Catskills:The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower
- Owner: The Children of Darkness
- Shard: Catskills
- Facet: Malas
- Coordinates: 32°20 N, 1°24 E
- Directions: The Dark Tower is located on the Malas facet, just west of the city of Umbra in the old abandoned orc fort right before you get to the Malas Mountain Pass.
- Type: Guild Headquarters of the Children of Darkness in Vamp's Lair
- Operational Status: Open to Guild Members Only
- Roleplay: Required
Description
As you first walk into the building, you find yourself in the tavern, more often than not staffed by Edwin McCormick. Be sure to say hello. Here you can take a stool and order up a fresh mug of our finest collection of worldly ales, liquors, and brews. We famously house our own private labels --- Pandora's Perfect Pinot Noir (Red Wine) and Lair's Red Mist (Red Wine Spritzer). We also are surely to stock some of the land's best known labels such as Olympus Rum and Aegis Brandy. Some of our lesser known items on the menu hail from a collection crafted by our half-breeds skilled in Mixology... but that's a secret you would never know. Many come on Thursday evenings from far and away places to enjoy their time at the Brew.
Layout
1st Floor: The Common Room
This common room is made for entertaining guests. It features a large parlor area with a guest bathroom, a dining area, and a large kitchen. In the alcove by the dining area, there is a secret trap door that leads members of the coven to the underground system known as "The Catacombs".
2nd Floor: Governor's Office & Workspace
The second floor is for guild members. The Governor's Office is adjacent to the Strategy Room (which features world map on the wall and as well as a table top map). Next to that is the soulforge followed by the workspace and storage area.
3rd Floor: The Romanus Apartment
The Governors, Pandora and Marius de Romanus, have a public apartment for their everyday living. It features a sitting area, a bathroom, a master suite, and a conjoined bedroom for their twin adopted girls. This is in addition to the private apartment they have deep within the Catacombs, a secret place underneath the city.
4th Floor: Rooftop Garden Centre
The lady of the house enjoys keeping a garden center in the rooftop of the tower.
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Neighboorhood
The Bloody Brew is located in the heart of our player-ran city, Vamp's Lair (known publicly as just The Lair), a player-ran city owned and operated by the Children of Darkness guild. It is building number 6 in our overhead diagram to the right. The other buildings surrounding the Brew, as its affectionately called, are: The City Court and Jail, The Encyclopedia Britannia, The Millennium Nightclub, The Church of the Sun, the Reprieve for Resting Souls, and the guild's headquarters, The Dark Tower. Vamp's Lair is conviniently located in the abandoned orc fort just east of the Malas Mountain Pass, a short distance from the city of Umbra.
History
The Bloody Brew Tavern was erected on July 16th, 2010 (a resurrection from the previously known tavern in Felucca that had been erected on December 20th, 1997 in the Vamp's Lair city of Felucca). We named the tavern in honor of one of our members, Pleb --- who hails from the U.K. --- and we make him say "Bloody Hell" in Ventrilo; a small price to pay (hehe). The original tavern was on the first floor of our Vamp's Lair "castle mall" in East Britain on Felucca, before Trammel ever existed, so it did not have its own name, it was just part of the castle. The Children of Darkness resettled in Sosaria (after an 8 year hiatus, playing other MMO's) on January 2010 and worked on acquiring the land to rebuild their famed city, once again. Finally the tavern could have its own building, thus would have its own name.
Days of Operation
Thursdays, 9 PM to 11 PM EST --- Open to all RP'ers of the shard serving a wide variety of imported liquors as well as Olympus Rum, Aegis Brandy, and our own private labels --- Pandora's Perfect Pinot Noir and Lair's Red Mist. Vampires can order speciality brews, mixed by our half-breeds with their talent "Mixology", that contain a variety of blood pathogens from different sources --- from dark elves to the rare AB- typed blood imported from Earth.
Staff
Edwin McCormick is the resident barkeep. He is friendly, yet quiet. A good listener. He has been with the coven for over 200 years now, having been born in the city of Devonshire, England back on Earth and made a vampire by a rogue sire that left him on his own. He is grateful to the leaders for the teachings that they have provided those that they bring into the family and is fiercely loyal to them. He maintains the bar open the other nights of the week for any would-be traveller. He employs the other staff members.
Aliana Sudhiir is the latest addition to the tavern. She is an elven vampire, made a night child over 400 years ago prior to the return of the Romanus family to the lands of Sosaria. She has an affinity for exotic wines and liquors, paying well for cases of such. As a connoisseur by profession, through the years she has accustomed her vampiric body to the drinks of mortals like the ancients of the family have as well.
Masquearade
All of our vampires, half-breeds, and lycans are under the complete facade of the masquerade (hidden from true view). No player can "sense" or otherwise absolutely know for certain that we are downworlders, unless shown to be so.