Side quest unlocked, Rule

"a beer bar"

Oddly, I feel like you need to specify this in the PNW...

Beer bar, whiskey bar, coffee bar, chocolate bar. There's a lot of ten guys out there who'd get confused.
- Wine bars!
Beer bars (sometimes called taverns or pubs) are legally restricted to selling only beer, and possibly wine or cider. Liquor bars, also simply called bars, also sell hard liquor.
Oregon has weird liquor laws. Taprooms that only sell beer and can't serve spirits are actually pretty common, and they'll have fancy beers brewed in a room behind the counter. (Most of them like to highlight the existence of the brewery by making it visible to the rest of the room.) People don't usually call em "beer bars" but that's exactly what they are.
- You can definitely tell it's a non-native by what they call those places
  
  Also how they pronounce some of the smaller cities
  
  Like Chelatche
- "Brew pub" is the correct term, at least in my experience as a Portlander.
a pub.
There are wine bars and cocktail bars. A "beer bar" is the default, so it's a bit weird to hear, but it also sensible to be specific.
We call them tap houses here, and we have a lot of them.
Just to differentiate it from all the milk bars, you know
As opposed to a whisky bar maybe?

So did they hike to the volcano to loot the missing man's corpse? What loot did he drop?

That's if you fail the time challenge. If you're fast enough, you can instead get the rescue operation quest and collect a higher reward and some fame.
- No way, that quest is bugged - if you get close to it, the physics engine freaks out and starts throwing rocks everywhere.
He actually broke his ankle, but sasquatch was nearby and was able to mend him, but it took a few weeks before he could properly walk.

I heard he's doing much better now. Just had a small limp.
- So how much XP for killing and skinning the sasquatch

Today I learned pnw is pacific northwest. =) Also, side quests are a thing and sound fun.

I thought it was a hacker convention or something. My mind read "pwn"
Many of us also use 'Cascadia', in reference to the mountains we reside in and around.
@ToastedPlanet @Track_Shovel Cascadia for short.
I live there, it's a great place! Plenty of side quests
Volunteer firefighting/search teams are basically this irl

I'm from the PNW and I read this thinking "mmhmm yep I could see how that could happen."

It took me reading this comment to appreciate how out of the ordinary this must sound to someone not from here.
- I'm not from the US and to be honest, it still sounds like something "normal". That's not a rumor. That's just something that happened. A rumor is more like "I heard our ethics teacher has a wooden foot and that is because she got stuck in a bear trap when scaring off a weasel while comforting our biology teacher who found a corpse while scuba diving in the town's lake."
Just a weekend adventure over here.

Yeah, the west coast can get brutal.

E.G. I know a park that has a standing rule that all visitors hiking north (aka up until the wild) should sign in and out, and that search and rescue will be called on any cars left in the parking lot at night.

Not the police. Search and rescue.

Because if you go off the trails you can literally walk off a cliff because the underbrush is so thick.

Art imitates life. Before television, rumors were the way people heard about things. Before newspaper people would know of stuff happening in other place by word-to-mouth.

new skill learned: "investigative journalism"

I unironically just want to be a Stalker living on the Skadovsk and trading vodka for runors and sidequests.

Living in the more rural areas of my state near the National Forest is not too far off

But have fun being 2+ hours from the nearest city if it rains and 4+ if it snows

Edit for added context:

The area is typically beautiful

But if you need to leave the food desert you inevitably will find yourself in, it's a nightmare.
Imagine waking up as Sidorych, eternally trapped in a small underground shack, communicating with mute persons via textboxes and exchanging legs of mutated pigs for ammo.

On the other hand, if it means I am not obliged to work a daily job and pay taxes, why not?
- Funnily enough taxes wouldn't bother me so much if the ultra wealthy and corporations actually paid their fair share.

I live in Oregon! Someone tell me how to do the Bethesda potion hack so I can raise all my stats to reality-breaking extremes.

First you start with a bucket or container on your target's head. If done correctly he won't spot you and you can grab everything. Watch out for when the bucket falls off.
Meth + pcp

Never underestimate the power of gossip, my man

Did you accept the quest?

This reminded me of Julian Sands. :( RIP

His name was David Johnston

(His name was David Johnston)