Gardner Inn
The Gardner Inn is the only inn within Oakfield. It is owned and operated by Sami Gardner, a 50-year-old Halfling. Sami is a quiet and reserved innkeep, and won't allow loud singing or laughing or arguing in his establishment. He will allow the occasional game of draughts or kings table, as long as no one gets rowdy.
The inn has 10 rooms for rent, and offers a meal at breakfast, midday and evening. All meals cost a shilling, come in large portions and are served with a huge mug of beer or ale or cold, clear water. The inn has stables for seven horses, and there is a farrier right across the road.
Sami runs the inn with the help of his widowed sisters and their children. His only hired help is a Human the locals call "Thick Will". Thick Will stands very near 7' tall, weighs an easy 300 lbs (with not an ounce of fat to his name) and has never spoken a word that anyone has ever heard. To the best of anyone's knowledge, the giant man is a mute who only responds or acts when Sami directs him.
Sensory & Appearance
The first floor of the Inn is the Common Hall, the kitchen, and a seperate stone chamber only accessible from the outside for bathing and laundry. Above these rooms are the ten small but very comfortable rooms to let, and one the third floor are the four apartments for the owner, his family and Thick Will.
Denizens
The Inn is run by Sami and his two widowed sisters and their children. The sisters, Sally and Sadie, have moved to Oakfield from Rolar after the death of their husbands in a river boat accident two years earlier. Sally has two young boys and Sadie has three girls, and all work within the Inn in various duties. The last resident is Thick Will, a massive Human man of unknown age and origin that doesn't speak and only responds to instructions from Sami.
Defenses
The Inn is a very stoutly constructed building with a deep stone foundation supporting a ground level of thick masonry walls and several upper stories of heavy post and beam construction. Windows on the first floor are tall and very narrow with oak shutters that are inches thick. Upper windows are wider but with even heavier shuttes that are built with openings cut into them that turn the closed and secured shutters into perfectly designed arrow loops. There are three doors into the building on the ground level, and all are single 4' wide doors built of 5" oak beams banded in iron and are secured by double barred posts that lock the doors both horizontally and vertically.
The Inn has as its defense force the mighty arms and fists of Thick Will.
