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The Stone Hammer

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The Stone Hammer

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Description

Good Brew - Good Stew

Description

Tolbin Ironhand is a broad-shouldered, robust dwarf with a well-kept beard and thinning hair. He bought the Stone Hammer five years ago, after thirty years as a mercenary and adventurer. He still maintains his fighting skills with a few hours of training each week at the salle d’armes of Eldri the weapons teacher, and is not a man to be trifled with in the event of a barroom altercation. Many of his old adventuring companions stay at the Hammer when they visit the city, and the inn is an excellent place to find out information about expeditions leaving Haven in search of riches and glory. Tolbin himself yearns more than occasionally for his old lifestyle, and plans on joining the party that accompanies the re-forged Broken Blade back to Arkendelve.

Exterior

A fairly large granite nativity creche contains three stone statues of dwarves, in various mining poses, surrounding a metal cart filled with many chips of sparkling glass. Above the creche is a marble sign with the legend carved in the stone - The Stone Hammer - Fine Food and Drink. Two stairwells, one on either side of the nativity, lead down to the tavern.

Interior

The tavern comprises the first underground floor, and consists of four rooms:

  1. a large common room filled with long benches, with two roaring fireplaces on its east and west walls, and two bars,
  2. a smaller dining room, with its own fireplace and eight tables (seating for 48),
  3. the kitchen
  4. a small private meeting room, kept locked under normal circumstances. The room may be rented by anyone, and is sometimes used for meetings of the Brotherhood of the Broken Blade (see Dwarrow, Scenarios).

On the next floor down, there are six sleeping chambers - two private rooms, and 4 rooms sleeping up to 4 each, Tolbin’s own two room suite, and a liquor storage area. There are two connecting stairways to this floor. One in the common room, and one in the corridor that runs between the kitchen and the private meeting room.

Hours

11:00am - 2:00am (The doors at the bottom of the stairs are bolted from the inside at 1:00am, and these bolts are locked in place from closing time until Tolbin rises at 8:00am).

Price Range

Fair

Quality

Fair

Cash Box

Behind each of the bars, there is a slotted hole that empties into a metal box which is locked into place. Tolbin will remove these boxes at the end of each evening, and transfer the contents into a secret, well-trapped compartment concealed in the floor of his bedroom. Each box will contain 5d10gp in coins by the end of a day. Tolbin also carries 10-20gp in silvers and coppers in his apron pockets (to make change with).

Staff

Pallinar - The former owner of the inn, Pallinar was forced to sell the Hammer to raise money for the treatment of his invalid daughter Arabel. He still works at the inn several nights a week, and lives a few buildings away. He is a grim, joyless man, whose liveliness was snuffed out on the fateful day his daughter suffered her crippling accident in a fall. He blames her injury on his own inattentiveness, and no one (not even Tolbin, who has tried repeatedly) can comfort him. Since the accident, he cannot abide to see others engaged in frivolous horseplay, and will unleash a violent outburst at anyone involved in such actions.

Customers

3d8 during the afternoon hours, and 4d20 during the evening. The crowd tends to be very boisterous.

There is a 40% chance on any given day that all the rooms in the Inn will be rented out by sundown, and a 15% chance that one of the roomers will be an old traveling companion of Tolbin’s.

About 75% of the patrons will be dwarven, but non-dwarves should not feel uncomfortable here.

NPC Encounters

Sikki | Coppin Oxblood | Sombur | Kynnik | Nithri Griffinrider | Mahti | Eldri

Outstanding Items

The Hammer offers filling, hearty food and drink for a fair price. Its rooms are well-kept and clean, but are rather small, and no bathing facilities are available (All the beds are dwarven size, except in one of the 4 person rooms).

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Tavern (Inns & Taverns)

Owner: Tolbin Ironhand

District: The Dwarrow

Grid (Key) Ref.: B13 (HO)

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Type: Pub / Tavern / Restaurant

Parent Location:

The Dwarrow

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Ruler/Owner: Tolbin Ironhand

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World Anvil Metadata

Id: bc6496c4-1ba0-4a37-9992-4e15a3f097a8

Entity Type: Article / landmark

Category: Places: The Dwarrow

Tags: fcoh,the-dwarrow-location,cat-entertainment,type-tavern,guild-of-the-hearth-location,entertainment

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