Jörðgarð Map of Week #151 - High Hammer Tavern

MarkOliva

With the 151st Map of the Week we take a look at the High Hammer Tavern in the Slovanian village of Grainmill.

The High Hammer is another relic from the Æsir era, one that houses a strange deific artifact that probably also is the most worthless artifact

upon the jörð. However, that already is a bit more than the Slovanians know about it. When Aleksandra's followers first explored the ruins of

Æsir Nýrheim, they found a pile of rubble from a caved-in roof and mostly collapsed, fully rotted wooden walls where the old Æsir tavern known

as the Giant's Skull stood. When they cleared rthe rubble, they found that the ground floor of granite brick and the storage cellar beneath it

were fully intact. The also found the artifact created by great deities of the Æsir.

A five-sided pedestal 9 feet/270 cm wide and hewn of stone stood in the middle of the now barren floor, emitting a rose-colored glow on all

sides but the top. Upon it stood a gigantic anvil 5 feet/150 cm long, and in the anvil someone or something had embedded a warhammer. It

appeared that the hammer simply had been driven into the anvil with a mighty blow. The hammer emitted a pale lilac-colored glow that covered

the top of the pedestal. What worried the Slovanians, however, was the fact that the hammer perfectly fit the description of the warhammer

Mjölnir (The Smasher) that the Auðar dwarven brothers Sindri and Brokkr forged for the warrior deity Thór (þórr). There even were dwarven runes

inscribed in the head of the hammer:
 
Key to the Floor Plan of the High Hammer Tavern

1. Main Entrance.

2. Public Room.

3. Pedestal, Anvil and Hammer.

4. Tap.

5. Pavlína's Kitchen.

6. Trapdoor to the storage cellar (not mapped).

7. Stairway to Pavlína's 2nd Story Apartment (not mapped).

8. Rear Door. Leads to the outhouse.

9. Dartboard Area. The red lines are painted on the floor.

The graphic above is reduced in size. You can get the full-sized floor plans in two versions:

1. The Fractal Mapper (TM) 8 version in FMP format, fully editable (6 MB) from the Jörðgarð website.

2. As a JPG flat map of 950 Pixels x 1360 Pixels, (560 KB), available from the NBOS website at:

http://www.nbos.com/nox/download.php?id=582

Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Joerðgarð website

at:

http://www.vintyri.org/joerdhgardh/

Next Week: Grainmill - River Bend Tavern