K'rul's Bar

K'rul's Bar was an establishment in the Estates District of Darujhistan located in the former temple of the Elder God K'rul near Worry Gate.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.178 It was located opposite the D'Arle Estate, third from the summit of Old K'rul's Avenue.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 5 It was opened by three retired Bridgeburners: Picker, Blend, and Antsy. 
Krul's Bar consisted of: 
:[A] vast, low-ceilinged main taproom with a sunken floor which was once a transept or perhaps a congregation area. The narrow corridor between inset pillars along the back was once a colonnade bearing niches on which, long ago, stood funerary urns containing the charred, ashen remains of High Priests and Priestesses. The kitchen and the three storerooms behind it had once supplied sustenance to monks and the sanctioned blade-wielders, scribes and acolytes. Now they fed patrons, staff, and owners.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.445
:Up the steep, saddled, stone steps to the landing on the upper floor, from which ran passages with sharply angled ceilings, were three sides of a square with the fourth interrupted by the front façade of the building. Eight cell-like rooms fed off each of these passages, those on the back side projecting inward (supported by the pillars of the main floor colonnade) while the two to either side had their rooms against the building's outer walls (thus providing windows).
:The cells looking out on to the taproom had had the inside walls knocked out, so that eight rooms were now three rooms, constituting the offices. The interior windows were now shuttered – no glass or skin – and Picker was in the habit of throwing them wide open when she sat at her desk, giving her a clear view of the front third of the taproom, including the entranceway.
The basement was used as storage and was also the home of a half-dozen sealed casks marked by the sigil of the monks who had once lived and worshiped in the temple above.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.276 
Blend was in the habit of sitting at a small table in shadows right beside the door doing her "blending thing".Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1
==In Memories of Ice==
After the Battle of Black Coral, High Fist Dujek Onearm allowed the surviving Bridgeburners to secretly retire as had been Whiskeyjack's wish.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.991-992 It was Antsy's idea to open a bar in Darujhistan, and he, Picker, and Blend used around half of their accumulated back pay to purchase and renovate the former K'rul's Temple. Perhaps driven by the popular belief that the place was haunted, their opening day was a disaster with no locals making an appearance. Instead, the Bridgeburners, Coll, Murillio, Kruppe, and Baruk gathered to hear former Imperial Historian Duiker narrate the tale of Coltaine and the Chain of Dogs.Memories of Ice, Epilogue, US SFBC p.997-1000
== In Toll the Hounds==
Fisher kel Tath, the famous bard, took up residence at K'rul's Bar, entertaining its guests with song and working with Duiker to tell the story of the Chain of Dogs.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.446Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.274
During the Gedderone Fête, the retired Bridgeburners who congregated at the bar were marked for death by a contract Humble Measure opened with Darujhistan's Assassins' Guild. Picker, Bluepearl, and Antsy were ambushed in the streets by multiple attackers. Once they dispatched their erstwhile assassins, they rushed back to the bar where Picker organised the rest of the Bridgeburners to investigate the source of the Guild contract.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.39-41/49-51Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.99
The bar's cellar was haunted by benign ghosts of formers who sometimes showed themselves when one of the Bridgeburners made their way downstairs. While fetching a bottle of Quorl Milk, Bluepearl was approached by a ghost who mistook him for someone named Fellurkanath. Then it told him the Bridgeburners were squatters in the temple and someone wanted them out. It advised him to break open one of the monks' casks to learn more. The annoyed mage threatened to sic a necromancer on the ghost as it moaned that the living never heeded the dead.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.276-277 When the mage later returned to taste the mysterious contents of the monks' ancient casks, another ghost's head and shoulders rose up from the floor to ask him if he was Brother Cuven.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.446-447 
After failing to take individual Bridgeburners in the streets unaware, the Assassins' Guild launched a major attack on the bar itself. Fifteen assassins entered the bar's front entrance, a dozen tried to enter the back kitchen, and eleven more infiltrated the bar's upper level through a window. Mallet was killed upstairs and Bluepearl was killed in the kitchen, while Blend was sorely wounded battling assassins on the main floor. Antsy eliminated the assassins attacking the kitchen with sharpers even as they slaughtered any employees who tried to slip out the back door. Eventually, Picker and Antsy defeated the remaining assassins with the aid of the late arriving Chaur and Barathol Mekhar. Amongst the dead were bar employees Skevos, Hedry, Larmas, and little Boothal as well as several customers. A squad of the City Guard appeared when it was all over, but the street remained empty of onlookers. The locals had known to make themselves scarce during a Guild operation.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.447-456 
After the attack, the Bridgeburners discovered twelve pickled Seguleh interred in casks in the cellar, three of which were women.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.588-589
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, great forces converged on Darujhistan. The next morning, the bells in all the city's temples rang out in mourning--including the one in the belfry of K'rul's former temple. Duiker and Blend found it disturbing because the Bridgeburners had dismantled the bell and moved it to the cellar after converting the temple into a bar.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.992
== In Orb Sceptre Throne==
The Bridgeburners discovered a passage in the cellar where they ran into Tayschrenn (now known as T'renn) who had assumed the mantle of K'rul. 
== Regulars at K'rul's Bar ==
* Antsy - retired Bridgeburner and partner in the bar
* Blend - retired Bridgeburner and partner in the bar
* Boothal - kitchen worker
* Bluepearl - retired Bridgeburner 
* Duiker - former Imperial Historian
* Fisher - bard
* Hedry - serving girl
* Larmas - cook
* Mallet - retired Bridgeburner 
* Picker - retired Bridgeburner and partner in the bar
* Skevos - barkeep
* Spindle - retired Bridgeburner
==Notes and references==
Category:Darujhistan
Category:Inns