<div align="center"><strong>TOWN ADJUDICATION</strong></div><br/><strong>1. LYNARRA.</strong><br/><br/>Lynarra, you do not have an opportunity to speak to any of the families.  They flee too quickly.<br/><br/>A young girl playing by herself looks up at you, and says,  "It isn't that they are not friendly," she said.   "It is just that they are afraid of strangers."<br/><br/><strong>2.  RAT.</strong><br/><br/>Barthen's is the largest trading post in Phandalin, but it is pretty small compared to those trading posts just outside Neverwinter.  Its shelves are stocked with most ordinary goods and supplies, including backpacks, bedrolls, rope, and rations.  You notice that there are no weapons or armor here, though, which you find odd.<br/><br/>A lean, friendly-looking human is the shopkeeper here.  Two young men assist him.<br/><br/>"Ah, Gundren's delivery!" Berthen says as he rounds around the shop counter.   "Please help him with those things, lads."<br/><br/>The two young men took the provisions Rat carried.<br/><br/>"I am Elmar Barthen, and these boys are Ander and Thistle," he said.   "You don't need to help empty the rest of the wagons.  They're part of the provisions that we purchased from Neverwinter."<br/><br/>Ander and Thistle went out into the wagons to survey them.  They began to point out the arrows that had pocked the wood in some places.  They were also bewildered when they spotted a changeling's corpse.<br/><br/>"We didn't order a corpse, did we, Mr. Barthen?" Thistle asked.<br/><br/>"Certainly not," Mr. Barthen said.   "Bandits?" Barthen asked.<br/><br/>-- About payment.<br/><br/>"Oh yes, of course," Barthen said.   "It was ten gold a head, but it looks like you've seen some trouble, so I will be happy to make it an even hundred.  It's difficult to get things into town nowadays on account of the bandits."<br/><br/>-- About selling weapons.<br/><br/>"No can do," Barthen said.   "We have an agreement with some of the other vendors in town that prohibit us from buying or selling wares.  The competition was... well, it compelled us not to compete with one another on certain things."<br/><br/>--  On provisions from another business.<br/><br/>"Oh, these belong to Linene," he said.   "She's the merchant who owns the Lionshield Coster across the way."<br/><br/><strong>3.  KATHRA.</strong><br/><br/>While the folks at Barthen's were keen to make Kathra's acquaintance, she would find that everyone else seemed keen to avoid her.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>GM NOTE:</strong></span><br/>The party has received an extra 100gp for delivering the provisions to Barthen.