S02E10

## The Trial of Wilfred Hill

Wilfred lay unconscious in the back of the carriage as they raced to Horn Hill and Randyll Tarly's judgement.

"I am sorry I promised Lord Tarly I would capture this man," Hamza apologized. "At the time I did not know that this Wilfred Hill was a friend of yours."

"Friend might be a stretch," Rook said.

Fiyona looked to the others thoughtfully and said, "We're going to need a plan. Even if Wilfred is a kinslayer, he's valuable to us. I'm no help in a trial by combat, but I could plead his case."

"Someone's coming," Hamza noted without having to look.

Fiyona and Rook glanced out of the sides of the carriage and noticed a pack of horsed men charging behind them on the road. None of them recognized the riders, but they clearly had spotted the carriage and were racing to meet them.

The group readied their weapons as the riders approached. The leader of the on comers waved for them to stop their carriage. They did so carefully. Up close, they could tell that these people were a band of sellswords, local to The Reach. With them was a person tied at the hands and wrists, with a bag over their head.

One of the mercenaries pulled the bag off of the prisoner's head and kicked him to the ground, revealing Alon Redwyne.

The leader of the mercenaries spoke, "The last time this snake comes to these parts, he uses his slick tongue to borrow from us fifty gold dragons. All we bloody had. Investment opportunity, he said."

"That venture is still maturing, and if you..." Alon began, but a sellsword kicked him in the belly before he could finish.

The leader continued, "Then he fled. But now we got him. I'd say with him runnin' out on us, plus interest he owes us plenty. And he says your his friends, so how's about you give us four hundred gold dragons and we don't slit his throat."

"Again, friends is such a loaded word," Rook said.

"Gentlemen. If you'll allow me to explain..." Alon started.

But again he was cut of by the lead sellsword: "I will not allow you to explain. I will not allow you to use that damn mouth against me. I'm going to put this simple. Either you give me four hundred pieces of gold, or I slit all of your throats!"

With that, Hamza swung out his ball and chain and crushed the mercenary leader's face with one simple motion. Rook put a knife into a sellsword's chest. And that didn't fell the man, he put another knife beside it. Fiyona shouted intimidating words, giving the remaining men pause.

By then, Alon had his hands free of the bonds and continued the intimidation. Explaining that the mercenaries had better flee and forget his debts, or worse than death might come to them.

The mercenaries ran.

Then there was a trial. Many witnesses gave testimony. Many pieces of evidence where shown to the court. And there was a lot of arguing. The group managed to win the trial, generally by emotionally destroying young Samwell Tarly, brought in as a witness by his father.

In the end, Lord Randyll was forced to put out a public decree announcing Wilfred Hill's innocence and with it House Tarly's commitment to the Rebel cause.

## Experience

Alon, Fiyona, Hamza and Rook all gained 14 XP, 3 Glory and 355 Silver Stags.

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