Bruce
Colonel Dorcas Standly
Ducksbury, South Feyshore

Colonel Dorcas Standly smiled to himself as he watched the townspeople around Lord Duckly's House of Pleasure began to get armed, for free, by Lady Elise Hagen. The poor girl must've have been wearing herself, and her coffers, thin. He turned and walked back toward his lord's manor. 
Lord Duckly laid across his silk chaise with his flowing robes draped beautifully over his stout legs. He sipped white wine from a delicate chalice of silver. His watery, crystalline blue eyes looked up expectantly at Colonel Dorcas. 
"Is it done?" Lord Duckly drawled, wiping beads of sweat from his upper lip. 
"She's resistive, so she has resorted to bankrupting herself," Colonel Dorcas scoffed. Lord Duckly laughed. 
"And Jeff?" He asked. 
"He is doing as he was told. She trusts him," Lord Duckly confirmed.
Sally
**Kirk Pinewood, Verina Crowe, Clebson Albury
Near the Southern edge of Audeamus Forest**

The quest crew had been traveling for an hour when Kirk looked out the front window. "Clebson, is that the exit?"

"I didn't want to jinx it." Clebson muttered, staring ahead as though it would disappear if he blinked.

A guard was dozing off at his post at the edge of the forest when he was alerted by the sound of approaching horses. He stood up straight but didn't see anyone approaching. He looked back and saw that someone was coming *From* The forest. Both the carriage and the driver steering it seemed to be in a shabby state. "Where did you come from?" The guard asked.

"Brindelle." Clebson answered, only having the strength to turn his head slightly in the guard's direction.

The guard was in stunned silence for a few seconds. "How... How are you still alive?"

"Am I?" Clebson asked weakly. "I couldn't tell." 

"Where are we?" Kirk asked from inside.

"Stormalong." The guard responded.

"Thank you." Verina said in return.

The carriage began rolling on and the guard stayed back, confused about what he should do. He wasn't used to seeing people *Leave* Audeamus Forest.

. . .

They pulled to a stop in front of a tavern and inn called The Golden Fleece. As they walked away from the carriage, they heard a crack as the rear axle broke. The group looked at each other with exhausted expressions.

"Tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow."

. . .

As they waited for their room to be prepared, the trio took a seat in the tavern. Clebson ordered them a round of drinks and took a substantial swig of his when it arrived. The other two didn't touch theirs. Verina's hands were pressed against her lips, and she was breathing heavily. Tears ran down Kirk's face as he finally came to terms with the fact that they were back in civilization. "You two are bumming me out. I saw a brothel called The Gilded Oyster on the way here. I'm going to head over there and see what the girls will let me do on credit." The comment did not elicit a reaction as desired, but Clebson stood up anyway only to feel soreness come crashing down on every muscle and joint in his body. "On second thought, I think I'll wait for Ibethiel." He quickly sat back down in his chair and laid his head down on the table.

. . .
David
Elise Hagen
Hagen Keep
Though it seems she was bankrupting herself it would be so if she hadn't been working for her life to save. She is a penny pincher about most things, and luckily this isn't much off the coffers since the metal used was stuff she had as spare, and from refining the metal dust from any swords she crafted. Even then it did just run her out of steel not money. Even then in her hustle and bustle she did seem to trust the other lord even if he didn't know him personally. Though if they were going to make her keep some evil place that they want she will not want that, or will wish it on anyone.
Nathan
Jeff
The field Hagen Keep 
Jeff wonders what his life has been right now. He had lived frugally his whole life, but the offer Lord Duckly was hard pass up. Would running over someone else to move forward really be the right thing to do? He's willing to do a lot of things to get enough money to buy back his old house.
Currently he's just sitting around awaiting his next orders. He keeps staring at the field. "Working for the people you hate huh." Jeff thought. "I don't wanna think about this no more." Jeff signed as he layed down on the field.
Bruce
Colonel Dorcas Standly
Ducksbury

Dorcas sent a courier to give Jeff his next orders. Lord Duckly had promised Jeff a healthy payment, stipulating that his undying loyalty be kept. Jeff had graciously signed a contract that clearly stated that should he FUCK anything up, his neck would be separated from both his head and body. The peasants would sign anything for a drop of gold. 
The courier located Jeff in a field near the land that belonged to Lord Duckly's House of Pleasure and passed him an envelop with an intricate pink seal. The letter had a simple message, one that even the likes of Jeff could understand; 

*Burn Hagen Manor to the ground*.
David
Elise Hagen
Hagen keep tower 
Elise sighed and sat up there silently. She wished her family cared enough about this place to come back and help, though she didn't know that Jeff was being evil. Though she did feel odd about him, even though she knew his story she didn't feel up to doing more besides paying him for his work, even if he didn't know how to work the forge he did seem like a good guy. Even then in preparation for the battle she made sure to set up defences around the keep as well and reinforced the door as well as making places to where the hunters of the town could fire from inside the keep. To her, and the people here it was an attack, and they prepared themselves for such, so with the food she has and other things the town had come together to help Elise prepare the keep and town for the coming battle. Though as a secondary plan she sent out a letter to Lord Duckly
"Dear Lord Duckly,
I don't understand why you would want an old keep, but if needed I would have offered to help you build the place if asked. If you did wish to offer anything I would accept 2% of what the place will earn when built. There is good stone around my keep and I wouldn't even mind offering my metal work for a small price just for materials.
Sincerely, Lady Elise Hagen."
After she sent off a courier and paid them.