Crooked Crane Inn

Crooked Crane Inn(City Gates)
Requirements
Chapter	2
Services and goods
Primary functions	Tavern
Other	Inn
Drinks	Bitter Black Ale Iriaeboran Ale Luiren's Best Ale Mead Tanagyr's Ale
Rooms	Peasant
Inhabitants
People	Aulava Groncaner (owner) Gwera Lord Ketlaar Argrim (mage stronghold quest) Maunu Rilmi Tiiro
Layout
Floors	2
Other	Secret Room
Transitions
In area of	City Gates
Exit to	Street
Other information
Area code	AR0021 - First floor AR0022 - Second floor

The Crooked Crane Inn is an inn in the Athkatla City Gates district during the Shadows of Amn campaign. This Inn offers a 'bare minimal" services selection, with reduced prices and no-frills attitude. Cheap and cheerful.

The only rooms in the inn you can sleep in are stables, so you can only rent a peasant accommodations room.

Try the various beverages offered by the Inn. Generally, the more expensive the quality of drink, the greater chance of an interesting rumor or two being heard. Too many drinks in one session can lead to being Intoxicated status. If you overindulge, you may sleep it off, of course. Although unconfirmed, it is said that twenty pints of Luiren's Best Ale will fortify your mind against all fear effects emanating from the horrors of the Undead.

Try your luck at the gambling games if you have the mod discussed below installed.

The first time you enter, you will overhear a patron talking about lovers on the second floor. If you go to the second floor you can either ignore Tiiro and Aulava, tell them to follow their family's wishes and break up or you can tell them they should follow their own hearts. Beware, if you encourage Tiiro's and Aulava's relationship, you are going to lose one reputation point when you visit the inn in the future - Rilmi will tell you that the couple has gone crazy and started setting buildings on fire.

Characters

First floor

• Groncaner
• Gwera
• Maunu
• Rilmi

Second floor

• Aulava
• Tiiro
• Lord Ketlaar Argrim (during Mage Stronghold quest)

Secret door

A secret door/wall panel leading to a hidden chamber from the old Athkatla historic years can be entered by one or more party members. A surprising encounter will take place.

Related quests

• Mage Stronghold

Mod content

This section is about unofficial content that is only available via fan-made mods.

Mods

Installation of the Tower of Deception mod begins in the Inn on the first-floor bar area. Speak with a green garbed Mage to initiate the quest.

Installation of the Unfinished Business (Baldur's Gate II) mod - "Crooked Crane Restorations" will add two restored NPCs who run gambling games to the Crooked Crane Inn, as well as cause a follow-up to the Aulava and Tiiro minor encounter. The gambling games are accessed by speaking with "Andrew of the Dice" and "Carmine of the Wheel". These two characters are included in the game files, but were removed from gameplay upon release, for unknown reasons.

Note: Trivia, in that Andrew of the Dice refers to the comedian "Andrew Dice Clay", and the PPE mod portrait is also a rendition of the entertainer circa 2000.

Installation of the Unfinished Business (Baldur's Gate II) mod and the Kalah & What He Was Promised component takes place on the second floor of the Inn.

Installation of Loron's Return (Ajoc's minimod restored) will utilize the Inn for some of the quest content, including a required contact meeting.

Gallery

Groncaner, Crooked Crane Innkeeper - "How's my new friend there? Smile and stay a day or two. You got a coin, you'll always be welcome."

Rilmi, bar patron - Making an announcement "They're breaking up! Tell your neighbors! Aulava and Tiiro! It finally happened!"

Gwera, bar wench - "If you need an ale or whatnot, you'll have to get it from Groncaner at the bar. Our patrons serve themselves."

Maunu, sullen farmer - "Thish is one sorry excush for a bar, I tell you. Cut a man off after five or six, just because he's out o' coin."

Tiiro, young love of Aulava

Aulava, young love of Tiiro

Carmine of the Wheel says, "Step up, step up, and test your luck upon the wheel. A simple game with simple goals!"

Andrew of the Dice says, "'Ey, step up. Don't be afraid of the table, my friends. Roll your luck and see what comes."

Lord Ketlaar Argrim, on the second floor, as part of the Mage Stronghold questline

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