You enter the building through the heavy wooden door.
[Bramblethorn Tavern, Main Room]
The room is quite dim and hazy, not helped much by the dark brown color from the wood of the walls or the stained wooden floor beneath. Yet it has an ambience of familiarity amongst the patrons who collect at the tables around the room and stools at the bar along one side of the room, which Hogsmouth Brandywine stands behind with a smile. A constant yet relaxed bustle seems to take place as wenches scurry about attending to empty glasses and other such needs.
Other life here: none.
You also see: a rough wooden sign, a heavy wooden door, and a menuboard hanging behind the bar.
You are inside.
Obvious exits: west and out.
You look up at the menuboard.
Bramblethorn Tavern
READ either SIDE of the menuboard for more details:
Side 1: Fine Wines n' Spirits
Side 2: Good Eatin'
You look up at the first side of the menuboard and read:
Fine Wines n' Spirits:
hard apple cider .................. 5 gold
homemade moonshine ................ 10 gold
spiced rum ........................ 8 gold
sweet mead ........................ 5 gold
blackberry wine ................... 10 gold
brambleberry wine ................ 10 gold
cherry wine ...................... 10 gold
elderberry wine .................. 10 gold
loganberry wine .................. 10 gold
plum wine ........................ 10 gold
raspberry wine ................... 10 gold
red currant wine ................. 10 gold
strawberry wine .................. 10 gold
You look up at the second side of the menuboard and read:
Good Eatin':
nutmeg stew ........................ 5 gold
fish casserole ..................... 7 gold
crusty chawetty pie ................ 7 gold
ginger bread ....................... 5 gold
cream custard tart ................. 7 gold
fig and raisin cream ............... 7 gold
grilled corn on the cob with bacon ... 7 gold
You wander to the west.
[Bramblethorn Tavern, Backroom]
The tavern's back room is hazy and dim due to not having any natural lighting, but instead is lit by two old chandeliers that hang down from from the ceiling. Some candles flicker in the middle of the spacious bar that fills about a quarter of the room's space. There is enough seating to circle completely around the bar so that patrons can sit, but not overly comfortably. A multi-section humidor sits on the bar alongside some glass jars, a small pipe rack, and a leatherbound catalog. Small ash trays are scattered at intervals across the bar surface where smouldering or burnt out pipes and cigar butts rest.
Other life here: none.
You are inside.
Obvious exits: east.
Welcome to Brandywine's Smoke Shop!
READ a certain PAGE number from our catalog for details:
Page 1: Pipes
Page 2: Tabacc
You open to page 1 of the catalog and read:
Pipes:
a polished oak pipe ............... 2,000 gold
This pipe has been handcarved and polished to a high shine.
a woven flower pipe ............. 5,000 gold
The unusual pipe appears to be crafted by melding small rough-hewn chunks of different metals together. The stems and leaves of many flowers are woven together to form a dainty bowl for the pipe and extend upward to form a thin short stem.
an unusual metal pipe .............. 8,000 gold
The unusual pipe appears to be crafted by melding small rough-hewn chunks of different metals together. The bowl has no definite shape as the hunks of gold, silver, copper, and platinum stick out at odd angles from all sides.
a carved diamond pipe ........... 15,000 gold
An enormous diamond is hollowed out to form the multi-faceted bowl. A long curved wooden stem is dotted with chips from the original diamond allowing for the entire pipe to glint, shimmer, and produce a rainbow of color in any light.
You open to page 2 of the catalog and read:
Tabacc:
some royal-blended tabacc .................... 200 gold
some rich black tabacc ....................... 200 gold
some Bramblebrook Special tabacc ............. 400 gold