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If you contributed a Tavern Name, go back, find your numbered entry and give us no more than 25 words describing the establishment listed. (If you don't want to, that's cool.)
We can't even pretend for these to be in order, so make sure you note your numbered entry in the other thread.
7. The Jackalope – This desert bar hosts the gritty homesteaders who call this desolate land home. Behind the bar stands Jay Burton ready to serve anyone who can pay.
8. Lovejoy’s – This smoky den hosts a band of musicians every night. The local ale is cheap and the company is as well.
9. The Gingerman – Forty-one taps grace the shining lacquered wall behind the bar. This taproom and brewhouse prides itself as having the best brewers in the city.
10. Room 710 – A broken down cathedral houses a stage for some of the most avant-garde artists in the city. Cacophonous choruses echo from these broken walls nightly.
11. The Red-eyed Fly - Ruffians dominate this establishment. Fights rarely break out, however, unless an opposing gang of toughs decides to drink here.
12. Headhunter’s – A foreign investor bankrolled this jungle tavern. A fat and sweaty man named Jacobi constantly wipes the bar with the same towel he dabs at his brow.
13. Club Deville – A shining theater converted into a swanky bar, the enchantments outside draw crowds to capacity on resting days. The bartenders pour the drinks with loose hands.
14. Longbranch Tavern – Buried in the outskirts of town, this establishment serves well-crafted libations to the nearby laborers. The staff makes available a savory and filling dinner as well.
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21. Hell In a Handbasket – This dimly lit establishment feels cramped and musty due to the smoky red lamps and moth-eaten ceiling treatments and tapestries. A gimp halfling tends bar from atop a crate, grumbling each time he has to retrieve top-shelf items.
22. The Library – The vaulted ceiling contains stained-glass skylights illuminating high shelves that make up the walls of this quiet tavern. Sharply dressed servants pull books for paying customers.
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34. The Fertile Turtle – This coastal bar operates out of a scattering of palm pavilions. The staff serves drinks out of a few dozen different turtle shells modified for drinking vessels.
35. The Hole in the Wall – Nestled in the twisting alleyways of Kaer Maga, this small club hosts strange musicians and even stranger clientele. Rough but knowledgeable folk patronize this establishment.
36. The Rusty Cup – Built on the edge of an abandoned mine, this sagging shack welcomes those the most down on their luck. Drunken brawls are common, and the staff calls for a death cart at least once a week.
37. A Pixie’s Pleasure – Magical lighting beyond gossamer screens strike strange angles in this place. Alcoves and secret rooms hide patrons and those that work the tavern.
38. The Dollhouse – A mockery of innocence, this secret club looks like a toy mansion shoved into a crumbling ghetto. Vile patrons enter while thin windows and cracks in the walls emit horrid cries.
39. The Live Oak Taproom – Located in the hollow trunk of a colossal oak tree, specialty ales and wines share bar space with herbal teas and stranger concoctions.
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42. Beacon of Light – Paladins and patrons of honorable gods flock to this tavern for the watered-down mead and the camaraderie of the pious.
43. The White Bear Bar Named for the powerful menace that hunted this community when it was a camp, the grizzled bartender Noal Bridgecamp speared the beast to death and mounted the creature above the bar.
44. The Stumble Inn – Not only an inebriation gag, this tavern on piers slips six inches into the marsh every year. The thick sand on the floor helps for now.
45. The Ninth Hour – Popular with nearby laborers, this establishment fills up just before the usual dinnertime. Frantic wives seeking out husbands around sundown are common.
46. The Gorgon’s Breath Tavern – Lighted alcoves house elaborate statues in this classy establishment. Serving girls weave through the crown wearing brass tiaras sporting waving serpents.
47. The Haunted House – This gothic structure stands by itself on a row of burned out tenements. A gaunt doorman charges five silver for entrance.
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52. Portside Freehouse – Sailors and deckhands crowd this dockside tavern while on land. The tapmaster sells stories of nearby loot to local pirates to pad his books.
53. Opal’s Tap – Built just below the surface in an expended gem mine, this domed taproom offers a dozen handcrafted brews to the nearby miners.
54. The 105th’s Public House – This immaculate tavern contains long benches full of off-duty soldiers. The front lines are tough and the fighting men relish the time they have with their brothers in arms.
55. Beachside Bert’s – Half a dozen lean-tos and a thatch-roofed hut make up this leisurely establishment. The sweetened drinks served can truly punish an eager drinker the next day.
56. The Jetty Club – A dormant lighthouse resting at the end of a stony jetty welcomes hardened sailors able to safely drop anchor near its tiny dock, a trick not easy for the newly salted.
57. The Bottom – This sleezy saloon operates outside of a bait shop. A leaning tarp covers the bartender who serves disgusting grog from rotting barrels.
58. The Skin and Bones – An elaborated sign displaying a dancing skeleton welcomes drinkers into this sparse taproom. Emaciated girls wearing skull masks serve potent drinks to brave customers.
59. The Ebony Mask – A noble seal or other identification is required for entrance into this exclusive club. Ladies and gentlemen in elaborate costumes and dark masks line up for entrance at the end of the working week.
60. Salon Nine – In such a large city, revolution is always chic. Anarchists and other deviants lounge on cushions promoting paranoid positions and drinking teas and liqueurs from fragile glasses.
61. Scandals – As expected, all manner of humanoid visits this tavern. Brutish half-orc women dance with floor to ceiling poles while lithe half-elves proposition clients from the booths.
62. Flamingo Cantina – This open-sided bamboo and thatch structure covers a fully stocked bar. Musicians perform nightly and many patrons share smoking pipes as frequently as drinks.
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78. The Trollflesh Tavern – This disturbing bar serves the regenerating giants who inhabit Kaer Maga. Smaller normal folk are welcome, but those who pass out are fair game.
79. The Badger’s Burrow – Three grimy tunnels lead to this disguised tavern. An awakened tunneling animal serves strong drinks to the patrons who dare climb down.
80. Caver Jeshua’s Common Room Two hundred feet below the surface, Jeshua pours drinks for adventurers and local creatures alike. The price is cheap and the conversation is invaluable.
81. The Phoenix’s Nest – By far the most popular club in Katapesh, once remodeled after a great fire, the tavern attracted a more affluent clientele.
82. Highside Habits – Shoved into the side of the stout walls of Kaer Maga, this classy establishment only allows those who reside in the Highside Stacks.
83. Dawn’s Embrace – Stretching out beyond the nearby town, this drinking establishment for Sarenrae’s faithful serves flavorful wines and crisp ales. The alcohol is not strong, but the virtue certainly is.
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23. The Merman's Bicycle – An exasperated-looking merman is shown on this dock front dive’s shingle. The taproom is floorless and water laps against the bar. A hand-painted sign at the bar states “No scales, no service.”
24. The Retching Kraken – The sawdust covering the floor barely covers the fetid stink of vomit, blood and urine. A place to drink and forget your troubles – because more urgent and heavily-armed ones are close at hand.
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17. The White Stag- A pure white stag is depicted on this tavern's sign, hence the name. Known well, the tavern is rumored to use deer meat boiled tender.
18. The Black Stag- When the White Stag burned down, it was rebuilt and named The Black Stag. The arsonist hasn't been found. The rumor of boiled deer disappeared.
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2. Cheers This rowdy bar is primarily patronized by gnomes. Most sane people give it a wide berth.
5. The Bar with No Name A nondescript building where Red Mantis assassins unwind. Anyone else unfortunate enough to gain entry doesn't live to tell the tale.
70. The Dancing Al-Mi'Raj This bar in Absalom, near the Clockwork Cathedral, boasts Golarion's only known clockwork al-mi'raj.