T9: Brass Dragon Inn

This grand-looking establishment is the first building many travelers see after long days on the River Road, anticipating the Free City's hospitality. The sight is not disappointing.

The inn is a rambling maze of wings, towers, sleeping and dining rooms, a kitchen, comfortable firelit lounges and smoky, noisy beer halls. In short, there is something for everyone.

But the prices charged are the highest in the Old City, with room and board costing in the neighborhood of 1gp. And though the menu lists seafood and vegetable dishes, beef and chicken, and everything else, all the food seems to taste the same, which is not very good.

The inn employs a small army of security agents to protect the premises against troublemakers and to enforce the collection of all weapons larger than daggers at the door. These fighters include a 7th-level sergeant and ten 3rd-level guards.

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T9: Brass Dragon Inn. Another of the many dragon-named establishments in the city is the Brass Dragon Inn, a huge, one-story building with a rambling interior filled with kitchens, taprooms, dining halls, bars, bedrooms, short towers (up to three stories), firelit lounges and sitting rooms, and more. The food is not great and is also expensive, though few exhausted souls coming through the Highway Gate care very much; they are just happy to have a chance to rest. Two families (the Yrinjes and the Solvanis) own the inn, constantly arguing over what to serve and how to manage the place. Customers expect to see the staff members fighting among themselves, and just ignore it. The head bartender here is an intelligent and skilled half-elf student nicknamed “Rainy.” He began work here just after the Greyhawk Wars and is well liked by everyone. Many privately hired mercenaries and guards protect the inn from vandals, thieves, arsonists, and drunken patrons’ pranks.

DM's Notes: “Rainy” the bartender is Naas Sarainy Siobhatek [LE 4em T10; hp 35; Dex 18, Int 17; bracers of defense AC S, dagger of venom, boots and cloak of elvenkind, ring of invisibility, ring of mind shielding]. He is a deep-cover agent for the Scarlet Brotherhood in Greyhawk. At present, he takes on occasional missions for his masters far away, spending the rest of his time listening for interesting gossip. He pretends to be a long-time student in the city, hailing from Veluna. He has been in Greyhawk for over a decade now and has many friends. Most people recognize that he is basically selfish and a bit cold, but he is a great conversationalist, a good speaker, and very law-abiding.

“Rainy” took his job at the Brass Dragon in the days after the Great Northern Crusade began, realizing that the Scarlet Brotherhood’s position in the city was tenuous if the Pact of Greyhawk was discarded. His suspicions were correct, and he is one of the few high-level agents left in the city. He is contacted irregularly by Brotherhood agents from the south, but he knows little about the Brotherhood’s political situation elsewhere in the Flanaess. He would ultimately like to take part in an assassination attempt against the upper level members of the Thieves’ Guild in Greyhawk, becoming the new guildmaster.