The Rising Tart

Template:NPC Shops{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; " |- |a slice of blueberry pie ||100 |- |a slice of cherry pie||100 |- |a slice of strawberry pie||100 |- |a glazed donut
A slight tartness makes the sweetness even more enjoyable.
It is very sweet, with an intense, concentrated flavor.||100 |- |a frosted donut
You can almost feel the sugar running through your veins.
It is sweet enough to make your teeth ache.||100 |- |a chocolate donut||100 |- |a slice of chocolate cake||100 |- |a cinnamon bun
The layers of pastry dissolve on your tongue.
Light and flaky, it tastes of cinnamon and sugar.||100 |- |a honey-covered bun
Both tasty and filling, it comforts and sustains you.
It is thick and satisfying.||100 |- |a buttered bread twist||100 |- |a garlic breadstick
With this much garlic, you should be safe from unwelcome advances for weeks to come.
Your breath is as strong as a dragon's by now.||100 |- |a cheese-covered breadstick||100 |- |a honey-covered roll
You can barely free your teeth from this sweet, gooey concoction.
Sweet and sticky, it coats your tongue and glues your teeth together.||100 |- |a warm buttered roll||100 |- |a chocolate cupcake||100 |- |a peach muffin||100 |- |a burnt roll
It tastes horrible.
It tastes like bitter, gritty dirt.||20 |- |a garlic-buttered roll
The garlic butter flavor fills your nose.
The roll is extremely chewy.||100 |- |a hard-crusted roll
The aroma of sweet bread fills your mouth as you chew.
The crunchy outer layer surrounds a surprisingly chewy center.||100 |- |a lumpy cheese breadstick
The cheese has bits of pepper and garlic in it.
The bread is barely cooked, almost still dough.||20 |- |a garlic-flavored breadstick
Garlic flavor floods your mouth.
It is extremely crunchy and seems to explode with each bite.||20 |- |a burnt muffin
Cakey and tender, the muffin bursts with burnt flavor.
The slightly caramelized muffin top provides a crunchy counterpoint to the soft center.||20 |- |a yellow peach muffin
Cakey and tender, the muffin bursts with yellow peach flavor.
The slightly caramelized muffin top provides a crunchy counterpoint to the soft center.||20 |- |a lemon muffin
Cakey and tender, the muffin bursts with lemon flavor.
The slightly caramelized muffin top provides a crunchy counterpoint to the soft center.||20 |- |a cinnamon muffin
Cakey and tender, the muffin bursts with cinnamon flavor.
The slightly caramelized muffin top provides a crunchy counterpoint to the soft center.||20 |- |a chocolate muffin
Cakey and tender, the muffin bursts with chocolate flavor.
The slightly caramelized muffin top provides a crunchy counterpoint to the soft center.||20 |- |a Grishknel wolf head cookie
It is almost rich enough to stop your heart.
It may not be good for you, but it sure is good!||100 |- |a hefty mug of rich Maeramil coffee
Dark, powerful, and confident, but of so high a quality that it is not truly bitter.
Smooth, savory, and robustly invigorating.||200 |- |some Toktrog traveling bread
The soft, thin crust and light, even texture make the bread nearly melt in your mouth.
With a slightly sweet taste, the bread holds undertones of honey.||100 |- |}

Grotelek

Grotelek is the baker and owner of the Rising Tart.

The baker known as Grotelek stands fairly tall for a dwarf.  A neatly trimmed beard hides a reddish face.  The beard is perpetually caked with flour.  One would think that enough flour has accumulated there to bake an entire cake!

A fly buzzes around Grotelek who quickly swats it away.

A gust of wind comes blowing through the door sending flour flying throughout the shop.

Grotelek brushes some flour off the counter.

Grotelek coughs into a clenched fist.

Grotelek glances around the room with a rather bored expression on his face.

Grotelek grumbles a bit as he rolls out a sheet of dough.

Grotelek looks around the shop for new customers.

Grotelek looks around the shop suspiciously and then uses a finger to scoop out a bit of cherry pie that he promptly tastes.

Grotelek opens a bag of flour and pours it into a large barrel.

Grotelek rolls a breadstick idly across the counter.

Grotelek runs a finger through a small pile of flour.

Grotelek says, "Got the best baked goods on the isle, I does."

Grotelek tugs at his beard, stirring up a large cloud of flour.

Grotelek wipes the counter down with a damp rag, scrubbing hard on some particularly troublesome spots.

Grotelek wipes the display case down with a damp rag.

Questions

>ask Grotelek about pie
Grotelek says, "Best pie in all the lands here."

>ask Grotelek about cake
Grotelek exclaims, "Cake! Ha! You've come to the right place!"

>ask Grotelek about bun
Grotelek says, "My buns are delicious. You should try one."

>ask Grotelek about twist
Grotelek says, "My bread twists are excellent. Give one a try today."

>ask Grotelek about donut
Grotelek says, "Donuts are good for you. Want one?"

>ask Grotelek about breadstick
Grotelek responds, "Breadsticks are wonderful creations. Simply wonderful."

>ask Grotelek about roll
Grotelek mumbles, "Rolls....That's all I make it seems."

>ask Grotelek about cupcake
Grotelek says, "Cupcakes are favored by them halflings. So I sell a few."

>ask Grotelek about muffin
Grotelek says, "Muffins. Wonderful aren't they?"

>ask Grotelek about tarts
Grotelek shouts, "Tarts! Bah! Awful. Only reason I bought this place was to get rid of that tart crazy halfling that owned it. Don't know why I kept the name."

>ask Grotelek about Eregrek
Grotelek says, "Eregrek is the best thing to happen to the Isle in a loooong time."