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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3211881" data-attributes="member: 11146"><p>The Golden Cockatrice is a posh salon and bar that caters to adventurers, rakes, and other pleasure seekers with plenty of money to spend.  The hall stands on a busy thoroughfare, and other businesses line the street.  A cheap inn, The Wilted Rose, is directly across the byway to the north of the Golden Cockatrice.  The salon opens for business in the late afternoon and closes after dawn, nine days a week.  Fraternal twins Frane and Vaja tend bar at the salon.  Frane and Vaja share golden hair, bright blue eyes, and muscular builds.  Vaja is a little shorter than her brother, Frane, but otherwise both twins look alike.  Both are attractive humans, slow to anger, and quick to laugh.  One of the salon's chief attractions is the covered well and the cockatrice coop.  The well is a cylinder of cunningly laid stones about three feet high topped with a windlass and a slate roof.  Flecks of mica in the stones make even the palest beam of light break up in a spray of motes that dance and dazzle the eye.  The coop is a weighty structure of thick timbers reinforced with wrought iron.  Four bad-tempered cockatrices live inside.  The cockatrices are the festhall's mascots, and the management and regulars do not look kindly on visitors who harass them.  An incredibly lifelike statue of a jolly looking man stands next to the coop.  The figure is hunched over and has one finger stuck through the coop's bars.  Legend has it that the man was a drunken patron who took a dare and poked a finger in the coop.  The hall's owners are said to have left him there as a warning and willingly paid a fine to the city authorities for the right to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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