Lonesome Wanderings, Session 42

 In which Badger and Tara...

• Enter the Temple of the Mindblades, a large abandoned temple in the middle of a small hamlet, to find the ancient oracle and figure out how to curb Tara's psychic instability.
• Avoid a fire breathing rat feasting on the corpse of a townsperson.
• Meet Ms. Fyodorel the Elven trader, who is hiding from the fire breathing rat after being chased into the temple after swindling some townsfolk.
• Encounter Loshad the Chevall fighting a wight in the temple, until he eventually defeats it.
• Get confronted by Loshad about the Keep of the Badger Lord and what Badger's intentions are.
• Are given a warning by Loshad not to step out of line or hurt the forests and beasts with their ambitions.
• Locate the oracle and discover Tara must train with one inexperienced priest Lien from Tian Xia, as their destinies are intertwined and only he can help her psychic instability.
• Discover a strange man trudging through the temple with a coffin on his back as he ignores them.
• Run into a weretiger that attacks them as they flee for their lives.
• Abandon the temple after encountering the weretiger as their goal of meeting the oracle is complete.
• Return to the keep and celebrate Badger's 27th birthday.

Current Level: Badger 9, Tara 2

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 41

 In which Badger...

• Takes a break from adventuring and builds a keep a few miles from Kebi village, as Tara rests up in the village.
• Clears out much of the area surrounding the new keep.
• Dubs his new keep: "Keep of the Badger Lord".
• Builds the keep with a main center tower and four surrounding towers all guarded by thick stone walls.
• Spends over 130k gold on materials and labor to build the keep, all earned from his adventuring and stored in large crates in his room.
• Waits for 4 and a half months for the completion of the keep before taking residence in it
• Recruits 9 hopeful followers aiming to become renowned fighters themselves.
• Attracts 40 peasants across 10 families moving in around the new structure.
• Rules for a month where 1 peasant moves in, increasing the population of the keep to 41.
• Watches as a war breaks out between the Wicked City and Tian Xia - being a fan of neither, decides not to interfere and let it play out.
• Visits a dinner held by the Grand Duke of Karameikos.
• Gets a public shaming by one Lady Abrielle, who hazes him and demands he "dance" for the nobility.
• Escapes the humiliation by using the Rope of Climb pulling a curtain down as a distraction and running to a different area during the ensuing chaos.
• Meets one Baron Okerra, war hero and Karameikos military general who takes a liking to Badger, finding the self made lord better than a lot of the slovenly nobility who inherit their titles.
• Comes to an agreement to help out Baron Okerra to become war allies with Karameikos, at least as long as he is in charge of the military.
• Keep: Pop. 41, Followers - 9 L1 Fighters

Current Level: Badger 9, Tara 2