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Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page
Bar Far, Villa Lontana, Rome, 2025
Photo: Jasper Fry
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News: Another One Bites the Dust; Merchant’s Coin Changes Ownership
By Tesse Centirum
Usually, when a business changes hands, it suffers or sees immediate improvements. Unfortunately for the Merchant’s Coin, it’s become the norm. In the last four years, it has seen over six different owners, most of which only claimed the popular tavern for less than half a year. Now, another challenger has entered the ring.
Scarlet Beckett, originally from Kessex, has bought the Merchant’s Coin from Maverra Goldenheart on 32 of Zephyr, 1332 AE. Even though the price has been kept private, Ms. Beckett assured us that she “got an excellent deal”.
This isn’t the first tavern that Ms. Beckett has spent time in. According to her interview with The Divinity Daily, Beckett spent the last fourteen months as manager for Maiden’s Whisper in Rurikton District and was “on loan” to Merchant’s Coin for about eight months prior to her purchase.
A transaction that seems to be bleeding over into the future of the popular Salma District tavern. Beckett explained: “The name remains the same, its such an iconic band at this point we would never dream of changing it. However, I have changed the business substantially in that I have effected a functional merger with the Maiden’s Whisper. Prices and inventory are now the same for the most part between the taverns and staff from either are free to rotate between them as needed or desired.”
Patrons seem to be responding well to the transition. In fact, there is more outstanding support now that Mr. Christopher Page from Maiden’s Whisper seems to also have an investment in the Merchant’s Coin. Some see the pair of him and Ms. Scarlet Beckett as co-owners, a positive assumption even though the full purchase agreement is confidential.
One Sylvari name Sylvan stated: “It has needed a strong present figure for a while. Honestly? It is more active now than it has been since I worked here.” Another, Karigan Gyren, shared that they felt the Merchant’s Coin “used to be a significant beacon of chaos” but that with the change in ownership, the tavern has improved for all of everyone.
Buck, long term bartender of the Merchant’s Coin, has refused to comment about the ownership transaction.
Despite the run time for most owners, Ms. Beckett seems to be determined to outlast her predecessors. All the power to her, but we at The Divinity Daily will keep our eye on the classifieds for the building’s next listing.
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Originally published at Aesthetica, 20 June 2015
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messages from the past
I was just digging through my old Myspace messages, and came across a sweet note from my dearly departed friend Christopher Page. I miss him so much.
February 24, 2004:
I want dinner with you. Sushi? I want drinks with you. Saki? Shots of pure maple syrup? I want to reserve a place and time to be with you and dance to no music and hitch a ride on some old man's horse-drawn buggy and stick bubblegum to the horsies (because the idea of the stable boy having to rub peanut butter on horses amuses me to no end) and then go running with you to the gas station near your house to buy white chocolate Reese's Peanut Butter Cups because our craving transcends using cars. In other words, damn, when do I get to see you again? - Meeeeeee p.s. - Have you heard the band Metric yet?