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| This hallway overlooks the Common Room below to the south. The hallway marks the dividing line between the Common Room and the Inn behind and attached to it. |
| Mezzanine Hallway/Balcony |
| Up to Third Floor |
| Up to Third Floor |
| * Rooms 6 and 8 are Singles (2 silver pieces per night) Rooms 10 and 12 are Doubles (4 silver pieces per night) Room 14 is a three-room suite (6 silver pieces per night) |
| Rooms 1, 3, 5 and 7 are Singles (2 silver pieces per night) Rooms 9 and 11 are Doubles (4 silver pieces per night) Room 13 is a three-room suite (6 silver pieces per night) |
| Sitting Room / Parlor For Inn Guests only |
| The Second floor rooms |
A Look Around The Tavern... This is a basic description of the Seacliff Tavern Inn - which really is two entities. The Tavern is a single common room, with rafters and no second floor. Behind it and attached to the north wall, is the Inn itself, a three story structure of suites and rooms and parlors. The Seacliff was constructed on the ruins of an older building, which was destroyed by fire. The Seacliff is at the eastern end of a very very long and old road - this road stretches back into the West, through many lands and is known by many names. Eventually that west road will come to Old Rhydin Town, and the Red Dragon Inn. The road ends just past the Seacliff, at a sheer cliff drop (a hundred-plus feet down to the beach below, and the eastern sea beyond that), but just in front of the Seacliff, the road forks to the South, and continues that way also through many lands and by many names. North of the Seacliff, are vast rolling plains which eventually will lead you to the mountains. To the west are lightly wooded lands through which the Road winds, on its way to the more populated areas. And to the south is a thicker woodland, through with the South road winds on its way to the Seaport and the southern lands beyond. The Seacliff itself is just north of the West road, and the Seacliff's front doors face south, and look directly down the southern bend of the road. The buildings go from the south to north - the single Common Room (the Tavern), and behind it going north is the Inn, three floors worth of rooms facing west and east. Each floor of the Inn has a north-south hallway, ending in a parlor that faces north across the plains. The Main entrance of the Common Room is on the south end, with a hearth along the west side and a raised level of tables and chairs all along the eastern side, facing out over the gently sloping lawn, and then the cliff-drop to the sea. The bar is in the back (northwest) corner, the stairs to the balcony/2nd floor of the Inn are in the center (along with a door into the back) and in the other (northeast) corner, is a small stage for performances. Behind the north wall of the Common room is a hallway which goes west to the kitchen, east to the parlors and the exit onto the deck porch, and north straight back to the small rooms and employee rooms, etc. There is also a hallway on the east side of the common room, just before the stage, that leads to cloak hooks, a bath room, and another exit to the porch. The porch is on the east side of the Tavern, it is a raised deck that actually juts out over the sloping hillside, down to the lawn (a drop of only about seven feet or so), and has a fantastic view of the sea beyond the cliff drop. There is a small stair and a path that winds down the hillside to the lawn as well. The front porch is a wide one, which spans from one front window to the other. It has some tables and chairs in the summer. There are also posts to which horses can be tied for brief visitors. A path winds around and down to the east. Just east of the Seacliff, the land begins to slope down; there is a drop of perhaps seven feet before the land levels out again onto a green lawn about twenty feet wide. At the end of this lawn, the land abruptly falls away - this is the Cliff's edge, and it is barred by a long wooden fence to deter drunken patrons from taking a bad step. Directly opposite the end of the West Road, there is a gate which opens to a steep cliffside path, which eventually winds its way down to the beach. This path is extremely difficult if one isn't careful, and can be treacherous in bad weather. |
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Detail: Common Room (Note: All descriptions are from the point of view of someone walking in the doors - they are facing 'back', which is North. West is left, East is right.) The Tavern itself is basically one large room, one and a half stories tall. The upper part of this Common Room consists of polished wood rafters, and the total height of the roof here is about fifteen feet or more. There are several skylights built into the roof here. The front doors are almost centered on the south wall of the Tavern. Hanging on each of the doors there are several 'jingle bells'. These items ring upon opening to alert the inn's employees of new entrants. Rarely does someone enter silently -- even if they can't hear them. Flanking the doors are a pair of large windows. Inside the front doors, on either side (against the south wall) are a pair of raised sitting areas, one in front of each window. They are about one or two steps up, each with a table and up to three chairs. To the left or west, there is are two more tables (one in the southwest corner of the room.) Along the west wall, moving back/north, there is a couch against the west wall, and then the hearth and fireplace. In front of the hearth are several sets of stuffed chairs with small tables. Mounted over the hearth itself is a burnished, embossed shield, the colours black and scarlet, and a graven image and runes detailed in traces of gold - the image is some kind of winged figure, one hand holding a blade, and the other flung out before it. If asked, Josie will tell you that this is the Chanard family crest. Past the hearth is another couch along the west wall, and in the back/northwest corner, facing the front, is the bar. The bar faces mostly to the front (south), but does curve a little towards the east at one end - the other end is anchored into the west wall. Behind the bar is a backbar and the rear wall of the Common Room. Right of the bar is a large archway, which leads back into the first floor of the Inn, and a hallway there. Immediately to the right of the archway in the Common Room, a large staircase rises directly up and back/north, up to the balcony/mezzanine which overlooks the Common Room, and stretches fully from the east wall to the west wall. There is a dark space under the staircase, facing the bar. Don't stick your hand in there...that would be a very bad idea. To the right of the staircase, there is a stage tucked into the back west (left) corner of the Common Room. This stage is used for performances by minstrels and other entertainers. All along the eastern wall of the Seacliff's Common Room stretches a raised sitting area, from the front/south wall, all the way back to just before the stage. About one or two steps up, and divided from the lower Common Room by a polished wood railing, there are several tables along this raised area, as well as smaller seats and tables against the wall itself. Most of the eastern wall here is glass, with large windows that stretch almost to the high ceiling. This offers an unparalleled view as the land slopes down and away to the east, and then after about thirty feet it drops to the beach far below. Beyond that drop, the beach..and then the sea, stretching to the horizon. Between the end of the raised sitting area along the east wall, and the stage behind it, there is an archway that leads into a short hallway. This hallway has hooks for cloaks, a bath room, and the door out onto the side porch/deck. |
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Detail: The Inn's First Floor/Behind the Common Room The archway next to the bar, in the north (rear) wall of the Common Room, leads into an east-west hallway behind the north wall. The western end opens out into the kitchen, while the eastern side has a door that connects to the back of the stage, and then an exit on the eastern end that comes out onto the side porch. Another archway opposite the first one opens into a south-north hallway along which are the rooms of the Inn's first floor. Back here are small 'cubby' rooms, which are low-end traveller accomodations. Most of them do not have windows, they are simple rooms with low prices: a single cot or small bed, a table/chair, a corner table and shelf, and a washbasin. There are also parlours back here, on the east side - these are comfortable meeting/eating rooms for Inn guests, with a view of the sea. Behind the Inn's first floor, there is a wide lawn just north of the building. This is used for gatherings, picnics and general entertainment during the warm spring and summer months. Beyond that, and to the west, are the stables. There is also a grove of fruit trees out here, remnants from a prior owner's time. The lands stretch out north of the Seacliff in a wide, rolling plain. |
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Detail: The Mezzanine/Balcony and the Inn In the center of the North, or rear, wall of the Common Room, a staircase rises back and up to a balcony hallway level, which stretches the full east-to-west width of the Common room and overlooks it. At either end of the mezzanine hallway are staircases which curve up (and slightly back) to a similar hallway on the third floor, which is not connected to the common room (it has windows which look to the south, overtop of the Common Room's roof.) In the center of the Mezzanine hallway, going straight back to the north, is the main hallway for the second floor. On either side are the rooms - the second floor is a mix of singles, doubles and two suites (one suite on the west and one on the east side.) These rooms are much more comfortable than the small 'cubby' rooms on the first floor (which are meant for the simple traveler.) Each of the rooms contain the specified number of beds, a table, chairs, and chest at the foot of the bed to hold the visitor's personal effects during their stay. In the Single and Double rooms -- there is a small alcove area that holds a tub as well. Within the three-room suite, there is a larger portion of one room devoted to this purpose. At the end of the hallway is a door, which leads out into a parlor room/lounge. This room, meant for Inn guests only, faces north over the plains and forests, and has tables, chairs and a small fireplace. There is a small balcony from this parlor overlooking the northern lawn The two staircases on the Mezzanine hallway both curve back and up to a similar hallway on the third floor. The only difference is that it is above the Common Room/Tavern, and does not connect directly to it like the Mezzanine/Balcony does. There are windows along it's width, all facing the south (directly out over the common room's roof.) There are several suites on this floor: Josie's, Ylla's, Luthienne's and possible some others. The doors at the top of these staircases are locked. |
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