The wheel

Yulia listens to the voices suggestions and Dreg seems amused, it's clear he can hear the voices as well. Before Yulia can respond he speaks, "Alright allow me to clarify a few things. First and most importantly. If you are going to suggest murdering someone, perhaps don't do it in earshot of said person," he states and then coughs, "Although if you do attempt to kill me, success will net you a lovely surprise," he says giving Yulia a quite creepy grin that makes her shudder,

"As for the price of my protection, well it's quite simple. The monsters roaming this floor will not come here while I am here, but if you choose to go to sleep without my protection, I will leave you alone, so the monsters will not be deterred. If you choose to be protected by me I will remain while you sleep, so the price is a fairly obvious one. If you choose my protection... You will have me watching you while you sleep. An uncomfortable prospect I'm sure. I won't lie that having an attractive woman sleeping near me, **** and unaware won't potentially be taken advantage of, but I can promise that anything I do to you will be much less terrible than what a monster would if they found you," he exclaims.

Yulia looks extremely uncomfortable now and the man continues, "The wheel counts any item currently in the possession of the chosen as an item viable for removal. As well each individual instance of an item counts as a different item, so ten days of rations, is ten different items. If you do end up losing an item, only items that are not counted as equipment are viable. Clothing, armor and weapons are not counted," he explains and the smiles at Yulia, "Apologies, you can address your friends now," he states and Yulia weakly nods.

"Um... So... That's an answer for you..." she states weakly and her discomfort is extremely obvious, "I suppose... Um..." she hesitates looking at Dreg and then wanders a bit away from him and turns away from him before continuing to speak. He very clearly begins to stare at her ass as she does, "I guess you're right... The sword and shield might not have done me much good, still I am annoyed I didn't even think of it," she responds.

"I don't know what Zelda is, but... I think I know what a persona is... That's a psychological concept isn't it? Like the concept of various identities people put on and stuff? Are you suggesting that Dreg is hiding his true self? Like maybe he's actually a nice man just pretending to be..." she pauses and quiets her voice, "A perverted creep," she whispers and glances back at him nervously.

"He seems to have answered most of those questions, so I guess I don't need to ask him and yeah I'm also relieved about the outhouse, if he is telling the truth it should be safe to use, though now I'm a bit worried he himself might peep on me," she says and shudders. She glances at the left path and swallows, "I... I do hope it does, I'd like to see her again," she says and then quickly continues, "Ah c... cause she's useful and more boons are appreciated!" she says and begins to rub her fingers together again, nervously.

She continues to look at the door hopefully as more suggestions to check the door come in, but she's surprised that the nice voice suggested the wheel, she thinks about the suggested possibility of losing her clothes and swallows nervously, "A... Are you sure?" she says, looking at the wheel.

She is a little surprised to hear one voice again as she had not heard it for a while, "I'm glad you're back, um thanks for the congratulations, I guess you're correct, the wheel does have a number of quite useful options, but I'm nervous about my luck,"

She listens to the confusing voice speak and crosses her arms, "Glad to know you'll pick up the slack," she states sarcastically and then tilts her head as she listens to them start to ramble about time dilation, "I... see?" she says as the concept is summarized and then she sighs, "I am real! Or at least as real as I can possibly be!" she counters annoyed,

She then gasps as the voice asks about Alide, "I... I don't... she's just... Helpful... and... Um... You know... Dressed all sexy and stuff... It's..." she pauses, "Don't try and tell me none of you were staring or anything," she counters quickly and looks away embarrassed.

"Ah... I like... Jigsaw puzzles... My mentor in the church used to buy me them as gifts whenever I did well. Starting with simple ones, 10 piece puzzles and lower, then harder as I got older. For graduation from the church academy he got me a ten thousand piece puzzle that was a detailed map of Sharmai, which is... the city the church is headquartered in and one of the larger cities in my world," she explains, "Unfortunately my mentor died before I managed to finish the puzzle," she says sadly and then looks up, "N... Not from the plague or anything, he was just... very old and his... time came," she explains.

She sighs, "I guess now it's time to make a choice..." she looks between the door and the wheel. She wants to go through the door, but... quite a few of the voices do seem to want her to test her luck on the wheel and she could always do both. She sighs and approaches Dreg, "I... I've decided to spin the wheel," she states and Dreg smiles and claps his hands together, "Good good! Go ahead and give it a mighty spin!" he says. She steps over to the wheel and grabs one of the spokes, trying to use all her, not very considerable might to spin it. The wheel begins to turn.

Yulia watches anxiously as it spins and slowly comes to a stop on...

"Gain an item!" Dreg announces with applause and Yulia sighs in relief, it wasn't the best option, but at least it wasn't bad.

Dreg raises his hand and a glowing mote of light appears in the air and begins to take form. It forms into a grenade, "I heard you had good luck with one of these before, so here's another one," he says and hands it over. Yulia takes it and quickly pulls her hand back once she has it as Dreg takes the opportunity to rub his thumb against the back of her hand.

She tucks the object away in her pack and then hurries away from Dreg, going to check the door. She reaches the door and can also see the path to the left from the door leads to a dimly lit room, something is glinting within at random intervals, but she ignores it for now as she heads through the door. The room on the other side of the door is in fact the room containing the stairs up, in fact there are two sets of stairs, both guarded by a gate requiring a key. There's a plaque on both gates. The plaque on the left gate reads "The demon path. A path of ease and corruption," the right gate plaque reads, "the angel path. A path of great difficulty and greater reward,"

the room is large and open and likely will contain another guardian, Yulia knowing she doesn't currently have a key anyway, decides to back away from that room and return to the rest area for now, a little disappointed there was no Alide in there.

(Health: 80%

Mana: 50%

Equipment: Ceramic Beaked Mask, Monastic Scapular, standard bra, Standard Panties, 5 poison gas grenades, 3 healing kits, 2 syringes of poison, 3 syringes of adrenaline, 2 syringes of poison antidote, 1 sewing kit, 1 vial of unknown liquid, 10 ft of trip wire, Makeshift wooden club, 10 days worth of rations, 3 two liter water jugs, 1 half filled 2 liter water jug, 1 health potion, 1 mana potion, 1 flak grenade.

Spells known: Great Heal, Cure, Icicle.

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