Alriand makes her way to the home of one of the children who made fun of her pointy ears yesterday. She reaches the elder's house which is next door to Owecyrr's house and finds some shadows to skulk around in. She cases the house and notes only one visible entrance/exit. Cat like she moves to the door and listens for any movement, hoping that the child's father is still out tending to the chaos of the evening. Hearing lots of snoring and from a lot of people, she pauses but decides to creep over to a window to the left of the door. Peering inside she sees about ten children all sleeping on the floor in the front room. Taken aback momentarily by the sight of so many children crammed onto the floor, Alriand does not immediately notice the voice behind her. A middle-aged halfling has walked onto the front steps of the house, and asks Alriand what she is doing here. Alriand responds by telling the man that she was just checking on the children, she tells the man that she met a charming young lad named Owecyrr and she wanted to make sure he was all right. Things got a little hairy through the night and she's heard that these attacks have brought break-ins and theft, and she felt compelled to check on him. The halfling man completely wrapped around Alriand's bluff, introduces himself as Calcyrr. He says that he always heard elves were haughty and didn't much care for the folks who work for a living, but he's glad to have met at lease one elf who breaks that mold. Calcyrr invites Alriand in for some apple turnovers. Alriand asks for rain check as she says that she must go check on the other two children who were with Owecyrr yesterday afternoon. Calcyrr commends her for her caring and protectiveness and tells her she's welcome to stop by any time and see Owecyrr. Alriand flashes him a smile as she briskly walks away and around the elder Opee's house. She stomps to the middle of the street, and ignoring the couple of halflings making their way down the street, she curses out loud and kicks the dirt. Having never seen an elf, much less an elf throw a tantrum, Alriand forms a little crowd of a dozen halflings before she realizes she's being oogled. Collecting herself she straightens her hair and says to no one in particular that one of those little beasties got into her pack and stole her remaining rations. She leaves in a huff and makes her way back to the river thinking a good bath will calm her down.
Tharhack brings the carcass to the center of town, right next to the well. He drops the body and draws water from the well, to quench a little thirst. Word has spread quickly through the Hamlet that the huge, hairy, ugly, human, man has brought something awful back with him. Before Tharhack can lower the bucket for a drink from the well, a large crowd has already gathered around the well, all their eyes gazing between the rust colored rat-man and Tharhack. A couple of kids throw rocks at the thing. Tharhack, noticing a large crowd has gathered, and that some of them are looking at him, bends down and flexes over the dead body. Exclaiming that Kord's might makes everything right, he thinks this is the perfect time to practice his recruitment spiel. He reaches into his belt pouch and pulls out a dozen or so leaflets on the church of Kord and hands them to any children near him. From the crowd a loud "Move out of the way!" causes the mass of people south of the well to part and Rillkep, Wilby, and Opee saunter up to Tharhack, who poses intensely for Rillkep's sake. "booger! so happy to see you, I wondered when you planned on gracing me with your stoutness" says Tharhack to Rillkep while he's showing off his biceps to the halfling
"enough with your insults, you bad smelling man, what disease ridden carcass have you dragged into my town?" demands Rillkep.
"this is one of your attackers, I caught him in the graveyard, defiling your ancestor's remains with his cowardice." Tharhack proudly states.
Bimbar and Rebrey have made their way to Tharhack's side and kick around the body. Trying to determine what it was.
"well even with dental records, I couldn't find what's left of it's jaw to tell you" Bimbar says to Rillkep.
Ignoring Bimbar's attempt at humor Rillkep asks tat Wilby place the ugly man under arrest for littering, unless Tharhack can prove his tale. At this Daigren waddles up, takes one look and proclaims that it's a kobold. Nasty, sneaky little things that love to attack in numbers but rarely put up any organized resistance. Rebrey asks Daigren what he means by that. Daigren motions him closer and whispers that there must be a leader who has bullied these worthless beasts into attacking the town, as they would never attack someone outnumbered. After hearing Daigren's conclusions Opee publicly thanks the 1/2 orc for unmasking their adversaries, and now maybe they can plan for a better defense. The crowd cheers and most of the males and children come up to shake Tharhack's hand or congratulate him individually. Bimbar tells Tharhack he does great work. Tharhack promises to show Bimbar some "moves" so when Bimbar faces his first kobold, he will crush it just like Tharhack.
Alriand reaches the river bank and hears the cheering going on in the center of town, for a second she thinks about what kind of pick pocket opportunities she would have, she looks back at the house she just passed to get to the river. She notices now that it was once a grand house with fine trimmings, but seems to have fallen on hard times now. She figures with all the halfling go to the center of town for some reason, she drools at the free chance to comb the house, and starts towards it.
