Fondfield:
most adventurers meet and live at the Green Goose Inn and Stables.
There a number of shops nearby for supplies.
Blacthorn’s Bow and Arrow Shop
S16: Jara’s General Store
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For NPCs a message board is outside the Green Goose Inn. During cold, windy, or rainy weather it is brought into the Inn.
Travel from Fondfield to the border is rather easy, mostly. There are patrols on foot and by cavalry. The closer any group gets to the border they will notice folks get less and less outgoing and friendly.
Raids into border farms, and night attacks on keeps and castles, make many living here suspicious of strangers.
A patrol just at the border will warn the adventurers that there wont be any help between Trillolara and Lonesome Keep. The keep is about 550 miles from Fondfield.