Lady Luck Tavern
This two-story structure was once a warehouse for a trading concern which was wiped out by an ore raid. Darryl Orcslayer, an adventurer who helped destroy the orcs, was given the warehouse as a reward by the survivors of the
trading family.
Darryl died many years ago, but the tavern remains in his family, now run by his great-granddaughter, Glenys.
As her family before her did, Glenys Orcslayer encourages the patronage of soldiers and adventurers. The walls are decorated with weapons, armor, and trophies various patrons have brought back from their battles, to rival those in the shrine of Tempus. One interesting feature of the tavern is a large stone column set in the middle of the floor. On it are inscribed the unique symbols of patrons who have died in battle or disappeared on a quest. Any toast given in the tavern must include a libation to “those who have fallen before us.”
The Tavern (other description. old perhaps?)
In the center of the taproom is a massive stone pillar bearing the weight of the ceiling. It has a ladder of iron hooks up one side. It is used This two-story former warehouse caters to soldiers and adventurers. Its proprietor, Owenden Orcslayer, is the son of a man who was given the warehouse as a reward for slaying orcs who’d killed the owners of the warehouse in a raid. It is a popular place for taletellers and funseekers alike. The preponderance of weapons in the hands of those who know how to use them makes for a relatively safe drinking spot, not a rough place.
Both levels of the warehouse have been opened up into a single lofty room, with balconies all around it at varying levels. Each balcony contains a booth for patrons and is linked to at least two other balconies by broad flights of stairs. The tipsy are advised to get down to street level before they become too drunk to safely do so. Every night someone falls or at least stumbles on the stairs. to display the battered shields, personal runes, or other mementos of patrons who’ve died in battle or disappeared while off adventuring or on a military mission. Any toast given in the tavern must include a salute to the pillar and the words: “To those who have fallen before us.” Those who brings in the relics of a fallen comrade are given a free drink of whatever they want.
The walls of the tavern are hung with weapons, armor, banners, spitted beast heads, and similar trophies of battle brought in by various patrons. The most striking of these is the huge, mummified wing of a black dragon slain in a volcano. The heat baked and dried its outstretched wing, and when an adventurer-the lone survivor of the party that slew it-dared to return to the lair nine years later, he recovered not only the dragon’s treasure hoard, but the wing. It now hangs over the taproom like a soft black canopy, depending from the ceiling on eight stout chains.
The Lady Luck Prospect
This tavern is named for the goddess Tymora, patron of adventurers, and despite the memorial pillar, the expressed mood of patrons is always an enthusiastic “Dare everything!” and “Let’s be adventuring, then!” The entire northeast wall of the taproom is covered by a huge, splendid color map of the Realms from Calimshan to the Spine of the World, and the Moonshaes to Raurin. News and rumors of treasure finds, dragon sightings, and possible treasures are eagerly discussed, as are tidings of war from anywhere in Faerûn.
The Lady Luck Provender
The Lady serves salted nuts, cheese on hardbread,12 and sugared bread-sticks. In winter, there’s also stew made of beef, game, parsnips, and fish. It’s thick, brown, greasy, and salty. If you’re chilled, it warms you up, and that’s about all the good I can muster to say of it.
That’s all the food one can get, but most patrons come here because they’re thirsty, not hungry. Accordingly, the Lady offers bitterroot beer (a smoky, acquired taste), zzar, sherry, and ale.
The Lady Luck Prices
All the food is 3 cp per serving and comes on wooden platters. Hungry people will need two servings. Drink is sold by the tankard or tallglass only, at Waterdhavian prices.13 The wine list is meager, but from time to time merchants bring vintages from afar, and Owenden serves these wines as long as his stock holds out. These exotics often include rollrum (a dark, licorice-laced Tashlutan drink, which has a cool, clear, minty aftertaste), a favorite of many Sword Coast sailors.
The Lady Luck Travelers’ Lore
In the Lady, one drink always sits untouched on the bar. It’s for Tymora herself, should she enter. Woe betide the visitor who touches this silver goblet-ejection and a heavy enforced offering at the shrine of Tymora (Fairfortune Hall) are the least penalty. Visitors who object to this are likely to find a yard of steel through their middles in short order. Six people have so died, and more than a dozen have made offerings- but twice in Owenden’s time, the goblet has been suddenly and silently wreathed in flame, and the wine within has vanished. Patrons believe Tymora herself drank with them.
At least two wizards have hidden coins or magic somewhere in the Lady and then gone adventuring- never to return. One was said to be an illusionist, and the other was a transmuter. A few people have tried to cast dispel magic on everyday tavern items on the theory that the treasure might be polymorphed or hidden by an illusion, thus far to no avail.
The Lady Luck History
Owenden Orcslayer managed the Lady Luck Tavern around 1370 DR, which he inherited from his father, the famed adventurer Darryl Orcslayer. Owenden was also a cleric of Tymora.
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