In which Badger...
- Flees from some giant centipedes in a swampy jungle.
- Finds and avoids a dangerous looking tomb in the jungle.
- Locates the lair of Bailakask and Kalkask the werewolves, whose heads Loshad the Chevall wants.
- Runs into some scorpions exploring outside the werewolf lair.
- Lures the scorpions into the lair and watches as they kill Kalkask before they are slain by Bailakask.
- Flees the enraged Bailakask and her wolves after leading to the death of her son.
- Reaches town barely alive and heals up for a bit over a month.
- Unsuccessfully tries to recruit retainers in Kelven, where word of his misadventures has spread.
- Slays some giant centipedes on his second journey to the werewolf lair.
- Encounters Chala the Mindblade assassin, irritated by his abandoning her to some monsters last time they met.
- Tricks Chala, sword to his throat leading her to the werewolf lair.
- Convinces the werewolf Bailakask that Chala is assisting him, leading to the wolves to tear her to shreds.
- Flees within an inch of his life again, Bailakask still alive and swearing vengeance for her son with her wolf pack.
- Returns back to Kelvin to rest and heal up again for another month while thinking of a new strategy to deal with the werewolf and get her and her son's skulls for Loshad.
Current Level: Badger 6
In which Badger...
- Heads to the Wolfskull Goblin Lair to find Stephen.
- Avoids Iron Ring slavers with goblin slaves in a chain.
- Avoids the Mindblade Chala who tries to pressure him into revealing where Tara by running when they are attacked by wolves mid conversation, leaving her to fend for herself.
- Arrives at the Wolfskull Lair only to find the Stone Seekers enter the lair, and waits for a bit before following them in.
- Flees from some giant bats that attack him outside the entrance of the lair.
- Hides from a goblin patrol as they pass him outside the lair.
- Bribes some goblins with gold to let him past them and their dire wolves.
- Rescues Babushka, an old lady, from the cell she is being held in.
- Meets with the Goblin King Kloss and trades him the magic mace and tinderbox he has to freely roam the lair.
- Leaks to Kloss that the Stone Seekers are looting his lair, leading him to deploy some goblins in search of the adventuring party.
- Barely survives after activating a trapdoor into piranha ridden waters below the lair.
- Enters a chamber to find the Stone Seekers being attacked by the goblins deployed by Kloss, and lets them take care of the cursing adventurers as he moves on.
- Finds Hobgoblin leader Vlack has abandoned the lair and taken the slaves with him, leaving his pet ferrets and thouls to guard his personal chambers.
- Throws rations to the ferrets near the entrance to Vlack's chambers to cause the ferrets and thouls to attack each other as Badger rushes into the chambers.
- Loots Vlack's chambers of all they are worth, finding a secret door it seemed the Stone Seekers missed that holds a lot of treasure and magic items - but no information on where the slaves were taken.
- Throws more rations to the ferrets (who have ripped the thouls to shreds) and escapes managing to leave the lair.
- Heads out of the lair with Babushka, who informs him she knew Stephen, a fellow slave.
- Learns from Babushka that the she was deemed too scrawny, but the others were taken away to the Old Ruins of Xitaqa where "Ol' Skinny Legs" would get answers out of them about a "great map". She doesn't know where these ruins are.
- Encounters Loshad the Chevall on his journey back, who checks in on Joe the horse. Loshad claims to knows where the Ruins of Xitaqa are, and promises he will tell Badger if he brings back the heads of werewolves Bailakask and her son Kalkask; and if he frees Joe the horse within one month. Badger agrees to these terms.
- Returns back to town with Babushka to sell his loot, and formulates a plan to deal with the werewolves for Loshad.
Current Level: Badger 6
In which Badger...
- Sets out in the direction of the Wolfskull goblin lair.
- Camps in a cave peacefully alongside some winter wolves as a terrible storm passes through.
- Runs into a giant badger which takes his pack and chases him up a tree before leaving with all of his equipment.
- Returns back to town to load up on oil and a shovel to get back his equipment from the giant badgers.
- Locates the giant badger lair - with 4 badgers caring for their cubs - and lures them out to a pit trap and bombards them with oil.
- Kills 2 of the giant badgers before being forced to flee again within an inch of his life.
- Runs into a blood rose and barely escapes it with his life, avoiding its intoxicating smells.
- Goes back to town to load up on more oil and heads out for round 2 versus the giant badgers.
- Returns to the badger lair to find it eerily empty, and the pit with no bones in it.
- Gets surprised by a bone golem made of badger bones and with a badger skull, which chases him around the lair.
- Collects his golden mace and some healing potions as the rest of his equipment is destroyed by the badger bone golem.
- Barely flees from the badger bone golem, which is left the roam the wilds infused with hatred from whatever black magic constructed it.
- Runs into some leper zombies, which he easily dispatches.
- Returns back to town and purchases some new gear, having almost none left, and gets ready to head back to find Wolfskull goblin lair.
Current Level: Badger 6
In which Badger...
- Runs into the Iron Ring again, who notice him when a hawk dive bombs him for a torch for some reason.
- Flees the Iron Ring by managing to throw a torch at them leading the hawk to change trajectories while he runs.
- Slays a spider crab that tries to ambush him for an easy meal.
- Gets a lit torch stolen by a large bat at his camp, which then proceeds to attack him.
- Barely slays the bat, while rolling around on the ground throughout combat putting out flames on his clothes.
- Locates the Viper goblin lair, and makes a deal with them by offering to slay a clan of carnivorous apes in their lair that has been eating the goblins.
- Sets up a pit trap for the apes, and has the goblins hide with molotovs at the ready.
- Uses the corpses of former goblins and himself as bait as he lures the apes into the pit trap.
- Helps the goblins throw molotovs burning all of the apes to crisp in the pit trap.
- Gets information from the grateful goblins that Stephen is likely at the Wolf Skull Goblins den, the most powerful goblin clan in the area.
- Returns back to Sukisyn to rest for a week before following the Viper goblins directions to the Wolf Skull goblin hideout.
Current Level: Badger 6
In which Badger...
- Searches for goblin lairs and Stephen in the wilds around Sukisyn.
- Evades some stirges in the swamp.
- Gets a healing potion snatched off of him by a giant hawk in the hills.
- Discovers a black bear and follows it to a hawk nest - with his healing potion glinting in it in the forest.
- Snatches back his healing potion and runs while the bear and hawk duke it out.
- Runs into Loshad the Chevall, checking in on Joe the horse.
- Follows Loshad to the Lake of Lost Dreams, as the horse man says the elves there would know.
- Agrees to help elf Goriidel, prince of Valyia of the Lake of Lost Dreams, retrieve a silver statue gifted by dwarves from pixies on a forbidden island in the lake.
- Sails to the island and discovers the statue jealously guarded by pixies.
- Heads into a crypt beneath a temple in which the statue is located only to run from hordes of skeletons.
- Uses molotovs from alcohol on hand to blow the skeletons to smithereens (mostly).
- Comes out and lures the pixies with the holy symbol of his former cleric friend Chum to attack and wipe out the rest of the skeletons.
- Runs from the pixies to rest before resuming exploration of the crypt.
- Avoids various traps until coming to a room with a black mirror and 2 gargoyle guards - with a nicely made, expensive mirror frame that catches his eye.
- Convinces the guards he is here presenting a magic golden mace (formerly Chum's) as tribute to the mirror.
- Approaches the mirror before smashing it, removing the curse of the island as the gargoyles are sucked into the mirror portal that opens.
- Escapes the crypt which collapses without the power of the mirror with the mirror frame, barely coming out with his life.
- Gets thanked by Ilya, queen of the pixies who thanks him for removing the curse, and return the holy symbol and the elves' silver statue.
- Gets a reward from Goriidel for returning the statue and thanks of the elves, who tell him to contact them if he needs help.
- Is given a lead by the elves of the location of the Viper Goblin lair, where Stephen might be held.
- Returns to Kelven to sell the mirror frame and the holy symbol to earn a pretty penny.
- Travels back to Sukisyn to rest up for a month and heal before resuming the search for the Stephen in the direction of the Viper goblin lair.
Current Level: Badger 6
