We received a wanted poster of sorts...for griffons. They wanted us to get them out, dead or alive. We got to a tavern and met our contact, Gundar Shornshield, who informed us that there are two adult griffons and unknown how many children ones. The griffons showed up at their town around two months ago and have been attacking horses and taking them back--partly indicative that they are taking them back to feed their babies.
Before we could even go out to handle the issue, a scraggy guy came bursting in and said the griffons were attacking the market. We headed out that way and found 5, FIVE baby griffons attacking some horses. WHY are there always so many creatures??????????
We engaged them and this was a shit show. The horses ran off and killed their handlers, the griffons killed the horses and flew off with them. I don't even know what happened. Gundar came with back up archers by the time everything was finished--THANKS I guess. We headed off with Arlie leading the way to the StarHill Mountains or whatever it was and ran into malnourished coyotes.
Why is everything malnourished? Is this more yetis? Are the griffons stealing their food? The world may never know.
I used ten days of rations to convince them to ignore us because I'd really rather not fight them. Looks like I just need to carry hoards of rations on my person if every creature here is just malnourished! Everything is going to continuously try and eat us. Mimmy and I used magic to make up an illusion with sustenance to further distract them as we ran past.
Arlie led us further through the mountains and we found starmetal! It was a decent sized chunk too so we tucked it away to sell later. Afterwards we came to a cliffside with a bunch of corpses at the bottom. The corpses had magic gloves on them so we took them--learning the griffons are more than liekly at the top which is why the gnomes died. After putting on the gloves I just felt even more connected to their magic. They make climbing much easier.
I have never climbed something before in my life.
These gloves did all the work. I was lucky enough to not just fall off the side. But Fenris caught the attention of the griffons and we were immediately attacked. Great. After a worrisome time we managed to defeat them all and take the eggs as well as getting magic staffs.