Jason smiled and shook his head at the halfling cleric, "Spreading out our departures, those of us who are going at least, wouldn't be a matter of trust, but survival. The speed and nearness of the ambushes of the first two parties almost screams that there are watchers either in town, or nearby watching for a large group to leave. They may even be watching this inn since the first two groups gathered here..." He stroked his beard slowly in thought, "That would be disturbing if they only have to watch for a large group of new-comers leaving an inn on a backstreet..."<br/><br/>He shook his head again, "A barge at night stands out too much, I haven't heard of too many barges that travel waterways at night and unless we can get some sort of larger group of people to blend into, we would be more exposed than needed." He smiled then, "Perhaps we could arrange to accompany a small caravan and then slip away once we had moved far enough along. There are too many here to pull hiding in something, and the last time I tried that, I got a pitch-fork in a tender area... On the other hand, they may not expect another party to come in on the same track as one of the first two, if they make the assumption that we've been told of the first two groups and wanted to avoid the area... but there is the speed and fact that they moved that far that quickly... and no idea of how many of them that there are... They coulld be spread all over the southern end of the marsh."