Monday, March 21, 2022

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 4

 In which Badger:

-Explores south of Kebi village to discover the Tomb of the Blinkers
-Enters the tomb and avoids a giant cobra guarding a set of stairs deeper into the dungeon.
-Meets and negotiates with some kobolds, providing them rations and oil for safe passage.
-Steals some gems from the kobolds treasure and flees before they realize what's what.
-Fights some skeletons, leading most of them into a pit trap and handily defeating the rest.
-Returns and befriends the giant cobra by feeding it rats, and trains it to respond to a whistle signal.
-Gets confronted by the previously encountered kobolds who tell him to return their treasure and leave, only to intimidate them with his new cobra friend.
-Decides to explore more of the first level of the dungeon with the cobra whom he names Slitherly.
-Falls into a pit trap set up by the wily kobolds, unintentionally descending into the second level of the dungeon with Slitherly.

Current Level: 3

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 3

 In which Badger: 

-Discovers a stirge nest northwest of Kebi village before being forced to run from a horde of striges.
-Heads east to find an oasis with some camels.
-Has one of the camels steal his two handed sword and proceeds to chase after it.
-Discovers a band of lizardmen training camels to steal items from desert travelers.
-Gets beat up by the lizardmen and barely flees.
-Punches a wolf and a stirge who try to attack him.
-Discovers his retainer Spindle abandoned him while he was asleep.
-Heads back to town and swears to get his revenge on the lizardmen.

Current Level: 3

Monday, March 7, 2022

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 2

In which Badger:

-Returns to the kobold cave from the first session to clear out the skeletons and the slime.
-Encounters some kobolds trapped by skeletons and convinces them to help him fight.
-Sacrifices said kobolds in the fight with the skeleton while fleeing to take care of the slime.
-Get's surprised by cave wolves which he lures to the slime thus creating many more slimes.
-Flees the slimes barely escaping with his life, albeit with a big scar and damaged joints from spending too long in cold, damp caves.
-Returns to the cave with a load of torches and burns down the slimes, clearing the caves.
-Hires Spindle the Dwarven Cleric, a retainer with a 15% share who is "gifted" heavy chainmail armor (certainly not intended to slow the retainer down so Badger can flee, of course).

Current level: 2

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 1

In which I give a short summary of the tales of my newest solo adventurer, Badger the Level 1 Fighter. For anyone interested, the system is Basic Fantasy and I'm using the Hexcrawl Procedures supplement and the What do the Monsters Want reaction tables this time around.

In this session, Badger: 

-Discovers a giant scorpion fighting a giant crab.
-Leads the Pink Turban Bandits to his home village Kebi and is promptly driven out.
-Leads the bandits to their deaths in a kobold built trap, save for Blaxton the sole survivor of the ordeal.
-Loses his weapons and armor to a surprise attack from a green slime.
-Convinces the Tungsten Raiders and the Polyester Problem Solvers, two adventuring parties, to help fight some kobolds in their lair to loot their treasure (subsequently leading the parties to their deaths).
-Gratuitously pushes various adventurers into kobold and skeleton bands to stave them off, while running away with his ill gotten loot.
-Returns back to Kebi as the sole survivor of an expedition and uses his loot to buy back his weapons and armor - returning to pretty much where he started albeit with a little more experience.

Badger levels up to Level 2 at the end of this session.