First Quest: Grand Opening of the Seven Winds Health and Beauty Spa

[lightnovelexperiences]

This is Deedee Yeowoo, lately of Elysium.

I’ve used some of what I earned from the last job to start a business in the Brimstone district, the Seven Winds Health and Beauty spa. So far we have a hot spring, a cool bath, and some tables and chairs for bodywork.

Naturally, I intend to further the cause with the place, both as a safe retreat and place for me to heal Corsairs in trouble and to get rich nobles so pampered and relaxed that they’ll forget they’re in front of the help and blab about how hard their job is and all the stupid regulations their boss put in place to stop, say, the Corsairs from waltzing in.

If anyone needs healing or rest, stop by. I’m also going to need supplies - salves, soaps, oils and incense, even actual real medicine. If there’s anything like a truth potion that would also be very helpful.

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[newmemorywhodis]

...Spa?

[That has Link interested. If it was anything like the Gerudo Spa Plan...]

[lightnovelexperiences]

Yep. I was a healer on Mundus, and my healing works best by touch. Massage wasn’t much of a stretch for me.

[newmemorywhodis]

...I'll visit.

[That's at least one customer you'll have, Deedee]

[lightnovelexperiences]

Thanks.

Let me know what kind of soaps and oils you use. And where to get them.

[newmemorywhodis]

...Gerudo soaps?

But they're not here.

[fish4science]

The Church of the Divine's Inquisition claims to have truth potions, but I bet they're lying.

...and um, I heard about that at the orphanage I was brought up in.

[lightnovelexperiences]

What I don’t know about this world’s religious traditions probably fills a good-size room in the Vault - and as a godbotherer of Mundus I should probably fix that - but that wouldn’t be the first time mixing church and state was a bad idea.

“Inquisition” is a word to run from very fast.

[fish4science]

I could tell you something about the Church of the Divine, but I'm afraid I don't know much about other traditions. Church orphanages weren't a good place to learn about forbidden texts.

[lightnovelexperiences]

I’ll bet they weren’t. I wish our worlds didn’t have these kind of places in common…

[invinciblespear]

Man, this thingy is handy. How do I...oh it's already picking me up.

Pretty clever plan. I've got family in Elysium I might pass the name along to, actually, if you're going to be serving normal civilians too.

[lightnovelexperiences]

Having the coin will help, if only to give back to the Corsairs and reinvest.

I figure most of my business will need to be just normal health treatments so we get the funding and attention necessary for… VIP visitors.

[invinciblespear]

Come to think of it, Mom probably doesn't have the coin to go to a spa. I could send her some...but it's the Corsairs who are paying me...so the money would just be going back to wear it was in the first place.

...then again, I'm pretty sure that's how money usually works anyway except replace the Corsairs with nobles, so it should work out.

[lightnovelexperiences]

Ah yeah, if it isn’t my old friend - the Screaming Twenties Experience of you and your roommates loaning each other the same twenty bucks over and over.

If she needs it, she needs it. I’ll do what I can, miss…?

[thirdtenkaistar]

I... suppose I can direct my coworkers there.

[He sighs]

In actuality many nobles don't know the ins and outs of the system, they simply benefit from it.

[lightnovelexperiences]

Oh, I expect a lot of noise in my signal. But I also suspect that most nobility doesn’t know the meaning of opsec, nor would they care if they did.

[thirdtenkaistar]

I would suggest offering services to the secretaries and bureaucrats on a lower tier, as they tend to be the ones who handle the actual documents.

[lightnovelexperiences]

…to do that I’d need to charge what they can afford and market this place as an after-work getaway or luxurious weekend.

Which I can and should do. Thank you.

[relentless_sentinel]

[Oh hey, it's that weird green haired girl that isn't much better at Imperial than Deedee. She tilts her head a bit.]

Spa? Bodywork?

[Yes, Nephenee, those are words Deedee used.]

Uh...what's that mean, Miss Deedee?

[lightnovelexperiences]

A spa is a bathhouse. Mine like most also has a place to get nails and makeup done.

Bodywork is - you ever needed your back rubbed or a knot in your muscles untied by someone pressing an elbow into it? That stuff is bodywork.

Thanks to the gifts of the laughing wind god Sylphan I learned how to heal with magic on Mundus, but it’s a lot more efficient for me when I’m doing massage. Physically messing with a muscle makes it easier for me to magically mess with it.

[relentless_sentinel]

[...Alright, that gets her attention.]

O-oh, never heard it called that...Ah...do tend to knot up an' stuff...

[That's an understatement. Poor Deedee might have her work cut out for her on this one...]

Uh, how much? An'...my friend Calill said some folks like certain flowers an' plants in baths, or in soaps...might ya'd like some?

[lightnovelexperiences]

If you’re able to supply me the right oils, soaps and salves, I’m definitely willing to accept that as payment for giving a Corsair some healing.

I mean. Half the point of this place is to be a Corsair safehouse after public business hours.

[spacetogrow]

I'm a decent herbalist, but I'm out at Flotsam most of the time. You also might try getting some music. Not loud enough to stifle conversation, but to add to the feel.

[lightnovelexperiences]

RIGHT, I'm used to music being piped in, and given that I'm talking on our cutting edge communicators we'd need live musicians. Thank you, that slipped my mind.

[spacetogrow]

Piped in via magic, or...?

[lightnovelexperiences]

On Mundus it was, yes. I think they used air crystals to do it but I’m not an enchantress, just a godbotherer and healer.