The Giggling Grig: Now Open

[Random_White_Guy]

The Giggling Grig
A Haven for Mercenaries and Ring Runners

With the burning down of the Open Door, and the abandonment of the Spinning Groat, and the Weeping Flagon burning down, Ring Ninety Nine is in some dire straights when it comes to Taverns, Entertainment, and other more classic tropes of the D&D universe.  As fun as everyone meeting up in Oakrest for a job is for questing, EFU is so much more than questing and given how many awoken wash up on the shore, while ring runners run deep, and so much goes on around 99 - Not having a good watering hole is criminal!

The Giggling Grig is an effort to amend that using one of my favorite tropes . A PC Mercenary who after getting rich, and ample taking contracts, can't be on the job all the time... What do you do then?

Facilitate other people's business and bring some merriment.

[hide=Backstory, Optional read] Awakening in Ring Ninety Nine months back, Wilson Blake served as a henchman for hire and miscellaneous Apprentice in service of any who would teach him a bit more of what he called "Vital Skills" - A Rogue, a Wizard, and a Fighter were sought to help train him to be the ultimate swiss army knife mercenary. Bouncing around with the Houses, and the Rings, he made a fair fortune and a name for himself in both heroic and villainous circles as someone who could be hired for a job. It didn't matter if that job was escorting a quest train through the dangerous Mongrelwoods while they went into the hunt while he tended fire outside, caravaning newer awoken into the Deeper Rings, or preying on a wizard offering extra protection for a few groats more on a particularly dangerous job for a high profile client.

Months ago The Spinning Groat casino closed overnight, without word or warning.

Last night its doors opened again. Today a Guild Official was seen on the premises, and announcement made at the Council of Peers.

Business returns...[/hide]

Goals:

- To rebuild and revitalize the fact that Ring Ninety Nine has no taverns. Nowhere to socialize, nowhere to enjoy fine events, nowhere to make plans or have fun or the similar.
- To create a stable of Gladiators and Sellswords of varying sort for Ring 99 Business and Retainer's plots.
- To create a watering hole for Ring Runners eager to get out of Ring Ninety Nine and those seeking to hire companions for Ring Running Crews.
- To Host various events, of various sorts,  but more importantly while employing and engaging with as many PCs as possible to help other PCs who want to host events.  Want to host gambling? Want to do story telling? Want to do Boxing? Want to kidnap Serfs to hunt for sport

Interested parties more than welcome to hit me up on Discord.

[Random_White_Guy]

The vintage RwG suggestion thread, if anyone's looking for a potential concept that could fit!

-  A plucky young gladiator who doesn't know when to quit, moonlighting as security and falling into the dangerous world of drugs, violence, and black market mercenary work.

- An Alchemist who wants to test his Poisons by hosting high stakes, borderline illegal, Deadly Poison Chugging contests.

- Mercenary and Security personnel to help train gladiators, keep the peace in the Casino, and additional work as it comes along.

- Wait Staff be it a Waitress from the outer rings that just moved to the Big City or a plucky Janitor who's secretly a Harper Scout-stylized master spy reporting to good guys all the seedy dealings of the Peerage

- A Card Shark with an interest in hosting fanciful card games for the discerning gentlemen of the Peerage to bring Royal Dragon back into action

- A squatter who repeatedly is thrown from the establishment, each time trying to find his way back in to hide in different little spots to curl up and take a nap since it's the only place in all the Rings from 99 to 50 he can "Just get comfortable"

- A Redjack on the Take, keeping the peace but only within the boundaries of the Casino as he drinks, whores, and mercenary works

- A destitute and miserable Nobleman who lost all his fortunes , his land, even his wife and children to a crippling gambling addiction seeking just one more thrill, betting on anything and everything even if it's just two small children beating each other to death.

- A Slaver Perk Fighter who catches Morghoul and other oddities from around the Rings to come fight in the Pit

- A Priest who wishes to purge the Peerage of Sin, but also serves as a moonlighting Bartender and Therapist for the down and out, world weary, and newly awoken who are lost and confused in this city who just need a bit of help to get on their feet.

- A Priest who wishes to flood the Peerage with Sin, but also serves as a moonlighting Bartender and Mastermind for the down and out, world weary, and newy awoken who are lost and confused in this city and just need to be exploited.

(PCs who played both as an arguing duo would be hours of entertainment, trying to play Angel and Devil on patrons shoulders)

- A Librarian who has taken to loving the eerie, unnerving silence of the Casino to begin writing  the Great Ringian Novella, shifting the worldview of the average awoken in hopes of bettering the life of those who visit the Rings by force.

- A Bard who actually holds performances, plays music, or tells stories.

- A troupe of Actors who re-create the best Duels of COR using disguises made of other Houses and sell to the highest bidder to alter History, so the Newly Awoken have no idea who really did win the Battle of the Bastards on the Bridge and other historic moments.

- A Dwarven Kegmaster who is in the pursuit of creating THE PERFECT PINT, spending as much time as he can talking to locals about their satisfaction with the current

- Someone who is really, really way too much into Mrs. Thompson and just sits at the Arena watching... always watching........
.... always.

- Gespin but as a PC< someone who just really fucking loves the Card System and wants to make a public "Record" of which Retainers and Gladiators currently have decks, whose getting close to having the full deck, and just really obsessing over them like Pokemon Cards

- Drug Dealers Plz

- A Cutlist of Cleanliness who battles the presence of Squatters,  Bert of Pitter Pete, and any others who may be tracking mud into the Casino

- A Ring Runner who dreams of reaching Ring One but as he's broke, takes a moonlighting job working to help Manage the casino in my PC's absence as a trusty Lieutenant.

- A flirty waitress who will listen to all the boys stories for one more haste potion.

- A Male Stripper who's here to replace Dandelion

- Smugglers, Jugglers, and more!

- A Fey Obsessed PC who is here to capture and find proof of the Giggling Grig or meet a Fey Prince

Just a few ideas to get the juices flowing.