Laughing Goblin Inn

Description of the Laughing Goblin Inn
The inn many not be necessarily Phlan’s fanciest inn, but the inn was definitely Phlan’s busiest. The double doors enter into the great room of the tavern. The room has a bar, many round tables, a pantry for storage, a doorway to the kitchen, and stairs that lead upwards to the rooms above the tavern. Many patrons believe that the inn offers safe, if a bit overpriced, lodging.

At one end of the tavern, a great round slab from a gigantic pine hangs on the wall. This slab is used for knife/dagger throwing contests, which is a game-of-chance.

Outside the inn, a stable is located to cover travelers’ horses. Above the stable is a loft used by Ren, the barkeeper.

Location
The Laughing Goblin Inn is located in the city of Phlan, which is on the northwestern coast of the Moonsea. The inn is located in the heart of the town in the civilized portion that is not over run by evil humanoid monsters like kobolds, goblins, and orcs.

Personalities at Laughing Goblin Inn
The following are some of the personalities that you could meet at the Laughing Goblin Inn.

The Innkeeper
Sot is the Laughing Goblin Inn's not so famous innkeeper; however, his pork and cabbage soup is renowned throughout Phlan.

Sot learned of his grandfather’s service to Tyr when he lent his grandfather's holy symbol to Tarl Desanea, which is similar to Tarl’s own holy symbol but has different writing on it. Sot's grandfather was not on duty during the dragon run fifty years back, approximately 1290 DR. Sot's grandfather was warrior cleric of Try and guardsman at Sokol Keep on Thorn Island. The dragon run is moment in Phlan and Keep’s history.

Sot’s weapon of choice for use at the inn and adjoining tavern is a large cudgel, which is basically a club or short staff. He and the cook would always reach instinctively for their cudgels when trouble is brewing at the inn.

Though odd for some, Sot collects rare glass liquor bottles; and he displays these treasures behind his bar.

The Barkeeper
Ren o' the Blade was the barkeeper at the inn where look after the patrons in the tavern. In his first few weeks, three to precise, he kept mainly to himself was consider to be a quiet man by the inn’s cook.

On one busy night in the tavern, Ren was feeling the need to blow off some steam. When propositioned by a small group of three large female human fighters, he decided to have a little fun at their expense. He challenged them to lift and carry a serving tray from their table to the bar. The joke, however, was on them, because the serving tray was an old heavy shield, which was obtained from a warrior fighter whom did not want to pay his bill that was covered with the cook’s oak cutting board, a table cloth, some food plates and two heavy pewter pictures of ale, which equated to a real heavy load. Needless to say, Ren won the challenge and a bag of gold, which he tossed to Sot, the innkeeper and unsuspected backer of the bet made by Ren.

Ren stopped working at the Laughing Goblin Inn when he was sent to Sokol Keep on Thorn Island out in the Bay of Phlan. His mission, imposed by sentence of unlawful conduct by the town council after a tavern brawl, was for him and his new friends, Shal Desanea of Cormyr (Shal Bal at the that time) and Tarl Desanea of Vaasa, to explore the island and determine why it was not inhabitable. Though Ren stopped working at the inn, he and his companion still used it as a base of operations.