Departure from Arthedain (Turn 0)

• The warband leaves the hinterlands of Fornost heading towards Cardolan. The land is scarred by war and taxes: villages weary from levies, fields left fallow, shrines untended, and roads broken. Smoke drifts from abandoned farmsteads, and the people they pass look hollow‑eyed.
• On the road in Cardolan, the warband meets, Maeric, a beggar with the bearing of a broken soldier. Who delivers a contract from Lord Hatholdir, a minor noble of the marches. Hatholdir wants the warband to investigate an abandoned watch‑post near the Cardolan border. Hatholdir uses outcasts as messengers—expendable, desperate, and cheap. Maeric accepts for scraps of bread and the faint hope of favor. And because Hatholdir can’t afford to have actual retainers, but wants the facade.
• Threads & Tension:
  • Beregond sees noble duty.
  • Thirwen sees nobles exploiting the broken.
  • Calmion suspects Maeric is angling for coin.
  • Halros senses a haunted man unburdening memory.
  • Mardoc smirks at the irony of a noble’s command passed through a beggar’s mouth.
  • Lareth nods solemnly, believing it is right to answer a lord’s call.
• Additional Thread: A letter reaches Beregond from an old comrade, urging him to “stand fast." To Beregond it is encouragement; to Thirwen it is empty rhetoric.

Settling in at the town.

I like this phrase. I’d like to work it in….

None could meet their eyes for long.

• Initial travel sequence to the chosen destination (the Town / Trading Hub):
• Roll Travel: 31 → Meet Someone.
• Travel Encounter Table: 03 → Beggar.
• Interaction Table: 43 → Sociable.
• Motive Roll: 100 → offers a Contract.
• Contract Type (p.100): 86 → Explore Area.
• Contract Source: 83 → Local Noble.
• They continute to the Town and accept the Contract
• We’ll add a new Unexplored Location in a random Map Area. The warband have five turns to visit this Map Area, Explore the Location and return to the Town. -1 Backpack slot for this Contract for maps, etc.
• We’ve arrived in the Town, and now we’ll do the Resolution Phase.
• Rolled a 28 for News Travels which means: An old friend sends you a letter. , We have an adventurer friend based on our avatar history so we add +1 Story Point.