Blue Octopus Inn

The Blue Octopus Inn sits atop the cliffs overlooking the mouth of the bay, on the southeast edge of Karem's Beach, atop a wooden stairway up the steep rocks. A wooden sign painted with a blue octopus hangs above the main door. The Blue Octopus Inn is constructed of strong timber and has five floors. The woodwork is old and stained. From its windows you can see all of Karem's Beach, the beach to the south, the bay and the sea to the east. The inn is managed by husband and wife Kachi and Semanya, who also perform most of the cooking. Sotal works as a server in the tavern. Sailors and other travelers sleep at the inn during their stops in port. Both travelers and residents frequent the inn's tavern. On the wall of the tavern is a framed hundred year old map of the Eriand Coast. Outside the inn a notice board is attached to a wooden post. The kitchen prepares fish and other seafood and a mix of other foods harvested at the time of year or imported by merchants.

The tavern on the first floor has a bar, wooden tables and chairs and booths. A staircase and banister on the east wall comes to a landing in the southeast corner and then proceeds up the south wall over the bar to the second floor. The tavern is quiet in the daytime and lively in the evening. Another staircase along the west wall ascends from the second to landings on the floors above.

Layout

First floor: the tavern, kitchen, pantry

Second floor: common room (bunks), innkeepers' bedroom

Third floor: small bedrooms named the Minstrel, the Soldier, the Ship's Captain, the Preacher, the Sailor and the Lovers.

Fourth floor: large bedrooms named the Scholar, the Merchant and the Navigator.

Fifth floor: suits including the Ambassador and the Viceroy.

Tavern Menu
 * Ale, gallon, 2 sp
 * Ale, mug, 4 cp
 * Boiled eels, 2 sp
 * Boiled fish, 3 sp
 * Bread, loaf, 3 cp
 * Broiled mackerel, 3 sp
 * Broiled yellow snapper, 2 gp
 * Clam, 1 sp
 * Coconut, fresh, 5 cp
 * Coconut juice, 3 cp
 * Crab, whole fresh, 3 sp
 * Fish stew, 2 cp
 * Fried yellow-fin flounder, 8 cp
 * Goat cheese, hunk, 1 sp
 * Octopus
 * Oyster soup, 2 sp
 * Red tuna, 6 sp
 * Roast goat meat, chunk, 3 sp
 * Roast shark, chunk, 4 sp
 * Rum, tankard, 8 cp
 * Smoked eel, 1 sp
 * Wine, common, pitcher, 2 sp
 * Wine, fine, bottle, 10 gp