Prunella Boffin walks into the bar and looks around, the tables are filled with men and woman. She approaches the first empty seat she sees.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Prunella asks.
"Corse not," a big man says "you've got to be better company than my partner here. I'm Jack Woodhouse and baldy here is Ethren Greengrass."
"I'm Tilly Grooves," the human woman at the table says. "These two are busy arguing so don't get too offended if they ignore you."
"It's a pleasure to meet you all," Prunella says. "I'm only here to get a drink somewhere away from home."
"Kids a little out of hand?" Ethren asks.
"No I have no children but Scary has become a horrid place."
"What happened?"
"Well it started when the quarry breaking into a spider nest," Prunella says.
"Spiders?" Ethren asks. "I take it you mean the Shire has the big monster that can eat men."
"I thought those things came from the marshes," Jack says. "I would never hav3e expected them to travel across bree."
"I've heard they are scattered across the landscape of the Lone Lands so I can see why they'd be spread out to the Shire," Tilly says. "If the spiders didn't come from the marsh first they could be everywhere."
"If the spiders in their mine are as big as the things crawling around the swamp the hobbits might be in touble," Ethren says. "Those things catch full grown men in their webs. With how much smaller hobbits are they'd be easy for the monsters to catch them."
"Which is why we don't go into the Scary quarry anymore," Prunella says. "It's everything the bounders can do just to keep the things out of town. They don't have the strength to just kill all of them."
"I wouldn't want to stay in a town that's constantly under threat of being over run by creepy things," Tilly says. "You made the right decision getting out."
"This is the second time I left Scary."
"Did the spiders chase you back to town?" Jack asks.
"No I was trying to get to Oatbarton but I ran into a group of ugly little things carrying spears," Prunella says.
"You have giant spiders and goblins near your town," Ethren says "that is horrible. Have your people thought about moving to another place?"
"Before what happened I would have said we'd never leave. I mean the spiders stay inside the quarry and don't seem too interested in spreading out from there. The goblins on the other hand their camp is huge. It's almost like a town of its own."
"Have the bounders attacked them?" Jack asks.
"Of course not," Prunella says "why would you ask something like that?"
"You know how big the camp is I figured your people had attacked them at some point."
"How do you know the size of the goblin encampment?" Tilly asks.
"The little beasts chased me into their camp," Prunella says. "I made it all the way through and fell down a hill behind a bush. I even dropped my parasol at teh back of the camp."
"Better to drop your umbrella than be caught by goblins," Jack says.