Inn at Jenkins
The Inn at Jenkins
Things seemed so much bigger then.
The Inn at Jenkins is the Hamlet center of the Hamlet of Jenkins and in many ways serves as the central civic center for the Village of Vale and it's residents.
By far the biggest building in the village it serves many purposes.
It has a common room with nearly 20 tables seating 6 to 8. This is enough seating for nearly a 5th of the village alone. There are several fireplaces scattered about and one main hearth with a raised are behind it with 3 large tables able to seat 20 each. This area is the Elders Hall.
There is a long side hall that is used for storage and travelling merchants areas. It also has a rack of wood buts at one end where archery and thrown weapon contests are held, or what can most kindly be called "break out". While one side of this hall is open to the general common room through arches and windows, the other wall, called "the long wall" is extremely solid and is wood covered inside and thick supporting stone outside. The long wall looks a bit out of place and might once have been a castle wall. Inside the wooden wall it covered with relics of past wars as well as quivers of arrows and hunting equipment of various antiquity.
Another nook of the common room is the Hobble. It was a stone wall that is the back of the cooking hearth in the kitchen. This cozy nook has 2 tables and 8 crude bench chairs with pillows and blankets. In many ways this overly warm area is the retirement area for elderly and the infirm. This are is out of the general movement of the hall and is often quiet. A loose curtain can be pulled across the entrance.
The second story of the Inn has a dozen various shaped rooms for travelers and 6 2-room apartments that have permanent residents.
