The sentry allows the adventurers to enter the waystation unimpeded, but the Waymark patrol are obviously wary and keep weapons at the ready.
The troops gather around the party to listen to Folly and Sharn's recounting of events. A comely man with a formal demeanor, obviously the patrol the leader, edges forward when Sharn's produces the wanted poster and gives it a cursory glance before turning his attention to the dead half-orcs, and finally, back to Sharn.
When Sharn relates the details surrounding the farmers' demise, the patrolmen become visibly unsettled and several shake their heads in disgust and offer other verbal cues of their displeasure at hearing this tragic news.
When Sharn finishes her tale, the leader comments,
"May the gods have mercy on the family. These were good people--Halas, Bronwyn, Ansley, Ilwyn, Corwyn. They showed us nothing by kindness and deserved better."
The man then introduces himself as Sir Rodegar of Fareme, Oathsworn Sheriff of Bard's Gate.
Sir Rodegar says his patrol has just returned from hunting the gnoll clan who sacked the waystation about a week past. He further relates that Halas and his kin hid in the forest when the gnolls attacked the waystation and the pilgrims within. The gnolls took the pilgrims as slaves and fled to the north. The patrol eventually lost the gnolls' trail and returned back to the Tradeway to continue their patrol.
"These two villains are known to me," Sir Rodegar says while examining the dead half-orcs.
"Good riddance and well done," he says as a compliment.
Sir Rodegar dismisses Sharn's concerns with a wave of his hand.
"You have been heard," he says.
Sir Rodegar expresses concern about the evil wizard and his demon and asks which way they fled.