[A-Boralus RP-tavern] Curious Octopus

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Curious Octopus - A tavern in the district of workers and travelers

In the Mariner’s Row, in the rainy city of Boralus, a tavern called Curious Octopus can be found. The usual look from outside fits any other part of the Capital of Kul Tiras - wooden building made out of the ship parts in brown color of wood and green color of the metal roof.
Inside, you will find a cozy tavern with hearth burning with warm and pleasant fire. Merry and welcoming bartenders who would pour you a drink to melt all your troubles and a meal to fill your hungry belly.
The guild behind this place is Liar’s Dice.

Services
Curious Octopus is offering both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
We also have a kitchen and can serve you snacks and meals. Local and of the foreign cuisine.
For those who are staying in the city and have no place where to lay their heads for the sleep, we offer rooms for rent. Just for one night or for months, your choice.
The entertainment is an important part of any relaxation after the long work day and for that, you can find astonishing bards, playing their songs and admirable dancers, tempting the sense of an eye.

The menu and our offer can be found here.

Do you have an idea for a drink or a meal? Put it in the comments and we will see what we can do!

Opening Hours
Each day from 8 pm to cca midnight.

  • An exception are days with the invasion in Tiragarde Sound, when the tavern is filled with hostile mobs. It happens once in a week on random days. You can check it here.

Staff

Managers

Miss Elerin Az’ariah
Quel’dorei with all that you can expect.
Well-mannered, wise, polite and with an old look in her eyes. Most of her time, she is in the office, running the tavern day to day chores and papers. Sometimes, you can see her behind a counter, and you can be sure the service will be the same as would be done to any King or Queen. She will always answer all your questions and provide you with the best she can offer.
The only question which will always remain unanswered is why she is here. In a small tavern, in a soggy town, serving ale and rum to the locals.

Mister Artemist Leander
To be added soon…

Staff Manager

Miss Kayarix Harley
To be added soon…

Bartenders

Miss Lilly
Young merry, and seemingly always happy, young girl. Her purple half-elvish eyes will look at every customer with a spark of excitement. She is talkative, so if you are the silent type, she will probably do the job for both you of.
She also works as a dancer in the tavern. So on the days she is not behind a counter, you can enjoy her dance and flirting.

Miss Alexandra Saviana
Fascinated by the arcana and alchemy, Alexandra would spend most of her free time buried in books and brewing potions. But after some time, she started to feel lonely with her experiments.
Trying to fill some of this quiet with new people, she applied for a job as a bartender. Eventually, she ended up in the Curious Octopus, where she works to this day.

Bouncers

Mister Michael Dawn
Extremely Intelligent, Focused and powerful. He stands tall and silent, but always bows his head to any new customer that walks through the door. He’s the silent and sharp type. Always on high alert for any issues to be resolved. On duty, he’s a bouncer. Off duty, He’s a strong Runemaster, but he’s not hesitant to be both at the same time. Behave now.

Bards

Miss Eve
To be added soon…

Do you want to be part of a story?
Tavern is a place, where stories are all coming together. As in every rpg, tavern is a place, where various stories, tales, information, demands and offers for jobs are gathering.
The Curious octopus is not like other taverns, as we do more. Stories about heroes and villains. Stories about love and war. Stories about life and death. All those are finding a home in our tavern, and we are letting them live their lives. Finding people who can experience them and to pursue them.
When you stop by for a mug of ale or the famous Double Anchormaker, if you would listen carefully and ask the right questions, you mind find yourselves in an adventure which was just waiting for you to be found.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact any of the Liar’s Dice members, either in game or via Discord.
Link for the respective Adventure at AA page.
Link to the guild’s AA page.

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This place is pretty awesome. Been a few times now and always has a fun crowd. Got some good looking bar staff too ^^

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Great place with interesting characters. Always guaranteed decent RP whenever you go here.

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Always been interesting when I have stopped by.

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Hardy! You visited us? :smiley:

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As the young girl with red hair tied into two buns walks the streets of the city, giggling merrily and smiling everywhere, she speaks a word with basically everyone she meet. Whether it be a guard, a street hawker, a beggar, pedestrian, trader at his stall, fisherman coming home from work, Admiralty clerk rushing somewhere, a noble not even listening, dock worker, tidesage, tourist or other weird existence in the soggy city of Boralus. She speaks about an awesome party happening just in a week in the Curious Octopus, with a drinking competition for the title of the Anchormaker Champion. Of the battle between nations for this tittle and proudly informing everyone, that the actual Champion is a sweet guard name Rey.

And the best part of the party is the theme. She talks about Rum and pirates, the two undivided topics, which will be brought to the tavern just in one week. Many rums from all over the known world will be there, and she also hopes, all attendees will wear a proper costume for the party.

An unusual theme, maybe even risky one for the harbor city. But the word is spreading and people are talking. Soon enough, there are talks about a real Kraken being served in the Curious Octopus, grilled and with little pickled onions. And about Captain Volar himself attending the party. But… words are just words, as always and the truth is hidden somewhere between them, under them and sometimes, but only rarely, really in those words.

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From the early morning, the city seems to have a new piece of a flyer on each noticeboard and each place where people advertise their businesses. This one, on a thick paper, inviting everyone to a party in Boralus, flavored by the very iconic theme to this grim and soggy place: Rum and Pirates.

What: Party at the tavern Curious Octopus
When: Friday 10.12., 8 pm server time
Where: Boralus, Mariner’s Row
AA event page: https://www.argentarchives.org/node/258033

A tavern party with live music from our fabulous bards, a variety of rums whose names you have probably never heard or seen before, a drinking competition, starting at ten bells, for the title of the Anchormaker Champion, also known as the ‘Competition between nations of the known world’.
Starting at eight bells, you can look forward to meeting our beautiful barmaids and taste local booze or snacks. The crew of the Curious Octopus is looking forward to seeing you there. Come and enjoy drinking in costumes of fabled pirates. Just once, just now. The party in Boralus, where tides guides your steps.

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Good rp, fun people to hang around with.

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One month of Curious Octopus in Boralus

We celebrate a first anniversary of Curious Octopus. It is a whole month since we opened our tavern for the first time!
Thanks everyone for coming and making that place alive. There were many hours of rp, many stories met, some started and some ended.
It was an amazing month and there was not a single night, where we had none patron. We got regular visitors, we heard our name was spread in other cities and RP hubs as well, and we hosted two parties so far.
**Thank **every and each one of **you **for making this happen, and we are looking forward to the next amazing month of rp!
The next bigger event is the party next Friday, themed in Rum and Pirates. Come and make our statistics below even bigger for the next anniversary post!

To highlight some things:
We opened the tavern 21 days.
The most favorite drink is the Anchormaker. We sold 118 shots of the unlabeled spirit and 59 liters of strong ale. That’s 8.4 bottles of the mysterious booze without a name.
Right after is the Gilnean Whiskey. We sold 88 shots, which is 6.2 bottles.
There was one kind of the drink which was not ordered even once and that’s the Mist Cider. So next month, it needs more cheering!
In total, there were drunk 202 shots of spirits, which is 14.4 bottles.
Then 137 liters of ale.
And 30 glasses of wine, which is 4.2 bottles.

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The word on the street talks about a gang roaming the alleys and piers of Mariner’s Row. Mostly minding their own business, but locals have and unsettling feeling when seeing small groups occupying corners here and there. Some talk about the southern district getting worse, some keep their cool and claim this is nothing harmless as long as they are not provoked. One is for sure, only the time will tell if there is danger preparing for next move, or of it just a false alarm.

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Yesterday, Lilly was returning home in a wonderful mood. Lighthearted, smiling widely and much more happy, that anyone would be after the long shift at work as she had. After the busy night at the tavern. After the eventful evening at the Curious Octopus, which couldn’t be described as calm and lacking some unexpected disarray. But she was simply a little different from the usual sort of folk. And all that for no specific reason. Maybe she was born under the lucky star, maybe she was just not bright enough to realize all bad things in the life, and maybe she got some reward for all the bad thing that happened in her life. Who know. The fact was, this small dancer was coming to the inn in Hatherford where she was renting a room, widely smiling and humming a merry melody under her hood. She nodded to mister Jones before she took her way upstairs, pulling a key from her pocket to unlocks the door as any other day.
She entered a small room where a single bed was in the corner, a closet in the other, a small table in the third one and a bath tub in the last.
Dusk, her tamed raven from Drustvar was woken by the sound of the creaking lock, and welcomed her with one single caw.
Lilly smiled at the cobalt bird and turned to lock the door behind her. Once done, she turned, taking a deep breath in, exhaling the excitement she brought with her from the tavern. A good night it was for sure. And with the promise of more like this. She moves to her bed to prepare herself for the sleep and her eyes landed on the wooden bowl sitting on the small table in which a plant was sitting in the water.

That was when her motions froze, her smile dropped and her look locked on the flower.

A culture of Kul Tiras has many tales, stories, customs and legends. The story about sea stalk was only one of them. A plant growing near the water, with leaves like a bird’s nest, cradling stalks in the peas-green color, almost translucent, and with blossoms of the light pink, almost white color. To natives, also knows as the Gentle Warning, Widow’s Veil or Sailor’s Doom. Among the alchymical purpose, the plant was widely used - as long as the tales remember - as a sign of the sailors’ fate. A blossom woven in the strand of the hair was nothing uncommon among native sailors. For the flower, even if growing close to the sea, was dying instantly when meeting with the salt water. So such was a way of knowing the destiny of lovers during a long journey. As soon as the blossom woven in the hair brand died, the rest of the plant, kept alive by just a little water at home, died as well.

Lilly’s gaze landed on the plant of the sea stalk she had there for over a week now, but today, the gaze stopped there and did not move to anything else. As the plant was dead. She wished it was just a trick of the moonlight, the cruel play of her tired mind. She would be happily to let her eyes betray her if it would mean the plant was still alive. But that was not the case.
Lilly rushed to the table to touch the sea stalk and make herself be convinced yet by another sense. But her fingers told her what her eyes knew already. The plant was dead.

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The party in Curious Octopus is today!

Theme: Rum and Pirates!

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Friday Party: Rum and Pirates

Thanks to everyone who visited us yesterday on the big Friday Party at the Curious Octopus!! You were all amazing and the place was truly buzzing with life!

And now, some statistics :smile:

You drank 19,5 liters of ale, that’s almost half a barrel.
78 shots of booze! That’s over 5 and half bottle.
Four bards were playing their songs during the evening.

5 contestants attended the Drinking Competition.
The winner and proud owner of the title Anchormaker Champion is Benny Sanders!
31 Double Anchormakers were drunk during the contest.

Thanks everyone and see you around either each day for the casual rp or on the next party!
Stay also tuned as we are planning to launch gambling nights!

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Everyone on the street is talking about tonight’s trial. The fat rich factory owner finally facing the crimes which he surely committed. And all, or most of those talks, are exactly about it, because people love drama once they are not inside of it. Guesses and even bets about what punishments will the man be facing and how much will he yell and cry about it. But there is one more thing people love the same way as spitting on those in troubles, free stuff. And so in the same way as the talks about the trial, there are talks about someone who will be sponsoring free drinks in a certain tavern in Mariner’s Row after the trial. And free booze after a show is all the simple hearts of working folks desire when it is about choosing weather to go home or stay and talk their thoughts over a mug of ale.
The identity of a sponsor is unclear though. Some say it is a gnome, some say it is a dwarf and some say it is a human, just with short legs.

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I’m surprisingly easy to miss at times :slight_smile:

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Don’t you say :smiley:

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I am happy to see all the nice comments here, I am also very happy with our guild! We’re growing and doing more themed nights with games or parties.

In short, I’m happy and I love this guild

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This looks lovely, gonna try and check it out next I’m in Boralus. Fun touch with the stats.

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Thank you! And we will happily serve you in our place. On Tuesday, there will be even a gambling night with few games and songs from bards. But otherwise, we are open each day from 8 till the last man standing. Unless there is an invasion as mentioned in the original post :slight_smile:

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The tavern in Mariner’s Row was living a night life again. This time, people talk about old friends meeting there over a glass of the booze, toasting for the better Boralus and remembering stories from battles. Some say hooded figures were sneaking around, probably looking for someone or just occupying shadows as usual. And a scent of the tobacco was lingering in the upper parts of the tavern around patrons enjoying a drink after the work. And those who had trouble to fall asleep swore that they heard a shanty sang in a beautiful, but damn loud young baritone. And later, also yells about gnomes and moles by the same voice. One single things was left as a memory of that night. A silver earring abandoned on the counter.