Gasthaus neun Ferkel
Introduction
The Nine Piglets guest-house is a 17th century inn that along with several other traditional businesses surround an ancient community courtyard quaintly termed Am Krögel or the "Crag" off of Stralauer Strasse in the Alt-Berlin (Medieval Berlin). The owners are Anneliese and Justus Kruse. Their son Otmar acts as the all around caretaker of the inn, he makes repairs, runs meals up to guests and generally acts as his mother's dogsbody. Otmar's young wife, Heida provides maid service cleaning rooms, and for a small fee she also washes and repairs the guests clothes.
Anneliese Kruse
Behavior: Anneliese is the matriarch of her little family. She is a sweet old lady, just don't get on her bad side, the Gasthaus is small, but she rules it just as the Emperor used to rule Germany. Anneliese's special kingdom is the kitchen, she cooks for everyone and you can veritably taste the love she pours into the food along with the spices. Her only complaint is her back, which is getting worse with the years and that Otmar's wife Heida just isn't that interested in cooking. Young women these days are just plain lazy.
History: Seventy odd years ago, Anneliese was born in this very Gasthaus. Her parents were Polish tenant farmers fleeing the latest round of border wars. They were carrying a dark, leather bound trunk with them when they arrived in Berlin and from that day forward, they became Germans. Were the Nazis to discover that Anneliese and her family are actually descendants of Slavic laborers, they wouldn't hesitate to arrange for their "resettlement". The Kruse family legacy is dark little secret that only Anneliese and her husband remember. Of course, if the contents of the dark trunk were to fall into the wrong hands, well...nothing lasts forever.
Justus Kruse
Behavior: Justus is a good man, more than a little tired, but a hard worker and as long as his wife lives he will keep getting up and doing the days work. He prides himself on his Protestant beliefs, and never lies except when he is protecting his wife's legacy. There are only two things that trouble him about death, his fear that he might not go to the same afterlife as his beloved Anneliese and the long ago deeds of he performed as a soldier in World War I. He works the desk of Gasthaus, signing up guests and keeping the accounts; in this regard he is meticulous and rarely makes a mistake, even with his failing eyesight.
History: Justus was born almost eighty years ago in Bavaria to a farm girl mother and blacksmith father. He grew up strong working the forge and was well set up with a trade. For several years he work alongside his father, until the outbreak of W.W.I, at that point he was taken with patriotic fever and a lust for adventure. After a week at the Front, he had lost both his motivations for fighting, but realized that his only chance of escaping this hell alive was to fight hard and as long as needed. He was lucky and he made it home alive with all his limbs intact, unfortunately, his parents had both died of the Spanish Flu while he was gone and his homecoming was empty. So, after saying his goodbyes, he packed up his tools and set off for Berlin. There he set up shop in the Altstadt at an ancient forge which had been worked since the Dark Ages. There by chance he met Anneliese. He cared nothing for her Polish ancestry, and he married her without a second thought, but Germany isn't the same country it used to be and he worries for Otmar and his young wife. Justus sees dark days ahead.
Otmar Kruse
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Heida Kruse
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