The Golden Skull The Known World & Raging Swan Press The current year for our homebrewed campaign setting is set during 672 CY (Common Year). Inspired By Gary Gygax

The Golden Skull is a dingy, unassuming tavern in Dulwich, offering inexpensive food and drink in surroundings that have seen better days. Its worn furnishings and smoke-darkened interior make little attempt to impress visitors. Customers generally come for an affordable evening, a familiar seat, and enough ale to put the day’s work behind them.

The common room holds sturdy tables, mismatched stools, and benches polished by years of use. Several tables bear old knife marks, and wooden wedges keep the least cooperative furniture steady. Mud collects near the entrance, while the smells of spilled beer, cooking onions, and woodsmoke linger throughout the room.

Meals are plain and filling, with dark bread, pottage, sausages, and inexpensive cuts of meat suited to customers watching their coins. A bowl of stew might come with a thick heel of bread for soaking up the last of the broth. Beer and house ale account for much of the tavern’s trade, although stronger drinks are available for those willing to spend a little more.

The atmosphere grows louder as the evening wears on. Customers discuss their work, complain about prices, and argue over whose turn it is to buy another round. Regulars tend to favor particular seats, moving reluctantly when the room becomes crowded. Service is practical and direct, with little patience for complicated requests during a busy evening. For travelers, the Golden Skull offers a chance to spend time among townsfolk away from Dulwich’s more comfortable inns. It is not certain who the actual owner of the Golden Skull is to the people of Dulwich.

New arrivals may draw a few curious glances before conversation resumes around them. A modest purse goes reasonably far here, and visitors willing to accept the rough furnishings and noisy company can find a hot meal and somewhere to rest their feet.

BREAKFAST
Dark Bread and Dripping: 4cp
Thin Oat Porridge: 4cp
Pickled Eggs: 6cp
Fried Onions and Potatoes: 7cp
Bread and Hard Cheese: 8cp
Blood Sausage: 7cp

AFTERNOON MEALS
Pease Pottage: 6cp
Onion and Cabbage Broth: 5cp
Mutton Stew with Barley: 1sp
Pork Scraps and Beans: 1sp
Salt Fish with Dark Bread: 1sp
Sausages and Fried Onions: 1sp
Cold Meat Pie: 1sp
Bread and Pickled Herring: 8cp

BEVERAGES
Small Beer: 4cp
Dark Beer: 6cp
House Ale: 6cp
Strong Ale: 8cp
Sour House Wine: 7cp
Cheap Grain Spirits: 9cp
Spiced Rum: 1sp