_With the recent announcement and hiring of independent traders to get supplies to the city, the first Defender paid expedition left the city a few days back. The Black Sails ship Tinieblas set out with a crew of adventurers, amongst them was Pavel, Sabre, Taria, Grag, Rhyndar, Mark, Terrico, Sald, Mareann, Sugg, Delinus and Nako, a Defender advisor accompanying them.
A tenday later, the Tinieblas floats back into the docks, battered and beaten, burn marks all over and small chunks of the deck missing, making it apparent the trip was an eventful one, yet all hands seemed to make it back in one piece. The ship itself was taken off to the Defender repair yards to be repaired while the crew got their pay and the admiration of another of Peltarch's fine Officers.
Coming off the ship with the crew seemed to be a merchant who deals in healing potions and has set up shop in the docks district for the time being as well as a group of mercenaries, led by General Grag of the Legion. Eleven huge orcs, eight large lizardmen fighters and two kobolds escorted the General through the city with Defenders in tow and out to the south.
The Defender advisor was seen in the Mermaid not to long after making port, taking a well deserved break, the stories that come from him speak of a destroyed ship, bodies floating in the water as the ship burnt and finally hissed into the icy depths of the lake, the raiders having just missed them. A waterspout of massive size battering the ship as well as a storm of such ferocity, it pounded the ship with lightning over fifty times, the brave crew fighting off fires to keep her afloat.
He speaks highly of all the crew, especially the Black Sails and the how they fought through everything the lake could offer to get the city its much needed supplies and handled their vessel unlike anything he's ever seen before. Needless to say, more than a few drinks are bought for the brave crew when they frequent the taverns.
Even a few days later after the Greedy Privateer returned from a trip north to a village along the coast with bandages, salves and herbs for healing, the people in Peltarch seem in better spirits with only a few shipments getting through and the Defenders are promising more with such brave crews to see it done._
