The Roc and Oliphant
This boisterous tavern is a favorite of students, athletes and partygoers. It is renowned for cheap drink and ample portions of tolerable food. It is busy at mealtimes, and during most evenings. The Roc and Oliphant is mobbed after arena games, with loud music sung and played by student musicians. Earthday evenings are the wildest, usually with music from some group of minstrels or bards. Since most colleges do not hold classes on Freeday, the carousing goes on until well past midnight. Almost no tutors come here. The City Watch is forced to come here every other night to settle a fight or order the students to keep the screaming and shouting down.
The large building consists of a huge main room heated by a central fireplace, and several smaller rooms to each side. The kitchen is in the rear. The whole place has a distinctive odor combining smoke, spilled ale, sweat, and vomit, with other odors that the wise will not investigate for long.
Perhaps the biggest draw here is the bartender, an elderly half-orc named Ral. Ral is friendly and certainly knows how to mix drinks. He wears a holy symbol of Ralishaz around his neck “for good luck”. He wears a colorful old rug as a poncho on cold nights.
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Pub / Tavern / Restaurant
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