Peasants and common folks near the market and in the Broken bell, talking about missing livestock. The scourge effects mostly the farmsteads by the foot of the Balinoks, there's not a day the Ostevik's not missing a few goose or chicken. And even though they lock the livestock into the barn at night, lately claw marks of a bear can be seen on the thick oaken gate.
Also the bee hives of Bervis were assaulted by a bear, finding the sweet honey a delicate desert.
People murmur that the cause of this newfound trouble must be those barbaric hordes that roam the Balinoks as of late terrorizing Kroftburg, and so hungry bears wandering down the slopes to find some food. Yet, as people talk they state, how this all strange as bears are usually omnivorous, and only on a very rare occasion they attack living prey, not to mention drawing so close to farms. Attack of men is even more uncommon from a bear, as they usually avoid travellers.
Complaining about the price of the cheese raising as the favored goat cheese of Kroftburg have difficulties to reach Vallaki lately.