welcome to planeshift young one, the inhabitants of yliakum is usually pretty talkative, as karyuu said you have to be in a realistic range try walking up to them give them a polite bow and say "greetings i am a newcommer of yliakum, and i have pretty much trouble with this world" or something if they don't respond the first time try nudging them, if that doesn't help, poke them and if that doesn't help either, kick them, on their knee, if you are a dwarf stomp their toes. Or do something completely third, only your imagination puts the limit.