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The Pillow of Waking
the inn at the threshold of dreams
Lanterns burn with a steady, amber glow that never guttered even when a wind brushes the doorstep; the air smells of warm bread and faint night-blooming flowers. Cushions pile in corners and low beds line private alcoves, each with a small brass warding plate humming the soft, steady tone of a lullaby. Voices fall into easy, hushed cadences here—patrons speak in half-smiles as if careful not to wake anything—while a kettle on the hearth whispers like distant surf. Unexpected touches of the dream-realm intrude: the shadow of a hanging lantern sometimes moves against the light, and a painted mural of a starfield rearranges itself slowly over the night.
A carved ivory pillow stitched with silver thread, weathered but polished; a single closed eye is etched on its face. The wood is smoothed by many hands; no words, only the silver thread glinting in moonlight.
Derran Kest
human
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Quirk
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Warden's Nightcap
5 spA warmed spiced milk laced with a whisper of dream-essence; drinking it smooths the mind and grants one restful, nightmare-free sleep and a +1 bonus to the first Wisdom saving throw made the next day (representing clearer dreams).
Comfortable (5e lifestyle: about 2 gp a day)
Miri Tollow · barmaid
Smiles like a friend and knows every patron's preferred pillow stuffing before they do.
Old Joss · nightkeeper
A mute kenku who patrols the alcoves and mimics distant thunder to hush boisterous guests.
Professor Haldrun
A stern, spectacled scholar of dream-logic who wants to study the Sleepshard and is always offering to trade lore for room and board.
Corin Vess
A soft-spoken courier from the Woken Gate who seeks safe lodgings between shifts and listens for news of a caller named Matron Vera.
Patchwork Mina
A stitched-together changeling who collects nightmares for an artist back in the Somnolent Quarter and sometimes confides odd fragments to sympathetic ears.
1
Matron Vera of the Nightglass has been asking around for places that trade in collected dreams; she was last seen near the Somnolent Quarter selling trinkets that hum when you dream.
2
A lost artifact called the Sleepshard is rumored to anchor the inn's wards—Professor Haldrun claims it pulses at midnight and holds echoes of a sealed doorway called the Woken Gate.
3
A courier at the Woken Gate named Karrin reported a stranger paying in star-iron to purchase captured nightmares; the stranger left a sigil that matches the one Patchwork Mina sketches in her sleep.
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