Jonathan's Place

Jonathan's Place, long known simply as the inn of Kokarca Loui, is an inn in Sınır Sapı in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"). It has waiters, hot food and drink and a common room of tables. Jonathan River and Olaf took a room there with two beds that could be pulled apart and a wooden tub, paying for a week with meals.¹²

The only open inn

By the innkeeper's account, his was the largest and oldest inn in the town, and the only house allowed to bring in supplies from outside, by agreement with the governor. A new dish of skunk meat, devised during the quarantine, was not yet known beyond the walls, since few visitors came. Being the only inn still open, it was crowded in the evenings, with tables set out in the street; it served as a meeting place for news and the town's needs as well as for lodging. There Jonathan went about offering repairs and the inspection of magic, and imperial legionaries called him to their table; they had come from various parts of the Southern Armies and had served in the town for three months.³⁴⁵⁶

The room

Returning after a long absence, Jonathan and Olaf took back their old room and paid again. Jonathan cleaned it and showed his enchanted cleaning tools its pattern, so that they would tend it every day, and sealed the door with a lock spell that only he and Olaf could pass.⁷

After an explosion in the town the two returned to the room separately and unseen. Jonathan later sawed a hollow in the floorboards, laid in it a box and a note signed V that he had found, mended the boards over it and drew the bed on top; a careful search could still find it. That morning everyone at the tables was talking of the explosion, and the innkeeper said the guards wanted to look over the inn too.⁸⁹¹⁰

One night the witch hunter Otto and his men broke Jonathan's lock spell and waited for the pair inside. Jonathan opened the floor himself to show Otto the box, then hid it again and mended the floor, and did not renew the lock. In the room the two weighed their evidence, sent out unseen watchers, and on another morning planned how to deal with the captain.^1112131415

Coming back unseen from a secret meeting, Jonathan lit a candle by night to tell dream from waking, and woke from a nightmare of red eyes. The next day he waited about three hours at the inn for word from the governor's house, until the one who came sealed his consultancy document. When the party came down wearing the house's crest, the innkeeper congratulated them, and soldiers, hunters and townsfolk took note. That night Jonathan dreamed of a calendar with the day a week ahead marked.^16171819

The new name

When Jonathan and Olaf returned at the end of the town's troubles, the people of the inn feasted them as heroes, and as Jonathan told his tale the innkeeper declared to applause that the inn would henceforth be called Jonathan's Place. The innkeeper kept the house; only its name changed. The pair bathed, ate and rested there, and at the next dawn met there before the townsfolk saw them off south.^20212223