Crossways Hold Tourism District

The tavern floor possesses a rhythmic, mechanical vibration and every drink is served with a sharp hiss of escaping steam.

The furniture is scaled exclusively for humans, meaning halfling and gnome patrons require booster cushions that are intentionally garish to discourage their presence. A strict dress code is enforced at the door, requiring at least one item of silk or fine linen.

The ceiling is built at a height of exactly five feet in most sections, forcing human travelers to walk with a respectful hunch or sit immediately upon entering. Additionally, a gnomish 'auto-pedal' piano plays upbeat folk tunes in the corner without a visible performer.

Gallentine's Grand Fromagerie

Gallentine is obsessed with the upcoming annual cheese competition and constantly asks customers if they have seen his rival's stock. He polishes the cheese wheels with a gnomish mechanical buffer that makes a rhythmic clicking sound.

The Cog-Woven Loom

Pip insists that customers wipe their boots twice before entering. She is obsessive about dust and uses a small gnomish vacuum-pump to clean the air every hour.

Blummidlop Bling

Zook is intensely paranoid of his human neighbors and keeps four translucent, spectral-blue guards standing by the entrance: they are silent illusions, but they track visitors with their eyes. He constantly cleans his goggles with a silk handkerchief whenever he mentions 'the city of Tilas'.

A sentient, massive blob of hyper-fermented dairy that has developed a primitive, predatory intelligence within a city's cheese-aging vaults.

A sprawling network of chilly, stone-lined cellars and tunnels connecting Gallentine's cheese shop to the neighboring taverns. It is a place of precision aging and storage now overrun by a predatory, calcium-hungry mold.