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.

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

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 40

 In which Badger...

• Travels through the desert to the Wicked City and meets some Children of the Sun, desert ascetic monks.
• Gains 3 followers - acolytes of Children of Sun: Arion the halfling alchemist, Vata the half orc paladin, and Thenige the half orc mage - all of whom want to return to civilization.
• Arrives at the Wicked City to meet Tara the Mindblade, who has found a contact who could help cure her psychic instability - a spy in the Cobwebs of the city.
• Explores the Cobwebs  - a district of spiderlike walkways in the Wicked City - searching for Tara's contact.
• Encounters a messenger running with a note who is shot down by a crossbowman assassin, who then drops down to attack the party.
• Fight off the assassin and discover that messenger was delivering a note to Tara's contact - the current job he had taken was a trap!
• Find Tara's contact trying to talk an aristocrat who's lover had spurned him for a richer man out of jumping from the cobwebs into the streets below.
• Fail to convince the aristocrat off the edge as he leaps from the Cobwebs into the streets below.
• Warn Tara's contact that his current job was a trap, for which he is grateful.
• Get informed by the contact that he had dug up some information on curing psychic ability - there was a temple of the (now defunct) Mindblades far outside the Wicked City that had an oracle who could give the answer.
• Learn the location of the temple and thank the spy before leaving the Cobwebs and resting before heading out into the wilds to find the temple of the Mindblades.
• Bid the acolytes goodbye as they retire to civilized life in the Wicked City.

Current Level: Badger 9, Tara 2

Lonesome Wanderings, Session 39

In which Badger and Tom...

• Journey through Steppe and Taiga towards the Wicked City to meet up with the Mindblade Tara.
• Run into a band of evil spirits in the Steppe which eat Tar and lure strangers to join them and dine on the poisonous tar.
• Join the spirits in hunting Wicked City soldiers in the Steppe.
• Find a group of soldiers harassing a woman - Ms. Fyodorel the elven trader.
• Attack and defeat the group of soldiers with the spirits assistance, and let Ms. Fyodorel join the group.
• Come up with a plan with Ms. Fyodorel by letting her know of the poison tar and having her whip up a fake batch of edible sludge (for a price).
• Convince the spirits they survived the poison tar after eating Ms. Fyodorel's black sludge mixture.
• Impress the spirits by apparently surviving the poison tar enough that they tell him they will ally with him should the need ever arises, just say the word.
• Part ways with Ms. Fyodorel after thanking her for her assistance with the spirits.
• Say goodbye to the spirits and continue to travel before meeting with a tribe in the taiga who worships a giant bear.
• Meet the bear after being beseeched by the tribesmen to garner his blessing.
• Get informed the bear will give him his blessing if they rid of some horrible spiders that has been harassing the tribesmen and wildlife in his territory.
• Journey with some tribesmen and fight of the spiders - giant tarantulas whose poison makes men dance wildly in madness to death!
• Defeat the tarantulas at the cost of Tom's life, who perishes madly dancing from the spider venom.
• Lose a tribesman as well, and once the spiders are defeated bury both Tom and the tribesman in the tribes burial grounds, honoring the last orc sibling with a ceremony.
• Meet the bear, who is pleased and gives Badger his blessing and says should the need ever arise, his tribe will support Badger as well.
• Take leave of the bear tribe and continue to travel through the taiga into the wilds towards the Wicked City.

Current Level: Badger 9