The Lazy Cockatrice Area-6: The Lower Hallway

The Lazy Cockatrice (Hex 0203)

Area-6: The Lower Hallway

 The lower hallway has both a stairwell to the upper floor (A) and a stairwell to the basement beneath it (B). The back hall is also home to an unusually elegant clothes mangle (C) made hundreds of years ago by a dwarven smith as a gift to Ector the Ardent. The Mangle is enchanted to prevent cloth run through it from fraying, and dries them perfectly. 

If anyone asks about the Mangle, Gerald, Harlan, Almo, or Katrinn will happily tell the story of how Ector succored a team of wounded dwarves after they fell afoul of goblins in the wilderness, and held off the goblins when they came looking for survivors.

This includes the location of the Dwarf Ruin in Hex 0403.

The back door at the Southeastern corner of the hall leads to the Inn's primary well. The laundry washbasin and baskets and racks for hanging laundry are positioned under a set of awnings around the well (D).

Katrinn Ardin, Gerald and Iris' oldest living daughter (age 19) spends most of her time here doing laundry for the Inn, as well as mending and quilting. She is deeply bored with life in the Inn and daydreams about doing something exciting with her life in one of the grand cities. She often reads books of stories of the Crusade, Histories of the Goblin Wards, and Faerie Tales when she is sure her mother is too distracted to call her out for her "idleness."