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Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 2522213" data-attributes="member: 3192">Less than half a candlemark later, however, more visitors were at the door.  This time Father Ben greeted several dour looking watchguard.  “Release the criminals within!” one commanded.  Ben told him he had no criminals, but only a few good men who he gave holy sanctuary too.  The watchguard did not look happy at this. Father Ben brought his face closer to the peephole and summoned all his priestly splendor.  “Tomorrow morning I will seek audience with Lord Radcliffe and straighten this affair out.  If you feel the need to pound on my door, or heaven forbid, burst open this temple that is your business.  I will not answer.  Dawn is but a few short hours away and we all know how our Lordship likes to sleep late.  Perhaps you will explain the damages to the temple when I go to wake him?”Ben shut back the peephole and retired to bed.  When dawn arrived he decided it would be best to rouse his wards early.  He hoped for more coherent answers.Father Ben asked why the men in his temple were wanted as criminals.Ben remembered Lord Ratcliff could not read.  Scanning over the letter he saw it was in Darius’s dwarven influenced script.  It was addressed to an unnamed Sergeant at Outpost Bear and described what the refugees had already told Ben.  How the village of Hamfast had been taken over by goblins and more besides.  It also carried instructions on feeding and housing the thirty men the letter was sent with.  The recipient was to then to escort them here to Keep Margrave.  Ben reflected there was not nearly thirty Hamfastites back at the temple.  He wondered what had become of the rest.  Folding the letter again, Father Benedict explained to Lord Ratcliffe the details of the treachery in Hamfast.</blockquote>

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