted top. She smothers a yawn as you enter, pretty but not terribly so. "Oh, hi there. Oooh, this is your first time here?"

[Dracos]

Ayane blinks a bit at the shift, her eyes adjusting quickly as she put on a warm smile like a pleasant mask, "Oh, yes, we're just exploring...I guess you get a lot of those."

[Anastasia]

"Yeah, it's how I make a living here." After a moment, "...not nearly well enough, stupid greed Lord Ger..." But that's cut off before it finishes, instead, "Nice to meet you. I'm Janna." With a pleasant smile, "Have you ever been stuck between a dungeon wall and a monster way too strong to kill? Trying to drag a dead friend back while not being overcome by shocker lizards? Or just not felt like walking twenty floors back up?" With a nice smile, "I can help you with all of those!"

[Dracos]

"Ah, rent is tough," She nodded understandingly.  "Nice to meet you Janna.  I'm Ayane...  and how might you be able to help us?"

[Anastasia]

Janna reaches into a pocket, taking out a few jade fragments. "Look but don't touch. See these?" She takes the time to lay them out on the table in front of her, "I can make teleportation keys for this dungeon. For just 5,000 gold, I can make one that will return you to the entrance of the floor you're on. For 7,500, I sell you one that'll take you to Lord German's throne room. For 10,000..." Janna smiles mysteriously, "I can give you one that takes you to a secret place."

[Dracos]

"Oh what a fantastic deal, just 500 gold?  Excellent," She cheerfully replied. "But you're on the first floor, how does anyone know how many floors there are?  And what is the secret place?"

OOC: Any other doors?

[Merc]

"How often can use a teleport thingie?" Krog asks.

[Anastasia]

There aren't. It's a dead end.

"Oh, that old ...nice old man didn't tell you?" Janna plasters a smile onto her face, keeping it up long enough. "Each level of the dungeon has a secret area. There's one entrance that's very well hidden, if you can find it you'll find a well guarded horde with a special item.  If you're stumped or lazy..." Janna picks up one of the jade pieces and grins. "AND HEY! It's 5,000! Ahem. They're one use, but you won't find a better or safer deal."

[Dracos]

"Oh, so they're basically a laziness tax?" She nodded, keeping her voice pitched a bit ditzily, with a disarming smile. "Sounds like fun, but that's such a high number, isn't there other things that'd be more useful to trade?"

[Anastasia]

"Unless you can send me back home, no." With a slight laugh at that, "I'll give you the entire collection if you can do that. But...mm..." She peers at Ayane and Krog, and then, "Big guy, I don't think I caught your name."

[Merc]

"Only one time?" Krog sounds disappointed. "That sad. Krog no understand though. Entrance to floor is by king-man, right? Why 5000 gold to entrance and 2500 more just to five, ten steps away? That silly..."

[Dracos]

"It is~" She agreed.  "But more, what happens if they don't work?  How do we know?  Like, what if you gave us a discount, to get us hooked on keeping them around.  Then we'd always buy them from you since we know it is good to carry around."