Secrets of the Labyrinth
Empire Underguild inside Entertainers Guild
Can be home to characters.
Secrets of the Labyrinth is an extremely small entertainment house. The building is practically falling apart, it's full of rotten wood and rusty nails, and crystals. Crystals everywhere. When entering you will pass through an arch covered in wards where a strange sensation will wash over you. Inside the house is in quite poor condition, being lit up only by crystals scattered everywhere and the occasional lamp.
There is no attractions except for a big cage in the middle of the room with a hole in the bottom. It looks like nothing is happening until some grifix will pull the paw of one of the entertainers and slip a coin in their paw. It is then that a bell will ring a mechanism will start to move. Soon a figure will emerge from the hole in the ground: a beautiful grifix, entirely covered in crystals.
"Do a dance!!" the grifix that payed will call. And the crystal grifix will obey. Once the dance is complete, the mechanism activates again and the crystal grifix is pulled back under the floor.
The customers all start to boo. "Bring her back up!!! Where is she gone!!??"
"PAY!!" the entertainer shouts, hitting their fist violently on the cage bars.
Silence falls.
And then another paw reaches out with a coin.
And the bell rings again.
That's how it goes for hours. Once the house is open, the customers can pay for the crystal grifix to do various activities. If nobody else pays for a new activity by the end of the first one, she will go back down in the floor and the assistants will start encouraging people to pay to bring her back up. Then the bell will ring again once one of them pays….
This will happen a few times every day before grifix will get excited and start paying for more activities, making them pile up so she doesn’t go back down… until late at night when the customers start to leave, and all becomes quiet again.
The most excited of customers can pay an exorbitant sum of money to gain a crystal growing from her body. The crystals decorating the house are harvested from her body as well. Some naturally fall of her body, but if needed the owner will order the entertainers to rip them of her body. They are only allowed to touch her when ordered by the owner.
She is usually kept on magic supressing drugs that the owner buys for her diet.
The entertainers aren't allowed in the crystal grifix's room unless they bring her food or help her bath. The owner will watch over them to make sure they don't talk to her or do anything suspicious.
The place has very few entertainers, and usually they're the cheapest, worst kind because the owner of the house doesn't want to pay for good entertainers. After all... he doesn't even need them. Most entertainers do not stay very long if they even get hired. But if they ever leave, their lips are magically sealed so they can never talk about the crystal grifix, no matter how hard they may try.
The entertainers are tasked to take care of the Crystal Grifix (feed, water, etc) and keep the house from completely falling apart. During open hours, they may be atending to the customers, collecting payment from them and serving alcohol cause customers pay more when they're drunk. The ward stands at the door charging for entrance, while the other entertainers go around serving cheap drinks.
History:
There was an individual merchant that was traveling to the underground sometimes to sell stuff to the grifix there. He was very stuck on seeing the Underground City but the underground grifix didn't want to take him there, until he fooled one to take him there. There he met the Crystal grifix, and he thought he could make money off of her. So he promised her all sorts of stuff on the surface and tricked her to come up with him. So she left the underground city with the merchant but the merchant locked her in his house and then took her to the Entertainment District where he bought a house where he locked her up.
He then made it into an Entertainment House where grifix came to stare at the Crystal Grifix who was placed in a cage in a middle, and the crystal grifix was forced to dance and put on a show while they would stare at her like they were some sort of animal in a cage.
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