Established where the river empties into the sea, Riverkirk is a hot, blasted thorp on the coast with a population of only 13: four humans, three ranai, two córeans, and a pigfolk, plus relatives. Nearly all the residents are merchants, and to the casual visitor it seems to have been a travelling co-op that forgot to pick up and keep moving one day.
Two of the merchants—Carina of "Carina's Unsurpassed Earplugs", and Dural of "The Charging Sticks"—are candlemakers, and each will say they were the first to offer their services to Riverkirk and the other is just a latecomer. Carina clearly just wants to make an honest living, but Dural seems to have less-than-savory motives...
Those who wander away from the sound of this debate and venture to the river to fill their waterskins might find a silver breastplate waiting at the riverbottom. Whose is it, and how recently did it arrive there? Would anyone notice if it went missing?
If you ask Joaquim, the miner, if there are any interesting places nearby, she will show you her broken leg and tell you about the hidden entrance near the barrow that leads down into the mine she's just discovered. She says there was a cave in and a helpless ranai was stuck inside only a day ago. She was trying to rescue the frog-folk herself when a rock crushed her leg. None of Riverkirk's other residents are willing to help. All of Joaquim's notes are documented in her journal "A Record of the Hidden Entrance Near the Barrow" which she will gladly sell you for only two gold (1 gp and 5 sp if you will promise to save the frog-folk within).
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