"Right!" Susteen rushes off to find the materials requested. When he returns, he is accompanied by a couple more guards.
"I consulted with Councilman Troyas right.. and he agrees that should the hobgoblin's map assists you it then it will go some ways with the brutes sentence.The extra guards train crossbows on the hobgoblin as the other two manacle the hobgoblin and release him from the stock. Armed with a bit of charcoal and rough parchment, the goblinoid draws a crude map with a few noticeable landmarks to look for. It's not the work of a master cartographer by any means but it gives you your heading.
As soon as it's over the beast is placed back in the stocks, much to the relief of the gathered crowd of onlookers. As you set back off through town to gather some last minutes supplies you see a few from the crowd launch a couple more rotten vegetables at the hobgoblin with fairly keen accuracy.
Provisions are hard to come by in the current state of the town. Those shops that are open are are sparsely stocked. Apparently those items not requisitioned by the council to help the town, have been scooped up by the scared populace. That leaves the overpriced merchants that came to town recently, so many of the items you seek cost a bit more that you expected.
One jewel in the madness is Marsh Laval. The fat halfling finds and waddles up flanked by the two serving girls you rescued last night.
"My dear boys, you simply cannot leave without a token of my gratitude. I managed to locate some foodstuffs that the merchants from out of town had in spare and put together something to keep your bellies full as you pursue those nasties. he says with a sly grin.
The dark haired lass approaches Soff'a and hands him a package of food and skin full of liquid. She shyly says,
"I owe you my life and more." she manages to glance up into his eyes,
"I know full well what my fate would have been at the hands of those monsters. I hope you return safely." and with that she quickly stands up on her tip toes and pulling Soff'a down a bit kisses him on the cheek. Then rushes off with the other serving girl giggling, who up to that point had appeared to be sizing up the powerful looking Dunor.
After unloading the rest of the foodstuffs on you, Marsh bids you farwell on you journey,
"Good luck to you, and bring those poor fellows taken home."Once you're all provisioned you set out the broken gate, and once past the orchards and farms......into the wilds.
If you need some last minute goods, go ahead and put a list in spoiler blocks here and the cost and dedcut the cost from your character sheets. Prices due to the emergency have gone up so everything is 20% more than rule book prices. Successful DC =15 Persuasion to knock it down by 10%.
I will give it through Monday for folks to post and then there will be a skill challenge for travel and finding the goblin stronghold.
