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You Acquire a Neat Feather

You tighten your grip around Killfinger’s handle. This hippogriff is about to get nine feet of cold metal through its hot bird-slash-horse intestines. It takes all your strength to heroically raise the elongated sword into the air, then you push the sword downward toward the beast. The heavy blade falls slowly and painfully, giving the […]

You Get Your Money Back on the Sword

You tighten your grip around Killfinger’s handle. This hippogriff is about to get nine feet of cold metal through its hot bird-slash-horse intestines. It takes all your strength to heroically raise the elongated sword into the air. Killfinger wobbles uneasily in your hands, like a wizard lightweight in a tavern. The blade catches the sun, […]

The Hippogriff Attacks You

You tighten your grip around Killfinger’s handle. This hippogriff is about to get nine feet of cold piercing metal through its hot bird-slash-horse intestines. You attempt to raise the blade… but… you’re not strong enough. Your arm muscles were aching just dragging this bad boy. The bladesmith warned you it was too heavy. Why didn’t […]

You Try to Bond with the Hippogriff

Maybe the hippogriff only looks crazed. You’re not an expert on hippogriff biology. They might froth at the mouth when they’re extremely happy… or horny…? You hold up Killfinger with one trembling hand, then outstretch the other toward the creature. It slowly and cautiously stretches out its neck, its beak inches from your hand. The […]

You Killed a Hippogriff

Now that your blade is half as long and weighs half as much, you can actually sorta hold it. While the hippogriff is distracted stomping on what was, for a whole hour, your most valuable possession in the whole world, you plunge the broken Killfinger into the back of the hippogriff’s neck.  The beast stumbles […]

You Abandon Your Absurd Sword

What good is a cool sword if you’re too dead to enjoy it? You drop Killfinger and quickly run from the hippogriff. The creature doesn’t give chase. Truthfully, you never imagined fighting a battle with Killfinger. You pictured it more as a statement piece for your living room. But now that you think about it, […]