Jalek's Flophouse
When the lake turned foul, Diamond Lake's modest fishing industry fled the town, leaving a wake of empty warehouses and bankrupted fishers. Some of these warehouses became stockades for mine managers, packed with raw ore and letters of credit from the City beyond. Others fell to ruin and became infested with squatters and addicts.
Jalek 's Flophouse, situated on Front Street within smelling distance of the lake, is the town's most famous warehouse, as it houses a hundred pitiful indigents fighting off destitution with a handful of copper. A rotting wooden framework within supports a lurching, maze-like second floor, where every step brings an alarming creak and the walls thrum with muffled conversation. Lodging is 5 coppers a night, paid to a massive, helmeted mute named Golot. The brute pummels those do not pay until they flee or die. No one has an address at Jalek's - the room is the room you can keep. Most rooms lack doors, let alone locks, but the shifting inhabitants and the chaotic layout of the upper floor makes it one of the best places to disappear in all of Diamond Lake. The landlord Jalek lives a rooftop apartment and is seldom seen. The Cuthbertine flagellant Jierian Wierus frequently visits the flophouse, where he recruits a growing tide of converts.
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Apartment building / Tenament
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