The group visited Ernest Cobbler to ask him about his past experience finding Lily's Silverpond, and learnt more about his visits and the tree he once found there. They next found Alyna Bystam drinking the night away in the Dragon's Tooth, buying dried anise from her. Ratyn gave her 1GP for Alyna to buy a drink, which Alyna understood as a gift for her and her friends, with everyone cheering Ratyn on for the drinks. Lastly, they went to Greenhill Inn to get some fresh anise from Gina Honeyflower's garden. While Oris distracted Gina and Aggma watched from afar, Ratyn sneaked into the garden, found a sleeping person passed out, and got some fresh anise. On her way out, she nearly had an encounter with someone relieving themselves. With all their wares gathered, the party headed out in the middle of the night towards Tilley's west to find Lily's Silverpond.

Upon arriving at the destroyed tree, Aggma procuded flame to burn the dried anise, while Oris planted the fresh anise in the ground, noticing caterpillars circling the tree at a 10 meter radius. The caterpillar came for a ritual to dig into the earth, find remaining pockets of water of the Silverpond, and transform into silvery winged butterflies. Oris dug a hole, following the caterpillars' lead, and found a pocket of water and wanted to put his toe in, but Fay Wylders, a local witch and other participant of the hunt, flying above the group on her broom, stopped Oris. She explained the pond's origin and power, while collecting the cocoons.

After waiting a while, the butterflies started dying, notifying the group of the pond's magic disappearing. Oris plunged his hand into the pocket, mentally searching for an object to help find his siblings. That not working, he tried again focusing on a crystal ball, while saying out loud "chess piece" to win the hunt. He immediately pulled out a crystal ball, and acted confused. The group however used the ball to find out where Glen Itchy-feet Harris is hiding, scrying on a child in the orphanage.

After parting ways with Fay, the group headed back to Tilley's orphanage, arriving back in the town during dusk. They found the children of the orphanage during breakfast, and asked Kamile Trudgeon about the child, posting as "Vandal" and having arrived the day prior. After observing him for a bit, Ratyn confronted him, leading in a quick chase through the eating hall, before catching him and having the child dispel the polymorph spell, transforming back into Glen. Next up, Glen will dual Sett!


NPCs

Naomi Copinger

  • Very impressed with what the party bought back, rewards them each with 250GP and 2 year free food at her tavern.
  • About what they found, this is very interesting to her and her boss. Would love to have them go deliver something from the temple directly to him in the capital, as he's been planning to visit it in the future, she can organise their calendars.

Glen Itchy-feet Harris

  • Heads out in front of the orphanage to fight Sett. The children are all making a giant circle around, blocking the street and various carriages trying to pass by. Even the people working at the bakery in front come out to see the event, bringing the smell of fresh bread with them. The floor is covered in a few puddles of water, that seem frozen into place as the tension rises.
  • Glen will take off his shirt, revealing an ageing but incredibly well maintained physical form. Various patches of fur are missing, and lots of long-healed scars cover his body, a testament from his life as a sell-sword.
  • Now this is exciting little boy! It's been years since I've had a change to give a proper demonstration! I do feel sorry you. Don't take this personal, kid.
  • He takes a stance, bringing his left hand in front of his body to defend his head, while his right hand is ready to punch.
  • A child takes the role of the ref, saying "fighters, take your positions! Last one standing wins!"
    • Roll initiative, this will be a few rounds of unarmed strikes. Glen's stats
    • Will combine dodge, and grappling to take down Sett to the floor. athletics vs sett's athletics or acrobatics.
  • If win, says better luck next time, valiant effort
  • If loses, says that he hopes to get a chance for a rematch next year
  • Gives Sett a sort of large pointy tooth with the word "sabertooth" marked on it. Was a token for members of his mercenary group back in the day. Should he meet one in the future, they will provide Sett and his food and shelter to for a night.


Hunt results

Participants

The Vanguard

  • Ended up trying to get the chess piece. Broke into Gregory's first place, found clues for a second place, broke into that, but didn't find it. Frustrated.

Potin' & the gang

  • Went out in the wilds and befriended a group of goblins, who helped them build two very unsafe but fun for teenager looking go-carts that they will use to race after the ceremony!

Timophy Thimofea

  • Got the chess piece, knowing that Gregory is Christopher's rival!

The Boot

  • Brought back a bag with a severed head in it. Inside, the duke's head! But it's a doppleganger that they believe was pretending to be him and cause issues. Fought the doppleganger off in the sewers. Needed to feed it special caterpillar skin to get the doppleganger to reveal its true form. (Fed the group it to make sure they aren't dopplegangers)

Jury

Gina: Votes for the kids, not really sure about the rest of the stuff.

The duke: Wants to vote for Timophy for the chess piece, or for the witches, for his side quest, but sees Auburn Crown's

Brandon: AC. New design ideas for his tattoo shop.

Or if a tie, Patrick breaks it.

Winner

Presented with a commemorative plaque "TO XXX, WINNERS OF THE TILLEY AUTUMN HUNT OF 1024 AC"