The Gold and Red
The Gold and Red is an inn in Pellvyr and was formerly known was Woodson's Inn. In 903 LC, it was bought by the dwarf Gondwen Huckstone and renamed The Gold and Red in reference to an ancient map that was to lead Huckstone to Bothandals Mine. Huckstone still employs the former human owner Tobias Woodson as a proprietor of the inn.
Under Huckstone's auspices, the inn was expanded to accomodate a brewery for Huckstone's company Hedgehog Brewing. This expansion would also increase the amount of lodging that the inn could offer. Construction of the brewery is still on-going and will feature a long aquaduct carrying fresh water from the Thracyll Mountains. It is Huckstone's plan to cater to the miners he expects to attract with his new Hedgehog Mining Company.
The old inn contained four single-person rooms, all of them on the first floor. It was situated in the ancient elven building of rounded stone that still serves as the main location now. As these buildings do, it contains small, colored round glasses that let in light. The building consists of two floors with similar rounding, as if two pieces of dough were smacked together. The first-floor rooms that face Pellvyr Square, where the famous fontain of Nesidyn the Bard stands, are lined by large alcoves, that end in balconies of about a meter.
On the other side of the building, accessible through an alley between the inn and the new brewery, is a courtyard. This courtyard contains an overhang connected to the main building, beneath which horses are kept. Just above the top of the overhang are again rounded glass windows, providing light into the inn rooms that are not adjcacent to the square.
When entering The Gold and Red through a big wooden double door, the visitor is greeted by a big metal bar on the opposite side, behind which the innkeeper does his business. Flag stones line the floor, and the area between the door wall and the bar is lined with a single row of five round tables, providing room for four or five people each. At the left hand of the entrance, a stairway leads up to the first floor, while a door behind the bar leads to the kitchen and the living quarters of the innkeeper and servant.
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