Café de Nuit

She blinks a few times, then closes her eyes. "Hmmm,, yes... I read about her once somewhere. Apparently she was an heiress who's family owned some kind of silver mine. When she was fifteen, she became lost in the mines. There she died. Though she thinks she means well, when she hugs someone for warmth, she actually kills them. From what I remember from the text, this sometimes happens to a spirit. Their curse prevents them from seeing the results. Though she is a spirit she seems to mean well."

"Poor child," Valentin sighs. "Not to worry. We will put her to rest."

He waits to be sure the meeting is finished. Then he goes to gather his things for the work ahead.

Grimm walks in casually into the meeting looks among the members there. The halfing's swirling eyes scan each one of them before falling on Isolde and he gives a curt nod in his usual greeting and then proceeds to place an excuse for his tardiness.

"Excuse my late arrival, I had...." started Grimm but seemed to change his demeanor. "Well I like to make a dramatic entrance. I figured throwing a knife into the meeting was on the edge of extreme..."

After a possible moment of silence he tries to deflect the subject. "So we are laying something to rest? Who died?" he asks looking amongst the people here.

"Welcome Grimm, we have to deal with a spirit, we need to lay it to rest and for that we need to kill a bear and do a ritual. Are you with us? Yoiur knowledge of trap setting will be very handy."

"You want to kill a bear... and use it for a ritual..." says Grimm skeptically. Then he shrugs. "Ok, yeah I have no problem with that. We are going to need fish.... lots of fish. Pray to whatever gods that we don't attract more than one...."

"Good idea Grimm, we can lure the bear with the fish to a trap. Maybe those of you that can use bows can climb to trees and shoot from distance while me and whoever else is good in close combat can fight with the weapons."

Tirso walks up to Grimm and offers him his free hand. "Glad you decided to join us Grimm."

"Hu-hu-llo Grimm. I'm P-percy," says a young long red haired woman/girl. She has long red hair and blue eyes. Behind thick spectacles. A purse/briefcase type pouch hangs from her left shoulder. It is obvious it holds a book or two inside. She wears very well worn clothing. Her most obvious feature is her rabbit like feet, rather big and large. If it weren't for that or her glasses, she would be very pretty as a matter of fact as the rest of her is very appealing. Most people see the feet and spectacles first thus ignoring the rest.

Valentin had been standing near the others plotting. He smiles and nods at Grimm as the Halfling enters. He has been heard to say many times in the past, "I like Grimm, he makes me laugh."

He says nothing this time however. Instead, he turns back to listen to Boiros and Tirso's ideas, intrigued.

Tirso squints his eyes and purses his lips. Then he starts scratching his head as if he is trying to remember something of relevance.

Grimm shakes Tirso's hand glad so many could make it to Isolde's call. He wondered what her plan was for all of them after the fact.

"I don't know about bows, but I can hit it from a distance." said Grimm flipping a knife up and down catching it with practiced precision. He then catches his knife one last time putting it away and looks to Percy. "Hey don't worry Percy, we'll protect ya. Ain't nothing in the world's going to go wrong. That right fellas?"

"Anyone know a good blacksmith for a bear trap? We might be able to litter a few of those around so the bear can't run away..." said Grimm before adding. "Just be careful, I've seen what that can do to a man's leg."

"I'm thinking a load of fish poisoned with oil of taggit may put the bear to sleep or at least make it drowsy. It couldn't hurt to have some extra fish to throw to the wolves that are bound to be attracted by the smell either."

"I like that plan if we can get it to work. More humane. There's no need to be more cruel than we have to."

"Very good idea Tirso, but where can we get poison oil? I know there exist poisonous herbs but I don't know how to recognize them."

Turning to Percy the cleric asks:

"Do you have any spell that can put a bear to sleep or make it dizzy?"

Perhaps we can purchase some from the Vistani. We share a lot in common with them and they have collected more lore in this land than most. Perhaps we could befriend them.