⚜ THE FREE COMPANIES · Halric's Hand · Day XIV 2,341 g · vault 57 g wages · 20h 56m Season: Late Autumn ⚙ Codex

The Ledger of

Halric's Hand

— a Free Company under the open sky —

Folio

XIV / —

9 swords

The Coffer

2,341

Sealed in the vault pocket. Floor: 10,000 g.

↑ +412 won at Ashfield · ↓ −180 wages last week

Wages Owed

elapsed 3d 4h
auto-disperse 20h 56m

The Company

9 of 12 banners · 2 wounded · all loyal

	Name	Tier	Class	No.	Condition	Wage/d
⚔	Camp Followers — good lads, soft hands	I · base	Infantry	×4	hp 78% · armor 92%	1
🏹	Poachers — hold the wood line	I · base	Ranger	×2	hp 95% · armor 100%	1
⚔	Footmen — Tier II veterans	II · trained	Infantry	×2	hp 100% · armor 100%	3
🏹	Longbowman — wounded at Stage II	III · elite	Ranger	×1	hp 45% · armor 70%	9

Standings — The Isle of Greywater

Ashfield +36

Friendly · the watch nods.

Duneheart −8

Neutral · gates open, eyes wary.

Redstone −62

Hostile · do not show our colours.

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The Map

The Field

Settlement

Contracts

Folio of Travels

The Isle of Greywater

— surveyed in the year of the Ash —

Position

23, 41

Greywash Trail

Ashfield

Town · Friendly

Duneheart

City · Neutral

Redstone

Hamlet · Hostile

Marginalia

"At Greywash they say a wolf walks like a man — I do not believe them, but the longbowman crosses himself."

Forest of Greywash

Hex 24, 41 · Forest

March cost

×1.5

A close wood. The track winds through old growth — no banner flies here, and the road is poor in rain.

Cover ⚐ heavy· Forage ⚐ poor· Ambush risk ⚐ high

Estimated march

15 sec

+ 0d 2h camp time
+ 4 g provisions

Of the Field

The Skirmish at Redstone Crossing

— Round IX of an expected XX —

Initiative

Foe acts

next round in 0:54

Followers

Footmen

Poachers

Outriders

Skirmishers

⚜ Halric's Hand

Black Flag ⚑

Inf → Cav · Cav → Rng · Rng → Inf (×1.25)

Writ of the Round

Their Outriders broke upon our Footmen at the crossing — two horses fell in the press, a third unhorsed and dragged by its trapping. Our Poachers loosed at thirty paces, true to mark, and a Skirmisher will not rise.

Slain ⚐ 3 foe · Lost ⚐ 1 follower · Loot ⚐ +24 g

Cohesion

Halric's Hand	×1.15
Black Flag	×1.20

Terrain

Greywash Crossing — defenders favoured

Within The Walls of

Ashfield

— a town of three hundred souls under the Council of Reeves —

Standing

+36 · Friendly

contracts ↑ · prices favourable

— sketched at the third bell —

The Quarters

⚜

The Notice Board

3 contracts posted · 1 of three stages

🍺

The Crooked Banner

tavern · 4 sellswords loitering

⚒

The Smithy

repair · armaments · banner-iron

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The Counting House

deposit · 2% per week · vault floor +

The Notice Board

⚜

Wolves at the Greywash

— posted by the Reeve, sealed three days hence

"The wood beasts grow bold and a child is missing. Forty gold to the company that brings their heads."

Reward ⚐ 40 g + +8 standing · Stage I of III

⚑

Caravan to Duneheart

— posted by the Guildmaster Olwen

"Five wagons. Four days' march. Bandits known on the eastern road."

Reward ⚐ 75 g + +4 Duneheart · Stage I of II

A Sheaf of

Contracts & Indentures

— two open, four offered, none yet refused —

A contract worth keeping is one signed in plain ink and witnessed by both sides — the rest are hopes. Browse the open contracts at left, the available offers at right, and remember: a Free Company breaks no oath without breaking its name.

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