The Rusty Barnacle Inn

The Rusty Barnacle Inn

One of the Kruiersmuur’s “rougher” establishments, the Rusty Barnacle is at the very east end of the Kruiersmuur, so close to the Vloedmuur that it is practically in the Vlakland. With little passing trade, its main “guests” are mostly native Marienburgers, looking for a cheap flophouse while they are
down on their luck.

Inside the inn is dark and dingy, with most of the windows boarded up after being frequently smashed.

Sweaty Olaf

A small fireplace fills the taproom with black, oily smoke due to a blocked chimney, filling the room with a foul odour of burning peat. The floorboards are badly warped from the frequent flooding of the
Doodkanaal, making the floor uneven and treacherous. A number of private booths line the north wall, used by conmen, fortune-tellers and harlots to ply their trades.

Despite these conditions, the Inn is frequently busy, with locals drawn in due to Olaf’s policy of providing ‘decent drinks’ – typically provided cheaply by his contacts among the local smugglers.

This in is run by Sweaty Olaf, assisted by his two helpers, Dreeg and Free