```col-mdflexGrow=2.5===# Outline## Players' Information [[person/cocoa-tobler|Cocoa Tobler]], the owner of the livery stable, is currently looking to hire a small party (no more than four) to travel westward looking for four teams and rigs he rented out (with wranglers) for a three month journey some five months ago. He knows they were supposed to go to Belakor, and return - they are quite overdue, and Cocoa suspects foul play. He will provide mounts and a small fund for travel expenses and can make arrangements with one of the avanthari messenger services to relay information. If the party locates the missing men, rigs, and teams, but do not wish to return, they can simply send the mounts back with the returning group. Cocoa knows he is probably throwing good horses after bad, but he feels he must try.## GM's Notes There are three possibilities for resolution of this scenario:1. The players will meet the drivers, wagons and teams along the Long Road, returning. A broken axle or other similar mishap has delayed them.2. As the players travel along the Long Road and check various caravanserais, they will discover that the wagons have indeed passed: 95% going to Belakor, 35% coming from Belakor (within the first 500 miles from Haven), 65% coming from (the remainder of the trek to Belakor). Obviously the wagon party has been waylaid by bandits, and the rigs are gone forever. There is a 25% chance that some of the animals and/or one or two of the wagons may be found in one of the towns or villages near the site of the disappearance. Recovery of Cocoa's property may be accomplished by paying the possessor of the items whatever he paid for them.3. If the players reach Belakor, and check around, they will eventually locate the horses and wagons in a livery stable there. The owner of that stable knows Cocoa's brand and has kept the rigs for him (an enormous livery bill has accumulated, which must be paid before the stabler will release the rigs). He has been meaning to contact Cocoa about his stock, but it keeps slipping his mind. The wranglers had put the wagons and stock up for the night when they arrived and gone carousing in one of the taverns down by the docks. They were subsequently shanghaied, and it is very likely that they are somewhere afloat along the coast.``````col-md**Locations/Start** - [[settlement/the-south-corridor|The South Corridor]]- [[landmark/toblers-livery-stable|Tobler's Livery Stable]]**Key Participants** - [[person/cocoa-tobler|Cocoa Tobler]]---### World Anvil Metadata**Id:** db16f023-4932-47a3-b8eb-4989497ab7b8<br>**Entity Type:** Article / plot<br>**Category:** Haven Encounters and Scenarios<br>**Tags:** FCoH-plot```