Von soon gets a response.

“Don’t worry, fellows,” Von says, doing that Naruto-arm-stretch-casual-walk. “I’ve called in some reinforcements.”  She’ll then probably climb on top of the cart to get a better view. “Just on the lookout for bad and good orks,” she tells the driver. 

"We're still going to have to figure out how to get that ring off of our friend," Camus mutters to Chlorys. "You want to try talking someone into helping us out? I imagine a doe-eyed elf in distress could garner a lot of sympathy..."

Regret washes over Von. "oh yeah. lets hope the next town over has something better in terms of who's in this caravan. No offense, Drake.

Drake beams. "None taken! I have no idea what you're talking about, anyhow!"

Question, is there anything on this carriage/waggon that would classify as a "door" to the extent that thramaturgy could open it? 

No, it's literally just an uncovered wagon.

Just boxes I take it? 

Boxes, but if I recall my original description correctly, it is covered by a tightly-bound cloth tarp.

That sounds accurate... Camus is going to talk to some of the other adventurers and see if he can buy up the material components to cast Find Familiar so that we can just slip a spider under the tarp and find out what we're transporting.

(Persuasion)

Chlorys agrees to help Camus talk to anyone if we can find them and also will cast basic inspiration to help on that roll

Persuasion: 20

Bardic Inspiration die: 1

And just for good measure, Camus will blow a Knowledge from a Past Life in the hopes that we can maybe get a discount (or even get free handouts based on how tragic and bedraggled we look): 6

I really need to stop using the forum dice roller. That is the second time in recent memory when I rolled the same thing twice on advantage (and I actually saw a guy roll two nat 1's on advantage in another campaign about two days ago). Well, total result is 11.