Dusken Glade Inn

Dusken Glade

Inn

Trades Point North, Trades Ward

Rankings

Cost Fare Comfort

Provender

• Meals: Modest meals usually include a porridge with some dried fruit and honey for mornfeast, and a rich stew (mutton or oxtail, both rich with root vegetables) served in a round trencher of dark, sweet bread for evenfeast. Comfortable meals are a bit of fried fish on an oatcake, with a side of berries slathered in a berry marmalade and honey for mornfeast, while evenfeast tends to be a roast with root vegetables or meat-and-vegetable skewers, both served with fresh dark, sweet roundbread. • Drinks: Modest drinks are usually basic house ale, beer, or cider, or a basic red house wine. Comfortable drinks tend toward finer brews, wines both pale and dark, and the occasional tumbler of something harder to keep one warm.

Services

• Accommodations: Modest accommodations are one half of the two-bed common rooms on the third floor. It includes a basic bed and two tables shared with whomever rents the other bed. There is no chamber pot in these rooms. Comfortable accommodations are one of the fine rooms on the second or third floors. These include a sizeable bed, desk, a chest (renter must provide their own lock), and other furnishings to make things comfortable. It also includes chamber pot refreshing and evening meal fetched to the room if requested during that day. • Party Garden: 5gp for a meal, or 10gp for a full evening. For a fee, patrons may rent out the small garden in the back of the taproom, giving them a festive but largely private space in which to celebrate. Such rentals may be had for a single comfortable meal, or a full evening with meal and drinks. • Party Promenade: 10 gp per night. The party promenade on the third floor is available for private parties and celebrations. Any furnishings, decor, or comestibles are not part of the rental, although Denabria is happy to accommodate such needs for additional coin, of course. • Baths: Free or 2sp. Those who are renting a fine room (Comfortable lifestyle) have full and open access to the baths as they see fit. Everyone else – including both common room renters and simply visitors to the establishment – may gain access for a bit of coin.

Staff

• Proprietors: Denabria Faez and Zavelinda • Door-Ward: Sheila Sulferbeard • Tavernkeep: Grimmund Uruindrin • Wait Staff: xxx • Other Staff: xxx

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Personages

Proprietors

The Dusken Glade is owned by Denabria and her wife Zavalinda.

Denabria Faez Owner & Proprietress; Zavelinda's wife Denabria opened the Dusken Glade some ten years ago. She loves telling the story of how her beloved wife came home from a particularly successful bit of adventure with some friends utterly laden down with gold, and by the end of that tenday, they were sweeping out the old building and turning it into their home and business together. Denabria is warm and welcoming, although she doesn't trust easily or immediately. She has deliberately turned her inn into a safe place for vaeterann (queer) folk in Waterdeep, and adores the folk who come with that. She is very protective of them, as well – those who step out of line are in for a rude shock, as Denabria's clever wit can go from nurture to savagery in the blink of an eye.

Zavelinda Adventurer; Denabria's wife Though Zavelinda doesn't really want much to do with running the Dusken Glade, one of its main features is because of her: the incredible variety of music and musicians that come through it. Zavelinda has a weakness for good (or even mediocre, really) bards, and often invites them to come and perform. By and large, when Zavelinda is around, she can be found at the bar, or near the stage if someone is playing, or up in her and Denabria's home at the top of the inn. She won't hesitate to step in should patrons get rowdy, either – she is a monk of some skill at fighting, with years of adventuring combat to her name.

Staff

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	Sheila Sulferbeard Door-ward (and secret hairstylist) Though Sheila is mostly retired from her days as a hair-stylist (thanks to the ongoing generosity of the Popinjays), she works at the Dusken Glade Inn as a bouncer. Her time with the Popinjays (and particularly with Psalm) has given her a fondness for vaeterann folk, and the atmosphere at the Dusken Glade simply delights her. So, she tends to the door, ready and happy to eject bigots and troublemakers when needful, but equally ready to help rush back and avert disaster should something horrible happen to a saece performer's wig-coiffure.
	Grimmund Uruindrin Tavernkeep The burly man who keeps the Dusken Glade's bar has a grim demeanor to him, often listening to his patrons' problems in a half-distracted way that is nonetheless fairly comforting. He is also very good at guessing what people prefer to drink. His silence isn't due to a taciturn nature, however; Grimmund is non-verbal, and uses a finger-language to communicate. Most of the staff at the Dusken Glade know a few bits of the language, and several of them (including both proprietors) are quite fluent in the language. Indeed, they've found it useful even beyond communicating with Grimmund: it has proven a simple way of communicating across a crowded and loud taproom.
	Tawnie Nurwickett Bath Attendant Tawnie Nurwickett, the elderly gnomish Bath attendant, also a Watcher. Granny Nurwickett comes across a brusque and all business and is a keen watcher of people and snooper of pockets. She is fascinated with Sylyra's great height and has given her special use of the large bath when no one is around. She is uncharacteristically kind to her "giant blue lassy", who she brings out the nicer soaps for (the ones that smell of the woods).
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Regulars

	Phaumrover Waterdhavian Watch Part of the local Watch patrol, Phaumrover is fond of the Dusken Glade. Considering himself a sort of guardian of Twilight Vaeteru (he himself being vaeterann), he is a sweet-natured, quiet fellow and often stops in for dinner and a listen to the music before heading home.
	Lady Lovestriss Saece Performer & Barfly The Lady Herself (as many in Twilight Vaeteru call them) is a fixture in the many establishments that cater to vaeterann folk, particularly the Dusken Glade Inn. Frequently intoxicated, and very prone to saece performances that, as Zavelinda once said fondly: "Her performances are to saececraft what the Spellplague was to magic." Still, vaeterann folk are often quite protective of them even while rolling their eyes at what a mess they are. Denabria in particular is well-known for insisting that the Lady Herself eat something solid, and occasionally shuffles them off to bed when the melancholy and cheap alcohol have done them in.
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