Stonehill Inn The Valelands & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Valelands campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

The Stonehill Inn is a quaint inn in the settlement of Phandalin. Outside the inn, hanging over the entrance, is a square wooden sign that shows a buxom and smiling girl holding a flagon of beer. The Stonehill Inn, is a place renowned for its good food and excellent drink! Passing merchants make a point of stopping, as do many other sorts of wayfarers, and it is said that the place is always filled with patrons.

The Stonehill Inn is owned by Toblen Stonehill, who operates it alongside his wife Trilena Stonehill and with help from his son Pip Stonehill. He is polite and smiles often to customers, but one can tell he does not tolerate visitors who do not respect the taverns rules. He is friendly enough "for the most part" and is always welcoming to those entering his establishment.

Toblen came from the east seeking opportunity in prospecting like many others. He soon found that he knew more about running an inn than mining, and so he established the inn.

The Stonehill Inn is a nondescript everyday Inn one might find in any mid-sized town or village within Nentir Vale - actually it is rather large for the small settlement of Phandalin. The main floor in the inn consists mostly of open area filled with small round tables with chairs and a half circle bar located along the left side on the main floor as you enter the establishment. Bar stools have been placed at the bar itself. The inn is clean and very well maintained, you can tell Toblen takes great pride in his business. During most times during business hours, you will see several young females waiting tables with Toblen and his wife either behind the bar or out amongst the customers making small talk.

Prices at the Stonehill Inn are a little higher than usual because it is the only inn for many miles but the meals that are prepared here make up for the slightly increased prices. Choice venison, mutton, poached salmon, trout stuffed with specially prepared mixtures, goose roasted to a golden brown, pork, steaming sausages, steak and kidney pie with mushrooms or truffles, squab stuffed pheasant and boiled crayfish in drawn butter are just a few of the delights which are served here.

The villagers of Phandalin, from miners to farmers, enjoyed relaxing in the common room, which became a good place to hear local gossip and stories. The inn is kept neat and clean, and is a generally pleasant place to visit. The inn provides six rentable rooms on the upper floor, plus alcoholic beverages and food. A bed is five silver pieces a night, and prices are fairly standard for food, ale, and cider, with meals coming to various low prices. The bar is usually manned during business hours by someone.

The Stonehills arrived in Phandalin from the west early in the construction of the town, and founded the inn around 100AE. With the Redbrands current reign of terror throughout Phandalin during present time of 103AE, the bandits do not frequent the inn, preferring to drink at the Sleeping Giant a few buildings to the east.

Business continues more-or-less as usual during the these times. The inn playes host to important visitors during this time, such as Don-Jon Raskin, the man who was in charge of reopening the Mountain's Toe gold mines. The inn's common room also became a favorite haunt for Argus Skeel, a vampire spawn in service to the necromancer Ularan Mortus in the past. For larger meetings that take place at this inn, the inn has a room in the back with a large table and many chairs placed around it to hold Council meetings and such.

As of now, the inn remaines prosperous and largely unchanged. However, at a point approximatelya year ago, Toblen was forced to secure a loan to help keep the establishment running but things have sense turned around for the inn and Toblen. The Stonehills are very unhappy with how the townsmater is running the settlement and how he has not done anything about the Redbrands seemingly running Phandalin. Toblen feels like it is only a matter of time before the Rebrands simply take over and he is forced to close his business.

Meals are served on pottery or pewter or copper services according to the customers order. Various leather jacks, pottery mugs, wooden tankards, pewter steins, glass flagons, crystal goblets, or silver chalices are used for the beverages.

The locally brewed ale and beer is supplemented by brews from other places, and wine, mead and brandy from all over the realms make their way to the boards of the Stonehill Inn.

(All full meals served with bread and honey, potatoes, and string beans, yams, rum-boiled artichokes, potatoes, and string beans, yams, rum-boiled artichokes, cabbage, carrots, or spinach)

BREAKFAST MEALS
Peppered Bread: 12cp
Fried Potato Wedge: 8cp
Goose Eggs: 1sp
Oatmeal: 8cp
Chicken Eggs: 1sp
Fruit and Cheese: 10cp
Pork Sausages: 1sp

AFTERNOON MEALS
Game Pie: 2sp
Boar Steak: 2sp
Venison Stew: 3sp
Beef Stew: 3sp
Parsnip, Mutton & Nettles Soup: 1sp
Beef Stew: 1sp
Beef Steak (with all the trimmings): 2sp
Poached Salmon: 1sp
Spiced Sausages: 1sp
Stuffed Pork Chops: 2sp
Stuffed Black Trout: 1sp
Steak and Kidney Pie: 3sp
Stuffed Pheasant: 2sp
Roast Duck with Apples: 2sp
Roast Goose: 2sp
Cheese rolls with a Filling of Nuts, Honey and Vegetables: 6cp
Smoked Salmon Salad: 12cp
Apple Stuffed Mushrooms: 5cp
Roast Beef with Cranberry Sauce: 1sp

DESERTS
Cloudberry Pie: 1sp
Old Granny's Cinnamon Apple Pie: 1sp

BEVERAGES
Pear Cider: 2sp
Apple Lemonade: 5cp Goat Milk: 2cp
Cloudberry Cider: 2sp
Whiskey: 12cp
Wild Strawberry Black Tea: 2cp
Apple Lemonade Juice: 5cp
Ale: 8cp

TRAVEL RATIONS
Dried & Smoked Meat, Goat Cheese, Dried Berries, Oats and Honey (wrapped in waxed paper): 5sp

The upper rooms are very clean, and all of the rooms are heated. Each room has a fine bed, many covers & blankets, a wash stand, chamber pot, towel, pegs for garments, and several chairs and stools.

ROOM NIGHTLY PRICES
Guest Room 6sp