07-24-2021, 02:41 PM | #11 | |
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You could run with the "almost any time" as well, with one of those pubs where you are never quite sure what year it is... might make the quiz a bit weird mind you. |
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07-25-2021, 07:01 AM | #12 | |
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Location: The Kingdom of Insignificance
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Oh, and bowls of fish stew.
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07-25-2021, 07:45 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chatham, Kent, England
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Yep. How the quiz night brings out discrepancies could even be why the place is where it is... ooOOOoo...
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07-25-2021, 01:53 PM | #14 |
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07-26-2021, 09:29 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Can I go to your place after I have visited mine?
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07-26-2021, 03:21 PM | #16 |
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07-26-2021, 11:37 PM | #17 |
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07-28-2021, 08:38 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Toronto, Canada
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It's known as the Guild-Hall, which is two lies for the price of one, since there's no guild and no hall. It's actually an old warehouse that serves as a clearing-house for employers and workers, both skilled and unskilled. The furnishings are spartan, but it's a big place. It can hold several hundred people if there are a lot of people looking for work and they stand close, which they sometimes do. The barkeep can accommodate a variety of tastes; there's cheap ale and standing room for a bit, good ale and a stool for a bit more, and really rather good wine served at a proper table with chairs for still more.
It can get a bit noisy, so when the employers stand on the platform to announce the jobs they are hiring for, they really need to speak up. By tradition, the most highly skilled jobs are announced early in the morning, and progressively less skilled jobs as the day wears on, so the crowd tends to get rougher late in the day. |
08-12-2021, 03:22 PM | #19 |
Join Date: Sep 2018
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We don't meet at Inns, but we wait there while the party is running around town in different directions.
The adventurer's inn is drafty and dark, a lamp at the bar, one near the little stage and the fireplace that's rarely stoked up beyond coals. Stone floors, super-heavy wood rafters, dirty curtains on the windows. It's small, just three tables and the bench, folks sit on the stage when nobody's performing. You gotta squeeze past people coming and going. If you want privacy or comfort you have to spring for the private room and the bartender has to move all the boxes they were storing in there. The Bar sturdy, built out of something that used to be something else, a ship prow, or a row of kegs. No bar stools, bar drinking if for men who need to get home, not for loitering. There are rules posted on the wall so nobody can say they didn't know. The beer's not great but the ale is decent, or vise-versa depending on the town. What really brings folks in is the special, it's greasy and full of fat, comes with a hunk of toasted bread and is so cheap you question if that meat is really goat. The music is bad, because if it was good they'd be playing the coaching in. Often enough the bartender kicks the troubadour out because he's getting booed too much. There aren't often farm workers here, some of the town constables come in after shift for a drink. Most folks are travelers, pretty happy to be under a roof and off the road for the night. |
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