After having outgrown their humble roots in a small town in the mountains of Elduum, the adventurers decided to look for more challenging - and more rewarding - work in the large town of Thoradol. After settling into their rooms at The Lazy Soldier, the party headed down to the common room to find what they could overhear.

Most of the gossip they heard were banal small-town rumors, but Ooka caught wind of merchants who were disappearing to the north of town. After some greedy haggling with Roger the Furrier, they agreed to search out the missing merchants and their goods for a reward of 100GP.

After about 20 minutes of walking up the northern road into the hills, they discovered several wagons that had been smashed and broken on the side of the road. Oddly, though, there seemed to be no signs of their cargo or their drivers. Torrin thought he saw some movement near one of the carts, so he fired a chaos bolt at it, shattering the cart in a hail of splinters.

The shadows they saw coalesced into a a band of wandering wraiths! One flew up the mountainside and started a rockslide tumbling down upon the adventurers, while the other 9 crowded and swarmed them. Our fearless friends were not daunted, and they quickly dispatched the horde.

Once the threat was dealt with, they investigated the area. Sha-Ashar found 46 silver in one of the carts but couldn't discover anything useful about what had happened. (James' character), though, had a much keener eye. He was able to determine where the skirmish had happened and even recovered a few discarded weapons. The adventurers then decided to hunker down an wait for the attackers to return to them.

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Loot:
46 silver
1 longbow
14 arrows

Experience:
475 for killing the wraiths (95 per person)

Experience total: 3845/5500

Labels: missing merchants