The Black Rose Inn

The Black Rose Inn is located in an interdimensional pocket of space along with the surrounding parcel of land. People come and go from the Inn by walking down either of the directions of the road that passes by the inn, or by using the technomagical portal, a mirror with overlay control elements designed by the ATTN Corporation. The rooms are comfortable and magically enhanced, the lights are warm, the drinks are cold, and the food is delicious… and through the extradimensional exits, one can reach most any place in Arcydea one has a mind to.

The Black Rose Inn is three floors tall with a basement. The first floor includes the common room with a bar, tables (including one in a corner without a light that is marked as 'Rogues Gallery' on a small metal plaque along the side, and a stage area (and backstage area) for performers and entertainers. A small placard nearby lists the most recent playbills from prior or upcoming performances. Off to the side of the common room is the lounge, a more subtly-lit enclosed space with windows to the common area that can be shaded, a large central table and chairs, couches to lounge upon, and a grand piano. Next to the door leading to the lounge is a fireplace, and a table with three normal chairs and one metal folding chair facing it. Down on their luck adventurers often pay a nominal fee to sleep in the lounge at night when they cannot afford private accommodations upstairs.

Behind the bar, a door can be seen to lead to the kitchen, where a dark elven cook seems to work during the mornings, a gnomish cook works during the afternoon, and a dwarven cook works during the evenings, often with assistants. To the right of the bar, there seems to be another door that leads to some sort of back area for other businesses that operate within the inn's rooms: there are six rooms marked, but only three franchise businesses registered at the moment: the House of Healing, Lost and Foundry Arms and Armaments, and the Owlery.

A set of spiral stairs leads upwards to the second floor, which contains a public library space and a small workbench with basic tools for a number of professions as well as medium-sized rooms; and the third floor, which has more sumptuous suites usually reserved by adventuring parties or particularly wealthy guests.

Access to the inn involves one of two methods: the first is a peculiar mirror located on the eastern wall of the common room, large and with some sort of interface visible to those who examine the center right portion closely. The mirror allows people to enter from other locations on the network as well as those who inadvertently wander in, and as such, the common room is often populated with a diverse assortment of outlanders and Arcydeans alike on any given evening. A more prosaic method of reaching the Inn is to become lost on a road far from civilization, and hope that you end up on the road leading to the Inn instead of a giant's stewpot. (Either way is how new characters enter the area – so when you're ready, introduce your character arriving to the inn through one of these entranceways, and let's see how characters sound and how the soon-to-be-groups get along with themselves.)