The World – part 3

I stood unsure of myself as my new boss left. I had no idea what to do now. I have no experience at all for this and had no idea where to start. One step at a time, so they say. I introduced myself and asked who was in charge of keeping up the house. The cat girl raised her hand slowly and answered in a very cute and high pitch voice. I nodded and asked her for a tour and instructed the others to wait here for me. With a curt yes sir she led me to the lounge area just off the entrance. “What is your name?” I asked as I followed her in. “Pharaoh did not give me a name sir. Whenever addressing me he only referred to me as cat.” I thought about that as I watched her walk in front of me. Her figure was very attractive. I couldn’t help but watch her ass and swishing tail in front of me. “This is the lounge area sir, most often clients wish to sit here for drinks and sometimes to eat as they either decide who they wish to see or wait for their choice to be available. Not infrequently some clients will just want to relax here with a sexy companion for a while before going home.” I looked around the area. There were lots of heavily padded chairs and loveseat couches. Here and there were some large couches and coffee tables. I estimated perhaps 30 or 40 people could comfortably sit here without being too crowded. “Is the lounge area on the other side of the entrance set out the same way?” She simply nodded. “What is your given name? I don’t want to simply call you cat.” She smiled at me and answered after a thought, “Yes sir but it does not translate. All of my owners chose not to try and simply call me cat.” That was sad. I’m terrible at picking names. “I will call you Minnie”. She smiled and quickly gave me a jumping hug. “No one has ever given me a name before. Thank you so much sir.”

Instinctively I hugged her back. Minnie felt so soft. Her body hair was short but very soft and light. There was no denying the body underneath it though. I could feel happy tears hitting my shoulder. I didn’t really understand how it was such an emotionally charged moment. I set her down lightly. Minnie looked down shyly. “I’m sorry sir. It won’t happen again. I will keep my emotions to myself”. I gave her a quick hug, “Don’t worry about it. I prefer to know what is really going on so please don’t hide your feelings or thoughts”. Minnie led me through the lounge towards the back. I could a connecting hallway to the lounge on the opposite side. It was a wet bar prep area with a lot of familiar cocktail implements and storage for bottles and light food. I stepped in to look through what was there. I tried to pick up what looked like a basic cocktail shaker.

Item: Cocktail shaker

Type: Tool

Quality: Fine

Requirements: Mixology Level 1

You are unable to use this item

The information came up in thin air next to the shaker in my hand. I picked up a few other items to test the information. I couldn’t use any of them without taking the mixology skill which I didn’t bother to do. Everything in here was of fine quality. Either we didn’t have very high end things or they were kept aside for special occasions but I didn’t doubt that these things were a notch or two above any other establishment outside of the inner city. At the back two hallways continued towards the rear of the house. They were each lined with basic bedrooms. I noticed none of the doors had locks. At the very back of the house there was a rear entrance from an alley, a kitchen, and several store rooms. They were all filled with dry goods, cleaning supplies, linens, and basic household items.

I asked Minnie to take me upstairs. I followed her past the other standing right where I left them. At the top where to two sets of stairs met much more decorative hallway led towards the back. The sides were lined with paintings, modest sculptures, and were well lit. The first thing we passed was a modest office. It was on the smaller side but looked comfortable and well appointed. I expected that is where I would be working from. There were a couple of smaller rooms that looked like private lounges or smoking rooms. These were clearly meant for a more intimate relaxing area for high value clients. The hallway ended and continued left and right. There were 4 very large bedrooms. They could rival any presidential suite back in the real world. Here every item was of exquisite quality. No expense had been spared for these 4 rooms. I could see that part of the connecting walls could be pulled back to open them all together. They seemed very thing though and I couldn’t see how they would give any privacy or noise protection. Looking closer I could see intricate designs painted in relief on each movable wall. They seemed to have an inner glow of some kind. I reached out to touch it.

Item: Runic spell

Type: Unknown

Quality: Unknown

You are unable to identify this *********** or its function

As far as I knew this kind of thing hadn’t been seen before by any players.