Wessia Taverns and Inns
Docks district - More popular establishments include the Swift Clipper, the Three-legged Stool, the Strawberry Tart, the Ugly Gnome, and the Leaky Bilge. With the exception of the Swift Clipper, the rest of the locals cater to sailors and labors and are typically straw-floor covered drinking establishments with several brawls a week or slightly cleaner so called taverns that are basically thinly disguised whorehouses that happen to serve watered-down ale.
South side - The establishments on the South side serve the local well off inhabitants and are similarly well heeled I terms of quality accommodations, food, beverages, and entertainments. Noteable gathering places are the Circle, the Red Chalice; the Hops Hall - actually the brewers guildhall, but this huge tavern serves all comers with high quality ales; the Golden Dice - a combination tavern, inn and posh gambling den; the Double Bed - the best known and priciest Inn in the city also known for the cook and her specialty slow-roasted quail amount others; the Woolen Stocking - known for its high priced escorts but also a quality tavern.
North side - housing the middle class, such as it is the ale is generally less watered in this district and the brawls infrequent. Noteable establishments: the Broken Wheel - a cozy inn of moderate price and better than average accommodation; the Tankard - this uncreatively named tavern serves craftsmen reasonably priced good ale day in and day out; Stone Soup - this Inn and tavern always has a pot of stew or soup going and competes with both the Tankard and Broken Wheel for an honest meal and place to sleep.
Outside the Walls - some of the many taverns in is districts are nothing more the open-aired sheds with a keg and a tough proprietor trying to keep e thieves from overruning it. Some of the larger and more permanent places of note: the Lucky Button - a large Inn and tavern just past the security checkpoint where any race could be met in the large common room, the largest accommodations in Wessia; the Back Woods - near another security checkpoint and the only one open at night, it serves woodsman and farmers just coming I for the evening to get a drink; the Giant Keg - probably the roughest tavern in the city, this is a giant open-air fenced beer garden fully of drunks, thieves, beggars, thugs, and lovers of cheap ale, the occasional cock or prize-fight and fresh air; the Tunnel - a smaller tavern with even a few rented rooms, it boasts several entrances to the Underground in its basement, and consists of several long strangely-shaped rooms that give it a more intimate feel even for a large establishment.
