1-The Seamaster’s Rest

The Seamaster’s Rest is a tavern for naval officers and the captains, masters and mates of civilian vessels. As officers, the civilian seamen here are almost never bothered by the press gangs who hunt down ordinary merchant seaman. The place is pricey, but the food is well worth it and the wine is top notch. After a long period at sea, where even officers have limited comforts, it is very appreciated. The ordinary crew members are certainly not allowed to stay here.

2-The Friendly Fascist 

Set up by a far rightist, this is no place for a left winger to be. A large swastika flag hangs behind the bar, and it is almost certainly true that attacks have been planned here on those who are not white, are left wing, or belonging to religions that the far right bar patrons do not like. The food is OK, and there is plenty of cheap beer and peanuts on sale. For those who know the right people, and have enough money to spend, drugs and illegal weapons can be brought here as well.

3-The Coin

This place caters to the nobility and the food and the alcohol is seriously expensive but the quality is high. It’s rather elitist, the common people are most certainly not allowed inside, and its bouncers are seriously formidable. Very little crime is planned in a place like this as the patrons are far too wealthy to want to steal, but there is likely to be plenty of political intrigue going on.

4-The Greedy Goblin

The Greedy Goblin is a changeling inn deep within a Rift, where instead of food, there are cocooned humans, Orcs, elves and others so that after paying for the privilege, changeling customers can feed on their love.

5-The Wizard’s Watering Hole

This is located within a major magical college, and drinks like Time Wine and other such magical beverages are common, whilst The Magic Of Food is common here, so it’s common for platoons of peanuts to come hopping up to the diner who ordered them. The casting of illusion spells is common and tolerated as long as it is not done to  cause fear.

6-The Smuggle Inn

An old haunt of smugglers who used to smuggle things like brandy, now the gang of modern smugglers operating from it smuggle guns, drugs, and endangered animals, and are likely to be very violent, even murderous, if discovered.

7-The Heave Hoe

This is an in where the ordinary seamen go to after a long voyage, and it is much cheaper than the Seamaster’s Rest and is also known for its whores. Naval Press gangs occasionally raid places like this, but obviously not so often that they get put out of business.

8-The Jester’s Jape

As well as being a tavern this is a place where would be comedians can have a chance to impress those with the right connections in the Guild of Fools and Jesters and launch a successful comedy career- or get roasted and laughed at for all the wrong reasons.

9-The Queen Yocasta 

A place for royalists, traditionalists and conservatives, the sort of place where moderately right wing politicians start campaigning for office. As well as beer, wine and port, it sells good quality food and its bedrooms are extra comfortable, but there is a high price tag. It’s not an exclusive place though,anyone with the money can stay here, and no one asks where the money comes from.

10-The Blind Eye

All sorts of illegal items can be brought here if you know the right people, ranging from roofies or Balisong knives to firearms, unlicensed drones and porn of the highly illegal kind. Police officers are not welcome as customers. The booze and food is good too, but beware of the Draining Beds upstairs.

11-The Muffled Cry

Like the Heave Hoe, the Muffled Cry is part inn, part brothel, but unlike the Heave Hoe where the whores are willing, the luckless women here have been forcibly sold into the sex industry very much against their will and live horrible lives. The place is frequented by certain people in positions of power, and it’s owner regularly pays of the police so they don’t raid the place and shut it down.

12-The Ho Ho Ho

The Ho Ho Ho is always decorated for Christmas ( or the equivalent festival of your choice) all year round and whilst one might think that would put off most visitors, it gets more then you might expect, plus it gets a lot of visitors at said festival which help pay it’s bills for the rest of the year. It serves Christmas food or the equivalent festival food and spiced wines and the like, and the tavern sign is a picture of Father Christmas or the world’s equivalent nocturnal gift bringer.

13-The Hoe Hoe Hoe

It is much like the Ho Ho Ho except that it is also a brothel and the whores wear festival themed sexy clothes.

14-The Gibbet Irons

This is a place where City Guards or the equivalent law enforcement agency often drink, and it is no place for villains. The owner does not have to fear organised crime extorting from him because of this, and the homeless also stay far from the place.

15-The Dragonsfire

An inn full of military types who are tight lipped around strangers, it’s run by a former special forces veteran who feels happiest around fellow veterans of the military. Plenty of civilians come too and they are welcome as long as they don’t cause trouble. Troublemakers get beaten up and thrown out, not by paid bouncers but by the regulars, and the local Mafia leave the place well alone, ad it’s not worth the trouble that it would cause to take control over it.

16- Rat In Mi Kitchen 

The inn is well known for the quality of its food, but what is not known by its customers is that the owner of the inn is secretly a wererat. In his rat form he is human sized, and he will try and kill anybody who finds out about his were nature as he fears his inn being shut down by the town’s health inspectors and losing his livelihood if the news were to get out that Rat In Mi Kitchen really did have a rat working in the kitchen. Only his beloved wife knows his secret.

17-Joviansfry

Joviansfry serves all kinds of fried food, and it’s owner is a worshipper of the God Jove who had to leave his country several years ago when the government started persecuting worshippers of Jove, banned cremation of the dead, shut down Jovian temples and heavily encouraged worshippers of Jove to leave. The inn’s name is a pun on the words “Jovians Frei” which means “ Free of Jovians” and not all worshippers of Jove like the pun, thinking it goes a bit far to be funny.

18-Cosy Nook

Cosy Nook is owned by halflings, and serves hobbits, dwarves, midgets, goblins and the like, and has a few beds that are large enough for humans to sleep in as well. The food and drink is delicious and it is well known for it’s comfort, and the owner is wealthy and doing very well for himself.

19- Sleepeasy

The owner of Sleepeasy has a covert secondary business providing roofies and other such drugs to certain regulars, who either use them for themselves to get to sleep easily or hoard them for much darker reasons.

20-The Lazy Lout

The Lazy Lout is rumoured to be Mafia owned, and certainly a lot of never do wells hang out in there, but they don’t cause problems , partly because they don’t want to crap on their own doorstep, and partly because they don’t want to be whacked by the Mafia members who use the place as their social club.

21-The Miner’s Cage

The main inn at a mining town, with plain but tasty food, the innkeeper makes extra money selling mining equipment on the side. He is almost rich enough to set up a second inn elsewhere.

22-The Riddling Riever

Rumoured to be full of tricksters and other such people, it’s the place to go to buy and sell illegally gained items that have either been stolen or are illegal to own point blank. It is rumoured to have political protection from people in high places.

23-The Noble Steed

Just outside the city gates of Terrasquestone, the Noble Steed makes a lot of money from the many would be adventurers who arrive just after the city gates have closed for the night and need somewhere to stay. The food and wine are good, but the many tales of successful adventures and the good advice that one can buy for a few coins are even better.

24-The Final Rest

The Final Rest is opposite the city cemetery and the nearby city morgue, and has amongst the customers many undertakers, pall bearers, morgue workers and, it is rumoured, grave robbers and necromancers. The food and drink is good quality and the beds are comfortable, but the regulars are slow to warm to strangers.

25-HMP Wessleton

A former prison until a new larger facility took it’s place, it has become a prison themed inn, it’s food now thankfully better then it used to be for the unfortunate inmates. The bodies of those who were hanged and buried in the prison are still there deep under the earth and there are rumours that the place is hunted, that bring in ghost hunters who want to see ghosts.

26-The Arena

Depending on the laws of the land, the arena within the tavern is either used for dancing and karaoke, wrestling, boxing ,cockfighting or even to watch gladiators fight. Otherwise the place is your average inn, neither luxurious nor in poor condition.

27-The Black Hole

The Black Hole is a sci fi world inn that sells real meat and beer, not lab grown stuff, and has a real fire going in the wintertime, not a fake fire, and is a pricy place, but most people consider th3 expense in credits to be worth it.


28-The Branked Woman

Part inn, part Men’s Club, the inn sign is of a woman with a metal gag in her mouth, and the place does not welcome women to say the least, either as workers or as customers. Much misogynistic talk is said here privately amongst the more normal topics of conversation that the males talk about when they are alone.

29-Cavey

Cavey exists in a cave system that was once taken by force from the goblins that once lived within it. The temperatures are perfect, the food and drink taste very good, but goblins are not welcome in Cavey, and certain areas are off limits so people don’t get lost and die underground.

30-Mathom’s Pleasure 

Mathom’s Pleasure is run by a Priest of Mathom, the God of Delays and has been slow to pay it’s bills, but attempts both legal and illegal to either collect the rent owned or evict the owner have failed. The courts got choggled up with other cases, and when the landlord tried to hire the underworld, a gang war happened to break out so the underworld heavies are too busy fighting other gangsters to act against Mathom’s Pleasure.

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