Author's Note: This is actually taken from a forum role play and retold here almost as it happened. The names of some things have been changed either for effect or just because I forgot them and how they worked. Enjoy.
The basement floor of Silver Stein Tavern was covered with the scorched bodies of rats and their droppings. The adventurers grabbed the mops they were issued by one of the barmaids and began the clean up job. Dee lit a cigarette, partly to calm herself—but also to combat the horrid odor of burnt flesh. She grimaced as she raked at the floor to pry something up, she couldn't tell if it was a rat or poop.
"It smells even worse in here since we killed them…me throwing up in the middle of the fight didn't help," Dee said.
"Well whose fault is that," Lyn grimaced as mopped the corner near the stairs.
Dee let out a grunt of disgust. She could still feel the rats waxy little feet scratching and clawing at her as she moved the broom over their corpses. "My life didn't used to be this complicated…before I met you lot. Drinking…sex…gambling…the odd job or two…nowhere in all that did I have to battle a basement full of pissed off rats and an enraged Barbarian…"
There was a lull filled only with the sounds of brooms brushing across the stone floor and mops slopping water down onto rocks.
"I need a bloody drink," Dee moaned.
Arjun tried to keep his head down and he fought the urge to make eye contact with Dee as he cleaned nearby her. Still it was hard not to glance at her as she passed near him with her broom in hand, swatting the floor angrily—she wasn't even doing it right. He lowered his gaze and then he noticed it, she was a little wet and her breasts were sticking up through the top of her bustier. He thought if there were anymore tension they might just burst free, he snickered to himself just as he realized how long his eyes had been locked on her chest.
"Oi! What're you looking at, you limey sod?" Dee slung her broom down onto the floor as she stormed toward Arjun. "If you really wanted to see so bad—all you had to do was ask!" she grabbed Arjun by the back of the head and before he could fight, she pressed his head into her cleavage, grinding her down against the bear skin. With that she turned and walked back to her broom.
The shocked expression took several moments to fully form on Arjun's face. He slowly retrieved his mop and quietly pretended nothing had happened.
Luemus couldn't let it go, a dark smile appeared on his soft elvan features. "Ahem, well that was unexpected…" he said. He stood leaning on a mop and summoning water onto the floors with magic to get the job done.
"Don't start with me, Luemus…" Dee chided him. She brushed a dark brown tendril of hair away from her face. "When this is over I'm taking the longest bath ever…"
"Why wait," Luemus said as he pointed a finger to a spot in the air just above Dee and several gallons of water poured out of the air in a torrent and washed down over her, soaking her thoroughly.
Letting the cigarette fall from her mouth, Dee pulled her hair away from her shoulder ringing it out. She shook her arms dry and sighed. "Just be honest—you wanted a chance to get me wet," she glanced down over her body. "Well, this isn't the worst thing I've been covered in."
"Slip of the finger," Luemus said. "Opps," he added.
Arjun cracked a smile and Dee glared at him, but before she could say anything Lyn burst out laughing and Elena fell in line too. Dropping their brooms they fell back against the wall chuckling. Slowly, a smile spread over Dee's lips and she was doubled over laughing too.
In the fit of laughter Lyn found something that made the cleaning worthwhile, in a chest near the corner, someone had left a hefty sum of gold. Sure they still had to clean up rat droppings and bodies…but the laughter and gold made for a nice prize.