You decide to support the spirit of the inhabitants of this village. Discouragement never leads to success. In addition: cheerful peasants will be more sociable.

You don't like the situation in this village. An atmosphere of despondency and superstitious fear. This is detrimental to successful hunting. You are a professional monster hunter, but even you may need help. What is the use of assistants who can only piss themselves from superstitious fear?

Your experience confirms that maintaining the spirit of the locals is an important aspect for a successful monster hunt.

You remember how you carried out an order to fight cave goblins who were attacking one of the villages east of your home village of Bear Ravine. The goblin attacks began because a group of local residents (a small trader and a couple of his relatives), in search of profit, went down into an abandoned mine and cleared a rubble that hid the passage to a deeper level of the mine. These guys were hoping to get rich. They thought of finding treasure. But they found only their own **** at the hands of goblins, whose settlement was located deep in the caves. After this (after all, the blockage in the mine had been cleared), the goblins began to make predatory raids on the surface.

You had to spend about a month fighting the goblins. You were **** to organize the militia of this human village, plan ambushes, hunt down enemies and organize an attack on the goblin settlement deep in the caves.

In the end, you achieved success. The goblin settlement was destroyed. Most of the goblins were killed.

But could you do it all alone?

The obvious answer is no.

If the inhabitants of that village were so cowardly that you could not form a militia, then your task would simply become impossible.

Even the most skillful and powerful hunter will not be able to withstand hundreds of enemies alone.

You also remember one of your most difficult orders. Killing the swamp troll. This took place in one of the small villages of the Forest Reach duchy. Fortunately, trolls mainly live in the central and eastern parts of the continent. There are few of them in the western part of the continent. But if at least one troll starts hunting near a human village, then it is very dangerous. For humans. For a troll, this is usually fun and tasty.

You had to hunt down this strong and resilient monster for a long time. You were helped by guys from the village whose headman hired you. These guys are young peasant hunters who have had less experience than you. But, thanks to their help, you managed to organize an ambush on the troll’s path. And you also managed to inflict fatal damage on the troll. Fire and flammable oil. A deadly combination for a troll who is weakened by fighting three opponents at once.

Only your two assistants died. The troll managed to crush the skull of each of them.

If you were to encounter troll face to face, without prior preparation and without the help of anyone, the outcome of this meeting would be very sad for you.

Having considered the current situation, you decide to take action.

You say loudly, looking around the peasants who have gathered in this inn: “Dear Durlen! Drinks for everyone present at my expense! Good ale won't hurt us! I’ll go to bed a little later!”

At your words, Durlen Gruy's eyes sparkled with pleasure. His face stretched into a sickly satisfied smile. This enterprising guy is probably already mentally calculating the amount of money you will give him for a drink.

Peasants react in a variety of ways. The elderly peasant women are not very impressed by your generosity. Most of them remain sad.

Male peasants perceived your gift more positively. None of them refuse free ale.

Two male peasants demonstrate particularly zealous enthusiasm. Judging by their appearance, they are local drunkards.

You think, “Besides keeping my spirits up, drinking also has another benefit: tipsy locals might blurt out important information that might be useful to me.”

So you sit down at the table of these two village drunks and start a casual conversation with them.