Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-29661846-20170225154209

You have been sucked into the medieval high fantasy, monster girl world. Being from a different time, not only were you something of an attraction, what with your strange clothes, technology, and lingo, you also struggled to find a job. Over the course of a few days your clothes and technology were stolen, which, while sucked, helped you blend in a bit with the little money you made to get some new clothes.

Now you simply say you’re a man from a far distant land and try to pass yourself off as someone who belongs, but to no avail, as beyond simple farm labor, you still struggle to support yourself. Fortunately for you, one morning your luck changed.

As you sat by yourself in an Inn serving as your current residence, stressing over how you'd pay this week's rent, a young woman walks up to you. She had pale skin, black hair in a bun, and a long purple robe that's somewhat revealing.

"You look like a man down on your luck." She says, her voice seems to chase away whatever stress you felt.

You nod in reply.

“Well, I have an offer for you. How about instead of mucking stables you come with me to my mansion and be my manservant? Nothing laborious or demeaning, mostly just cooking and cleaning. Best of all: no rent.”

You turn to the counter, seeing the Inn Keep Boris and his wife, a Red Oni named Gloria. You shudder, recalling how they threatened that next time you were late with rent, they’d break your legs, with the Red Oni adding she’d probably eat them. You decide to take this woman up on her offer. No sooner do you shake her hand do you follow her out of the Inn and begin the walk out of town.

The walk to her mansion is on the outskirts of town, through a forest. You’d think she’d do anything to keep her purple robe clean, but she doesn’t seem to care. She casually mentions she owns one of the largest silk trade businesses and mostly makes her own clothes, hence why it doesn’t bother her.

When she asks about you, you give her the usual spiel about how you’re from somewhere far away and how it’s been hard to adjust.

“Oh, I know the feeling. Of feeling like you don’t belong; it’s nice to finally know someone who gets it.” Fortunately, she doesn’t press about your origins further.

You finally catch sight her luxurious mansion, located in a wide clearing outside the forest. Once there, she tells you what you’re going to do, and besides cooking and making sure everything is clean, she also sends you every other day back to the town for groceries and other supplies. There is also one rule she tells you with immense stringency: never, under any circumstances, leave your room at night.

For the first few weeks, everything is good, and you find yourself finally adjusting to this new world you were pulled in. Sure you get a little homesick, but your mistress, whose name is Claire, is always there to keep you company, and is able to relate in your feelings of isolation. As you clean though, you can’t help but always run into huge spider webs that dot the outside of the house. Claire laugh these off, claiming giant spiders are common in this region.

One night, you awake with a desperate urge to use the restroom (which is an outhouse, one of the few things you hate about this world), normally you just hold it till morning, but this time it can’t wait. As you exit your room and make your way downstairs to the backyard, you sense a presence behind you.

You turn around and suddenly feel like you don’t have to go anymore.

Towering over you is Claire, the lower part of her spread to reveal a large but spindly spider half. She’s a Jorou-Gumo. She stares down at you, a disappointing look with a hint of sorrow on her face, and sighs.

“What did I say about not going out a night? Now that you know my secret, I can’t possibly have you leave. But at time same time, why would a guy like you ever stay with a monstrosity like me? I normally eat the men who find out but you,” tears well up in her eyes, “I’ll just make it quick, please stand still.”

WWYD?  