MarkOliva

11/24/2013

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With the 132nd Map of the Week we take a look at the Three Rivers Inn in Storm Mill, the county seat of Slovania's tropical Grainland County.

Key to the Three Rivers Inn Floor Plans

The Three Rivers Inn is a relatively luxurious hostelry, despite the fact that it is not expensive. It also is the only inn in town. It is owned by the 48-year-old human male merchant Vitěslav. His wife, the 46-year-old, Jindřiška, a human female artisan, is both the chief cook and alewife. In the kitchen, she prepares a variety of dishes that range from local beef to fowl to freshwater fish from the Vichr. Meals run from 4 to 9 bronze pieces. In the brewhouse, she makes a delicious, light and golden top-fermented ale that sells for 2 copper pieces per pint/half-liter tankard. The inn's guest rooms, all with double beds. cost 7 bronze pieces per person nightly. Vitěslav and Jindřiška employ a bookkeeper, a human female merchant; a journeyman cook, a human male artisan; an apprentice cook, a human female commoner; a waiter and waitress, human male and female commoners; two chambermaids, human female commoners, and three stable boys, human male commoners. The main buildings in the inn complex are the inn itself, the brewhouse and the combination stable-coachhouse. Vitěslav and Jindřiška live in an apartment on the inn's 3rd story. Their two adult children elsewhere. A few factors account for the inn's relative luxury and prosperity. One is that the Vitěslav and Jindřiška are proud of the house, which has been in Vitěslav's family for four generations. They try to keep it in the best shape possible. Another factor is that Storm Mill is relatively self-sufficient; outside of hard goods, the village produces most of what it needs. Local products are cheaper than those that must be transported from elsewhere. That makes Vitěslav's costs relatively low. Finally, most locals would pay higher prices less often or not at all, which would diminish Vitěslav's business volume and profit margin. As is, he turns a good profit, one that lets him run and maintain a good house.

Ground Floor

1. Main Entrance.

2. Public Room.

3. Card Table. This table is reserved for local card players and those they invite. Even when it is empty, others are not allowed to sit there.

4. Regulars' Table. This table is reserved for those villagers who come to the public room regularly. Outsiders who visit the inn regularly may sit at the table after they have been invited by the local regulars, which occurs infrequently. However, a single invitation is valid to qualify one as a regular for life. Even when the table is empty, others are not allowed to sit there.

5. Beer Tap.

6. Kitchen.

7. Trapdoor to Cellar Storage Area. (Not mapped)

8. Broom Closet. The shaft in the center is a closed offal shaft from the 2nd story jakes.

9. Jakes.

10. Side Door.

Stairway

11. Stairway. Between the ground floor and the 2nd story landing.

12. 2nd Story Landing.

13. Stairway. Between the 2nd story and the 3rd story (not mapped).

2nd Story

14. Guests Lobby.

15. Jakes.

16. Bath. Guests who wish to bathe must order a bath from the chambermaid, who brings hot water to the tub in buckets. A bath costs 7 copper pieces.

17. Guests Rooms. The numbers in parentheses are room numbers.

T You can get these floor plans in two versions:

1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 version in FMP format, fully editable (9 MB) from the Jörðgarð website.

2. As two JPG flat maps of 1360 Pixels x 850 Pixels each (1.1 MB), available with the hyperlink below.

Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð website at:

www.vintyri.org/joerdhgardh/joerdhgardh.htm

Next Week: Storm Mill - Hela's Ladder Tavern

Mark Oliva
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