Two men enter the Prancing Pony and order beers before they sit at a table.
"As nice as it is to be inside a city with walls I'm worried about Gatson," Gilmar says.
"There are a lot of rangers, dwarves and elves around there," Holger Tanner says. "The orcs are going to be busy dealing with all of them."
"We did have an elf pass through looking for the rangers. He saw the orcs attacking and stepped in to save us."
"Why haven't you allowed the rangers to bring take you to their hidden city?"
"They offered to protect us but Gatson refused to leave his farm," Gilmar says. "He says that we should fight the orcs ourselves."
"That sounds incredibly dangerous and just a little foolish."
"Maybe but one of the rangers set up his camp across the road so we have a little protection there."
"The rangers are amazing," Holger says. "Watching them practice and spar makes me wonder how the orcs could ever hope to win against them."
"Have you ever seen an orc camp?"
"No but I was chased by a group of them."
"How did you get away?" Gilmar asks.
"That was even less pleasent than dealing with the orcs would have been."
"What could possibly be worse than orcs?"
"Spiders," Holger says "giant hungry spiders."
"You're kidding right? Where would giant spiders even hide?"
"In the hills to the east of your camp on the other side of the fields the wild auroch gaze in. They have a lot of webs spread out and going to the wrong place of the hills practically guarantees you'll be caught."
"How did you go from being chased by orcs to being trapped by spiders?" Gilmar asks.
"We thought the paths through the hills would be a good place to hide from them. It didn't occur to us to question why the orcs stopped at the edges of the creaves we had run into."
"The orcs are afraid of them?"
"I don't know if it was fear or if they saw the spiders before they attacked us," Holger says. "When we noticed the orcs had stopped we turned to see what was happening and that was just another mistake."
"You stopped before you got caught in the webs?"
"We didn't notice any spider webs. I found out in a short time they were around the corner where the sun wasn't shining."
"Do the rangers know to avoid the places in shadow?" Gilmar asks.
"I can assure you they do."
"Wait if you weren't running when you saw the webs how did you get caught?"
"The spiders dropped out of the trees and attacked us," Holger says. "They wrapped us up and dragged us to their webs. All of my friends were killed quickly but before the spiders could get to me the rangers showed up."
"Were they chasing the orcs or actually headed for the hills?"
"They were going to attack the orcs but when the orcs turned back they wanted to make sure we were alright."
"It was a good thing the rangers were there," Gilmar says.
"Good for me but it didn't help my friends."
"Sorry."
"That's alright the rangers did all they could. I hired an adventurer to get revenge for me and kill the worthless bugs."