The Road to Wrymoor

Friday, November 15, 2019 AD

Profesdies, Selium 19, 2205 DE

Within a few hours of the caravan rolling out, the cart carrying small, empty casks driven by cooper Gebert Nese’s 15-year-old apprentice Aemor, broke a wheel and brought the train to a halt. Aemor’s cart was second in line after a wagon loaded with construction tools, materials, and craftsmen who immediately turned out to quickly repair her cart.

In short order the caravan was rolling again and took lunch on the wheel to make up the small amount of lost time, as the cook from the construction wagon distributed hard biscuits, cheese, and water amongst the caravaners.

Taking note of the other vehicles in the convoy, the party observed a fancy, black lacquered coach third in line, a small, covered cart with no guards fourth, a wagon loaded with 15 pigs and sporting a small shelter in the center of the bed fifth, and finally, their own charge, the Red Duck wagon carrying half a dozen large casks. Aemor’s cart had a single guard and the construction wagon included one armed guard in addition to several capable-looking laborers. Sybel, Ivor, and Stephye, guarding the Red Duck wagon rounded out the caravan’s protection.

Late in the afternoon a pack of wolf-riding goblins rode down on the caravan. The seven riders employed a passing charge technique somewhat successfully, killing two of the guards and wounding a couple of others, however three of their riders were killed and the riderless wolves mobbed the pig cart in a frenzy.

Ivor defended from with the pig cart’s cargo bed amongst the livestock, killing two of the riderless wolves. From nearby, Sybel killed a rider (one whose wolf was subsequently slain by Ivor in the pig cart). Further toward the front of the train, Stephye took out two of the riders and wounded one of the wolves.

In less than a minute the fight was over and the surviving riders peeled off. The riderless wolves abandoned the pig feast to follow suit.