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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pdzoch" data-source="post: 6847704" data-attributes="member: 80982">The Tangled TigerName: The Tangled Tiger (Tavern sign depicts Tiger chasing its tail and curled into a lemniscate)Description Exterior: The long building has a stone lower floor and an overhanging wooden upper floor that provides a shadow over the frontage and entrance.  A worn wooden bench sits outside the tavern, just beside the door.  Note: It is not uncommon for someone to be hiding in the shadows outside the tavern.Description Interior: The door squeaks unusually loudly as you enter the tavern.  The dim light from the various lanterns about the room reveal a spacious tavern, crowded with tables and chairs.  The wooden floor appears to be made of heavy beams that also creak unmercilessly above the din of the patrons crowded in the tavern.  A plain bar lines the far wall with an occasional patron or two chatting over their beers.  A couple of private booths, complete with drawing curtains, sits just off to the left of the bar, while a wooden staircase leading upstairs hugs the wall to the right.  The plain tavern is too dark to sport decorations of any sort.  A game of card is being played at one of the tables, and an argument appears to be breaking out at another without arousing the slightest interest from the rest of the patrons. If you are looking for someone of questionable morals to perform an unsavory task, this is the place to find that person.Proprietor: The owner of this establishment is Luvon Ventoris, quite possibly the ugliest half-elf anyone has ever seen.  Luvon has a horrible battle scar running down the center of his face, sparing his eyes but disfiguring his nose, lips and chin.  Luvon is a high ranking member of the local thieves’ guild, though he tolerates no stealing within the tavern and he maintains several half-orc goons who will brutally enforce the rule.  Luvon also acts as a money changer and money lender with horrendous lending rates.  He can exchange almost any quantities of money, though there is a chance that he coins exchanged are being laundered.Other details: The tavern is designed to prevent silent movement, so even in the dead of night in an empty room, the doors and floors all creak.  All sneak movement incurs a penalty (or disadvantage). While thieving is prohibited (and all the thieves in the guild know this), slights of hand, cheating, lying, and all other immoral activities is practiced, deftly and discretely.  The private booths require a small fee to occupy, but none of the locals use it for privacy.  A member of the thieves’ guild, an employee of the tavern, will take up positions behind the wall of the private booths and listen in on the conversation for any useful or lucrative bits of information. Food is available, but scant.  Drinks, beer and ales, are available is great quantities and various qualities.  However, their specialty is the Tangle Tiger, an overprice bit hard alcohol that none of the locals or regulars drink.  The Tangled Tiger hosts a common room (holds 10 beds – no other furniture), two semi-private room (five beds and foot lockers in each), and one private room (fully furnished with private key).  At any given time, 2-5 guests are in the common room and there is a 30% that one of the semi-private rooms is occupied by another group.Notable Patron: One regular at the Tangled Tiger is easily overlooked as she masterfully ensures that she is unremarkable, blending into the crowd with a plain common appearance that almost makes her invisible.  Kasose only goes by one name; she abandoned her family name when she was young.  Disparaging remarks are occasionally made about those so immoral that they would sell their own mother for a copper piece; Kasose actually did.  Her mother abandoned her when she was still a child and ran away with a wayward mercenary. Kasose fell victim to the ravages of the harsh city.  Barely surviving, she swore revenge.  Meanwhile, she fell in with a band of young thieves.  After a few years of living hard on the streets and in the shadows and sewers, Kasose tracked down the mercenary who stole her mother away and killed him in his sleep.  Then she bound and gagged her mother and sold her to a slave band.  Kasose is without remorse and never expresses any emotion when she talks.  She is a superior urban tracker and can find anyone in the city.  She is soft spoken, nimble footed, and lightening quick with a dagger or rapier. Unlike many thieves who prefer to stay out of danger and keep their distance from a foe, Kasose relishes a physical confrontation. He strength belies her unassuming frame.Story Hook: 1) As a member of the local thieves guild, your assignments are delivered via the hollow bottom mugs with your drink.  2) The dungeon/ruin you are intending to explore has a notoriously complicated lock/trap, and it is rumored that someone at the Tangle Tiger has defeated/built it. 3)The daughter of a powerful yet unpopular noble is visiting in a few days and the local watch has hired you go undercover and determine if the thieves guild is planning anything (extortion, kidnapping, robbery) and thwart their plans if possible.</blockquote>

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