Like Cats and Dogs - chrisman/skookums-and-dragons GitHub Wiki
Everybody meets up at Raahnub's, where Gronk passes out on the couch hungover/still drunk, and he never moves again. Raahnub's has been living in squalor while churning out counterfeit notes for the last 24 hours, mostly nude and relieving himself in an excrement bucket.
A little gnome comes into the shop--he's kind of thrift store chic and wears a monocle--and offers them a job. They are to retrieve an item and deliver it to a 3rd party.
The item is in a pouch, on a collar, around the neck of a dire wolf, belonging to the hobgoblin from the Huntsman earlier.
The 3rd party is Kiriel, the guy who has a death hit out on them.
The story is the gnome somehow stole this item from Kiriel and then lost it to the Hobgoblin in a game of cards, and now needs it back or he will die.
So this is complicated. But sure! Why not?
They eventually track down the hobgoblin in a gambling den. (Along the way Sully builds some rapport with the zealot street preacher and the immortal butcher.) Sully says "Dash, you seem to have a problem with hobgoblins. Is this going to be a thing?"
"Yep!" And Dash tells them his whole backstory. Tabaxi and Hobgoblins already fight like cats and dogs but with more murder. But one time Dash befriended a Hobgoblin back in the ashlands, only for that hob to betray him and lead a bunch of hobs to his village where they killed a bunch of people he cared about including his youngest brother, so his people cast him out for betraying them to the hobgoblins.
"Yeah, the only good hobgoblin is a dead hobgoblin," said Dash.
So they spend a bunch of time getting to know this hobgoblin and they become friends and they play cards and drink beer and have a good time. He seems like a totally decent person! And then Dash straight up murders him in the alley by stabbing him in the back.
Sully freaks out a little and Nubs uses a little M-Word (x3) to help hide the body.
On the way to the Silver Harp, where Elgren the hobgoblin was staying, they pass by Carefree Versatile Hats and Nubs buys some sweet hats for himself and Sully.
"Murderers don't get hats," Sully sternly said to Dash.
They go back to the hob's room at the inn where the wolf is. Dash scouts around doing some recon, and then Sully goes in solo, dressed up in the hob's armor (so he smells familiar) and also brandishing a deer leg from the IMMORTAL BUTCHER (so he smells delicious), and also casts Plant Growth to restrain her, and gets the pouch.
Everybody hightails it back to Nub's Hub.
Magic tally:
- Nubs: 3 - alarm, illusion, prestidigitation
- Sully: 2 - goodberry, plant growth