Chapter 1

The ragtag team consisting of Mekatos, Sindarin, Runaan, John, and Philip meets as they are given the task to explore the wilderness around Oleg's trading post. When they arrive at the small building, drenched from the rain, they find the man being threatened to give coin to a group of bandits consisting of two bowmen, a dwarf and a human, and a human and half-orc swordsmen. Fighting broke out and two of the opponents have fallen. The leader is on the ground, cackling from Tasha's Hideous Laughter, and another bandit is being hit by Vicious Mockery. (AK)