"How now!" the right of the front two Purple Dragons, a masculine and rather stubbly chin visible in the currently-open-faced helm. " 'Tis the law whom may presume to issue such questions and demands! We hope for your sake that your warning refers to some lounging monster or hoof-trapping washout presenting danger on the road ahead, which you seek to be helpful citizen in alerting us too...otherwise we shall identify ourselves to you in a more direct way than you may care - as the long arm of the Crown! For the Dragon!"<br/><br/>He's begun speeding up as he spoke, the other mounted knights following suit, and staggering themselves so they could better gallop along the narrow-for-horse-standards path. At his last epithet, those with helms (all but the spear-armed woman in the third rank) folded them down, the first three men lifted lances from saddle-straps to hands, and they galloped. The angling of their horses suggested they intended at this point not to lance Lady but to split around and probably surround her, brandishing the long weapons to make a point, as it were, about the law of the land.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>(not that you have to do anything initiative-y, but if you do:)<br/><br/>Purple Dragons init 9 (300' away, in a left/right staggered 'zigzag' line to fit their 10'x10' DnD horses on the 15' wide path)<br/>Ashan/Pennae/Ulaw init 7 (Ashran and Pennae at same positions as earlier; Ulaw at square 1s1e, just to the east of the intersection)