Apparently, Coils crossed the 20k views mark on Royal Road sometime recently. Shows you how busy I've been that I missed it. Still sitting at 4.2 stars (out of 5).
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/56204/coils-of-the-serpent

Coils of the Serpent | Royal Road
The job was simple: find out why the barges had stopped coming down the river. Surely a group of war veterans could see to that, and have a few laughs along the way. But why had the baron prevented his own people from investigating? And why did their captain insist they journey covertly? Finding out the truth might cost them everything.
