Not entirely sure what to make of Holmag's stream of questions the driver simply ignores him and takes a count of everyone. "One, three, four, six, five... Five!" a few of you hear as he slowly counts, pointing to each of you in turn. "All right, we off!" he yells. Giving the reigns a quick shake the oxen start to lumber forward pulling the cart behind them. After a few minutes he turns to Holmag and simply says, "We only go this fast."
You spend the next few days following the High Road south from Neverwinter, making camp beside the trail each night at sun fall and breaking camp early each morning. The trip has been fairly unexciting thus far, the highlight being a caravan of entertainers heading north, signing tales of adventures along their way.
Early this morning your group veered east onto the Triboar Trail, known as much for its lurking bandits and outlaws as anything else, your journey still remains fairly boring until the early afternoon. As you come around a bend in the trail you spot two dead horses sprawled about fifty feet ahead of you, blocking the way. Each has several arrows sticking out of it. The woods press close to the trail here, with a steep embankment and dense thickets on either side.