The Black Pike
The Black Pike is one of the roughest taverns in an area known for rough drinking spots. The building skulks on the waterfront, black-timbered and forbidding. This is a hangout for Hooks, and it takes a brave or oblivious stranger to enter the bar and remain long. The landlord of the Black Pike is ‘Hatchet’ Axel Berger, a man known for his sour mood and impatience with customers.
‘Hatchet’ has a southern accent and a long scar down one side of his face. He’s never told anyone where it came from, nor has
anyone dared ask. The patrons of the Black Pike are gang members, dock workers, and other locals drowning their sorrows with cheap rotgut.
On alternate nights, the tavern attracts a large crowd to watch and bet on the eel fights. The Hooks sometimes use the Black Pike’s eel pool to dispose of bodies and train their most vicious eels at the same time. Sometimes the bodies aren’t quite dead.
Type
Pub / Tavern / Restaurant
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