Lonesome Wanderings, Session 40

 In which Badger...

• Travels through the desert to the Wicked City and meets some Children of the Sun, desert ascetic monks.
• Gains 3 followers - acolytes of Children of Sun: Arion the halfling alchemist, Vata the half orc paladin, and Thenige the half orc mage - all of whom want to return to civilization.
• Arrives at the Wicked City to meet Tara the Mindblade, who has found a contact who could help cure her psychic instability - a spy in the Cobwebs of the city.
• Explores the Cobwebs  - a district of spiderlike walkways in the Wicked City - searching for Tara's contact.
• Encounters a messenger running with a note who is shot down by a crossbowman assassin, who then drops down to attack the party.
• Fight off the assassin and discover that messenger was delivering a note to Tara's contact - the current job he had taken was a trap!
• Find Tara's contact trying to talk an aristocrat who's lover had spurned him for a richer man out of jumping from the cobwebs into the streets below.
• Fail to convince the aristocrat off the edge as he leaps from the Cobwebs into the streets below.
• Warn Tara's contact that his current job was a trap, for which he is grateful.
• Get informed by the contact that he had dug up some information on curing psychic ability - there was a temple of the (now defunct) Mindblades far outside the Wicked City that had an oracle who could give the answer.
• Learn the location of the temple and thank the spy before leaving the Cobwebs and resting before heading out into the wilds to find the temple of the Mindblades.
• Bid the acolytes goodbye as they retire to civilized life in the Wicked City.

Current Level: Badger 9, Tara 2

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 39

In which Badger and Tom...

• Journey through Steppe and Taiga towards the Wicked City to meet up with the Mindblade Tara.
• Run into a band of evil spirits in the Steppe which eat Tar and lure strangers to join them and dine on the poisonous tar.
• Join the spirits in hunting Wicked City soldiers in the Steppe.
• Find a group of soldiers harassing a woman - Ms. Fyodorel the elven trader.
• Attack and defeat the group of soldiers with the spirits assistance, and let Ms. Fyodorel join the group.
• Come up with a plan with Ms. Fyodorel by letting her know of the poison tar and having her whip up a fake batch of edible sludge (for a price).
• Convince the spirits they survived the poison tar after eating Ms. Fyodorel's black sludge mixture.
• Impress the spirits by apparently surviving the poison tar enough that they tell him they will ally with him should the need ever arises, just say the word.
• Part ways with Ms. Fyodorel after thanking her for her assistance with the spirits.
• Say goodbye to the spirits and continue to travel before meeting with a tribe in the taiga who worships a giant bear.
• Meet the bear after being beseeched by the tribesmen to garner his blessing.
• Get informed the bear will give him his blessing if they rid of some horrible spiders that has been harassing the tribesmen and wildlife in his territory.
• Journey with some tribesmen and fight of the spiders - giant tarantulas whose poison makes men dance wildly in madness to death!
• Defeat the tarantulas at the cost of Tom's life, who perishes madly dancing from the spider venom.
• Lose a tribesman as well, and once the spiders are defeated bury both Tom and the tribesman in the tribes burial grounds, honoring the last orc sibling with a ceremony.
• Meet the bear, who is pleased and gives Badger his blessing and says should the need ever arise, his tribe will support Badger as well.
• Take leave of the bear tribe and continue to travel through the taiga into the wilds towards the Wicked City.

Current Level: Badger 9