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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2876795" data-attributes="member: 18280">(Recall again, no local tavern.  Kell's Reach is just too small!  OTOH, you could have a pint with a number of local farmers, who do brew their own.)As the afternoon wore on, more men arrived.  These were porters and labourers, carrying pavillions (which they set up on the common land and before the Church) and the furnishings which would go within.  Clearly, a general encampment was being planned in the Commons and the Lord's Open Court would be before the Church.Soon the Village Reeve began to order food and other comforts for the Lord Merryhahn.  These orders were followed with several degrees of enthusiasm or grudging compliance.  The general consensus seemed to be that the nobleman was canny and just, but many of the villagers seemed to be oblivious to the fact that Lord Merryhahn had not been there during the terrible winter, or when the manticore preyed upon the villagers."They'll not say it," said one grizzled farmer to Horsom.  "Nor shall I.  Nor shall you, if ye've any brains at all, for that one owns this land, aye.  See you that there is no manor here, nor has that one a permanent place in this village.  We are an afterthought.  Most like, the soft whisper of gold sounds louder than cries of anguish, eh?"  The old man spat on the ground.  He seemed to consider a moment.  "Ah-course, the great and powerful have many worries, and maylike we are but an afterthought."As Horsom spoke to the old man, and the Village Reeve ordered provisions, the man who had first announced the coming of Lord Merryhahn walked to the site of the old mill's ruins, and approached the miller's old house."I seek the dwarf known as Dain Winterforge, or his officer, acting here under the Charter of the Archdeacon Warmund of Selby-by-the-Water."</blockquote>

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