<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/de/80/99de80dd4fb18a5a2b5229f5fe73ae72.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;">Twin Oxenbridge</span></strong></span><br/>Human Wizard 1<br/><hr/><br/>Twin finished his inspection and stood straight.  He took a deep breath and conducted business in a matter-of-fact way.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">BUSINESS</span></strong></div><br/><strong>1.  AMARA.</strong><br/><br/>"Twin, can you stay with the wagons while we go looking for<del>Durnin</del>Gundren?" Amara asked.<br/><br/>"Certainly," Twin replied.  And that was that.<br/><br/><strong>2.  TANIA.</strong><br/><br/>“Mr Oxenbridge, I know my contract is with you, but the Order of Myth Drannor signed an agreement to protect Gundren Rockseeker, and not just his wagon. If he’s being taken, and if he lies down… there,” Tania said, pointing to the trail, “Then I’d like to go too.”<br/><br/>Twin considered Tania's request and said,  "Of course.  The occasion gives us cause to accelerate the completion of our personal contract.  Very well, then.  Consider this a verbal agreement as to the conclusion of our personal business, and I shall not interfere henceforth with your duty under a previous agreement.  Good luck.  I shall give you a sterling recommendation for your conduct under our bargain, as well as..."<br/><br/>Here, Twin retrieved a small leather sack which was tied closed by a leather strap.  In it, a platinum piece.  Their heretofore agreed to consideration for her valued services.<br/><br/>"Your compensation."<br/><br/><strong>3.  KATHRA.</strong><br/><br/>"I agree with your conclusions, ma'am, except one part.  Goblins are not irrational creatures, but they do have certain tendencies," Twin said.   "I have had occasion to study them at length.  And they utterly despise horses.  Equinophobia is a part of their shared culture.  Killing the stallions provides little meaning of their intent, whatever the case may be."<br/><br/>Now with Twin's business concluded, it is on to the GM's business.<br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">ADJUDICATION</span></strong></div><br/><strong>1.  LYNARRA.</strong><br/><br/>Under most circumstances, Lynarra would not have learned anything new given her previous track roll.  However, with people there to bounce ideas off of, Lynarra was able to get a better sense of what had happened.<br/><br/>First, she had to ask herself, "who did this buckle belong to and why did he or she leave it here?"  Could the object have belonged to a goblin?  No.  It was far too clean and polished to have belonged to a goblin.  Could it have been left there a long time ago?  No.  There was not even a hint of rust on the steel.  It was not new, she could tell, but it had been recently worn.  But why?  Hmm.<br/><br/>So Lynarra followed the trail, and discovered something else.  This time it was a ring.  Inspecting the ring, she saw a small emblem of a white crown in a field of red and green beveled on a silver ring.  She picked it up.  Lynarra, you think it belonged to a knight's order, but you are uncertain which one.  Not long then, about 50 meters from the road, you come upon an actual trail.<br/><br/>This trail has been recently disturbed.  Small tracks of bipedal creatures traveled north this way.