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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShawnLStroud" data-source="post: 42113" data-attributes="member: 1374">Player Introduction to Episode 2The trip from the smoking ruins of Tavolo Green to Ashabenford took just over two days.  Even accounting for the numbers of children and old folks in the group, it was a fairly fast trip.  Hailed as saviors by the other members of your coffle, you have been treated with all due courtesy from the members of the village -- and even the professional soldiers seem to feel you're something special.You felt secure during the trip southwest to Ashabenford -- the group of Mistledale Riders that secured the town seemed professional and on top of things.  They sent two riders ahead as scouts, and kept at least two riders at each cardinal point of the caravan of refugees.  Although you might have just walked or ridden along as a refugee, the Rider leader seemed to feel that you could be a secondary security force, so he deputized you as guards for the trip.  As this granted each of you the ability to draw a few days of pay(1 gold, 5 silver per day for each person), you had very few  reservations about being deputized.After arriving in Asabenford, the Riders took you and the refugees from Tavolo Green to the Riders of Mistledale headquarters on the east side of the river Ashaba.  Ashabenford itself was a small, unfortified town with no more than 2,000 souls inhabiting it normally.  the buildings seemed mostly to be post-and-beam construction, utilizing the abundant oaks and pines from Cormanthyr Wood only a day or so away.  The Riders' headquarters building was a small fortified keep with a parade ground and plentiful stables.  Some of the riders cheerfully told you about their history, of how their fathers and grandfathers turnied aside a larger army from another dale some thirty years before, and how they were going to do the same with this orc scourge.  From their commentary, you gathered that there had been some other raids on hamlets thorughout the eastern portion of Mistledale north and east of the river.You finally partied company with the inhabitants of Tavolo Green but not before they tearfully pressed on each of you the sum of 15gp, 35sp, 22cp as a reqward for your heroism and leadership.  This money, in mixed coinage from throughout the Dales, Cormyr and Sembia, gave you something to jingle in your pockets and purses while you decided your next move. After drawing your pay, you found that there were two or three inns capable of putting you up for the night.  The White Hart was noted as being the most inexpensive and pleasant for mercenaries and adventurers -- not to mention that the owner used to be a Mistledale Rider and adventurer himself!  You found that the White Hart was a pleasant place, and that 2 hearty meals were included in the 1gp/night rental fee.   Holfast Harpenshield, the owner and operator of the 'Hart, turned out to be a gruff but friendly fellow -- short and stocky, with a face like a pit bull's.  He readily agreed to give you 2 rooms at the group rate for a few days while you pondered your next move, then his wife cheerfully fed you a hearty and spicy vegetable beef stew with some spring Ale.And so it was that your first night at Ashabenford passed with little or no controversy, and everyone went to bed.</blockquote>

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