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Hourglass Wake
the inn where time waits until you drink
The Hourglass Wake hangs from a single chain in the void, its wooden prow jutting like a ship's bow against the pale shimmer of the astral sea. Inside, the air smells faintly of citrus and old parchment; candles burn with steady, pale blue flames that do not smoke. Conversation circles like eddies — merchants from far spheres, a retired sky-captain who polishes a compass that points nowhere familiar, and quiet scholars nursing their goblets as if each sip buys them an hour back. Time here feels elastic: clocks are decorative, patrons glance at their watches and sigh as no hands move, and the barkeep's nod is more a calendar than a greeting.
A heavy brass hourglass suspended in an iron hoop, its sand frozen mid-fall; the metal is dark with a faint, star-speckled patina and a single chipped facet catches the light like a distant sun.
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An Hour's Lull
10 gpA pale, viscous wine infused with powdered hourglass tooth — one sip causes the drinker to experience sixty minutes in exquisite, slowed detail while the rest of the world feels paused. Effects wear off without memory loss; some report glimpses of other lives during the lull.
Wealthy (5e lifestyle: about 4 gp a day)
Mori · barmaid
A soft-spoken tiefling who remembers each patron's preferred hourglass pour and slides drinks with mechanical precision.
Garrith · bouncer
A hunched, silver-eyed half-orc who listens more than he speaks and keeps a brass pocket-watch nailed shut in his fist.
Captain Sable
A scarred human sky-captain who wants the Hourglass of Nethar to fix a lost anchor that drags ships into other eras.
Lissara Oth
A pale qlippoth scholar cataloguing temporal anomalies, willing to trade rare lore for minutes in which to read.
Hurm the Coinless
A grinning goblin who gambles time—betting sips for stolen moments—and always seems a little older than yesterday.
1
Captain Sable says a drowned anchor called the Night-Lead sits in the Belt of Iram and will drag any ship that nears it into a single repeating day unless someone finds the Anchor-Key.
2
Lissara whispers that the Hourglass of Nethar was split into three teeth centuries ago; one tooth is rumored to be lodged within the skeleton of a drifting colossus named the Bone-Clock in the silent quarter of the astral sea.
3
A map seller in the Wake trades a paper chart that only appears when the Wake's sign is tapped twice; the chart supposedly leads to a pocket of 'stilled time' where memories pile up like dust.
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