As the shopkeeper regained his senses, he offered the party a very healthy price to transfer Nabiki's ownership to him.
Nabiki jumped at the chance to distance herself from the furinkan 'Ranma' party where she was all too likely to reveal and impeach her real self the longer she was around them. Nabiki influenced the proceedings with some well-timed sex-appeal attacks, just like the cat-girl that had been auctioned off before Nabiki had used.
In no time, the offered price for Nabiki had skyrocketed to the point where the adventuring party could barely resist selling her. The thief 'Ranma' actually had the decency to check with Nabiki to make sure there wouldn't be hard feelings about this. Nabiki reasured her and pointed out how much she would be benefiting the party by accepting this transfer.
The deal was closed. Nabiki recieved another flash of experience points and private arousal.
The shopkeeper immediately put Nabiki to work serving the adventuring party she had transferred from while he watched. The party now was feeling rich, and Nabiki subtly drove sharp bargains, profiting greatly on the hapless adventurers. She only resorted to a sex-appeal attack once more. After a few losing rounds, the fighter leader tried to dominate her into giving him a bargain on a better set of armour, but she deftly sidestepped his attempts at intimidation, sucessfully dodging invoking the submissive behavior she'd ended up saddled with at character creation.
After Nabiki had waved goodby to the better equipped, but once again financially challenged party, she made some hard bargaining arangements with the shopkeeper who had just bought her. Terms for commissions, buying her freedom, and other matters were established. Much better to get things straight between them to start with. It cost her quite a bit in the negotiations, but Nabiki established that her new owner did not have call on her sexual favors.
One of the first things Nabiki did was buy some new clothes with much, much finer fabric. That did set her account back a bit, but the loincloth and half-tee Nabiki had recently purchased were nearly as irritating as the dress she'd been wearing just before she ended up on the auctioneer's block. On closer inspection, it wasn't that the fabric in them was particularly coarse, but that Nabiki's tactile sense was exageratedly sensitive. Nabiki had been hoping for enhanced hearing or sight that could warn her and her party of danger, but had ended up able to feel a pea under twenty mattresses. Unfortunately, it made a twisted sort of sense for a healer/sex-slave to have a very sensitive touch. It also explained why the auctioneer groping her had just about sent her into sensory overload. Well, that and the damnned hightened libido disadvantage she'd ended up with.
Next Nabiki set up a small intelligence network with some of the town kids. In a few hours, she had a wisper campaign going. By the end of the day, adventurers coming into town were effectively being funneled to Nabiki. Nabiki exacted plenty of profits, but was carefull not to soak her customers so badly they wouldn't come back.
The next day, Nabiki's new owner was wondering just what he'd gotten himself into. He had to do some wheeling and dealing with his suppliers just to keep the shelves stocked.
Nabiki tried a lot of variations on using her sex-appeal to sell things. That seemed to be the way she gained experience in this crazy game world. She was still accummulating experience points, but things were slowing down a bit as she had to work harder to think of approaches that were different enough to bring in any more experience.
In three days, she had enough experience to advance her character. She had more than half the money it would take to buy her freedom.
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