Herr Grillparzer Draft

Overview

Herr Grillparzer is the proprietor of the Gasthof_Weisser_Ochsen on Wipplingerstrasse, Vienna. He is incurious, cash-motivated, and makes a professional practice of not noticing things about his guests. He accepted the party’s registration under assumed names without comment.

Physical Description

Not yet described in play. Keeper to define as needed.

Personality

• Incurious: Does not ask questions about guests, their names, their injuries, or their business.
• Pragmatic: Takes cash and provides rooms. The transaction is the relationship.
• Survivor: The kind of innkeeper who has survived in Vienna’s surveillance state by cultivating deliberate obliviousness.

Campaign Role

Minor NPC. His value to the party is entirely passive — he provides shelter without scrutiny. If the Geheimpolizei or Brotherhood_of_the_Open_Measure come asking questions about his guests, the open question is whether his discretion holds or whether he sells them out.

Appearances

Relationships

• Owns Gasthof Weisser Ochsen — Proprietor of the White Ox Inn on Wipplingerstrasse