Black Dragon Inn
After Clerkburg's bustle of young scholars shuffling from hall to hall dies down to the comfortable din of early evening, students, young professors, political agitators, and weary menials crowd the Black Dragon Inn for rest, food, and the strongest drinks east of the Processional. Managed by a gregarious, bear-like retired adventurer named Miklos Dare [human male], the Black Dragon boasts 60 private rooms for rent, one of the city's largest common sleeping rooms, and an unostentatious but skillfully delivered menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. More than the food or accommodations, however, the Black Dragon is known for being open at all hours of the day and night, and for the eclectic clientele attracted by such forgiving hours of operation.
Students from the surrounding colleges serve as bouncers, maids, bartenders, and housekeepers, and make up the bulk of the Black Dragon; customers. Traders from the Low Market, city watchmen, former students still caught up in the allure of intellectual debate, and Baklunish inhabitants of the "Little Ket" neighborhood across the Processional augment the youthful atmosphere. Walking from the bar to the private toilet off the taproom, it's possible to hear a heated argument over the rights of Wild Coast slaves whose masters were killed by the warbands of Turrosh Mak, bitter complaints about unfair business practices in the Petit Bazaar, and rampant speculation on the whereabouts of the dastardly Lord Robilar. Miklos Dare listens to all of this talk, and has established a significant body of lore and rumors. some of which happen to be more than the simple blustering of a young pedant striking an intellectual blow against a hated fellow.
A cot in the common room costs 2 sp per night, a single room costs 8 sp, and a suite costs 5 gp, but can fit up to five people.
Miklos serves a light breakfast for 3 sp, lunch and dinner costs 8 sp.
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Inn
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