It is Friday, not much going on for once but I saw a poster recently for a "Tavern night" hosted by The Hamlet in Stormsong Valley. Turns out it is a regular (almost) weekly thing. Stormsong means honey and honey means sweet mead and cider. I decided to stop by.
The Hamlet, is an organisation based in aforementioned Stormsong Valley and has been making a splash around Azeroth lately with their stalls at the various markets and festivals. They took part in the Roaring Days music festival (a Roaring success by the way, pun intended) and they also had a stall at this month’s Stormwind Market.
Anyway, the Tavern Night. It is hosted in the quaint little tavern in a hamlet on an island in the western parts of Stormsong Valley. I got myself a nice mug of cider as I talked to the staff and the guests of the tavern - and somehow, I suddenly found myself partaking in a game of "Stabby Boardy" - "a what now?" - I hear you say, and that is also exactly what I asked when I was told about it.
"Stabby Boardy" is a game where one throws knives (stabbies) at a board on the wall (boardy) - Stabby Boardy. Initially one of the locals, a bard whos accent was more Old Town district Stormwind than it was Stormsong, Kul Tiras - showed me how it was done, and then it was my turn. I threw my three knives, and surprisingly enough, all my "stabbies" hit the "boardy". Just as I retrieved them from the board the next person joined in the game. A four-meter tall Vrykul, heck she might have been fiver meters tall. Almost twice as tall as me, and as anyone who has met me can attest to, then I am not a small person. I guess I now know how a gnome feels talking to me.
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Anyway, the Vrykul admitted she prefer throwing axes or spears and I admitted I had enough with one try. Knives - and other weapons - are not really my style. The pen is mightier than the sword and all that.
I never quite figured out if there was a larger scheme to things besides throwing knives at the board and reading the score. I half expected it to be about reaching a certain number of points, or doing a certain number of rounds, but it seems more like people just threw knives and stopped. Maybe I just got unlucky with the timing.
There was music during the whole evening, and the drinks were nice. It was not overly crowded and as the evening went on the number of guests did decline. Of course, this is based on just one visit, and a visit in a week which has been busy and might have left people in a state where staying home with a book on a Friday was more tempting.
If you are looking for a job, then I have been told that The Hamlet is looking to hire artisans, traders and more, and if you are finding yourself bored without anything to do on a Friday, then why not stop by and check out The Hamlet's Tavern Nights yourself?