Welcome to yet another week at my tabletop where we are passing through a little city and experiencing the Hawks Creek’s Finest Inn’s. While not directly inspired by certain TV shows showcasing the best places to eat, drink and stay at for the little crossover city of Hawks Creek the many inns and taverns boast a wide selection of food and rooms to rent. However, this isn’t a happy montage of eating, drinking and sleeping – oh no..
So to roll into another action packed adventure let’s grab a coffee, sit down and explore tonight’s adventure!
Boasting dozens of inns, taverns and mead halls the city of Hawks Creek is known as one of the best cities to stop over in on your travels. With each inn or tavern boasting a variety of local foods and drinks and a variety of sleeping quarters the city has really been put on the map.
Although this fame doesn’t come without its own challenges and after a few nightmarish nights the party are left questioned and questioning what ever drew them to this city in the first place. But they can not be to blame as there is a darker power at play here, one that not even the city guard could be prepared for.
But hope is not lost as the city caters for all manner of guests. Merchants and their caravan of goods, nobility and their guards and adventurers are drawn to the city on the promise of a great feed and a comfortable bed. The only problem with all this foot traffic is locating the source of crime is an impossible task.
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The party had spent several weeks travelling the roads and wilderness on various odd-jobs and quests. Sleeping under the stars is something many in the profession cherish and actively seek out but after a week of unseasonably wet and rough weather the city of Hawks Creek is a welcome sight to behold. Sitting next to a creek, well river, that is fed from a melting glacier the water is crisp, clean and delicious with many people using its fine waters to craft beer and other alcohol.
The now extinct volcano has resulted in fields that are fertile, lush and provide many riches within its lava tubes for those who dare to seek riches deeper in the mountain. However the true riches lie in the produce and animals that call this land home, or are cultivated by the agricultural people of the city. And whatever they can’t grow or catch themselves is also sources from this river.
Hawks river connects with the sea and is deep enough to allow barges to bring produce not normally found in these lands up to the city. This has resulted in a paradise of mercantile and food which attracts people from all across the land to visit and stay a few days. Due to this popularity the Inns and eating and drinking establishments of the city are so numerous that the city nearly survives alone by the tourism that their food, alcohol and trade brings them.
However, while the party was greeted warmly; like old friends really, and recommended they stay at the Gilded Lily they are met with a blackened husk of a building. The city is littered with gawkers and people confused and shocked at the state of the finest inn in the city. The party overheard that only a single life was lost, an old gnome who passed out from drinking too much lily-wine, but the cause was yet to be found. With no cause, no witnesses (who weren’t drunk on the fine libations of the establishment) and no suspect the guards were left to investigate the fire and draw up nothing.
After finding another inn, the Hopping Hawk, they quickly found a room and were greeted by some of the best food and drink that they had yet to taste. Yet the patrons of the tavern still spoke of the Gilded Lily. Some say that it was a disgruntled employee who had finally had enough and set the kitchen ablaze. Others pondered that there was a rival Inn or Tavern who wanted to clip the wings of the tavern and watch it fall into the flames. And others wondered if it was the rumoured City Drunk, a dwarf so vile and ill-mannered that he had set the blaze himself after being denied entry.
All stories were compelling but none were favoured above others and many hushed arguments and bets were made about the cause of the blaze, and if they would see it happen again.
Alright a fun one this week! Less of a murder mystery and more of a – well you’ll have to see kind of adventure this week certainly starts in the pan and dangling next to the fire. While we have many ways and options to progress this adventure along it’s a great opportunity for me to look at a favourite approach of mine. “All roads link to Rome.” If you’re curious about what this is I can promise that if you search for it you will find it here on the blog.
But don’t dally too long as we are planning another busy week. So don’t forget to come back each day this week as we continue to expand upon this adventure. And as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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