"I'm sorry sir, you see I was robbed back in town. They took everything from me." Pac starts to cry "I was hoping to find a guard on our travels to direct me where I can get new papers, you have no idea how happy I am we ran into you. Surely you can help me"

Make a performance check.

7

Yeah that doesn't make it, the guard says "I'm gonna need you all to come with me," do you follow his orders or run or fight or what?

Pac looks at the others cocks their head to the side in a sort of 'what do you all want to do' kind of way 

"How many of them are there?"

"Garenlend whispers "6 on the outside and 6 in the inside of the checkpoint. There are 2 on a couple of turrets as well on top of the checkpoint,"

"I believe we are outmanned and out weaponed here."

"I could try to get us out of here, we might get hit by a ballista or two so if we do run then you might wanna duck and stay out of the middle and back sections of the cart,"

"ok."

"So we running?"

"I'll run."

"Alright, lets go then," Garenlend then takes the papers back from the guard and pretends to shift through the cart for papers before quickly making the horses go quickly, the ballistas will now roll to attack, one hits, everyone make a dexterity saving throw.

15

Okay you're safe.

i rolled 20

You are definitely safe.

Well unless there's anything more to that interaction I say we keep going 

Okay, so you are each now fugitives running from the government, you enter a densely packed forest which is much too quiet, what do you do?

Okay, so you are each now fugitives running from the government, you enter a densely packed forest which is much too quiet, what do you do?