Connects to: 00.06, 03.08, 11.01 and 17.05.
Maris Hallover is expecting the arrival of a supply caravan at Uncle Bertie’s Trading Post (03.08). She’ll be waiting for a long time because it was ambushed by goblins (11.01). The creatures were angered by the lies that the Furhoof (17.05) merchants told them and fell upon the caravan at night, their shrieks panicking the Furhoof ostriches.
The corpses of the halflings and ostriches are now nowhere to be seen but a grove of oak saplings already grows among the burnt wreckage of the caravan.
The only survivor of the attack (or at least the only one still in the area) is a very annoyed were-shark that was being transported to the Ocean of Bitter Regrets in a salt water tank mounted on a great wagon. While in shark form it stays in a small pond and refuses to go far when it legs return for it for fear of being stranded on dry land when it returns to shark form.
Hooks:
- What is it with goblins and oak trees?
- How will Maris and the Furhooves react to the goblin attack?
- What lies did the Furhoofs tell the goblins that angered them so? Or do all lies burn goblin ears?
- Why were the goblins able to panic the ostriches so easily? Is there something strange about goblin voices?
- Who is the were-shark? What was it doing being carted about?
