Episode 1

Our story begins with the party receiving an invitation from the Kingdom of Hasmoden, one of the main kingdoms of Aarde. The ruler of Hasmoden, King Felix, is in need of a hardy and trustworthy group to help transport and protect the priceless Diamond of Hasmoden in its journey to another location in Aarde named Iobisol. Recognizing the members of the newly formed party for past quests and creating a name for themselves in these hectic lands, he sets a task before them as well as several other adventuring groups to judge who will be the best fit for the job.

Their mission is to simply escort a Dwarf named Gundrin Rockseeker and his wagon of supplies from the town of Neverwinter to the recently formed settlement of Phandalin. Gundrin sets off a day early on his wagon with a warrior companion named Sildar Halwinter, hoping to get there first to "take care of some business" while the party focuses on getting their wagon there safely. In their travels, they discuss their past, generally be awkward, and try and get more comfortable with each other since they all will be stuck together for a while longer if they succeed in their mission. A few days into the trip, the group finds two dead horses on the trail, the ones that belonged to Gundrin and Sildar. They were pelted with goblin-made arrows and seemed to be dead about a day or so before the group arrives.

After Wapiti starts creating the first few lines of the song of their journey and handily removing one of the corpses by literally tossing it into the woods, he and Cid go into the woods to check out the situation. Wapiti fails in his quest to find food, but Cid successfully (though accidentally) finds two of the goblins responsible for the missing Gundrin and Sildar. Cid called out to bring Bane and Dubh into the fray, and the four of them slowly and awkwardly take the goblins out with Cid doing the final blow on both. They find a map on one of the goblins, and follow it to a small cave just off the trail. The group decides to investigate and prepares to either save their two missing travel companions, or take care of whatever took their lives.