Dancing Mephit Inn, The Tavern Challenge, With Map

The Dancing Mephit

Background

The Dancing Mephit was founded around fifty years ago. It was founded by an honest man who always kept the hearths burning, the mugs filled, and the patrons welcome. Since then the original owner has died, and a new owner bought the inn, a large, balding man name Guss Neful. Guss has driven prices up and soiled the inn's once honorable reputation. Multiple accounts of murder, theft, smuggling, and other heinous acts have occurred since he became the owner. Now the rooms are often left cold at night, and with an undermanned staff some of the chairs are creaky, the chamber pot stained, and the floors are all a bit dusty.

The Structure

The Dancing Mephit has two stories, the first which holds the kitchen, dining room, bar, and storage rooms. The second story has six rooms ready for rent and the washroom. It is situated on the outskirts of a the large town of Rodanhold, a town plagued by, you guessed it, mephits.

Services

The Dancing Mephit serves a variety of foods, although it usually tends to be on the greasy side.  It has a signature secret sauce, kept closely by the original founder. Unfortunately, the secret has been lost to time. Since then Guss has found a cheap substitute, ground clover from outside. The inn also boasts a tin tub in the washroom, though hot water baths are quite expensive. Frequent patrons have learned a way around this though, by saying how wonderful the cold water is, sometimes a steam mephit will be tricked into heating it up, and will keep at it if you complain continually about the warm temperatures. Many patrons have decided to call this "evil" little elemental Nefario the Fiend.