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Shane and honey returned to the rest of the expedition with the Krolish mercenaries proposal. After some deliberation, the group agreed that seeing their camp from a position of safety was a good idea, and would go along with the plan. Theta sent a message back home with Epsilon to tell those are home the plan, and the group waiting for the Krolish to send their people.   While this was happening, Hilda frustrated the horsemen who attempted to ask her questions. Determining she wasn’t much of a threat, the group agreed to let her depart after feeding her some soup. The group brought a few of their number to trade so that there could be no double-crossing, and Hilda, Theta, Shane, Honey and Malmiir set off on horses towards Camp White Hand   Here the group found a lot of construction being done by the Hobgoblins who seemed to be setting up a base on this side of the river. A few watchtowers had already been built, palisades were being erected and ground was being cleared to lay the foundations The group joined the humans in their part of the camp and as night fell, had a few drinks with them. Theta set off towards the privy to resummon Epsilon and do a bit of recon. The flying cat wandered around from tent to tent eavesdropping, and between that and discussing things with Novak and Szekely learned a bit about things going on. Inside some of the tents were captives including Aripine, Finnegan, Azus and the young Patrick   The leader of the Hand of Doom is Imperator Azzar Kul, with High Wyrmlord Zeynas being a high ranking member of the group and in charge of the spiritual worship of Tiamat, the fearsome 5 headed dragon god. Leading this group, the White Hand, is Legatus Agrosha. Some of the Hobgoblins have received the White Blessing granting them abilities and traits similar to a white dragon, but Agrosha developed into a Half Dragon from this. Other hobgoblins are not so thrilled about the Tiamat worship, and most of them do not accept this transformation. Terrlis the Ironrage holds the title of Praefectus Castrorum and enforces the worship of Tiamat and discipline of the soldiers. Glacierwing is the small but still dangerous White Dragon that has been flying around, and lastly a gigantic bugbear by the name of Scarvinious is leading raiding parties and is preparing an assault on Vraath keep. The group learned that some people were holding out in the ruins while being besieged by Hobgoblin forces and the dangerous bugbear would be bringing in reinforcements to crush them.   WIth all that information the group decided to have a few drinks with the Krolish and settle in for the night, and begin gathering more information in the morning