Inn of the Welcome Wench

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Food and drink at the Welcome Wench are higher than usual because it is the only inn for many miles, the place is renowned and its food better than average, and the area is prosperous. Choice venison, mutton, poached salmon, trout stuffed with specially prepared mixtures, goose roasted to a golden brown, pork, steaming sausages, steak and kidney pie with mushrooms or truffles, squab stuffed pheasant, and boiled crayfish in drawn butter are just a few of the epicurian delights which are expected and served here. The locally brewed ale and beer is supplemented by brews from other places, and wine, mead and brandy from all over the Flanaess make their way to the boards of the Welcome Wench. Meals are served on pottery or pewter or copper services according to the order. Various leather jacks, pottery mugs, wooden tankards, pewter stems, glass flagons, crystal goblets, or silver chalices are used for potables. Prices are:

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INN OF THE WELCOME WENCH FIRST FLOOR

ROOM 1) COMMON ROOM: This large place is bright and cheerful. It contains many rough-hewn tables and chairs, boards and benches. Natural tree trunk pillars support the ceiling overhead, all dark with smoke and age. There are always several customers in the place. These are travellers of various sorts—merchants, tinkers, and peddlers—and local folk in an even mix. In the evening, there are always be more people. Several barmaids and potboys will circulate, bringing viands and drink, taking away the empty platters and flagons, stoking the fires if the day is chill, etc.

ROOM 2) PRIVATE ROOM: This chamber is for visiting noblemen, rich merchants, and so forth. It has a long table and comfortable side chairs. Those wishing to have a private meal use this place. It is nicely furnished and has tapestries and paintings on the walls.

ROOM 3) PRIVATE ROOM: This place is generally kept aside by Ostler Gundigoot for those of his patrons who wish privacy—to game or confer or whatever, as it is in a dark and inconspicuous corner.

ROOM 4) BAR: This is the proprietors usual station. He sees to the filling of jacks of ale, tankards of beer, and flagons of wine. Boiled eggs, cheeses, and hard biscuits or crackers are often atop the trestle. Serving girls carry the food from here to the common room. There are great barrels of ale and beer, tuns of wine, and a cask of brandy with spigots ready for the hosts hand.

ROOM 5) KITCHEN: The huge fireplace usually has various pots and kettles within, a roast turning, and several fowl kept warm in its side places. Goodwife Gundigoot is in charge here, keeping cook and scullions hopping. At the west end are the steps leading down to the cellar and up to the private apartment of the owner.

INN OF THE WELCOME WENCH SECOND FLOOR

ROOM 1) PRIVATE ROOM: This chamber is rented by Zert, a fighter who is waiting for the return of a caravan from the south. He has a reputation of being able to drink great quantities without becoming drunk and thus spends most of his time in the bar.

ROOM 2) PRIVATE SUITE: The noble or wealthy rent this suite at 5 gp's per night, breakfast furnished. The outer room is a sitting room with table and chairs, while the inner has a huge feather bed, chairs, and a closet.

ROOM 3) PRIVATE ROOM: This private room rents for 2 gp's per night and is currently vacant.

ROOM 4) PRIVATE ROOM: This private room has an extra table and chairs and rents for 2 1/2 gp's per night.

ROOM 5) PRIVATE ROOM: This place is currently the lodgings of one Spugnoir, a wizard. This chap came into the village with a merchant wagon, and he is staying in hopes of gathering spells.

ROOM 6) PRIVATE ROOM: This private room has an extra table and chairs and rents for 2 1/2 gp's per night.

ROOM 7) PRIVATE ROOM: This private room rents for 1 gp per night and is currently vacant.

ROOM 8) PRIVATE ROOM: The comfortable room is the quarters of one Furnok of Ferd, a rogue who loves to gamble and spend time in the bar.

ROOM 9) PRIVATE ROOM: This place houses a strange pair, a hulking fighter named Kobort and his associate, a small and thin fellow named Turuko, a monk from unknown parts. Kobort was passing through and fell in with the monk, and Turuko convinced the huge fellow that by joining forces the two could become wealthy and famous.

ROOM 10) DORMITORY SLEEPING ROOM: Here most of the lesser travelers can spend a warm and safe night for a mere silver noble (1 sp). There are a dozen or so pallets, and in the morning the table in the center is loaded with hot tea and fresh loaves at no extra cost. Even these folks receive warm water and clean towels for morning ablutions, such is the quality of the Welcome Wench Inn! There are always several folk sleeping here.

ROOM 11) SPARE ROOM: If the inn is exceptionally crowded, this place will be rented, but it normally quarters the potboys and scullions, for Ostler Gundigoot is a very kind master, and on cold nights he will have a fire in the room, too!

ROOM 12) SERVING WENCHES ROOM: Two wenches currently share this chamber, although there are cots for four, and when the season arrives, there will be one or two likely lasses hired on.

ROOM 13) GUNDIGOOT'S CHILDRENS ROOM: The two young daughters are quartered here, under the watchful eye of Goodwife Gundigoot.

ROOM 14) GUNDIGOOTS CHAMBER: This room is off-limits and the door is always locked.

ROOM 15) PARLOR: This is the living and dining area for the family of Ostler Gundigoot. It has heavy furniture, polished brass pieces (candlesticks, etc.), tapestries, and so forth, which show comfortable affluence.