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.