Lonesome Wanderings, Session 47

I switch back to BFRPG this session, starting up with Badger at level 9 and Naira at level 2.

In which Badger and Naira...

• Have double income this turn at the Keep with a bounty in harvest, as well as 4 more peasants moving into the Keep.
• Have a new festival start up in the keep, the holiday Swinescape, which recounts Badger's tale of escaping Swinescombe and celebrates it with a large pot roast.
• Travel to the magical-technical city of Beacon, filled with superpowered beings.
• Encounter a giant red dragon attacking the city and the Portaleers, the city superheroes, attempting to fight it.
• Save one of the Portaleers, Andante (Heart), from being thrown across town into a magitec bus using the rope of climb tied to light poles that bend and snap on impart.
• Fight a copper dragon wyrmling terrorizing a city square.
• Beat the copper dragon with various traps and shoving a potion of Mad Lamashtu down its gullet.
• Cleave the copper dragon in half after it shrunk from the fickle magic of the potion of Mad Lamashtu.
• Mourn Naira as she is slain in the copper dragon fight.
• Discover a magitec transmitter controlling the copper dragon on its corpse, and destroy it.
• Let the Portaleers know about the magitec transmitter, which is also present on the large red dragon.
• Destroy the transmitter on the red dragon, who immediately calms down despite being a little groggy.
• Learn the dragon's name is Carl once his mind clears and it helps clean up the mess made in the city.
• Meet one Intellect, who asks him to report to the Portaleer HQ if possible.
• Decide to head home to the Badger Keep to rest and heal up for now.

Current Level: Badger 9

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 46

 In which Badger, Lien, and Naira...

• Welcome 3 more peasants to the Keep of the Badger Lord.
• Travel out into the woods and run into some barrow bogeys with heads that are tea kettles.
• Are tricked by the barrow bogeys to accidently stumble upon a bathing maiden who screams and flees as the barrow bogeys' kettle heads hiss gleefully.
• Confronting the barrow bogeys, the party learn that they are servants of a local monster, a shambling mound - a 9' monstrosity that eats maidens. 
• Learn the poor maiden is a sacrifice of the mound, and convince the bogeys to help them find her by promising them a "show". The bogeys agree, hissing and sputtering.
• Travel deep into the swamp with the tea headed creatures, and discover a strange swamp - as the ground caves underneath them as they step into murky water! It's a trap!
• Tendrils reach from underneath their feet as Badger and Naira jump out of the way, but Lien is grasped by tendrils underneath the water - it's the shambling mound.
• Badger tries to distract the creature, and even tries diving towards the tendrils with his bag of holding to trap the creature, as Naira continuously bludgeons it with her cudgel - to no avail.
• Lien is dragged underneath the depths and slowly drowned, vanishing into the murk.
• Simmer as the tea kettle barrow bogeys chitter, saying they fulfilled their end of the deal for the season and provided the shambling mound with a meal - it's nothing personal, really, just business.
• Watch as the bogeys flee after being tripped up by a trap set by the bogeys unlikely ally - the maiden from earlier!
• Fruitlessly chase the bogeys and maiden into the wood, to no avail having lost them.
• Head back to the Keep to take a moment to rest and mourn their lost comrade Lien as they patch themselves up from the encounter with the shambling mound, the barrow bogeys, and the maiden.

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 45

 In which Badger, Tara, Lien, and Naira...

• Head north from the Keep to the strange Dolmenwood that hides legends and secrets.
• Arrive at one Swinescombe, a small hamlet run by pigs, who greet them with curiosity and give them a tour.
• Discover that there are humans in this town - treated as livestock, fattened up and slaughtered.
• Get blocked from leaving town by 6 large pig farmers, who start cornering them to the village slaughterhouse filled with human meat.
• Escape to the local tavern, where a drunkard pig Old Bart tries to defend them, only to get jeered at by the pig farmers.
• Attempt to flee across the hamlet to the abandoned Church of St. Craven, which the pigs fear due to its association with sausage.
• Have Lien and Naira be gored by pigs during the chase, and carted away for meat, unconscious.
• Have Tara slain by a pig farmer punching her to pulp and taking her meat to the slaughterhouse.
• Have only Badger make it to the church, barely alive with all of his allies either carted away or dead.
• Chat with Old Bart, who saunters over and tells how the pigs ate some black sludge that gave them sentience, and how life is so much worse now than back when they were simply pigs.
• Explore the church and discover a 2' idol that he can carry and move slowly.
• Discovers the pig maintain a distance of 10' from the idol out of fear of St. Craven.
• Uses the idol to ward pigs as he saves Lien and Naira, bringing them back to the church.
• Mourn Tara's passing and spend a week healing in the church, being forced to cook and eat human meat stolen from the slaughterhouse to survive.
• Make friends with Old Bart by buying him daily drinks, and learn that the leader of the region Baron Hogwarsh was bribed by the pigs to ignore the human livestock.
• Plan an escape one night after observing pig guard patrols, with Old Bart helping them escape by providing a drunken distraction at the local tavern.
• Manage to flee Swinescombe, and return to the Keep to lick their wounds and mourn Tara's passing.

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 44

 In which Badger, Tara, Lien, and Naira...

• Join one Ameiko and Shalelu in infiltrating the Thistletop goblin camp.
• Interrogate and get information from one goblin shaman Gogmurt who is unsatisfied with how the tribe is following Nualia,
• Clamber onto the roof of the main fort of the camp to avoid goblin patrols and goblin chief Ripnugget.
• Release some bunnies into the camp to distract the goblins as they continue to adventure.
• Discover plans for a raid on the town of Sandpoint, with Nualia being the glue holding the whole operation together.
• Enter the dungeon one level below the main fort and explore.
• Fight off a tentacle squid monster which nearly kills Ameiko.
• Free some goblin prisoners held in cells below, partly as yet another distraction for the goblins.
• Meet one Orik, a hired merc with the hots for one Lyrie the sorceress. Pleased by the news of Tsuto's passing he lets them sneak into the second level of the dungeon, taking her out for some "quality time".
• Discover a strange portal to the trapped demon Malfeshnekor, when Nualia and her hound discovers them!
• Fight and slay Nualia and her hound, putting an end to the plot to raid town, and delve deeper into the dungeon for loot.
• Stumble across the trapped demon's lair and barely escape with their lives - with Naira passing out and comatose!
• Hightail it to a grotto at the end of the dungeon that leads to the sea, avoiding a large hermit crab which seems merely curious by the passerby, and swim to shore with the unconscious Naira. 
• Sneak past the remaining goblins without issue and return to town where Naira and the rest of the party recovered, demon left trapped in its tomb and the plot to destroy Sandpoint foiled.
• Return to the Keep of the Badger Lord, where Orik waits for them to thank them for bringing him together with his new partner Lyrie, and offering them aid if they need in the future "at a discount."
• Manage the Keep, with 3 new peasants moving in since last visit. They set up a Market where groups of hirelings hang out, and with Orik's support, set up a Hall of Heroes where they can recruit fighters and mercenaries for future adventures.

Lonesome Wanderings Session, 43

This session I converted over my characters from BFRPG to Cairn. I won't be noting levels since the game has none.

In which Badger and Tara...

• Meet Lien and have him join them to journey into the Misty Trail, a strange portion of the mysterious Wood outside Kebi village and the keep.
• Encounter one Naira Deleiser in the Wood near an old timber mill, who had been exiled from another village due to prejudice against her and her late family.
• Have Naira join them as they leave the Misty Trail to one Swallowtail Festival.
• Face off and defeat some goblins that attack the festival with a urine soaked bear trap and some taunts, then later another goblin hidden under some floorboards of a house.
• Encounter one Shayliss Vinder, who starts a steamy affair with Badger, involving him frequently hiding underneath a cot to avoid her father Ven.
• Boar hunt with Aldern Foxglove, who creeps on Tara with obsessive questions.
• Learn of some goblin threats from elven ranger Shalelu, and discover goblins have stolen bones of the former town priest.
• Fend off one Gorvii the trash collector by distracting him from bullying some townsfolk.
• Investigate the Glassworks when a local barkeep Ameiko goes missing.
• Explode a bunch of goblins from a rooftop molotov bomb dropped into the Glassworks from above.
• Discover Ameiko, gagged and bound, only to be ambushed by her brother Tsuko, who threatens to kill his weakened sister.
• Distract Tsuko, getting him to monologue as Badger trips him with the Rope of Climb to slay him.
• Learn from Tsuko's monologue about Thistletop goblin stronghold and his mysterious boss and lover Nualia and her gang.
• Explore the Catacombs of Wrath, a dungeon underneath the Glassworks, which is adorned with strange seven pointed stars.
• Use bear traps and lures to kill sinspawn and loot the catacombs of treasure.
• Kill maddened Korovus, a goblin warrior who was corrupted by demonic water.
• Defeat Erylium, quasit leader of the catacombs, and then destroy the sinspawn portal from the netherworld that she opened.
• Return back to town to sell off ill gotten loot and rest up to deal with the Thistletop goblins and this mysterious Nualia.