Character Name: Matt Reaver
World name: Odin
Prize: Scarf of Wonderous Wit

‘Matt is a lovely boss!’ said Elflady, sharing a drink with her co-worker Hyurgirl at the adventurers guild in Limsa.

‘I don’t know he’s kinda indecisive, makes it really difficult to get him things that are useful, I mean, I met him before you did, when I met him he was a dragoon, jumping about like a maniac fighting the meanest of enemies keeping us all safe, then he got in with that band of fools and went off to stop Bahamut! Decided to pick up a bow for twelves sake, decided to sing to the group. What did that achieve? Yes they stopped Bahamut and saved us again, but in the grand scheme, what did he actually achieve? And now, we move to Ishgard at his lordships command. And what is he doing now, reading books, summoning smaller versions of the enemies he once sought to eradicate from this world. Off fighting large sentient machines!? Gods help me, the man is as indecisive as they come. And to top all that, he’s somewhat addicted to plastic surgery. I mean he started as a Miq’ote, then out of nowhere BAM! Lalafel. Hyur, Elezen, lalafell, after that he became one of those Au’Ra, now don’t get me wrong, Yugiri is lovely, but there’s something about them I don’t trust, maybe it’s the fact they’re part demon, maybe it’s the scales. But I just don’t trust them!’

‘you always see the worst in people Hyu,’ Elf lady retorted. ‘Can’t you just see the good in people and see that he just wants to help. And we’re there to help him help others. I know I may only bring him fish and the odd golden dye, but those fish keep him fed, and the dye. Well have you ever seen anything more majestic than a Lalafel running into battle in gold. It’s a sight to see I tell you!’

‘I know, I’ve seen it. But I wish he’d just make his mind up. Or at least tell us what he wants, there’s only so many times I can run around this world wondering what he wants then running out of time and having to pick up the nearest thing I see, the Goblet is running low on houses for me to steal parts from now!’

With that, the two adventurers retainers went their separate ways, Hyurgirl to outer La Noscea to mine the electrum she was asked to retrieve, Elflady off on one of her whimsical adventures to find something of use.

After a while Elflady saw what she thought to be a Moogle. She tentatively wandered over to it.

‘Hello, can you help me, I’m looking for something to bring back to my master, I was wondering if you still had any of those old Moogle made weapons lying around?’

‘Kupo!’ replied the Moogle. ‘I have all the weapons you need if you have those chocolate coins your master pays you with!’

Elflady spied a great-sword on the bench, this had clearly just been made, the prevailance of the Dark Knights had made the old gods and the new make these heavy looking weapons a highly sought after piece by adventurers far and wide.

‘How many for the great-sword?’ Elflady inquired.

’40 Kupo!’ replied the Moogle.

Elflady rummaged around in her backpack, she knew she had that many in there, she just had to find them. Finding her coin purse she handed the Moogle 40 venture coins, she was unsure why the Moogle thought they were made of Chocolate, the Silver shined in the light of a Gridanian afternoon.

Leaving with her quarry, she hastily made her way to Hyurgirl, still toiling away finding useful pieces of electrum for master.

‘Look what I got!’ Elflady exclaimed, brandishing the great-sword with glee. ‘Do you think he’ll like it?’

‘Who knows, I’m sure he’ll tell you when we get back’ Hyurgirl looked to the skies, her timekeeping skills were impeccable and all it took was a glance at the sun or the moon to give her the time of day. ‘We should be getting back, it’s time for us to present our items.

The two teleported to the summoning bell that had just been rung in its familiar yet signature tune of their master Matt Reaver. The two handed over their items, Hyurgirl 20 pieces of electrum, Matt no doubt would use these pieces to make jewelry to use in battle, this pleased Hyurgirl, as she knew it was helpful.

Elflady showed the great-sword to Matt with Glee

‘Master I brought you this! It’s the latest weapon made with the latest in Moogle technology, they say the head on the pommel sings when you unsheathe it!’

‘oh, cool,’ Replied Matt, ‘that’s a really cool looking weapon, I wonder how much it will sell for on the marketboard!’

Elflady felt her heart sink, she tried really hard to make Matt happy, she knew he was training with the Dark Knights. And she thought this weapon would help him to become the best Dark Knight in Eorzea!

The two retainers went back to their table at the adventurer’s guild. Drinking the smooth alcohol that the bartender served without fail.

‘I thought I had a winner with that one!’ said Elflady with a tinge of anger in her voice. ‘I thought he’d really like it!’

‘These adventurers rarely like anything we bring them back, but we do our jobs, and they’ll take all the glory, as it always has been. There’s no use crying over spilled Yak milk, may as well just accept that all we are is a backpack with legs. That’s all some of these adventurers see us as. Just be glad we have Matt, who does a lot for us, gives us his old armor so we may fight more dangerous foes, gives us what we need to do what we must. All in all, Matt is a lovely boss!’ Hyurgirl looked down into her drink, and smiled in the knowledge that Matt, alongside all the other adventurers in the world, were looking after everyone, and keeping them all safe, no matter how they went about doing it.