Canal House
Canal House is a brothel typically fronted as an inn. It is a large complex of rowhouses located along the canal that connects the Mudwash District with the docks at the Waterside District. The Canal House is made up of five four-story houses, all timber framed and shake roofed, and all painted a unique sky blue. The House is full of small rooms, long corridors and oddly-placed stairways. Rooms are very small, with a single bed, a single chair, and a sideboard for a basin of water. Many don't even have windows, and none have locks on the doors. There is a large tavern on the first floor, with a gambling hall just down the corridor.
Purpose / Function
A large brothel and gambling hall, catering to the worst elements of the city. It is the front of a large and powerful criminal syndicate called the Lovelies.
Design
The Canal House has a very busy and confusing layout, with stairways, passages and corridors seemingly going nowhere, dozens of small dark rooms and no real purpose to the design.
Entries
There are two main entrances, one to the tavern at one end of the complex and another in the middle of the street-side leading to the gambling hall. All "guest" rooms are located on the upper floors, where patrons can view and choose their companions in a number of salons.
Sensory & Appearance
The entire first level of the building smells of spilled beer and old sweat. Tallow candles create a dark and smokey atmosphere that never really clears up. Upper floors smell of bad perfume and dirty laundry. What few windows there are that open at all are always open to allow just a little fresh air into the building.
Denizens
Rowland keeps more than 30 whores at the Canal House, ranging from the age of 15 to 55. Six of them are males. Another 12 hands working the tavern and gambling hall are members of the Lovelies, and all of them are capable melee fighters in their own right. Most are armed with short clubs, daggers and a signature length of chain hangs from their waists that they can use as a weapon quite easily.
Valuables
As the front for the Lovelies, the Canal House does have a significant amount of money on hand at any time, but the bulk of their misgotten goods are kept in secret caches located across the city. Total coin values within the House do not typically exceed 20,000 guilders.
Special Properties
There are no fewer than a dozen hidden exits from the Canal House. Roughly half of those exit onto the canal itself, with the rest giving access to either underground tunnels or sheltered street-side exits.
Architecture
Five multi-story row houses all painted sky blue, with seemingly endless passages, corridors and small rooms making the interior of the establishment very confusing in its layout.
Alternative Names
Lovely House
Type
Brothel / Whorehouse
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