Location: A barn in the village of Clun<br/>Date / Time: March 15, late afternoon<br/>Tagging: Eztli<br/><hr/>"Aye. But it's not too bad, most of the time. Kirborg has grown large enough that a few stray beasts or small raiding parties are still bad news for outlying farms, but not a real existential threat. But that can change. Some really nasty beast wandering down from the hills or driving one of the nearby goblin tribes out of its hunting grounds and things could still turn bad pretty quick. There are creatures up in the hills and deep in the woods that you don't want near any settlement, however many guards and soldiers there might be."<br/><br/>"I thought you fighter types don't fear anything." The loud-mouthed human really couldn't get enough it seemed, but Krolus indulged him. The world was full of idiots, and sometimes they had to be tolerated. If they really got out of hand there was always the time after the job, when pay had been collected and he was free to do as he pleased.<br/><br/>"I have a healthy respect for some beasts, lad. The cemeteries are full of people who didn't. Giants, land sharks, dire animals the size of a house... those things exist and I'd rather not fight one if I can help it. Or would you like to stand up to a bear the size of a barn?"<br/><br/>That silenced the man for a moment and brought agreement from his friend. "Old Alan used to tell us about a settlement somewhere to the west and north of here. Ten or twelve farms, maybe thirty people, and one year it was just gone. The people, those who survived, had just packed up and left. Turns out a land shark had ploughed right through their fields, eaten half their livestock and driven off the other half. And all they could do was just stand bye and watch their harvest being destroyed."<br/><br/>"Yes, those things can happen here, along the frontier. Well, I'll stretch my legs and then call it a day early." Krolus finished his supper and slowly rose. "I figure our employer will want to get an early start tomorrow, now that he's got the town almost in sight."