Ok here we go guys 

Ready when you are...

Just waiting for the other guys 

Hiya

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Hey man

I’m ready when y’all are

So, how do your characters know each other. 

FYI, my character is a Scholar. 

Morgan most likely knows your scholar then.  He is a sage and warrior, who studies histories for learning battle tactics.

My character is an apprentice blacksmith with connections around town. It is also possible he made connections while serving a short stint in the local militia/military depending on the starting town. Slandor usually runs errands for his adoptive father, and would likely recognize a few faces in town.

Also what town are your characters from. 

Mine is from Waterdeep

Morgan is a traveling mercenary, so he can be in whatever town is needed.  He is from a hobgoblin village a long way from here though I would imagine.

Ok that's cool 

Btw, we are starting in the Greenfields of the Sword Coast in Faerun

I don't have a problem with our characters meeting in Waterdeep.  He could have been there doing some business or working as a mercenary or something else.  What brings us out of the city and way over to where the adventure begins?

We are hired by a wealthy merchant to escort them to Greeneast, a town in the Greenfields. 

Ok here we go

"For the past several days, you have been traveling a road that winds lazily across the rolling grasslands of the Greenfields. Sundown is approaching when you top a rise and see the town of Greenest just a few miles away. But instead of the pleasant, welcoming town you expected, you see columns of black smoke rising from burning buildings, running figures that are little more than dots at this distance, and a dark, winged shape wheeling low over the keep that rises above the center of town. Greenest is being attacked by a Dragon!"

Your actions?

(OOC: assuming we are escorting merchants to the town...)

"We need to get the merchants here somewhere safe."  Morgan says, eyeing the shape of the dragon flying over the town ahead.  Glancing to the merchants.  "There is that town we passed not far back, can you make your own way there without us?"

Kara (my character): to Morgan "your right"

Lead merchant: "oh yes, we can. Why do you ask?"

"It appears that your destination is no longer safe, since a dragon is attacking it.  If you go back to the village we passed earlier you should be safe there until things are settled ahead.  I would like to aid the town ahead if possible..."  Morgan glances over to the merchants, uncomfortable in the idea of leaving them behind, since they had agreed to escort them to the town ahead, but also feeling he was needed now.