Tits & Slither

**Tits & Slither** is an inn owned by Lacey Stain in Axis, Plostri. Silk Greengallow is also a shareholder in the business.

## History

Based on intel from Cordelia Smudge, the ICA agents tasked with finding Bingham's bomb decided to lay low and go off the grid, relocating to a floating castle in Daimeremos that became their new stronghold. Lacey Stain and Silk Greengallow, however, chose to base themselves in Axis, where they could better keep an eye on the ICA.

Lacey rented the tavern situated above Silk's sewer grove and converted it into an inn called Tits & Slither. Silk became a shareholder in the business by paying a quarter of the establishment cost, earning a quarter of all subsequent profit whilst maintaining the sewage pathways beneath the building. Lacey managed the pub's finances and advertising, with her new ally Caithera and old ally Étienne becoming the bar manager and a bartender, respectively.

After hiring four other staff members, two others would end up working at the bar; Niaro, a weather witch who had met Lacey in Broadford, and Barf, a flesh golem Lacey had liberated from the fey slave trade in Axis. Both would take up residence at the tavern in lieu of payment, though Niaro eventually moved out and was added to the payroll. During this time, Lacey conducted renovations that expanded the tavern's outdoor seating and lodgings.

## Features

### Downstairs

The tavern is made up of a large downstairs area that comprises the bar floor, with the kitchen situated at the back behind the bar. There is an outdoor seating area accessible through a back door near the bar, next to the toilets, and limited outdoor seating in front of the main entrance. The bins are located round the back, away from the outdoor seating, with a door through the kitchen leading to them. The kitchen houses a cooler with meat hooks for storing meat and countertops and appliances for the preparation of the bar's limited menu.

The basement is accessed through a door in the kitchen and contains a furnace, barrels and crates for storage and a manhole in the floor that serves as a direct passage to the Grove of Whispers. Pumps divert noxious gasses away from the manhole and out of the basement. There is a small office at the back of the tavern on the opposite side of the bar to the toilets with a window that Lacey sometimes uses to come and go discretely. On the same side of the room is the single staircase leading to the guest rooms.

There was a cairn comprised of several stones behind the back of the bar near the bins that had been there since before Lacey acquired the tavern. Unbeknownst to anyone, the cairn was housing a dormant topi, which was accidentally freed by Niaro when she knocked over the cairn's stones and almost succeeded in killing her. Who created the monstrous topi and why it was buried on the tavern's grounds is unknown.

### Upstairs

The tavern has eleven (formerly ten) small rooms upstairs for guests. All rooms are equipped with bedding, mirrors and basic storage. Since the renovations, a new room was added and several of the rooms were expanded or given their own en suites. Barf takes up permanent residence in one of the rooms and Lacey often makes use of the largest available when not sleeping in the office. A small communal washroom was added to the upstairs facilities by converting a closet during the renovations.

## Staff

 Peg
 Bury
 Phaul
 Fill
 Barf | Bar Staff (Unpaid)

## Products

All drinks served at Tits & Slither are known to have a high alcohol content, which serves to fan the flames of gossip around the bar. The bar staff's talent for eavesdropping means much information is gathered at the Tits & Slither inn.

The *Snake & Tit* is the signature cocktail, which has a minute amount of asp venom in it, in addition to the *Cock-Tail* (served in a phallic chalice courtesy of Happy Chappy Inc. with curly straws resembling pigs' tails). Tits & Slither also stock and serve *Daddy Juice*, a liquor brewed by Freth and *Bean Juice* - a favourite of Silk's.

Tits and Slither also supply bar stock to the wine cellar of the castle at Summer Citadel.

## Trivia

* The name 'Tits & Slither' comes from a snake-charming duo act Silk and Lacey once conceived to busk for money.
* Stain and Greengallow's affiliation with the tavern remains secret.
	+ Since the Summer Knights' publicity following the defeat of Monarch, Lacey has used the alias Isabella Crumpet for all her businesses.
* Lacey employs a 'mates' rates' system at the bar in which friends are charged an extra gratuity. She sees this is a charitable contribution of their friendship and does not seem to understand why it vexes many of her companions.