Benego’s, Entertainment, Thistle Hold

Benego’s

Do you lack the funds needed to finance your next expedition? Or are you interested in expanding the meager travelling fund? Among the fortune hunters in town it is said that the chance to become rich is bigger at Benego´s than in Davokar, and that is probably true even if your success in that case depends on luck instead of on skill and good planning.

At the tables on the ground floor the stakes are quite modest, playing dice or Prios’ Sun – a strategy game based on an ancient mechanic with bricks of different values, which was developed and grew popular during the war against the Dark Lords.

On the upper floor, and especially in the private chambers, there is no limit to the bets placed. A tall tale tells of a game that really went out of control, which ended with the opponents betting their body parts during the final rounds. One of them cut off an ear and added it to the already huge fortune laying on the table; the other one called him on the ear and raised him three fingers from the left hand. And so it continued, with toes, eyes, tongues and lips until one of them decided to live large and literally placed his heart on the table. The loser left with his life and the winner’s family could live like nobles for the following six months, until the winnings were spent.

However, what angers bystanders most is what goes on in the basement below the gambling house. There anyone can bet their hard-earned thaler on death fights taking place in an iron cage. The combatants are roosters of the species Orv, according to the owner captured in the deeply corrupted parts of Davokar – they are small but very real and rampaging abominations! Ordo Magica as well as the priests of Prios regard the activity with disgust and have demanded to know exactly from where the roosters are fetched. But Thistle Hold abides to the laws of Mayor Nightpitch, and so far he has done nothing to stop the popular prize fights run by his former traveling companion, Benego.