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The Crooked Hogshead

The Crooked Hogshead opened a dozen years ago when Marla took over a failing alehouse and painted the hogshead sign to lure farmhands and traders. Over time it became a stopping point for rougher folk — drovers, sailors on leave, and itinerant sellswords. A small fire years ago left the rafters scarred; those marks are considered lucky by some. The tavern has switched hands in crooked deals twice and survived a skirmish between the town watch and a band of smugglers who used the cellar as a stash — the cellar remains boarded and rarely opened.

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The Crooked Hogshead

The Crooked Hogshead opened a dozen years ago when Marla took over a failing alehouse and painted the hogshead sign to lure farmhands and traders.

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Marla Fen

Tavernkeeper

Marla Fen
HumanFighter

Keeper's Species

Human

History

The Crooked Hogshead opened a dozen years ago when Marla took over a failing alehouse and painted the hogshead sign to lure farmhands and traders. Over time it became a stopping point for rougher folk — drovers, sailors on leave, and itinerant sellswords. A small fire years ago left the rafters scarred; those marks are considered lucky by some. The tavern has switched hands in crooked deals twice and survived a skirmish between the town watch and a band of smugglers who used the cellar as a stash — the cellar remains boarded and rarely opened.

Quirks

The tavern's sign (a hog with a crooked hogshead stuck on its head) is frequently stolen and replaced by rival punks. A bell behind the bar is rung once for a brawl and twice for a wanted-person shout — patrons take both signals seriously. Marla trusts a grizzled mastiff, Knuckle, who patrols the floor and refuses entry to well-dressed or overly polite strangers.

Lore

Local superstition holds that the tavern sits on the edge of an old road used by pilgrims; in the soil beneath the foundation it is said a bell was buried to 'call back lost travelers.' Marla keeps a rusted bell in the kitchen and rings it quietly before locking up, claiming it keeps darker things at bay. The abbey down the lane dislikes the Crooked Hogshead and accuses it of corrupting good folk — the tavern's patrons return the favor with rude limericks and the occasional midnight prank on the abbey walls.

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