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| The Misty Veil Tavern & Inn |
| Straight ahead in the large room, you see the bar where Liath, a tall, heavyset man with a fiery red beard that obscures his face but for a gleaming smile and beady little eyes, his wife Elsie, or his daughters (Selena age 17 human, Marina age 19 human) wait to serve you. Booths with benches line the wooden walls to left of the bar. To the right is the staircase leading to the rooms upstairs. Directly behind the bar is a set of double doors leading to kitchen. In the far left corner of the room closest to the entry are four dartboards, and directly in front of the entry are two tables where any chess afficianados can play. In the center of the room, you see a stage, for a band or a minstrel (Elsie is often found playing the piano and singing a lively tune if there are no other bards around). Surrounding it is a small area cleared for dancing. To the right of this room, two arch doorways lead to a sitting room, where bookshelves line the walls along with adequate, comfortable seating. A fire crackles in the fireplace on the right side of the dining room, and in the far back of the sitting room in the colder months. Menu: Main Dishes: 5 silver: Your choice of roast boar and fresh greens; a potato mash of fried and diced lamb, onions, garlic, and parsnips; smoked turkey and bulls'-tongues savander (steamed and hot-spiced horseflesh and quail baked into a pie) served with a selection of lime chutneys and pickled eels, mussels and smallfish; a many-spice stew of barley, peppers, and beef; or something seasonal and special (such as butter-fried silverfin, when a fishmonger's wagon rolls into town). Soups: 3 silver: Your choice of creamed leek and potato; mushrooms and almond; breek (wild onions, radishes, hot spices, and boiled beef -- which is to say hooves, tripes, and all, strained out before serving); forest leaf (berries and a tisane of certain flavorful roots and leaves); and wildfowl stew (barley-based and pleasant, but widely suspected to be a way of using up old chickens and captured mice). Soups are always served in hollowed-out round loaves of bread, sealed against leakage by spreading a thick layer of melted cheese into the inside surfaces to harden into a crust. Loaf of Bread: 2 copper Cheese: 1 silver Vegetables, fruit: 5 copper per serving Trail Rations (per day): 5 silver Glass of wine, brandy, or sherry: 5 copper Glass of fine wine: 1 silver Bottle of wine, brandy, or sherry: 2 silver Fine bottle of wine: 10 gp Mug of ale: 4 copper Gallon of ale: 2 silver Cup of herbal tea: 2 copper Pot of herbal tea: 1 silver Cream Liquer, Creme de Menthe, Crimson Mysts Whiskey, Black Myst Brew: 1 silver per shot 1 gold per bottle Rooms: Small room-1 silver per day: this room consists of at minimum a bedchamber opening into its own closet, with a bed, a couch or cot, a chair, a wall mirror, and a table -- all of which are old, mismatched pieces of furniture salvaged from elsewhere Common- 3 silver per day: Slightly larger than the small rooms, the common room consists of a bedchamber opening into its own closet, a full sized bed, a couch and chair, a wall mirror, a table, and a desk. All pieces of furniture match, yet are still older. Suite-3 gold per day: Suites are furnished lushly, kept toasty warm in winter and as shaded and cool as possible in summer, and equipped with writing parchment, ink, and quills, plentiful seating, cushions galore, and even plants and flowers. All suites have at least a large high-backed armchair with footstool, a canopied bed large enough for three tall adults to sleep side by side in, a wardrobe, a writing desk and upright chair, and a bedside table, and a stepstool for the use of short guests ascending or descending from bed. |
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| SELENA |
| MARINA |
| LIATH |
| ELSIE |
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| MISTY VEIL SITTING ROOM |
| MISTY VEIL DINING ROOM |