RPG 2 – The demons are coming!!!

Almaren and Adelaide entered a lively village. Although the couple looked rather peculiar – a man in a tattered cloak, cradling a wounded arm, and a ghost walking around in broad daylight. But, strangely enough, the locals didn't pay any attention to the guests – they must have seen stranger things.
- Hey, sir, - Almaren addressed the first old man he saw, - can you tell me what they're celebrating here? And could we rest somewhere? We just crawled out of the swamp, and we're tired as a hundred dogs.
The passerby smiled and cheerfully replied...
[OFFGAME] Can I, as a GM assistant, temporarily role-play as Eric, since he seems to have disappeared?