The Sunflower Inn at Dark Hollow

ARK HOLLOW boasts a single, two-story inn which sits at the crossing of the Mosstree Trail and Lion’s Walk. Stables are available behind the establishment. A watering hole for locals and a stop-over for the infrequent traveller, the Sunflower Inn is owned and run by a pair of rotund halflings, Sidney and Muriel Goodfellow. The food is good and portions are large. Ale and mead are home-brewed, yet there is no wine on the menu.

The inn’s main room is rectangular with eight round tables scattered throughout. Alicia, the adopted daughter of Sidney and Muriel, serves as a waitress. A long wooden bar with a dozen stools stands against the back wall and is tended by Sidney. To the left of the entrance, an open wooden stairwell leads to the rooms upstairs. Eight rooms are available for rent, each containing two twin beds and having a lock on the door. A local boy, Bill, works within the stables behind the inn.

Sidney is a former adventurer who retired and married his childhood sweetheart. In time, they moved to Dark Hollow and opened the Sunflower Inn. He still feels camaraderie with adventurers although he realises that not all of them are scrupulous. He is a good host, but an overly protective father.

Muriel is a good hostess but she does not approve of adventurers or her husband’s talk of his adventuring days. She is glad that he got some sense into him and gave up that life before he was killed. Muriel disapproves of Alicia’s admiration of those types and keeps a careful eye on her at all times.

Muriel and Sidney found Alicia as a baby on their doorstep. Unable to find her parents, they adopted her and raised her as their own daughter. Since the age of fourteen, she has worked as a waitress at the inn; she is now eighteen.

Alicia has grown up hearing her father’s stories of his adventures. Although she has never met an adventurer, she is in awe of them. While she can be playfully flirtatious with very charismatic adventurers, her father keeps an ever-watchful eye on her.

Bill is rather shy, and only answers questions asked of him. He is a hard worker and never causes any troubles. He likes horses and feels more comfortable around them than he does people.

Elminster Ed Greenwood

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