First appearance: S5E2 — Identity Crisis — Kopy Katt v Professor Alonzo Quixote Cervantes · watch it on YouTube
Emmery’s Tavern is a small, grimy drinking hole somewhere out in The Void, past The Dread Fortress and past the moon known as the Vendolyn. It knows the Dread Fortress’s typical bill, and its bartender is impossible to faze. It also has a habit of becoming a battlefield. Champions have fought inside it, wrecked it, left vomit in it and, on one occasion, arrived through the roof at nearly the speed of light.
Description
The tavern is small and dirty. It has stone floors and a fireplace with a giant skull mounted over it. There is a worn spot on the bar. The tavern also has a hearth and chimney. It keeps “number two” barrels, and it has a storage room. The facilities are a single overflowing toilet with no parchment to be found. Anyone who comes for the cheese should know that the only cheese on offer is processed.
In the corner works a large bartender who is very hard to impress. When two champions crashed through the roof and the patrons were thrown against the wall and knocked unconscious, he kept rubbing down the bar with his rag and greeted them anyway. When the tavern serves as an arena, its ceiling can turn transparent or disappear entirely, so The Acolytes get a clear view of the carnage from above.
History
Identity Crisis
The tavern first appeared as the arena for S5E2 — Identity Crisis — Kopy Katt v Professor Alonzo Quixote Cervantes, where Kopy Katt fought Professor Alonzo Quixote Cervantes among its stone floors and skull-topped fireplace. At the end of the fight the ceiling vanished, opening the room up to the watching Acolytes.
The Hunt for #2
The tavern returned in the Season of the Trials as the Dread Fortress’s liquor supplier. In S6 Ep6 — The Hunt for #2 - Part 1 — Team C (Frigidum, Bob the Barbarian, the Duke) v Billy, Frigidoom, Bob the Barbarian and The Duke were grouped as Team C. Their job was to visit “our favorite distributor over at Emmery’s Tavern,” which already knew “our typical bill,” and bring the alcohol back safely. Frigidoom summed up the brief: “Cervezas, yes, done.” The same episode pitted the team against Billy.
The mission ended where it began. In S6E7, The Hunt for #2 - Part 2 (season finale). Team C final - Frigid Doom v Bob the Barbarian v the Duke, the Grandmaster sent the three teammates back to Emmery’s Tavern to fight one another in the season finale. By the time it was over, the room held a werewolf corpse, vomit and a transparent ceiling. Frigidoom had also smashed the place up.
The Cheese
In S7E4 — The Cheese — Sila v Ol’ Pumpernicklejack, the tavern hosted the fourth round of the fight between Sila and Ol’ Pumpernicklejack, who did not exactly walk in. The Arbiter wound up and punched both champions forward at almost light speed. They shot across the emptiness of the Void like meteors, past the Dread Fortress and past the Vendolyn, then straight down through the tavern’s roof. The patrons were thrown against the wall and knocked out cold. In the corner, the bartender rubbed down the bar with his rag, not even fazed:
“Welcome to Emmery’s Tavern.”
For a fight called “The Cheese,” the menu was a letdown, since the tavern stocks only processed cheese. The roof still has a hole in it.
Notable Figures
- Emmery: the changeling whose name the tavern bears.
- Professor Alonzo Quixote Cervantes: fought in the tavern’s first Deathmatch.
- Bob the Barbarian: Team C member sent there on the liquor run, and later back for the finale.
- The Duke: Bob’s teammate on the same run, and his rival in the finale.
- Sila: crashed through the roof by way of the Arbiter’s fist.
- Ol’ Pumpernicklejack: arrived the same way, at the same speed.
Appearances
- S5E2 — Identity Crisis — Kopy Katt v Professor Alonzo Quixote Cervantes
- S6 Ep6 — The Hunt for #2 - Part 1 — Team C (Frigidum, Bob the Barbarian, the Duke) v Billy
- S6E7, The Hunt for #2 - Part 2 (season finale). Team C final - Frigid Doom v Bob the Barbarian v the Duke
- S7E4 — The Cheese — Sila v Ol’ Pumpernicklejack