Bandit trouble

As the company travels, troubling news is brought by fleeing cavarvans of merchants. The bandits in this region, who had been a constant nuisance to the locals, had united under a bandit king! Soon after news came that all the bandits, thiefs, and highwaymen within 5 leagues (15 miles) had rallied under his banner and where to seize control of the surrounding towns: Illandria and Harsten. Immediately the company was offered lucrative contracts to defend both cities. Instead of focusing on saving only one of the two towns, the company would split up, sending a larger part of the forces to Illandria under the command of Lieutenant Elmo and the smaller to Harsten under the command of the Captain himself

(Harsten was a great bustle of activity, the commander having wasted no time on getting a communal effort to make Harsten defensible, and distributing arms to the locals and hastily training them, every man needed to defend their homes)

Scout: The first harassment force has arrived! They come from the northwestern forest!

Captain:Form up men!