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	==External Links==		==External Links==
	~~The Wizard's Web Enhancement~~: http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/files/World_Serpent.pdf		[https://web.archive.org/web/20161101205846/http://archive.wizards.com/dnd/files/World_Serpent.pdf Manual of the Planes Web Enhancement; World Serpent Inn]

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	==The Inn Proper==		==The Inn Proper==
	The World Serpent Inn can be divided into two segments; the Common Room and the Backrooms (no, not those [[~~/x/~~\|Backrooms]]). Whilst the Backrooms are particularly unstable, even the Common Room experiences fluctations of reality, which explains the discrepancy between the web enhancement and Dragon descriptions of it. This article will focus on the Dragon version, because it's more fantastical and you can read the web enhancement's version for yourself.		The World Serpent Inn can be divided into two segments; the Common Room and the Backrooms (no, not those [[The Backrooms\|Backrooms]]). Whilst the Backrooms are particularly unstable, even the Common Room experiences fluctations of reality, which explains the discrepancy between the web enhancement and Dragon descriptions of it. This article will focus on the Dragon version, because it's more fantastical and you can read the web enhancement's version for yourself.

	One enters the World Serpent Inn through a set of massive double doors, leading past a pair of coatrooms into a chamber that resembles an ancient tavern's common room, with plank floors underfoot and venerable wooden beams overhead. The common room is illuminated by both scattered fluted pillars that possess their own inherent glow, and a large shaft of light in its center over the bar proper. This bar, obviously, dominates the common room, and itself centers around a massive pillar lined with shelves, which are stacked with the most exotic beverages one can imagine - and more than a few that one can't. Behind the bar, a concealed door in the floor leads to the Inn's booze cellar, which some have suggested may actually pilfer from one or more bacchanalian gods. An eerie, sweet-smelling blue mist - like a non-toxic smoke - fills the air of the common room and obscures vision, making it impossible to see the entirety of the room at one time and ensuring a nice, obscuring haziness fills the place. This is believed to help keep things... "hospitable" amongst the diverse clientele or inexperienced visitors. The bar is surrounded by tables and chairs of all shapes and sizes, whilst booths and long tables line the walls. To serve as a place to help resolve disputes, the common room also features a massive (10ft wide, 30ft long, 20ft deep) brawling pit, ringed by a low wall so patrons can rest their drinks whilst they watch people kick the tar out of each other.		One enters the World Serpent Inn through a set of massive double doors, leading past a pair of coatrooms into a chamber that resembles an ancient tavern's common room, with plank floors underfoot and venerable wooden beams overhead. The common room is illuminated by both scattered fluted pillars that possess their own inherent glow, and a large shaft of light in its center over the bar proper. This bar, obviously, dominates the common room, and itself centers around a massive pillar lined with shelves, which are stacked with the most exotic beverages one can imagine - and more than a few that one can't. Behind the bar, a concealed door in the floor leads to the Inn's booze cellar, which some have suggested may actually pilfer from one or more bacchanalian gods. An eerie, sweet-smelling blue mist - like a non-toxic smoke - fills the air of the common room and obscures vision, making it impossible to see the entirety of the room at one time and ensuring a nice, obscuring haziness fills the place. This is believed to help keep things... "hospitable" amongst the diverse clientele or inexperienced visitors. The bar is surrounded by tables and chairs of all shapes and sizes, whilst booths and long tables line the walls. To serve as a place to help resolve disputes, the common room also features a massive (10ft wide, 30ft long, 20ft deep) brawling pit, ringed by a low wall so patrons can rest their drinks whilst they watch people kick the tar out of each other.

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	==The Inn Proper==		==The Inn Proper==
	The World Serpent Inn can be divided into two segments; the Common Room and the Backrooms. Whilst the Backrooms are particularly unstable, even the Common Room experiences fluctations of reality, which explains the discrepancy between the web enhancement and Dragon descriptions of it. This article will focus on the Dragon version, because it's more fantastical and you can read the web enhancement's version for yourself.		The World Serpent Inn can be divided into two segments; the Common Room and the Backrooms (no, not those [[/x/\|Backrooms]]). Whilst the Backrooms are particularly unstable, even the Common Room experiences fluctations of reality, which explains the discrepancy between the web enhancement and Dragon descriptions of it. This article will focus on the Dragon version, because it's more fantastical and you can read the web enhancement's version for yourself.

	One enters the World Serpent Inn through a set of massive double doors, leading past a pair of coatrooms into a chamber that resembles an ancient tavern's common room, with plank floors underfoot and venerable wooden beams overhead. The common room is illuminated by both scattered fluted pillars that possess their own inherent glow, and a large shaft of light in its center over the bar proper. This bar, obviously, dominates the common room, and itself centers around a massive pillar lined with shelves, which are stacked with the most exotic beverages one can imagine - and more than a few that one can't. Behind the bar, a concealed door in the floor leads to the Inn's booze cellar, which some have suggested may actually pilfer from one or more bacchanalian gods. An eerie, sweet-smelling blue mist - like a non-toxic smoke - fills the air of the common room and obscures vision, making it impossible to see the entirety of the room at one time and ensuring a nice, obscuring haziness fills the place. This is believed to help keep things... "hospitable" amongst the diverse clientele or inexperienced visitors. The bar is surrounded by tables and chairs of all shapes and sizes, whilst booths and long tables line the walls. To serve as a place to help resolve disputes, the common room also features a massive (10ft wide, 30ft long, 20ft deep) brawling pit, ringed by a low wall so patrons can rest their drinks whilst they watch people kick the tar out of each other.		One enters the World Serpent Inn through a set of massive double doors, leading past a pair of coatrooms into a chamber that resembles an ancient tavern's common room, with plank floors underfoot and venerable wooden beams overhead. The common room is illuminated by both scattered fluted pillars that possess their own inherent glow, and a large shaft of light in its center over the bar proper. This bar, obviously, dominates the common room, and itself centers around a massive pillar lined with shelves, which are stacked with the most exotic beverages one can imagine - and more than a few that one can't. Behind the bar, a concealed door in the floor leads to the Inn's booze cellar, which some have suggested may actually pilfer from one or more bacchanalian gods. An eerie, sweet-smelling blue mist - like a non-toxic smoke - fills the air of the common room and obscures vision, making it impossible to see the entirety of the room at one time and ensuring a nice, obscuring haziness fills the place. This is believed to help keep things... "hospitable" amongst the diverse clientele or inexperienced visitors. The bar is surrounded by tables and chairs of all shapes and sizes, whilst booths and long tables line the walls. To serve as a place to help resolve disputes, the common room also features a massive (10ft wide, 30ft long, 20ft deep) brawling pit, ringed by a low wall so patrons can rest their drinks whilst they watch people kick the tar out of each other.

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	The '''World Serpent Inn''' is an extradimensional locale in the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] multiverse. Formally classified as a transitive demiplane, it takes the form of a massive tavern's common room (hence the name) - but the backrooms are an ever-shifting array of potential chambers, up to and including portals to worlds and planes throughout the multiverse. Meanwhile, the common room's door regularly and randomly cycles through multiple locations across the multiverse. As a result, the Inn is popular with an incredibly diverse array of clientele from across the planes; all species are welcome here, so long as they respect the Inn's rules, and many residents have in fact been stranded here either by the shifting of the doors or troubles on their homeworld. Not for nothing was it described in its web enhancement as "a gathering place for dead races, unborn gods, forgotten heroes, restless ghosts, and the engineers of worlds as yet uncreated".		The '''World Serpent Inn''' is an extradimensional locale in the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] multiverse. Formally classified as a transitive demiplane, it takes the form of a massive [[tavern]]'s common room (hence the name) - but the backrooms are an ever-shifting array of potential chambers, up to and including portals to worlds and planes throughout the multiverse. Meanwhile, the common room's door regularly and randomly cycles through multiple locations across the multiverse. As a result, the Inn is popular with an incredibly diverse array of clientele from across the planes; all species are welcome here, so long as they respect the Inn's rules, and many residents have in fact been stranded here either by the shifting of the doors or troubles on their homeworld. Not for nothing was it described in its web enhancement as "a gathering place for dead races, unborn gods, forgotten heroes, restless ghosts, and the engineers of worlds as yet uncreated".

	The World Serpent Inn first appeared in the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] adventure module "OP1 - Tales of the Outer Planes", where it was used as an overarching method to get players from their presumed position on the [[Prime Material]] out into the greater multiverse - in this, it can be considered a prototype for [[Sigil]], although the World Serpent Inn is far more hospitable (In ''Volo's Guide to Cormyr'', [[Elminster]] notes that the Inn "allow[s] dimensional travelers to avoid those violence-loving idiots of Sigil"). OP1 established only the barest essentials about the Inn; it wouldn't be until 3rd edition that a greater amount of detail would be provided, in comparison to namedropping. The first surge of details was as a web enhancement on the WoTC website connecting to the 3e [[Manual of the Planes]]; fittingly enough, it would subsequently appear in [[Dragon Magazine]] #351, which not only provided more "fluffy" content on the Inn, but also used it as a medium to justify its articles on various classic D&D settings.		The World Serpent Inn first appeared in the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] adventure module "OP1 - Tales of the Outer Planes", where it was used as an overarching method to get players from their presumed position on the [[Prime Material]] out into the greater multiverse - in this, it can be considered a prototype for [[Sigil]], although the World Serpent Inn is far more hospitable (In ''Volo's Guide to Cormyr'', [[Elminster]] notes that the Inn "allow[s] dimensional travelers to avoid those violence-loving idiots of Sigil"). OP1 established only the barest essentials about the Inn; it wouldn't be until 3rd edition that a greater amount of detail would be provided, in comparison to namedropping. The first surge of details was as a web enhancement on the WoTC website connecting to the 3e [[Manual of the Planes]]; fittingly enough, it would subsequently appear in [[Dragon Magazine]] #351, which not only provided more "fluffy" content on the Inn, but also used it as a medium to justify its articles on various classic D&D settings.

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 [[File:Mitchifer.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Mitchifer runs the bar.]]
 [[File:Serpent Wench.jpg|300px|thumb|right|The Serpent Wenches serve the guests at their tables.]]
 The only permanent and fixed member of the waitstaff is a barkeep named Mitchifer; a tall, fat, human male with a long white beard, a booming laugh, rosy cheeks and a perpetual wide grin. He'd almost look like Santa Claus dressed up as a barkeeper, if it weren't for the fact his beard is made of thousands of tiny little white snakes and the fact his eyes are dominated by his pupils, which take the form of ornately-carved, jet-black doors. Full of zest and good humor, Mitchifer never rises to any provocation, succumbs to despair, nor harbors a grudge; every customer is treated with unfailing politeness, no matter their past behavior. He loves to chat, but never reveals any significant information about the World Serpent Inn itself or any other important topic that is brought to his attention. His origins are unknown and his nature is a mystery, especially since he has been ''killed'' on a couple of occasions, only to reappear without so much as a flicker in his smile later. Some believe he is connected in some way to the proposed "consciousness" of the demiplane.

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