This spacious inn and tavern serves as a public eating house for the region. Like alehouses everywhere, The Inn of the Slumbering Serpent offers beer, wine, and on occasion, spirits. Meals are served for those with the coin, and beds for travelers are available. A crowd of townsfolk gathers each night to drink, gossip, sing, and play games of chance.
A large, colorful sign pictures a red dragon with its head resting contentedly on its paws. A plume of smoke rises from the serpent's nose and its eyes are closed. This inn is smaller and older than the Golden Grain. Several beds of flowers brighten the front, however, and the young woman sweeping the porch looks cheerful. She greets customers with a friendly wave.
In addition to town residents, any travelers passing through through the region are found here. The Slumbering Serpent Inn owners and proprietors of the inn are a young woman whith long black hair named Belba Cralloon. or "Bell" for short, and her husband, Ollwin Cralloon. They employ several waiters, waitresses, and cooks. They are both friendly and open, quick with a smile and a warm welcome.
Belba is usually always busy cleaning the inn and finds little time to socialize with customers, so "Old Joe" has taken it upon himself to take over public relations, while her husband, Ollwin stands behind the main counter handing out food orders to the servers. When not handing out orders for customers he will be out amongst the dining area making is rounds around various tables checking if the meals are to the customers liking.
The Slumbering Serpent Inn is decorated with curios, salvage, and relics from all along the coast. An old statue from a beloved fountain stands in the corner, the planter boxes of some random wineseller are mounted on the walls and filled with flowers, the privy door sports the doorknob and knocker from a noble's house, and unbroken panes of stained glass were hung from the ceiling and loaded with hundreds of candles for use as chandeliers.
It all appears tasteful & homely rather than tacky. The patrons of the Slumbering Serpent Inn believe this is a proper way to honor the past days during the height of settlement. The walls are thick, the better for privacy. Overall, the Inn is clean and comfortable - having a rather worn look to it. The inside is bright and welcoming, with live music "at times" and lots of light. The décor includes elements modeled on flowers, seed pods, and leaves. The furniture was carved of wood.
Mounted on the wall just as people walk in is a job board that usually has several job requests for others to accept. The establishment is a nondescript everyday Inn one might find in any mid-sized town or settlement. The main floor in the inn consists mostly of open area filled with square tables with chairs and a medium sized bar located along the far side on the main floor as you enter the establishment. The meals served at the inn are well prepared and the rooms on the upper floor are clean and comfortable.
The ground floor of this establishment is for the most part a long open area with a large hearth set into the southernmost brick wall. This structure appears to have been kept remarkably clean and organized. The locals take great pride in calling this the settlements main Inn and tavern for the majority of the settlements citizens . . . one would be wise to not insult this establisment around the locals.
The second floor of the building is where all of the guest rooms are located, a total of ten standard guests rooms are available for public use "not including the two that stay occupied by Relithor and Old Joe". Usually most of the other rooms are vacant due to this towns remote location. Each room has a comfortable single sized bed, several covers & blankets, a wash stand, chamber pot, a couple of towels, pegs for garments, and a comfortable sitting chair. All of the guest rooms are identical in appearance, all stocked with the same exact items.
Each room is the same price and they each sleep a single person. The Slumbering Serpent Inn is "on many levels" as nice of a inn you would find throughout the Flanaess, a lot of money has gone into this establishment and it had been very well maintained throughout the years.
Meals are served on pottery, pewter or copper services according to the customers order. When full meals are ordered they come with potatoes, carrots, bread and string beans or yams. Various leather jacks, pottery mugs, wooden tankards, pewter steins, glass flagons, crystal goblets, or silver chalices are used for the beverages.
BREAKFAST
Peppered Bread: 7cp
Oatmeal: 3cp
Boiled Goose Eggs: 4cp
Chicken Eggs: 2cp
Fruit and Cheese: 3cp
Beef Steak: 2sp
Fried Potato Wedges: 2cp
Pork Sausages: 1sp
AFTERNOON MEALS
Beef Stew: 1sp
Boiled Crawfish with Drawn Butter: 1sp
Poached Salmon: 8cp
Spiced Sausages: 9cp
Stuffed Pork Chops: 1sp
Stuffed Black Trout: 1sp
Steak and Kidney Pie: 2sp
Venison Steak: 2sp
Stuffed Pheasant: 1sp
Roast Duck with Apples: 1sp
Roast Goose: 1sp
Cheese rolls with a Filling of Nuts, Honey and Vegetables: 9cp
Smoked Salmon Salad: 9cp
Apple Stuffed Mushrooms: 5cp
Roast Beef with Cranberry Sauce: 9cp
BEVERAGES
Whiskey: 6cp
Claw Wine: 5cp
Rum: 7cp
Beer: 2cp
Heavy Beer: 3cp
Ale: 4cp
Spiced Ale: 7cp
Mead: 9cp
Local Wine: 9cp
Fireamber Wine: 1sp
Local Brandy: 1sp
TRAVEL RATIONS
Dried & Smoked Meat, Goat Cheese, Dried Berries, Oats and Honey (wrapped in waxed paper): 5sp
The upper rooms are very clean, and all of the rooms are heated and with the inn only having seven standard rooms and seven private suites, they are easy to maintain and keep comfortable for the guests. Each room has a bed, many covers & blankets, a wash stand, chamber pot, towel, pegs for garments, and several chairs and stools.
ROOM NIGHTLY PRICES
(12) Standard Suite: 1gp
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