The food was quite well made at least by general opinion of the folks visiting the place at least, the hot meal filling and enough to sate most people's appetite. As it was swallowed down it left Marric a second, stranger feel of sharpened senses for a short moment. Almost eerie, even if it only lasted roughly a minute's worth of time.<br/><br/>It did let him hear the card-sharks laughing with one another and trying to raise a bit of trouble with their boasting, when suddenly one of the young men in the tavern walked over to them challenging them to prove it then. With a general laughter, the cardsharks began, and the man started losing his money quickly.<br/><br/>As the meal was gone and done with and Marric approached the bartender the man raised his gaze to look at the traveler, smiling a bit. "First questions about a room, and now about a job? I hope you got enough coin to pay for the meal first too." He chuckled lightly though, not seeming overly concerned. He wasn't sure if the man had paid to the barmaid already or not, but watched Marric relaxedly. "Well there is a bunch of work, depending what you are handy with. You look like you could deal with some trouble though, eh?"<br/><br/>The man gestured at the now 5 notes on the board, shrugging as he stared at the man. "Well, first off there's a boar that lives nearby that's attacked men and women that visit the forest. Its a vicious beast, some folks call it greyfang, its the biggest damn boar that I know of, dangerous as a cornered snake if you ask me." He snorted, shaking his head.<br/><br/>"Could be a tough one though. The next is a bit of trouble a friend of mine happens to be having. Seems his little 'digging' got interrupted when his rickety 'mine' got invaded by a bunch of goblins. He's posted a reward for anyone who can take the little buggers out, and the town also included some extra pay for it, cause the folks dont want the goblins running around and attacking the town next." With this he let out a sigh.<br/><br/>"Well you were here to see the guy that came to put up a notice about bandits near the south road. Simple enough, hes offering a bounty for someone that kills the bandits leader, and helps break up their efforts and the trouble on the south road. Could be the town would add some extra pay to that too, but ain't happened yet." He smiled a bit more kindly. "Not one real easy one here yet I am afraid." He cast a look back at the last two then.<br/><br/>"Other than that, well we got the local mage asking anyone if they could harvest him some moonbloom. You'll have to look for it in a forest at night, but no fighting necessary on that one. The note has more details. The last one, well that one is a bit odd." He snorted. "About the monastery fairly near here that got ransacked, a man came by claiming he had seen one of the monks from the place, bloody but still alive, making his way to a nearby whitewater cavern. Couple people put some coins together for anyone to look around if there's a truth in that, but well, its not much and they say that the cave is also a place where some monster has been living at for years now."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">There's some strange effects in the world, one of them a spice used in the broth, making the body a bit more alert. It didn't last long but for that moment, roughly spoken the character has some +2 to perception in game terms, though on this instance, it was mostly descriptive.</div></div>