04.03 - "A Wagon in need."

The party wrapped up its errands in Baldur's Gate and prepared to move out with he merchant train. Reporting to Leda, she reminded them of their charges, and then the train started moving northward toward the fields of the dead. As the train moved along, they could see another wagon under attack off the road.

Leda called the guards together to point out that it was foolish of that wagon to go out alone, and that it wasn't really any concern of theirs. When Blak asked about the ownership of any spoils if we were to defeat the hobgoblins attacking it, she told him that it would be theirs.

Gamble charged forward shouting "FIRST TO VOLUNTEER!", followed soon after by Blak, Able, and Apostrofae. Brynne rode a short distance from her charge to lob arrows into he fray. Bismark, meanwhile, asked his charge if she wanted her first taste of a fight, and then followed a bit behind with Orvuestra.

In the battle, the noble who owned the wagon was slain by a hobgoblin. The party fought off the others, Blak conjuring the image of a wyvern to scare off a portion of them. As the last hobgoblin, Blak ran up onto the wagon and onto a crate yelling "I claim this!" despite the 3 guards remaining from the wagon. With their charge dead, thought yielded to him. He began busting open a crate, as Bismark walked Orvuestra over the battlefield pointing out things.