Page 364 of End Game

Alexis succeeds on an animal handling check she has absolutely no business succeeding on.

The goose follows her.

Cami is delighted.

Ronan looks personally betrayed by his own dice.

Then Griffin kills the half-orc.

Which would probably end the encounter if Shawn didn’t immediately ask, “Where’s the silver box?”

Silence.

Ronan smiles.

Fuck.

I know that smile.

Apparently Shawn does too.

“I don’t see it, do I?”

“No.”

The dealer runs.

Through another door.

There is now a chase.

Alexis takes the goose.

Obviously.

Twenty minutes later, we’ve chased the dealer through a basement tunnel, up into an alley, across a market, and directly through an NPC wedding.

Griffin tackles the dealer into a cake.

Cami uses thaumaturgy to make the approaching city guard sound a hell of a lot closer than they actually are and sends half the wedding guests scattering.

I steal the box.

Shawn casts something that blocks the alley behind us.

Alexis’s goose bites a groomsman.

Ronan has completely lost control of the session.

Which means it’s going extremely well.

By the time we make it back to the tavern, all of us are laughing.

Even Ronan.

Especially Ronan.

He sets the silver box in the center of the battle map.