Episode 10: Time for Tixie

General Summary

From: The office of Braith Broadfoot – Little Lockford Mayor the Tenth

To: Guildmaster Raithara Stoneshield of The Triple B Guild, Tortoise Spike, Kirinal Pit

Mistress Stoneshield,

I write you today in recommendation of Jackie Daytona and his Returners, whom you sent to deal with Little Lockford’s disaster at the hands of our rogue tinkerer, Tixie Tockworth.

They took a very direct route to her workshop—wasting little time. Efficient! They were able to deal with a pair of animated armor guarding the shutdown device, who even utilized the defense field to turn allies against each other. A tough fight, but the Returners prevailed thanks to some stellar archery from Taela

They were able to find Tixie’s safe right where I told them, above her workshop, but she had trapped it to alert her if opened—and that Laszlo had just the spell to knock it open, ha! I could see some steam burns from Tixie’s weaponry, but she otherwise did very little damage. Apparently, she didn’t want to shoot Gundar in that flawless face of his. Can you blame her? I know you know, Raithara.

It was otherwise a cramped fight, and they were able to recover Tixie alive. Impressive. They shut down the automatons directly, but they didn’t stop there. They went to our steam turbines and cleared out a monster, which allowed us to restore power to the whole town. They even restored the bridges to the command center and the abbey.

Gundar even got his allies to recover the sole survivor of our Abbey—Abbot Kavoda—whom they delivered safely back to our shelter.

I cannot commend the effort of these guilders enough. I see a bright future for them, especially that Gundar, if he ever wants to move back up to the mountains. Tell him I said hi.

As always, thanks for taking the bounty and sending competent hands.

Faithfully,

Braith Broadfoot