Istuienn, a ranger woman in a red leather tunic and gray skirt, comes into the Prancing Pony with Durlammad, a man in a long purple tunic, following her. They take a seat near the fireplace and order food.
"I am surprised you decided to join me," the Istuienn says.
"I enjoy hearing new rumours and there's no place better than Bree to learn all the news," Durlammad says.
"Bree is a large enough trade town to get information from every corner of the world."
"Is that why you've come here?" Durlammad asks.
"I want to spread information not receive it."
"Are you attempting to fool the enemy?"
"No," Istuienn says "that might be a useful idea but misinformation isn't something I'm good at. I am here to get a message to my fellow rangers and, hopefully, to my king where ever he has found himself."
"I suppose there's no point in asking how you secret information to one another."
"Not if you expect an answer."
"Is the information you wish to send sensitive or can you talk to me about that?" Durlammad asks.
"There is no need to hide the fact that this happened just the location from which the adventurer who helped learned about the trouble."
"Keep our home secret but let the enemy know about the defeats of their allies."
"Precisely," Istuienn says.
"In that case which occurance would you feel the need to report?"
"What happened with the Earth-Kin in particular should be of great interest. Being able to say we have more allies in the war against the dark lord is always news worth spreading."
"I knew they lived in the North Downs," Durlammad says "but I had only heard about them as our enemies."
"Many that live in the North Downs are our enemies but there are small groups that choose to fight for us. One of which lives in the same area as our home. I sent an adventurer to help and they fought many of the Earth-Kin that sided with Angmar and returned the weapons to those that choose to remain our friends."
"The Earth-Kin are frightening looking. I always assumed their strngth would make them difficult to fight for normal sized people."
"They are big but slower than men," Istuienn says. "You wouldn't want to be hit by one but they aren't hard to avoid."
"So says you."
"Someone else came by and stole a massive auroch skull from the camp of the enemy Earth-Kin and returned it to a dwarf living with them at the moment. The skull was some kind of totem and symbol of power for them."
"Sometimes it feels like the random adventurers running into our town do more in our fight with the dark lord than we do," Durlammad says.
"We all do what we can. Their freedom gives them the ability to do more than those of us defending people can."