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Rapid Rooks Inn

Interior of a wide common room with a wooden beamed ceiling held up by strong wooden rafters and supports. The left wall features a window and an open door a small round table between them and dusk blue sky, a lake, and deciduous trees visible outside. The right wall has three windows, and the back wall has a glass doored cabinet and a tapped barrel stacked next to it. The Gambler stands at far left. A woman leans against a support beam to his right. The Innkeeper stands with folded arms in the back of the room, with the Barmaid seated in the mid foreground at a rude wooden table. Another woman sits in a chair at far right, with a lute propped against the wall beside her.

Rapid Rooks Inn is a solitary inn between Silden and Sloop in Betrayal at Krondor. It is adjacent to the River Pilot's Folly and can first be visited in Chapter 1.

Overview

Three young ladies occupying the inn's common room bring a blush to Owyn's cheeks, and his older companions elbow him lest their attentions distract from potential danger.

Amenities

  • Innkeeper: recommends that the party spend the night due to the dangers of "the undead" lurking in the area. While any remain undefeated, he charges 72 sovereigns per night; afterwards, the price is lowered to 10.
  • Barmaid: Rations (4), 2g; Ale, 1g
  • Gambling: pokiir
  • Barding

Trivia

  • Until the local rusalki are defeated, the inkeepers of both the Rapid Rooks and the River Pilot's Folly share the same dialog about the dangers of the undead.
  • "Rook" as a noun is an informal name of some Old World corvids and another name for the piece formerly called a "castle" in chess, but is also a verb meaning "to swindle".