Mattiverse Next - Session 22

Hippogriffs CONT.

• The Boys settle in for a fight. They shoot off arrows... that have no effect. Bobwhite sees it as an illusion and tells the party, but the others spend some arrows verifying his claim anyway.
• They rev up a detect magic and look for a source, but nothing remains that is detectable. They move on.
• They get just outside of Yalmrinth when night falls, and make camp there.
• Weird, spooky noises about throughout the night. Four notices they're not from anything around.
• Bobwhite proposes that he watch a chokepoint while the other three go ahead.
  • This plan is interrupted by a magic mouth from a gravestone that warns them off. The gravestone isn't even for a real grave.
  • They continue

Yalmrinth and Further

• They circuit Yalmrinth to get the lay of the land. Four notes on the North exit that a dog-drawn sledge has been there within the last week or so. The party changes plans and follows the sledge, leaving the town for now.
• Camping overnight, on Bobwhite's watch, a fog cloud settles over them. Some bullshit ensues and they eventually find themselves in a conversation with someone who isn't revealing themselves.
  • The gist is that whoever is talking to them thinks they should fuck off, alluding to a similar warning they received from Brenbarrow in Wydmoor. He also says they're idiots for even getting this far.
    • He seems generally predisposed to not have to deal with things dying on his watch. He's glad they didn't kill the goat-man.
  • The Boys note that the nature of their profession means that money talks much more loudly than threats of danger. The disembodied voice takes this with some surprise, and offers some amount of red iron to fuck off and be discrete.
    • Bobwhite notes he can even do one better than discretion, they can report back to the person they've contracted with that this isn't worth it. This seems agreeable to the voice.
• Some clattering and the bearer of the voice fucks off. It's a handaxe, a light hammer, and a dagger, all in red iron.
  • The boys leave behind some replacement (non-red iron) tools just so whoever it is isn't left without camping gear.
• They head back to Yalmrinth and dick around for five days, making sure to rough themselves up a bit so it's convincing. Then they head back to Wydmoor. The travel is incident-free.

Reporting Back

• They set up a meeting with Gragg Goldenhand immediately on return, making sure they are as smelly and disgusting as possible. He's eager to hear their report, but his eyes lose their gleam when the party reports that it's not a risk they’re willing to take without more committed funding.
  • Gragg uses the fact that all was spoken "hypothetically" in their previous meeting to pretend he owes them nothing for their report. The group is unsurprised, but unhappy about it. Bobwhite gets a small amount of revenge by stealing a treasured crown heirloom.
• They resolve to take a bath and see if they can get in touch with Brenbarrow, since they have good reason to believe that the organization he represents will be favorably disposed to them.
• Session ends.