well Asuma's village was destoryed and she took a whole bunch of stuff from her basement including a note saying her father is dead, a map which leads to Whiterun, a note of trustable people, and ran off to Winterhold by accident getting stuck in a bar, and found Tarja and began crying about her fathers death,
 
Murkan is hired as a Merc by a breton, and now murkan is beating the heck out of the breton and scaring the crap out of asuma

brannus is buying something with Walks-in-light

Flavia is at the winterhold college college

everyone else is doing Divines-knows