Info Brokering & Investigations
The Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern is a cozy teahouse and bar located within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood, but lesser known is that the same establishment serves as information brokering and private investigations business, Teatime. Teatime can help provide information on any person, place, or thing.
What you need to know OOC
- Due to the potentially questionable nature of the business, the information brokering side of things is kept on the downlow, but it’s no total secret. If you have reason for your character to know, then you can assume they do.
- Our FC is not lore-strict, but we are lore-friendly. We are flexible and can accommodate for bending the lore, but not breaking it. Please be respectful of this and do not knowingly ask our FC to investigate anything that goes against lore.
- Teatime has no interest in getting on the wrong side of the law. Any deals involving anything too immoral or illegal may potentially be declined... and maybe worse.
- All payments are IC, no actual gil or item exchanges necessary.
- We can deliver information in one of two ways:
1. If your character needs to know something to advance your own plot, your character can hire Teatime, and you can give us the necessary information OOC along with any details about when/how/where you wish our characters to discover it, which we can either role-play or assume to have happened behind the scenes. Teatime can then relay the information to your character.
2. If your character wishes for Teatime to relay information on another player character, Teatime can try to obtain this information. This will happen organically via role-play or with whatever cooperation the other role-player is willing to give. Given this involves the variable of a third party, we cannot guarantee results this way. We will not metagame for information on other characters (though eavesdropping IC is fair game).
If you are interested in using Teatime's services or otherwise setting up a role-play with us, feel free to catch us IC, or contact us OOC via RPC or in-game to organize some RP.
Shroudrose Teahouse & Tavern
Lavender Beds
Ward 5
Plot 58
Nestled within the Lavender Beds of the Twelveswood with a cliffside at its back and a flowing stream at its entrance is a large mansion in the fifth ward Lavender Northeast subdivision. Once housing a rowdy free company of adventurers, it now serves as the site of the Shroudrose Teahouse and Tavern, a teahouse and upscale bar serving everything from specialty tea blends, to a wide array of spirits, to light meals and snacks.
Main Floor
Just inside the entrance you will find the armoire, where you will be expected to deposit any and all weapons. The main floor features the teahouse of name, where you can enjoy a fresh, piping hot cup of tea with whatever fixings you desire. Ordinary teas of all varieties are available, along with Shroudrose’s specialty loose-leaf blends which can be purchased to enjoy at home, as well as sweets and snacks to go with your tea. You may order whatever you please at the counter to the right of the grand staircase.
Upstairs
Upstairs on the left wing is a tiny, somewhat private room if you like a more quiet and intimate space, as well as two Othardian themed tearooms for those who prefer an eastern flare. On the right wing is a small library with a modest collection of books on all manner of appropriate subjects. Feel free to enjoy a cup of tea as you study or work, or curl up in the book nook loft to lounge in peace and comfort as you enjoy a good read.
Downstairs
Downstairs in the basement is the tavern, where open bar nights boasting of free drinks are often held. The bartenders and waiters are happy to serve some alcohol or a bite to eat. At the back of the tavern is a large stage where performers sometimes put on a show, or you can keep yourself entertained with some tunes from the orchestrion or a match of Triple Triad. Though less seedy than the average alehouse, the tavern offers drinks for even those with strong tastes and small budgets.
Personal Rooms
At the back of the main tearoom between the two sets of stairs is a door leading to a hallway of Shroudrose’s personal rooms as well as our airship workshop. Some of these rooms are offices, some our employees’ private quarters, and some are open facilities. Please read over the notes upon each door, follow any instructions given, and be respectful of our employees’ spaces.
Policies
If you are interested in performing on stage, if you would like to rent any of our space for a public or private event, or if you are interested in making any sort of arrangement involving our products, please contact Shroudrose proprietress, Lady Faye Covington.
- No weapons past the entryway.
- You may be cut off from being served alcoholic beverages if you are overly intoxicated.
- You may be held accountable for any property damage.
- No illegal or inappropriate activity.
- Any guest who is being disruptive in any way may be escorted off the property, forcefully if necessary, and potentially banned either temporarily or permanently.
((OOC Notes))
If there are no player characters around to serve you, feel free to assume an NPC is staffing the teahouse or tavern.
Please be respectful of our staff and your fellow patrons!