Lonesome Wanderings, Session 48

 In which Badger...

• Travels to Duke Bronzo's city of Kasar to investigate one Gamesman.
• Runs into and avoids some pigfolk by siccing them onto the maiden with her tea bogeys, all of whom are in the city.
• Runs into one Alonzo and Vandini the Naga spy, who "recruit" Badger forcefully to investigate the Game, a death dungeon run by the Gamesman for the Duke.
• Along with Vandini sneaks into the Gamesman's lair before coming upon one large robot man who catches them sneaking around!
• Learns the Game is a ruse to kill "players" to build a zombie mining army for a rare mineral that kills regular humans.
• Tries to escape the robot man and his goons by shoving Vandini in their way to escape.
• Nonetheless gets caught and stripped of all possessions before being placed into the Game - alongside a bitter Vandini.
• Plays along with the game, facing a slot machine of death which releases some stinky spray, some items and coins, a large troll, and a mechanical serpent.
• Watches as Vandini dies to the troll before he turns the snake in the troll's direction to poison it.
• Hits the off button hidden on the snake, gathers his ill gotten loot, and leaves Vandini's corpse and the reforming troll before escaping to the next room.
• Falls down a pit into a room with lighted floor squares and fights Nega-Badger, the inverse of himself, down to his last health before beating the apparition.
• Heals himself with a healing potion and flees to the next room where he comes face to face with a gambler Card Shark.
• Luckily beats Card Shark after gaining some innate strength and arrives in a room with chutes filling rapidly with water.
• Breaks through one of the chutes with his newfound strengths and stumbles into the chamber of the Gamesman.
• Spins a roulette wheel in the Gamesman's chambers and wins some potions and his weight worth in gold before "winning" the Game and getting all his possessions back.
• Is escorted out of the Game by the Gamesman - who uses a magic device to erase his memory of the details of the Game.
• Gets captured by Alanzo, who ends up imprisoning him because he is unable to get by with the "amnesia" defense.
• Finally gets released once the Duke establishes relations with the Gamesman and learns about the game.
• Hightails it out of the city of Kasar back to the Keep to rest up and recuperate from the whole horrid ordeal.

Current Level: Badger 9