"I don't run a brothel here, lady. But there are freelancers who need a place to get their work done, and we offer rooms for that, in return for a cut. With the Besancons around, there's some fine lasses who aren't exactly marriageable material after couple bad days, and some of them decide to just put their assets to good use. After all, no use saving whatever's gone, may as well make the most of it."<br/><br/>He considers what she had said, shrewdly, but her second entreaty had been pretty compelling.<br/><br/>"You know what, maybe I've grown soft. You can pay me a couple gold for a room here like any other adventurer, and I will tell them you're a friend of a friend who just wants to settle back in here and wants some simple work. You will take the night shift, which I have problems staffing, but the menfolk can get pretty drunk and touchy. If trouble comes in way of constables or guards, I will just tell them who you are, I don't need to get involved in no trouble. That's my best offer."<br/><br/>He seemed earnest, but he probably did not know what she knew, that she had lodgings elsewhere (albeit what she need not return to), and that her papers were not stamped upon re-entry to Pirmasen. She would also know that he might help her cover up, if she offered him considerably more, but this was what seemed fair and reasonable for him.<br/><br/>=====<br/><br/>OOC: The second Persuasion roll was pretty damn awesome after all. He's offering 2 gp for 2 nights, and extend as usual for every night she works there. That is pretty much going rate for adventurers who aren't working there.