Another bonus is that Meadowvale has the best travellers’ inn
for several miles around, The Old Stone. Any traveller visiting
Meadowvale is well advised to come by and stretch
his feet at The Old Stone, if only for a couple of ales.
Besides food and drink, a patron of The Old Stone
is guaranteed to obtain all the information he seeks
about where to get supplies in town, what dangers
await him in the Morudhain Lands and how to get to
said dangers as quickly as possible.
The Old Stone Inn
The Old Stone Inn, a two-story building of wood and stone, is Meadowvale’s main attraction; it boasts excellent
food, good conversation, late parties, comfortable rooms and fair prices. Leah, the owner, is a red-haired, lively
woman in her late thirties; she runs the establishment with the help of two barmaids (Lianne and Baressa), three
domestic servants (Duannah, Old Jobe and Vitley) and three stable boys (Guillaume, Gall and Lubber).
And so it begins...
The pale flames at the fireplace dance as
fading white ghosts, their light and heat barely
needed or noticeable in this temperate summer
evening. The atmosphere is dry and empty, as
there are very few patrons at the inn; however,
their chatter is enough to give the place the
feel of a crowded hall. These days, it seems
everybody is talking about some thing or another
in Meadowvale…
Seallan the town minstrel is setting up his lute in a corner
of the inn, affably swapping good-natured jokes, tales and gossip.
Leah, the owner of the inn, walks around dispensing drinks, laughing
at the jokes, sitting on the laps of the most audacious
customers and adding her voice to a couple of song
choruses here and there.
Seallan, after completing a few well known ballads, promises to regail all
with the tale of the Dream of Aedhaine after he has had another drink or two...