From publisher blurb:
A company of adventurers has just arrived at the gates to an impressive city by the sea when they are approached by someone from a nearby village – nearby being some three or four days away. They are experiencing some “difficulties” with things and would like to hire an experienced group of adventurers to help. As they are a poor village and do not have the resources that other might have, the adventurers are pretty much all they can afford (starting adventurers can’t be too picky, can they?). The person requesting aid asks them to travel to the village (several days away through the forests and hills) and offer assistance to those that still remain. However, dangers lurk within the trees and brush once civilization has been left behind – and the village might offer the least of the worries found.
Goblins, skeletons, and wolves – oh my! Everything a starting adventurer needs to grow big and experienced is presented here – and a few other surprises as well that could prove to be challenging to those that don’t heed the “Fight or Flight” gut feeling. Challenges, magic, mystery, risks, and even the occasional lions and tigers and bears stand between the adventurers and their rewards. And, at the very heart of the problems, lies a community with its future threatened by the past. Can the adventurers rise from nameless wanderers to local heroes, or will they succumb to the perils that lie in wait around every hill, and in every hole?