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Tonight, you find yourself running a medieval tavern at a time when fear has learned to speak politely.

By day, you pour ale, wipe counters, and keep the fire steady. By night, you listen as rumors grow legs, preachers warn of vice, and authorities insist that order is slipping away. Everyone claims moderation. Everyone insists they are being virtuous. And every evening becomes a careful balance between profit, silence, and pretending not to hear what your customers are whispering into their cups.

This is not a story about riots or executions. It’s about routine. About moral panic settling quietly into habit. About fear becoming fashionable, then exhausting itself, while ordinary life continues beneath new words.

This is a calm, immersive historical sleep story told in second person, designed to help you relax while drifting through the quieter mechanics of social pressure, hypocrisy, and survival in the medieval world.

If you enjoy slow, atmospheric history without shouting or sensationalism, you’re in the right place.

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