Doesn't grow on trees (draft)

You need plenty of money to progress smoothly with your party. Be it equipment, potions, skill-books, lessons or necessary artefacts. Besides daily needs and basic preparation necessary for the road, the best bribe outside of sex is money of course.

The problem is that grinding monsters, while effective to keep the party afloat, is hardly enough to pay for all the things we would need to effectively level.

Which is why I habe been sitting on this list of mine with things to earn money (hopefully without getting fucked):

Specialisation like smithing or potion-making can earn quite a nice sum later on, but it will take a while for anyone to get good at it and a lot of initial investment, which is why I often skipped it. It’s so much easier to simply prostitute the heroines after all and earn a small fortune. (sigh)

Trading and any sort of manufacturing will need a lot of initial investment, so I can skip those for now.

Low-level monster grinding will barely be enough to keep us afloat. While meals won’t be a problem I hope, it will hardly be enough to afford weapon and equipment maintenance, let alone saving money for upgrades.

High-level monster hunting is a shortcut to a bad ending, at least for now, so long as I don’t see myself wanting to risk becoming some monster’s plaything. (even if it's temporary)

Ruin exploring is very profitable but hardly something I can do in the beginning outside of a handful of beginner ruins I know of. Nevertheless it was something to start with once the hero party levelled up a bit.

Receiving sponsorships from either a noble or a merchant group would be nice but usually involves having already earned quite a reputation or gone through a special quest-line, though there are shortcuts involving background deals of one of the heroines visiting the sponsor on occasion to get the coin rolling it's not something I wanna do myself or am comfortable forcing anyone else into.

Odd jobs like serving food as a barmaid or cleaning as a maid are fairly innocent, depending on the employer. (Though once I reach too high of a lewd score, most jobs will involve some kind of lewd favor to earn extra money, and without the extra pay, it’s a rather lackluster payout considering the time invested.)

Bathhouse attendant isn’t outright prostitution but can easily lead to it and basically means helping others, mainly men, wash in the bathhouse while fully naked and getting "accidentally" groped...

Outright prostitution comes in too many ways to all write down, from body massages to glory holes and glory walls to full-on escort services and a bunch of in-between jobs. But like I said, I want to avoid those unless absolutely necessary.

Giving strip-shows as a dancer pays decent money at the start, even without having to straddle a cock, but I’m not sure I’m willing to strip in front of a bunch of horny guys and expose myself like that. (Those will also escalate slowly if you want to earn top money.)

The next step would be lap dances, which while private I’m not too comfortable with for obvious reasons.

There are also less conventional jobs like sex toy tester or milk-cow.

Drinking a special potions as a girl will temporarily make your breasts swell and lactate, it is sold to alchemists as a unique ingredient for some potions as well as to high end customers in various forms like liquor. Obviously most of the profit goes to the seller who knows the customer unless you sell it directly to someone. It's not a mechanic I used often but might be the most harmless option to consider if quite embarrassing as it is often depicted with the girls wearing a skimpy cow costume while getting milked.

I didn't explore the mechanic much but knowing the game it's likely that a heroines breasts might permanently get larger if used too often or that she starts to lactate even without the special potion so I have to consider those risks but for now it was one embarrassing but bearable option.

As for the sex toy tester you have to use an image crystal while trying those out and testing the various toys which will be used for promotional material though at-least your face will be excluded if you take the right deal and notice the fine print before signing.

Later on high paying customers might demand demonstration or direct testing of the sex toys on you though those are bonus quests which I hopefully won't need to participate at that point.

And last but not least selling nudes as out of place as that sounds.

The market is still in its beginning but it already exists. Artificial Image crystals are fairly new and not yet widespread but there is slowly going to grow a community of collectors trading and buying obscene images of woman using those.

At the start even some simple nudes will earn a nice bit of pocket change but later the same nudes will be worth only a fraction as the market grows so starting early is the best way to make a profit.

I would need to organise a image crystal to begin with but once I have one it's possible to sell the crystal alongside the images for a small profit and a replacement crystal.

As time goes on better crystal with more features will come out with crystals that can even take videos, store hundreds of images and share them directly with other crystals.

All those already exists as artefacts but are rather rare and as such only afforded by nobility and merchants but the artificial crystal will slowly fall in price and become widespread as far as I remember.

If I want to earn a nice profit starting as early as possible would be best. You can even earn a reputation making your images more collectible as long as you meet certain conditions and get requests for bonuses . Not that I wanted my nudes widely circulated but without my face it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

The question is where do I get an image crystal.

Maybe talking with the merchant from yesterday would give me a clue on how to aquire or atleast borrow one.

....

I am from the Silver merchant guild and we can certainly loan out a crystal for the right price but be aware that if the crystal gets damaged you will have to take responsibility for it and pays us back in full.

He showed me the price list for different crystals to borrow with a price per day/per week and per month basis. There were ways to bring the image to paper using certain magic or hiring a painter though it will lose its lifelike detail you can only get from an image crystal.

Blushing I said: I heard it's possible to sell certain special images as well.

trying a more direct approach.

The merchant looked left and right before whispering in my ear: It is not officially sanctioned by our merchant guild and more something we do under the table but if miss is willing to share a lovely view of her body we can certainly come to an agreement. The merchant said looking up and down the curves of the girls body that even the loose robe couldn't hope to hide.

You know what lass, I will make a special exception for you, I will let you borrow the crystal for a day but in exchange you sell those images directly to me.

I will also need you magic signature to make sure you won't run away with the crystal, normally a safety deposit is needed but I will make an exception for you.

Taking the crystal back home I considered what images to take. Knowing the man and others would use those images for wasn't something I wanted to think about but it still needed to be right.

Side-quest: A Nuns secret hobby (introduce yourself)

The crystal could only store 3 images so I had to consider them carefully. Thankfully I could delete the images easily by taking new ones.

Just some boring images will only get me the minimum reward so I need to be creative. On the other hand exposing too much might not be a good idea either.

so here I stood half naked in front or the chrystal wondering what I should do.

I mean just making a full nude would be enough but I had to consider future sales as well.

Exposing I was a nun would be risky but certainly give some bonus points I am sure.

I made certain my face was hidden on all the images.

one was of me exposing my large breasts showing off both my tummy as well as my lifted nun habit

The next one was of me wearing one of the more daring panties I found and the last one was a near naked shot crouching. hopefully those would be enough