"Hiding in basements is the only thing we'd have left if our town would be under attack we couldn't handle. But it's little hope for me, we can't live in hiding. We've built the town with a huge effort, when a daemon from the rift could destroy it with one smite." The bartender brings a bottle of a clear, dark liquid on the table. "Whiskey, one of the last bottles we bought from a caravan. Ourselves we make only simple bewerages." He bought glasses and cleared his throat nervously. "Nobody will dare to go near the rift, it's something you can do. You're the kind of people that can take on a daemon and live to tell the tale. One of the cyber-knights, lady... Like every village and hamlet this one also has a tale of one of your brotherhood showing up to save the day. And now it could have two. People, you need to talk to our mayor..."<br/>The bartender gets excited and doesn't even wave back to the two hunters who decide they need to go already.<br/>"We will provide you with the payment we can, we can also loan you the best weapons we have. If it's really nessesary, also a guide who knows that area. Unless it changed already... The rifts change everything..."<br/>For a moment some distant memories cloud the man's mind. "Oh, and Coalition you say? If you cannot help then we will of course go to seek them out. One can only hope they will get here in time, but they have their war now and we are not a strategic objective. They might just not care enough to be here before it's too late."<br/><br/>Under the flashing lightning, the bartender wants to lead you to a stately stone and wood building in the middle of the village. An old, muscular and scarred man is the town's mayor and repeats all that his friend said, also imploring for you to help and investigate, or if possible, close the rift.<br/>"Can a cyber-knight close a rift? Or can you?" He asks Mizrel.<br/><br/>Francis can go and awaken the owner of the trading post if he wishes. The young man with flaming-red moustache will be very excited about the weapons he sees and ask what the Juicer could take in return, as he has very little credits on himself.