City Slaughterhouse
All fresh meat in the city comes from this building. The cuts are generally good, and a wide variety of meats are butchered here (pork, beef, lamb, poultry, and horse). It is also the best market for those seeking to buy meat, though cuts are shipped from here to the marketplaces, restaurants, and other food merchants as well. The building is the scene of hog, cattle, horse, sheep, and even poultry butchering. Generally only one type of creature is slaughtered here per day, or one type is butchered all morning and another type during the afternoon.
This structure emits no terrible odors, as one would expect, because of several minor wizard spells that change noxious odors of offal, blood, and decay into more neutral scents, then cause an updraft to carry all smells into the air above the city. The sounds of livestock being slain are similarly muffled by magical means, so the neighborhood is not greatly disturbed. A consortium of nobles owns the slaughterhouse, which is operated by the Guild of Butchers. There is little friction usually between the nobles and the guild, thanks to many long-standing work agreements and benefits programs.
The Guild of Butchers does look for unusual meats supplied by adventurers. Livestock to be butchered is usually brought in small groups from stockades outside the city walls along River Road. One sort of animal is butchered during the morning, and another during the afternoon.
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