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Jak-a'-Napes

JACK-ah-naype's

Jak-a'-Napes is a ramshackle inn in the small town of Falcon's Hollow.

Sensory & Appearance

The inn is constantly filled with music that seems to lighten the spirits of anyone. During the day (especially at dawn!) it is a rousing string melody on the fiddle. During noon is an emboldening salvo on drums, bringing strength to weary lumberjacks. In the evening the cheeky string melodies return until gradually settling into a lullaby around closing time that some claim is magically enchanted to send patrons on their way without them causing any trouble.

Denizens

Architecture

Ramshackle. Jak seems to have begun remodelling, then gotten delayed, then distracted, and finally added to it as part of the 'charm'...which somehow works. Brightly coloured cloths are draped from the ceiling down to the tables, walls and even the bar - and dancing magical lights surge with the music that is playing all hours of the night.

History

Once per week, Jak his famously delicious cinnamon-crusted flapjacks to a line of happy customers that queue outside the inn and halfway down the road.
Shop
Jak-a'-Napes is able to provide services between Wretched to Comfortable.

Lifestyle Expenses

Lifestyle expenses provide you with a simple way to account for the cost of living in a fantasy world. They cover your accommodations, food and drink, and all your other necessities. Furthermore, expenses cover the cost of maintaining your equipment so you can be ready when adventure next calls.

At the start of each week or month (your choice), choose a lifestyle from the Expenses table and pay the price to sustain that lifestyle. Your lifestyle might change from one period to the next, based on the funds you have at your disposal, or you might maintain the same lifestyle throughout your character's career.


LifestylePrice per Day
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Associates: Other wretched people covet your armour, weapons, and adventuring gear, which represent a fortune by their standards. You are beneath the notice of most people.
Description: You live in inhumane conditions. With no place to call home, you shelter wherever you can, sneaking into barns, huddling in old crates, and relying on the good graces of people better off than you. A wretched lifestyle presents abundant dangers. Violence, disease, and hunger follow you wherever you go.
Wretched None
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Associates: You are beneath the notice of most people, and you have few legal protections. Most people at this lifestyle level have suffered some terrible setback. They might be disturbed, marked as exiles, or suffer from a disease.
Description: You live in a leaky stable, a mud-floored hut just outside town, or a vermin-infested boarding house in the worst part of town. You have shelter from the elements, but you live in a desperate and often violent environment, in places rife with disease, hunger, and misfortune.
Squalid 1sp
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Description: You benefit from some legal protections, but you still have to contend with violence, crime, and disease. People at this lifestyle level tend to be unskilled labourers, costermongers, peddlers, thieves, mercenaries, and other disreputable types.
Associates: A poor lifestyle means going without the comforts available in a stable community. Simple food and lodgings, threadbare clothing, and unpredictable conditions result in a sufficient, though probably unpleasant, experience. Your accommodations might be a room in a flophouse or in the common room above a tavern.
Poor 2sp
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Description: Ordinary people living modest lifestyles include soldiers with families, labourers, students, priests, hedge wizards, and the like.
Associates: A modest lifestyle keeps you out of the slums and ensures that you can maintain your equipment. You live in an older part of town, renting a room in a boarding house, inn, or temple. You don't go hungry or thirsty, and your living conditions are clean, if simple.
Modest 1gp
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Description: You associate with merchants, skilled tradespeople, and military officers.
Associates: Choosing a comfortable lifestyle means that you can afford nicer clothing and can easily maintain your equipment. You live in a small cottage in a middle-class neighbourhood or in a private room at a fine inn.
Comfortable 2gp
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Description: You associate with successful business owners, minor lords and nobility, and once-famed heroes who have slipped back into obscurity.
Associates: Choosing a wealthy lifestyle means living a life of luxury, though you might not have achieved the social status associated with the old money of nobility or royalty. You live a lifestyle comparable to that of a highly successful merchant, a favoured servant of the royalty, or the owner of a few small businesses. You have respectable lodgings, usually a spacious home in a good part of town or a comfortable suite at a fine inn. You likely have a small staff of servants.
Wealthy 4gp
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Description: You move in circles populated by the most powerful people in the community. You receive invitations to the social gatherings of the rich and powerful, and spend evenings in the company of politicians, guild leaders, high priests, and nobility. You must also contend with the highest levels of deceit and treachery.
Associates: You live a life of plenty and comfort. You have excellent lodgings, perhaps a townhouse in the nicest part of town or rooms in the finest inn. You dine at the best restaurants, retain the most skilled and fashionable tailor, and have servants attending to your every need.
Aristocratic 10gp
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Inn
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