Lonesome Wanderings, Session 21

In which Badger...

• Visits some lush grapevines, collects some tasty grapes, and chats with Loshad the Chevall who is there to check up on him and Joe the Free Horse.
• Flees some Iron Ring operatives waiting in ambush at the Vologa River.
• Hides from a goblin army of nearly 50 goblins marching in the plains along the Vologa River.
• Arrives at the Ruins of Xitaqa following Loshad's directions
• Tames a couple of Rock Baboons near the entrance of the ruins with some rations.
• Kills some giant bats that attack as he scouts around the ruins.
• Copies some goblin symbols onto a cloth that stand for various goblin tribes.
• Convinces some Yellow Fang goblin guards that he is a slave envoy of another goblin tribe showing them the copied symbols.
• Bribes Yellow Fang goblin king Plak with some tasty grapes, healing potions, and the cloth symbols to show him slave goods for his "master's" perusal.
• Gets escorted by a goblin up to meet the last remaining slave in the ruins, special prisoner of Master Golthar of the Iron Ring.
• Is attacked by a Minotaur as Golthar, expecting foul play, flees from the area.
• Defeats the Minotaur one on one, and frees the lone slave - Stephen, Pyotr's brother!
• Upon Stephen's insistence, goes up to Golthar's lair, breaking in and avoiding traps searching for the mage.
• Attacks Golthar when Stephen discovers him hidden behind a tapestry, bringing the mage down to the brink of death.
• Loses the mage as Golthar escapes, blasting a hole into the side of the tower and flies off with illusions obfuscating which direction he traveled in.
• Loots Golthar's lair, finding potions, amulets, gold and a strange magical needle and thread.
• Learns from Stephen that the needle and thread when mixed with a tapestry at Sukisyn would reveal some sort of secret.
• Grapples down the tower from the blasted hole in the wall to avoid the goblins, escaping the ruins of Xitaqa. 
• Returns with Stephen back to Sukisyn.
• Spends the next month selling off the loot and resting up, preparing to investigate the strange tapestry with the magical needle and thread once fully healed.

Current Level: Badger 7