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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3938047" data-attributes="member: 54364">Another Tavern/InnThe Slippery Eel is located just behind Smokestink Row and is infamous among the locals. The bar is located on the basement floor of a four storey building. The upper floors are lived in by the landlord or rented out. It's floor is uneven flags, covered in stale beer and rotted rushes. Light comes from a couple of lanterns hung from the solid oak rafters and, in cooler months, the hearth fire. The beer is cheap and the wine is sour. But the locals proudly claim the eel pies are the best in the city.Brawls are common here. Sailors vs. Dockhands. Fisherman vs. merchant-seaman. Any excuse really. These fights are rarely fatal but always brutal. The champion bruiser is an enormous dockworker called Big Willem. Willem is not a particularly violent man. It's just that he is so big that many a drunk looking to make a name for themself picks him for a brawl. This almost always ends with the challenger being thrown out the Eel's door.The Eel's hundred year leasehold is up for renewal next year. And the landlord, Murphy, is worried that the landlords, the wealthy Buras family, won't renew it because of the Eel's bad reputation. So he is desperately trying to think of a way to stop the regular bar fights. His best idea so far is to water the beer thereby reducing drunkeness, but this seems to be making the crowd more angry.</blockquote>