A man with salt and pepper hair sits dazed with a beer in his hand. Several people join him.
"Are you alright?" a woman asks.
"Physically yes," the man says.
"Here you are Shipley," Barilman says putting another beer in front of him.
"Thanks I'm going to need this," Shipley says.
"What happened?"
"I went down the northern trade road to find more trade partners and maybe earn enough to start rebuilding the road. I came across a poor people but they wouldn't have been enough so I continued down the road. When I got near a valley that smelled like death I was distracted by a yellow light. I felt compelled to follow it."
"Some form of magic? Was it a servant of the dark lord?"
"No," Shipley says "at least it didn't feel menacing. I went over hills and through bushes to avoid the undead creatures wandering around."
"Something was summoning the undead?"
"They were everywhere, my path was slow. I eventually saw a massive fortress ahead of me, it had fallen into ruin but it was still imposing. I set up my camp that night near the gate after the light disappeared."
"You set up a camp with undead things walking around?"
"The monsters didn't seem to see me when I was there so I felt as safe as I could be," Shipley says.
"Was the light protecting you?"
"I think so. The next morning I heard some noise from a cave near the fortress. None of the undead were nearby so I decided to see what it was. I found a cave filled with bones and dried blood. The only living thing inside the cave was a white rabbit."
"You found a rabbit? How could a rabbit have done this to you?"
"Well I thought I'd help the rabbit," Shipley says. "So I walked up saying, come here pookie it's alright. That's when a man who was glowing with fantastic white light appeared beside me."
"A glowing man? Do you mean like a wizard?"
"He told me to stop and look closer at the rabbit. I don't know how I missed it but the beast had glowing red eyes and sharp fangs, its mouth was covered in blood. The thing started to growl at me and bar its fangs."
"The rabbit was going to kill you?"
"The glowing man handed me a chunk of metal and told me," Shipley says. "First thou shall take out the pin. Then you will count to three no more and no less, two will not be enough and four would be too much. Then you must lob the weapon toward the beast to smite it in the name of the light."
"A wizard gave you a weapon?"
"I got ready to do what it said but at the last moment the rabbit took a step toward me and I dropped the weapon and ran. The last thing I heard from the glowing man was just, I need to test that."
"What happened after that?"
"I made my way back to the great northern trade road turned toward bree and started running. I didn't stop until I had left Enedwaith and was well on my way home."
"You've either had too much to drink or not enough."