Salt Lick Pt 1
Salt Lick Repost of the information from The Redtide Coast thread
Salt Lick is a small fishing village near the northern end of the Redtide Coast. It is home to about 80 souls. Primarily human, about 20 of its residents belong to other races.
The town charter allows it to hunt whales for a month in early autumn. On average, the town will capture two to three whales, which they rely on for winter stores. They make a small profit off scrimshaw from the bones. Their craftsmen are good but not great.
Their main fame is Gomb, a spicy fish stew which, despite the name, is delicious. The spice blend for Gomb is secret of the town’s only Inn, Grat’s Packets. That’s the name. You’d have to ask a local as to where it came from.
Orus Coombs, a distant relative of the Grunnels, serves as the town administrator. He is mostly concerned with collecting the taxes and trying to grow the scrimshaw trade.
Norvis Potts is the town marshal and only full time member of the town guard. There are a few men who are sworn in and will step in during emergencies, but by and large Norvis is the one patrolling and keeping an eye on things. During the spring, summer, and fall he will employ a mercenary or two. Summer and early fall during the whaling season are when bandits or gnoll raids are common. The last major raid was forty years ago. Usually it’s just a small band that attacks outlaying farms. Most of the farmers handle the matters themselves.
The Widow Parkins is the town aristocrat. Her husband was a trader who did well in Coinhaven and retired back in his hometown of Salt Lick. When he passed, the Widow remained, too entrenched in the community to return to society in Coinhaven. She is a shrewd business woman and loans money to fishermen in order to purchase new boats or equipment. At present, she has liens on about twenty percent of the fishing boats in Salt Lick. Orus Coombs is a bit concerned about the situation, but not enough to do anything.
Lori Grats is the owner of Grat’s Packets. She and her husband Bridges Whittaker run the Inn with their four daughters and son. Lori and her eldest daughter are the only ones who know the spice blend recipe for Gombs. The family has a small side business trading packets of the spice blend to Coinhaven. Chefs there have tried to figure out the blend but to date no one has quite been able to get it down exactly. There’s always something missing.
Nysene Pebblebrook is the local druid.
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