Lonesome Wanderings, Session 15

 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