Session 3: Frost and Fear in Fireshear

"Great tae hear. Maybe we can make it tae em Halls on time after all." The dwarf stands up and offers her and to Agna. "Helda, of the Silverstream clan."

"Aye, coming from Mirabar to sell some of me wares in Bryn Shander and then visit me uncle in Kelvin’s Cairn." She happily shares more than Agna probably wants to know before checking out the other two Helda mentioned. "You got yerself a elf and a dwarf fer help?" Seeing Izuhn on his own, she shouts in dwarven and waves for him to join them. She repeats the gesture for Agna, inviting the orc to sit as well. "Sit, Sit, Beorne may take a while. He is dealing with em Manycoins to exchange the merchant's credit. "

Joe stops as soon as he hears the name. He walks up to Izuhn and slightly bends over the counter, whispering. At that point, Izuhn hears some dwarven female voice and notices Helda gesturing.

Noticing Bjorn diffusing the tension, Adaia decides to apologize for her forwardness, though she immediately makes the mistake of mentioning her good intentions are is out a sense of curiosity. The man immediately turns red, offended by the perceived wizardry arrogance. "You fancy elven witches come here and think we loosing our homes is curious?"

Bjorn manages to contain the man's fury with the assurance that her new friends will help snuff out the creatures and get them fires out. "Oh yeah, the elf better show do something about those creatures unless people here think they are some of her sorceries!"

The man turns to Bjorn "Well if your friends figure out where those things are coming from... we can get the locals to help for sure" he grudgingly accepts, clearly only because Bjorn asked him to.

They barely Izuhn joining them as another one of the men at the table continues "What he means Momma, is that you should check what that blacksmith is up to this time. Kalannai doesn't seem to want to do what has to be done"

"Good choice!" Helda cheers as the orc sits down. Agna suddenly has the feeling of being observed from the dark corners of the tavern. Sense a malevolence presence she turns to find, half-hidden in the shadows from the fireplace, the cook staring daggers at her. "Beorne shouldn't take too long. Just need the monies for the travel. He says yer the best guide around the area. Ye been doing this fer long now?"

The man who has been doing most of the talk starts to reply to Bjorn when on of the other's noticed Izuhn's reaction to the name. "Well we surely wouldn't put it past him to be causing trouble"

The men look at Izuhn suspiciously. "You never know what to expect from that nutjob. Hostility is probably your least concern..." they laugh and cheers each other, though it's clear that they don't trust the newcomers as much as Bjorn would have liked. The burly human woman leads Izuhn the table where Agna is drinking with the dwarves and waves for Adaia to join. "Ok, just wait here and I will quickly check what Kalannai is up to"

Seeing the other dwarf approach, Helda briefly interrupts the conversation to say a quick greeting in dwarven. "What brings you here? Going to the Valley as well?"