A dwarf sits at the central table surrounded by men from around bree.
"Be glad you're all in town," Bersi says to the men around him. "In these walls you don't need to worry about things like great spiders." The dwarf drains his mug and slams it down on the table before yelling, "Another."
"We have some nasty critters around here too," one man says. "Even some large spiders, though I admit they're easy to contain. I mean we keep them pretty well contained."
"The ones in Ered Luin aren't contained in any way. They have an entire forest as a den and they come out of it to grab people."
"You have a run in with them?" another man asks.
"That's one way to put it," Bersil says emptying another mug of beer. "I was out collecting some herbs and the little bastards attacked me and dragged me to their den."
"How did you escape?"
"Well, I was stuck in a cocoon and I still don't know how long I was in there. The creatures kept biting me, they never injected enough poison to kill me. The pain was unimaginable."
"They kept you alive?" a younger man asks.
"That's how spiders eat kid," an older man says "they wrap you up and slowly drink your insides."
"Oh, what happened?"
"Well I was trapped and had given up on trying to break out of the webs," Bersi says. "That's when I heard talking nearby. I couldn't make out what they were saying but there were three of them. They tore the webbing apart and pulled me out."
"Three people just wandered into the spider den?" the young man asks.
"They were sent to find me by my friends. I just don't understand why they sent those people."
"What was wrong with them?" an older man asks.
"One was a man carrying a sword and shield," Bersi says. "What confused me was he had a bright colored box wrapped around his body and a birthday cake on his head."
"You've got to be kidding."
"How do you know it was a birthday cake?" the young man asks.
"That's your question?"
"It had candles on top and they were lit," Bersi says. "The other two weren't much better. One was a shirtless dwarf wearing skin tight red pants and a mask with fangs sticking out of it. He was the most insane man ever he even body slammed one spider. I really hope he took a bath."
"So you were rescued by a half naked dwarf and a man in a box?"
"The third one was as strange as his companions. He was an elf wearing a green short sleave shirt, orange vest and green tights with no pants. He had a yellow cloak and green leather gloves and shoes with a mask that only covered his eyes."
"You've got to be kidding no elf would ever dress like that."
"You're probably right," Bersi says. "All that poison really messed with me. I still don't really remember walking out of the forest but they said I did. Maybe if I drink enough I'll see them again so I can thank them."
The room explodes in laughter and yells for more beer.