Village
Rowdy
Modest prices
The Cracked Sextant
the tavern that points where the river won't
The Cracked Sextant smells of spilled ale, smoke, and boiled onions — honest, greasy, and impossible to ignore. Lanterns swing from low beams, casting jittering light across benches scarred by tankards and knife-practice. Conversation is loud and layered: farmers arguing about crop prices, river-workers boasting of catches, and a corner table where dice clatter like small storms. When you push inside you notice a stage patched with planks and rope marks, a board thick with names scratched in by fists, and a battered notice pinned by a brass thumbtack promising coin for 'reliable hands' and 'quiet help' in roughly equal measure.
A weathered wooden sextant hangs over the door, brass arm bent and hairline cracks spidering from the hinge; no words, only a streak of faded blue paint along one edge like a tide mark
Borin Kettlewright
human
Manner
Quirk
Stats
Navigator's Knock
5 spA boozy mix of house ale reduced with brandy and a pinch of charred spruce — it goes down hot and steadies the hand; drinking one grants advantage on the next simple Dexterity check to steady or hold steady (once within the next hour).
Modest (5e lifestyle: about 1 gp a day)
Merri Fenwick · barmaid
She hustles through the room like a whirlwind, refilling tankards and earwigging for gossip with a crooked smile and a missing front tooth.
Hobn Stout-ash · cook
A squat, soot-smeared man who slaps hearty tavern stews and calls every patron 'maw' or 'paw' depending on the depth of their purse.
Tulka · bouncer
A broad-shouldered half-orc who resolves fights with calm statements and a single, decisive shove that sends the troublemaker out into the yard.
Garr Hotwater
A riverman with sun-leathered skin who claims he saw the parish bell flash beneath the current; he wants a crew to dive and salvage it.
Old Nessa Pike
A retired cartwright who collects names and favors—she can forge cart axles and grudges in equal measure and wants someone to fetch her old ledger from a flooded cellar.
Fenn Dret
A traveling dice-master addicted to a particular throw; he wants to pay off a bookie who threatens to burn his lucky scarf if he loses again.
1
Garr Hotwater says the parish bell fell into the river last autumn after a storm and now glints like a torch beneath the shoals; whoever recovers it will earn the vicar's blessing and a sealed box of coins.
2
Old Nessa Pike mutters that the Miller's flooded cellar contains an iron-bound chest with a ledger naming several villagers involved in nightly river departures—fetch it and she'll grant passage to a walled-down cache.
3
A pair of traveling merchants claim a washed-up boat near the eastern ford carried a carved ivory idol with a painted star; whoever returns it to the merchants will be paid and may discover why men from the village make furtive offerings at the river bank.
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