Fraygo's Flophouse

Named exterior directory

Thodric Shedeveer is associated with the nearby street and offers to buy fresh fish. He is not a shop or service inside Fraygo’s Flophouse.

Exterior frontage

Crak and Rilia stand near the entrance discussing the poor quality and limited availability of lodgings in the city. Their conversation establishes the flophouse as an overcrowded refuge rather than a respectable hotel. Rilia’s remarks also provide some of the building’s humour, contrasting the party’s willingness to investigate the place with her reluctance to share a bunkhouse with strangers.

No combat or mandatory interaction is required outside.

Ground floor: mess hall and kitchen

The ground floor is divided between a communal mess hall and a kitchen, with the main staircase between them. The reception and kitchen areas are active, ordinary parts of the building, making them useful for gathering local information before investigating the upper levels.

Traveller Griska is in the mess hall. She is a functioning merchant despite not necessarily being marked as a trader on the minimap. Her stock includes useful consumables, alchemical materials and tools.

Queelia Arvis works in the kitchen and sells Camp Supplies. The game does not treat every visible piece of food or kitchen equipment as a separate service, so the kitchen should be regarded as a Camp Supplies purchase point rather than a general-purpose food shop.

Drim and Rosanna are adventurers in the communal area. Talking with them can produce companion approval, with the available approval response depending on character class. The interaction is social rather than a quest requirement.

Dashkent Moliver, a flophouse employee, moves between the reception desk and kitchen. If the party has advanced the Open Hand Temple murder investigation far enough to know that the killer is associated with red clothing, Moliver can be questioned about it. His chest upstairs contains a note requesting a pay rise, adding a small piece of everyday tenant and staff detail.

First floor: lodgings and vampire-spawn encounter

The first floor is a divided lodging area with bunks and locked wooden chests. A corridor separates the two sides and is patrolled by Worker Bernyr. The corridor ends at a locked door leading towards the outer balcony, with a small bathroom on the opposite side.

The central event on this floor is the conversation between Dalyria and Pale Petras, two vampire spawn under Cazador Szarr. The encounter is especially valuable with Astarion in the party. They discuss Cazador’s planned ritual, the promised rewards for his servants and Astarion’s disappearance from their control. Their willingness to speak is partly shaped by how the party handles the conversation and whether Astarion is present.

This encounter is not merely flavour. It gives Astarion context about Cazador’s plans before the party reaches Cazador’s Palace and helps establish how the vampire spawn understand the ritual. The conversation can be resolved without fighting. The party should avoid treating the pair as ordinary hostile enemies unless deliberately choosing a violent outcome.

Worker Bernyr is a resident or worker associated with the lodging floor. The tenants’ records also name Bernyr, Ffion Goldgrind, Grishka and Rosanna, although a tenant list should not be assumed to mean that every person named in it is continuously present in the same room.

First-floor directory

The locked chests are not all equal in story importance. They are part of the lodging area’s ordinary property and may contain minor loot or tenant-related objects. Search them with care if you are comfortable stealing in a crowded building, but do not treat every chest as a required quest container.

Top floor: the hidden murder site

A ladder from the first floor leads to the topmost level. The most conspicuous object is a red-outlined wardrobe. Behind it is a concealed room connected to the serial murders and the Bhaalist plot.

The room can be opened in several ways:

The Flowery Key is found on Zomm in the tunnels beneath the Open Hand Temple. Its flower design and the matching decoration on the flophouse provide the intended connection between the two locations.

Inside the hidden room are documents and environmental clues identifying it as a murderer’s hideout. Important objects include:

The Bloodstained Parchment is the most important document for the murder investigation. It contains a list of intended victims and evidence connecting the killings to a larger Bhaalist operation. It can be shown to Investigator Valeria as part of the investigation and may help progress the chain towards Gauntlet Devella and the Lower City.

Finding Ffion Goldgrind

The corpse is hidden under the bed. Finding it requires attention rather than simply opening the wardrobe:

Ffion was the “Stern Librarian” associated with Elminster’s Library. Her death explains why the library is vacant when the party later reaches it and resolves the missing-librarian thread through evidence found in the flophouse. Ffion’s body can also be relevant to the separate mind flayer encounter if the party is pursuing that activity.

Top-floor directory

Ffion’s Key is found under the bed on her corpse. It opens Ffion’s chest on the second floor of the flophouse, separate from the Flowery Key’s function. This distinction matters: the Flowery Key opens the hidden room, while Ffion’s Key opens Ffion’s chest.

Story-associated visitors and guests

Dalyria and Petras should be treated as story visitors rather than ordinary permanent residents. Their presence is tied to Astarion’s personal quest and Cazador’s ritual rather than to the flophouse’s normal tenancy.

Traveller Griska

Her stock is useful before entering the more dangerous parts of Act Three, particularly if the party is short of healing items, mobility consumables or lockpicking equipment. The exact availability and restocking behaviour can be affected by normal merchant mechanics. Griska also warns the party about the Open Hand Temple’s treatment of refugees, linking her ordinary trading dialogue to the district’s political and social tension.

Queelia Arvis

Queelia sells Camp Supplies. This is a limited, practical service rather than a full inn function. The party cannot rent a room, trigger a normal long rest inside the flophouse or establish it as a camp location.

Solve the Open Hand Temple Murders

This is the flophouse’s central quest connection. The Flowery Key comes from the murder-related investigation beneath the Open Hand Temple. Matching it to the flophouse leads to the concealed room and its evidence.

If the party provides enough evidence, Valeria can recognise that Brilgor was not responsible for Father Lorgan’s murder and may provide a Lower City Pass or direct the party towards Gauntlet Devella. The exact later outcome depends on the order in which the party handles Valeria, Devella and the Bhaalist investigation.

Find the “Stern Librarian” Ffion

The flophouse reveals Ffion’s fate. If the party begins the search by speaking to Mamzell Amira at Sharess’ Caress, the investigation points towards Ffion’s rooms and possessions. If the party discovers the corpse first, it can still report the discovery and resolve the thread through the appropriate dialogue.

Investigate the Murders

The Bloodstained Parchment serves as hard evidence of the broader murder plot. Ffion’s corpse can also provide information through Speak with Dead, including the identity of her killer and the circumstances of her death. This makes the corpse more than a tragic environmental detail: it is an investigative witness if the party has the spell or an equivalent method.

Investigate Cazador’s Palace

Dalyria and Pale Petras provide information about Cazador’s planned ascension ritual. Bring Astarion if you want the strongest personal context and commentary. The scene does not replace the later palace investigation, but it helps explain what Astarion is confronting and why the vampire spawn are waiting in the flophouse.