Learning the Ropes

"GET UP YOU LAZY BUM"

"UH, WHAT WHERE!" I jump up in confusion (well jump being the operative word, I am not an early riser). It takes me a moment but the hay and screaming remind me.

'Oh right isekaied"

"Get down here before I throw your sorry but down myself!" I can hear Bertha screaming at me and if what she showed yesterday wasn't some delusion of mine I do not want her to follow up on that.

"Coming!" I quickly get up and run down the ladder to stand in front of an angry looking inn owner. Sleeping dressed does have its advantages.

"If I have to wake you up ever again that will be another day you have to work for me and I'll make sure it's not pleasant!" She glowers at me as I start to wonder where the nice lady from yesterday is.

"Yes, Mam!" No sense disagreeing. She's the boss and could probably throw me out the village from where she's standing.

"Now since there's no guests right now I'm going to show you everything today and expect you to do everything on your own from then on."

"Um I'm not very good at keeping track of what needs done so." It's probably better to mention this sooner don't want her finding out the hard way.

"Humph don't worry about that you just do what I tell you and stick to it."

"Um okay." I don't see how that's any different though. I followed Bertha around as she showed me the different rooms, where the sheets were washed and hung, where the cleaning closet, the kitchen, and the garden are.

"You take care of all this yourself?" This was a big place and I hadn't seen anyone else helping out.

"Yep, helps having the stats, but a good routine and the downtime between groups is all I need to make sure this place stays spotless."

'Right, with how strong she is it's probably easy for her. Though stats? She mentioned level 2 before so what is this a game world?'

"How do I get those stats?"

"What you don't even know that and wanna be an adventurer? Better stay working for me if your that lost."

'So that's supposed to be common knowledge. Think! Think! what's a good back story for lack of knowledge. Oh got it!'

"Um, uh, yeah my father didn't like adventurers so he made sure I didn't learn about them."

'Hope that works.'

"Can't say I would blame him. All sorts become adventurers and most of the nice ones don't make it for long."

"Well, you used to be an adventurer right? Could you give me some advice on how to be a good adventurer?"

"HA! Well then first lesson nothing is free so if you want answers they'll come out of your pay."

"I thought you said questions were free?"

"Yes, questions not answers, so if you want help being an adventurer you need to work for it."

"Well lets get the pay figured out then how about one question an hour?"

"Why not one a day?"

"For that rate I can go and find someone else to ask."

"Well at least you got a head on your shoulders okay one an hour but sleeping doesn't count so twelve hours a day for twelve questions a day and today doesn't count. Now we've spent enough time yacking so get to work ."

That started my routine of getting up at the crack of dawn and working my but off till afternoon where I got a little free time to ask questions or do my own thing. First thing I asked of course was how to get as strong as Bertha. That got a bit of a chuckle out of her but only an answer of get a falna and nearly die. If I didn't know better I'd say she was part imp but no apparently that is not one of the races in this world. Did surprise me somewhat when amazonian was it's own race instead of just a branch of humanity but hey 'Magic.' More important was the info about falna and status. I nearly didn't believe her when she told me that the gods were walking around like normal people in the thousands. A pantheon was expected of course with the adventurer talk and monsters around, but when she started listing some famous ones like hephaestus and loki I did a double take. I recognized those and they shouldn't be in the same world, much less a fantasy world with cliche goblins! She also mentioned some far east gods I recognized so it seems like every pantheon in my old world exists in this one. If this is true it may prove a link to my old world exists and a way back as well. Of course when I started thinking about which god I should join to get my falna I realized that if the gods exist their enemies might as well; not to mention cthulhu. Let's just say I didn't sleep well that night. It looks like I'm going to need a lot more power than I thought.