Once they arrive, Lord Mayor Ushakov offers the party anything to prepare them for the coming adventure from the kitchen and mess hall, bath, armory, chapel, scriptorium, and apothecary.
As they sit at the scattered tables inside the Commons,, Greystreet begins to express his condemnation of any human that would deal in trade with the Hobgoblins to Ushakov. The Lord Mayor responds to the merchant that it is actually quite understandable: "Don't think just because they are savages that they lack the good sense to trade, my dear Master Greystreet. I have served here at the mile castle for over 20 years and come to respect the Hobgoblin legions for their deadly cunning and enduring drive to conquer. If trade offers another avenue of conquest, then the Hobgoblins will surely seek it out. I, too, worry what scoundrel of a leader has forged an alliance with them and what dangerous power that leader must hold over the Hobgoblins to get them to cooperate.
It is not surprising that a new Hobgoblin has risen to the level of Warlord among his kind and attracted a small following. We have seen a band of 30 Hobgoblins marching in formation along the ridge to the north. It is clear to me that the area to the north is where the wood was sourced for your ship, Master Greystreet, where the dryad resided in her grove before becoming a fixture on your new ship."
Greystreet scans the party, "My fellows, I have taken an oath to correct the wrongs done in my name and with my money. Were I not a faithful servant of Pelor, who makes the wind blow and the rains descend, I may abandon this quest. But since I am true to my word and deed, I have hired you all to investigate my ship, The Liora, and the source of her curse. But the real curse is out there." He flails his entire arm to point north over Darian's Wall and slaps his chest with an open palm. "From what Lyssehea tells me, we must retrieve the Saw of Mighty Cutting from the Hobgoblins in order to placate Pelor's wrath." He turns to Lord Mayor Ushakov and requests he bring charts and maps of the area.
(OOC: Please roll 2d4. If the result is
- 2, then 1 treant arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell
- 3, then 1d4 centaurs arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell
- 4, then 2d8 brownies arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell
- 5, then 1d6 sprites arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell
- 6, then 1d8 pixies arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell
- 7, then 1d4 satyrs arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell
- 8, then 1 unicorn arrives in 30 minutes responding to Lyssehea's Call Woodland Beings spell