<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c6/f8/30/c6f8301a8c49af82b058aae78e2aae80.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">Hogg Vernon</span></strong></span><br/>The Barkeep<br/><hr/><br/>The barkeep started laying out tankards of watered-down ale and a hot pot of porridge to tide the incoming wave of hungry sailors until something more substantial could be mustered by the Green Dragon Inn's infamous ogre cook, Cookie.  The dwarf was hard at work filling empty clay mugs with ale and clay bowls with soup that he was perhaps too busy to answer Yuki.<br/><br/>However, he said,  "Soup's on the house, kid, and it'll be a while until we can get somethin' a little bit warmer inside yer' belly," he said.  Then Hogg took a look at Yuki, who was sopping wet, and he said,  "Now kid, yer' all wet!  Get dry in front of the fire."