#10 – fast forward – enter Bax

The pursuit of the stolen books, Randal the vampire, and thereby Hamron’s mentor, is taking a minor detour when some bandits try to scare you from following your leads and hopefully leave Hluthvar.
You were on your way to the library to clarify who had concrete knowledge of the whereabouts of the books, but on your way to the library you are ambushed by a group of thugs.

But it takes considerably more than a handful of seasoned thugs to scare a group of emerging heroes, and after an intense fight through the alleys of Hluthvar, you run them off, and you even get a captive.
The captive is a member of the thieves guild in Hluthvar, and has relatively little to tell about why they ambushed the group, but knows that they were hired by a big fellow who has connections to the Cult of the Dragon, and who probably was some sort of magic user as he had blue ink on his hands!

After the fight, and a talk to the city guard and the witnesses, you choose to put of the visit to the library until next morning. You head of to the Hammer and Forge to take a timeout to think things through and take a short rest.