text: [Themes: fantasy, serious]
  
  You get the impression Eliza might be a little too shy for this sort of thing, so Rita seems like a better choice. Rita's also the most extroverted and will most likely prefer doing this than having to work at the inn.
  
  "Alright Rita, starting tomorrow, you're working the streets...er so to speak. Don't think you still won't be working around here though; I'll still need you during the late shift. Besides I don't want you wandering around at night, people might get the wrong idea or something."
  
  "Fine, as long as it gets me out of this place for a little while I'm game."
  
  "Okay, also I'd like you to try to throw around some insults about the Flying Griffon Inn while you're making your sales pitch."
  
  "Got it."
  
  The next day, Rita comes in and while she's always been a pretty girl, she now looks like a succubus that you've heard about from old tales. You try to contain your own desire to shamelessly flirt with her.
  
  "By the gods Rita, you're going to have every guy within this area after you."
  
  "Meh, wouldn't be the first time. Okay, I'm off, try not to fantasize about me too much while I'm gone."
  
  You're not exactly sure how to take that, but you are wondering how this will play out for you.
  
  Over the course of a few days you definitely see a drastic increase in customers, and not just adventurers either. You've got Klyton Milita (who usually just drink at their barracks) coming in and even a few humble storeowners. You're making a lot more money, but it's a lot of extra work for the rest of you.
  
  Mr. Reynolds receives sizable amounts of money and he continues to be satisfied with your payments. At this rate you'll probably be able to get out of debt by the end of the year.
  
  The only major problems are how overworked the rest of you are getting and how arrogant Rita is getting.
  
  Rita states that she should even have to work as a barmaid anymore because it interferes with her "advertising."
  
  "Advertising? You wiggle your ass at horny men! You're basically a harlot that doesn't put out...or is there another reason why everyone comes here?" Wendy accuses.
  
  "Figures that you'd be jealous of my popularity. Face it; I do more around here than ANYONE to keep this place successful, and I deserve some credit for it!" Rita demands.
  
  "Hey we all know Rita, but..."
  
  "But nothing, if you expect me to keep working here, I want a raise and I don't want to be working as some lowly barmaid anymore! I'm above serving food and drinks!"
  
  "So you basically want to be paid to stand around and look pretty? What the hell kind of job title would we even call that?" you ask.
  
  "I dunno, hostess maybe? Yeah, I'd be the hostess!"
  
  "By the gods, this is ridiculous! You can't seriously be considering this!" Wendy exclaims.
  
  The only people who are silent in all this are Eliza who is being her usual quiet self, and your mother who just shrugs and says it's your call since this was mainly your idea. You get the impression she doesn't care for Rita's attitude though.
  
  > put Rita in her place
  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.