Located at the edge of the Jardin, the Chateau provides a number of services for those who have either the coin or the noble lineage to warrant it. Established a good fifty years ago, this watermill-turned-hostel attracts a particular sort of visitor. Those who want to explore the nature of mankind, the effects of mind-expanding experiences or just hear the latest underground poetry slam go down... they all drift here.
It's a pretty small operation, and No-Name earns a bit of extra cash and information by allowing those from the Patrician class to come and do their milling at the Chateau. The Ostari take advantage of that permission to form ties with the Galetto that reside in the Chateau, sometimes even managing to get a direct link to one of the promising noble youths that is down on his luck.
Innkeeper:
No-Name, the current owner, is a habitual user of hallucogenic products and propagates their use among the affluent Galetto that frequent his establishment, though he tends to be high on his own supply whenever things are slow enough.
Staff:
Albrecht Sombri, a human youth of some twenty summers, is the current leader of the informal housekeeping staff. Together with Severin L'Equichant and Sebastien Du Treve, he created a fellowship known as the ASS-boys, always ready to assist those in need with whatever worldly troubles come to the fore.
Ironically, the young man has a lot more discipline than any of his companions, so he frequently tries to get folks to forget the group's nickname (while Sebastien keeps shouting "Leave it to the ASS-boys!" or "If there is a problem, just ASSk!") while running the kitchen or providing new linnen to the guests.
Severin L'Equichant is one of the rare members of that family that absolutely hates horses. He was bitten, kicked, unhorsed and (he is pretty certain) shat on by them for ages, so when life provided him the Temps du Galetto, he basically made a break for it and linked up with the distinctly unhorselike Albrecht. The Chateau Blanc has given him a lot of time to develop his skills in not-horse-riding, for which he is very grateful.
Sebastien Du Treve could be considered a chip of the old block. Sturdy, muscular and reliable, his biggest downside is a simple mind in a loud body. Consistently ready with catch-phrases indicating the gluteus maximus, he is the sole reason the concept of 'ASS-boys' stuck. He is beloved by all the guests but sometimes he wonders if there could be more to life. Such as meat. There should be more meat in the ASS-boys, he feels.
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