[Sorry I'm late. Christmas meant some nice new games to play, and time passes so much more quickly when you have Mass Effect]<br/><br/>[Also, Mind Link works over any distance after a connection has been formed. Eye contact isn't necessary to keep talking. ]<br/>-----<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"Wow, their quick!"</span>Mindy thought.<span style="font-style: italic">"Kahmori, sorry to say this, but the drider didn't even last thirty seconds. I didn't even have  to do anything. Not that I could, with this inn's ludicrous... fines..."</span><br/><br/>Her message trailed off as she realized what just happened. She forgot to warn them about building up more fines in this inn. She did a bit of quick math in her head.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"We may have a problem."</span>Mindy thought, resuming her messsage to the kitsune.<span style="font-style: italic">"These people just racked up about three gold bars in debt, and I don't know if they have that much or not."</span>She noticed the Bunnyfolk looting Leska's belongings. Good thinking, since they need all the money they could get to pay their debt.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"I'm not giong to ask you to chip in, but helping them might be in your best interest, if you want to team up with them. I'm going to try and keep them from getting any deeper in debt."</span><br/><br/>She sighed, and walked up to the group surrounding the helpless spider woman. It was a shame too. Seeing an angel with a belly several times her size would have been bliss.<br/><br/>"Pardon me." She started. "Congratulations for winning, but I have a bit of bad news." Getting closer to the group, she lowered her voice. "I'm sorry I didn't warn about this sooner, but everything happened so fast. I mentioned to you before about fines this inn has, correct? Well, there are fines for fighting in the inn as well. Each person in a conflict is fined five-hundred gold, even if they only fought in self defense. Five of you fought, so that's around twenty five hundred gold."<br/><br/>"It doesn't stop there, sadly. Stealing from a customer," She looked at the spoils Sashi had collected, "Is two-hundred and fifty gold, though I'd wager the earnings are enough to counter-balance that. But there's still the matter of the fines your group before, about... six hundred or so gold. This leads to around thirty-four hundred gold in fines. You will be blacklisted if the fines aren't paid, and that will lead to a much more dangerous situation."<br/><br/>"Lastly, you shouldn't eat you opponent here. Eating a customer is another two hundred and fifty gold. If you don't want her to go unpunished, you can just leave her be, she'll be left penniless to pay a two thousend gold fine for starting a fight. And when she can't pay..." She looked toward Leska, pity in her violet eyes.<br/><br/>"The management will eat her, soul and all."<br/>-----<br/>[Sorry for not warning you about this, but Mindy isn't BSing anyone, the group is at least 3370 g in the hole(more, depending on the number of loopholes used). We can scrape up the cash, or have the third fight of the day be against the devils that run the inn(or if either is impossible, split the debt up between each offender, which could get half the party eaten). Mindy debt free, atm, so she can sell stuff, and just donate to the group. So, what should we do? Pay, fight, or split the costs?]<br/><br/>[assets: 230 g, Dex Gloves(I'd be will to part with these only if I have to, I could be able to sell them to 2000 )]<br/><br/>[again, really sorry. I should have coaxed the group to take the fight outside, and avoid all this costly fighting.]<br/><br/>[And... damn! This is a long post. ._.;   ]