The Double Cross

Location

• within the station
• just outside, A bell tolls somewhere in the city, and everyone stops what they are doing and drops to their knees in prayer.

Description

• The inn is a small, H-shaped adobe building,
  with charms and talismans hanging from the ceiling.

• The inn is widely known for the loud music.
• The common room is dimly-lit with sparsely placed candles casting flickering shadows across tables and walls.
• Other services include:
  • hair cutting
  • laundry
  • a storyteller
  • a magically protected safe
• Hirelings available:
  • horseman, light
  • mercenary
• Color scheme:
  

  Pale Brown

  Azure

  Sunglow

Staff

Innkeeper: Ramona Acevedo

male uruk, who is quite fair-spoken and occasionally aggressive, and who seems very alert

Menu

• cabbage and mushroom soup served with greens dressed with tomatoes and kumquats; hogshead of water
• seasoned fish and ham with gravy; horn of perry

Rumors

• Thousands of spiders have been seen migrating to their summer webs.
• A spined devil is said to be the head of a merchant guild.
• Evil clerics gather in secret to summon a monstrous god to the world.

Patrons

The following people are currently in the common room:

• dripping-wet gnome
• half-naked, extremely relaxed smuggler of drugs
• Surly golem that runs on alcohol instead of fuel takes on prohibition in 1920’s America.
• Queen of Hope, a charismatic, dashing Robin Hood-esque figure providing hope for lower-class citizens in a corrupt city with his rebellious pranks/actions against “The Man”… but he’s secretly employed by city officials to keep the poor just optimistic enough to distract them from their horrible living conditions and squalor.
• a pair of dragoons shouting
• pale and one-handed bearleader

Valuables:

• bag holding 20 coins: foreign coin made of copper, worth about 15sp; the face has strange symbols, the obverse has a rune
• small hemp bag holding 2 pale blue sapphires and 4 white sapphires
• 76 proof bronze dwarven coins, in a small chest