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The Rusted Keel

The Rusted Keel began as a lean-to for rope-makers and salvage men a generation ago. Built from the bones of an upturned cog and a wrecked longboat, it has functioned as an inn, a fencing point for odd goods, and at times a safehouse for mutineers. Marla inherited the place from a cousin who disappeared during a fog-laden season; she rebuilt the upstairs rooms and installed the locked shelf behind the bar. The tavern survived several attempts to close it by a rising merchant guild by playing both sides — protecting smugglers that paid and tipping off patrols when convenient.

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The Rusted Keel

The Rusted Keel began as a lean-to for rope-makers and salvage men a generation ago.

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Marla

Tavernkeeper

Marla
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Keeper's Species

human

History

The Rusted Keel began as a lean-to for rope-makers and salvage men a generation ago. Built from the bones of an upturned cog and a wrecked longboat, it has functioned as an inn, a fencing point for odd goods, and at times a safehouse for mutineers. Marla inherited the place from a cousin who disappeared during a fog-laden season; she rebuilt the upstairs rooms and installed the locked shelf behind the bar. The tavern survived several attempts to close it by a rising merchant guild by playing both sides — protecting smugglers that paid and tipping off patrols when convenient.

Quirks

The ceiling is a patchwork of planks salvaged from wrecks and displays a tangle of netting that occasionally drips. Patrons toss coin into a chipped anchor-shaped trough for the 'harbor ghost' — a local superstition that keeps fights mild. Marla stamps a salt-smudged card on regulars' palms as a sign of trust.

Lore

Local sailors tell of a 'harbor ghost' — not a spirit but a bell that tolls from an unmanned buoy before a storm. Some say the bell is bound to a drowned captain who once frequented this very pub and hid a ledger of cursed routes. Older maps show a sequence of small islands now submerged; Captain 'Nail' Voss hums about one island with a black rock that glows like a coal and 'singing glass' buried within. The tavern's netting includes a single white feather said to be from a sea-swallow that guides lost sailors back to port.

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