The Dwarf's Folly at a Glance
Standing on Selka Street, this rowdy inn is a favoured haunt of adventurers, mercenaries and other rough and ready sorts. Run by the grizzled ex-mercenary Rister Osma the place offers cheap, no-frills food, drink and accommodation.
Two large common rooms, along with a kitchen and storerooms, dominate the ground floor while 16 bedrooms of various sizes fill the second floor. Rister dwells in the converted, but cramped, attic. Extensive cellars lie below the Dwarf's Folly, but these are prone to minor flooding due to the inn's proximity to the Selka.
The inn's offering is cheap and basic:
Drink: Mug of ale (4 cp), gallon of ale (2 sp), pitcher of wine (2 sp), bottle of wine (10 gp).
Food (Cheap): Black pudding with turnip and bread, parsnip stew with onion bread or bean and barley pottage (1 sp).
Food (Good): Cheap sausage with fried onion and apple chunks, leek and chestnut stew or chicken with buttered parsnip (3 sp).
Lifestyle: Characters staying in one of the inn’s 16 bedrooms can enjoy a poor (3 gp/month) or average (10 gp/month) lifestyle.
The Dwarf’s Folly By Day
During the day, the Dwarf’s Folly is a quiet place. Normally, the only customers present are those who have no pressing business in town or who sit in the common room nursing the banging hangover of the night before.
The Dwarf’s Folly By Night
As the sun sets, the Dwarf’s Folly comes alive. Here gather adventurers, mercenaries and their hangers-on to drink ale, swap lies and carouse. The common rooms are normally noisy and busy until the early hours. This is not a place for a quiet (or discrete) drink.
Notable Folk
Some folk are often encountered at the Dwarf’s Folly.
Rister Osma (LN middle-aged male human fighter 4) loves running the Dwarf's Folly. While not a coward, he has no desire to return to his old life of travel, danger and hardship. He loves good drink and tall tales—bards are always welcome at the Dwarf's Folly. Rister is a consummate host and can make almost anyone feel special and welcome. Consequently, he is a popular fellow, with his customers.
Jussi Ihamuoto (CN male human fighter 1) works behind the bar most nights. A borderline alcoholic, Jussi knows his job well and is popular with the regulars. He enjoys singing—loudly and badly—and is a good juggler. Stick-thin with a shock of red hair and a somewhat questionable dress sense he is hard to miss. Surprisingly, he can be a mean drunk.
What’s In a Name?
The Dwarf's Folly is named "in honour" of Delthur Madann—infamous miner and madman who claimed to have a hidden mine somewhere in the Mottled Spire.
Delthur's ultimate fate remains unknown and since his disappearance 50 years ago many folk have searched for his mine. Such expeditions have uniformly ended in disaster or disappointment (or both). Locally, the phrase “Delthur’s Folly” has become synonymous with obviously doomed, badly conceived and executed plans and expeditions. In Dunstone, a “Scion of Delthur” is one marked for an early, foolish death in the lands beyond the Selka River.
For more detail of Delthur’s lost mine, see the article below:
Words Creighton Broadhurst; Cartography Dyson Logos
