Friday, April 26, 2024

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 60

 In which Badger...

  • Returns to Sandpoint to investigate some murders for the sheriff.
  • Gets assaulted by and knocks out Ven Vinder, the father of Shayliss his ex-lover, when investigating as he finds out she has been missing for 3 years and he thought she was with Badger.
  • Visits Dr. Habe's sanitorium and discovers a ghoul threat in a manor to the south - and causes Dr. Habe to panic and to start tracking him down with a necromancer associate.
  • Heads south to the farmlands and learns of various ghoul attacks in the area.
  • Creates a trap and blows up a bunch of ghouls in a barn, mopping up the others in the farmlands.
  • Arrives at the manor, owned by a noble he'd met once Aldern Foxglove, and starts to investigate.
  • Gets attacked by one Gorvii, and orc streetsweep who'd previously been humiliated by Badger and was seeking revenge.
  • Knocks out Gorvii, but on the way out the orc get burnt by a trap and dies, forcing Badger to dump the body.
  • Heads deeper into the manor and comes across 2 other adventurer friends Ameiko and Shalelu, who are also investigating the house, and joins them in looking for a revenant who had wandered beneath the house.
  • Investigates and discovers an underground basement tunnel network.
  • In the tunnel network is attacked by a masked woman, who is knocked out and revealed to be Shayliss, who has taken the identity of Shroud, a vigilante also investigating the house.
  • Depositing Shayliss outside for safety, continues to investigate the house. 
  • Gets paralyzed with the other two by a ghoul trap set by Dr. Habe and his associate, who start tying them up.
  • The noise attracts a contingent of other ghouls, molds, rats, and ghasts to the area who attack Dr. Habe and his associate.
  • As chaos breaks out the party becomes unparalyzed and runs upstairs to hide - but Shalelu is not fast enough and dies, beset upon by ghouls. 
  • Badger and Ameiko prepare and throw molotovs and mop up the survivors, essentially clearing the tunnels.
  • Continue ahead and find the revenant killing Aldern, who was in fact a ghast himself it is revealed.
  • Let the revenant finish the job, and then die herself her purpose fulfilled.
  • Loot all the corpses and the rest of the house and take off to deliver Shayliss back to her father and sell their treasure.
  • Badger heads back to his keep to learn of a strange "Dark Humor" sickness that came and went when he was gone, but which nonetheless did not hurt his keeps burgeoning population.

Current Level: Level 11

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 59

 In which Badger...

  • Stops by Rahasia and explores a few more rooms of the temple.
  • Heads over to the West Marches town of Blackgate and joins Ser Agune and Ethex exploring the wilds.
  • Discovers a Hill Giant in the wilds who was driven out of his camp for being a coward.
  • Agrees to help out the Hill Giant take out the Hill Giant camp to the west.
  • Abandons his post and sneaks off to and uses molotovs and barrels of alcohol lying around camp to blow it up, killing the hill giants, bugbears, dire wolves, and ogres sleeping there.
  • Mops up the survivors of the camp and loots it with his Bag of Holding.
  • Returns to his own party only to learn Agune, Ethex, and the Hill Giant were dead and bludgeoned by a party of goblins in their sleep when he had abandoned his post.
  • Returns to Blackgates and joins one Khayos in the West Marches in exploring.
  • Discovers some strange pollen foliage, and then barely manages to kill a Rat Imp Dog.
  • Travels back to his keep where Old Bart the pigman meets him to let him know that the pigs of Swinescombe who were after him had been captured by Baron Hogwarsh of Castle Brackenwold and executed for murder.
  • Heads over to visit the town of High Hankle in the Dolmenwood with Baron Hogwarsh, and buys a fishing pole.

Current Level: Badger 10

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 58

 In which Badger...

  • Travels to the Island realms and speaks with some dragons about trading
  • Learns that the Tale of the Ant Knight has attracted 16 of his settlers from his Keep to the Lost Coast.
  • Hires Church of the Psychopomp to help clear out the mines in the Lost Coast.
  • Teleports to the Lost Coast and joins a ceremony in the Lost Coast in raising Wellyn, his adventuring companion, after his death to an evil cleric.
  • Hires a church to perform a Raise from Dead spell in case of his demise in his adventures.
  • Learns that a silvery armored cleric and the Church of the Psychopomp have cleared out the ghouls, for a fee.
  • Hears that it would likely be past winter until mining began in the Coast for copper due to the time it took to clear out ghouls.
  • After a period of inactivity, he discovers the Lost Coast has recently become inaccessible, but a ship with copper remnants escapes from the realm before it seals off for the moment.
  • Resolves the copper shortage with the shipment of copper received as he continues to rule from his Keep.
  • Helped Knighto search for his lost fiancĂ© Jil in the lair of some giants in Geatland. 
  • Heard of increased bandit activity in the area around his keep, while the population of his keep continues to grow.

Current Level: Badger 10