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A busy, rough fantasy tavern scene with various characters including a large man in armor, a minotaur, and others.

A busy, rough fantasy tavern scene with various characters including a large man in armor, a minotaur, and others.

The tavern is smoky and rough. The floorboards are dirty, stained and look to be riddled with woodworm. None of the furniture matches and the tables and chairs look battered, dented and damaged, as though they are put to use as weapons as often as anything else. The patrons are a mongrel mix of races, halfbreeds and local toughs. Many sport scars or eyepatches and all appear to be armed. They each stare at you with undisguised contempt and hostility. There are several notable individuals who catch your eyes. The bartender is a huge, shaggy minotaur, close to 12 feet tall who snuffles and grunts angrily. At a piano in the rear of the place, a hunched figure, obscured by a cloak is staring intently at a piano with soiled keys. The keys appear to move and the piano plays itself as the figure looks at them. In the centre of the room, dining alone sits a man in a flamboyant soldiers uniform of stark white and brilliant blue. Atop his head there is an ostentatious hat with an oversized, brilliant yellow feather protruding. A handsome man in his mid forties with greying stubble sits at the bar clad in a dirty duster coat and a wide brimmed cowboy hat. A large brute of a man, nearly as wide as he is tall and clad from head to toe in rusted plate armour occupies a table to himself. He is bald on top but with a terrific grey set of whiskers and an impressive coarse moustache. He sips wine directly from the bottle with one huge, callused hand and holds the haft of a massive See more