City
Seedy
Poor prices
The Stitched Ledger
a basement dive under the tannery where fences meet thieves
You duck down a narrow stair between tanning pits and the stink of reagents, and the air cools to sour beer and mildew. The cellar is low-ceilinged, lit by guttering iron sconces and a single oil lamp behind the bar; benches are scarred with knife nicks and old blood. Men and women in patched coats keep to themselves over clay flags and a low counter—fences with ink-stained fingers, runners with wrapped-up hands, a watchman trading names for coin. A chain hangs from the ceiling where bales were once lowered; its links make a soft, metallic accompaniment to whispered bargains and the occasional barked laugh.
A warped scrap of cured hide, hand-stitched to a slat of oak; a crude icon of a ledger and a patched coin purse are burned into the leather. The edges are singed and damp from cellar steam; no words, just the image.
Brun Feld
Human
Manner
Quirk
Stats
Stag's Stitch
4 cpA bitter, spiced ale that leaves a numbing warmth and a faint metallic aftertaste; drinkers gain advantage on Recall Knowledge checks about fences and stolen goods for 10 minutes but suffer -1 to Charisma checks while the numbing lasts.
Poor (5e lifestyle: about 2 sp a day)
Tess Murn · barmaid
She moves like she knows where every back door is and will slide a wrapped coin and a whisper for the price of a warm bowl.
Old Hask · cook
A scarred ex-sailor who boils leftover cuts into a greasy stew and hates to be asked where he once served.
Brunt · bouncer
A quiet, bandaged giant who stands in the stairwell with a lantern and tall tales about nails in fists.
Marek Quick
A nimble fence who eyes newcomers for value and keeps a list of clients who owe him favors.
Sera 'Needles' Jow
A pickpocket with ink-stained fingers who mends hides by day and lifts purses by night; she owes Brun a dangerous secret.
Hobb Fen
A courier who claims to have seen a cart marked with the Stag symbol leaving the tannery at midnight.
1
Haldor Venn, the tannery foreman, is collecting stamped hides marked with a stag — someone alleges he's hiding a ledger that records where stolen goods are fenced.
2
A merchant caravan out of Eastgate paid a secret fee to a courier named 'Grey Mott' for a crate labelled with the Stag symbol; the crate never reached its destination.
3
Sera 'Needles' Jow claims a watchman was found unconscious with a branded ring near the tannery steps; he babbled the name 'Ledger-Blood' before waking.
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