Thanks to all for the quick responses in the HELP channel the other day.
As I mentioned, I came back from a few days away to find my town bell had been destroyed and my defenses penetrated. Luckily, my primary pclaim had not been looted yet.
The perpetrators were still running around my base. I was able to quickly repair a stockade fence and brick fence to my inner pclaim when they were not watching and got braziers back online. I then used alts to collect scents from all over the base. With the help of the community I was able to get two of the offenders stocked multiple times now and one has since died (when i try to stock him now i get the message). I will continue to stock the other offender and am still sorting through all the scents to determine if I had additional perpetrators to bring to justice.
The lead raider was talking me to through the repaired fence and making all kinds of threats that he was going to take over my pclaim with a town bell if I stocked any more of his characters. He claims he is this guy viewtopic.php?f=20&t=18592 I guess he fails to recognize that he already destroyed my town and I have nothing to lose. The pclaim has since been cleared of all valuables and most items converted to silver in order to fund the revenge campaign. I have also started putting the scents on my vendor booth (furthest west row) for 1 silver if any bounty hunters are interested in tracking down additional offenders and getting scalps.
I always wanted to be part of a raid and can say that even know I had considerable losses, I am having quite a bit of fun. This game has such potential!
Keep an eye on the stocks the next few days and I will keep all offenders stocked as often as possible.
Thanks all!