(BECMI) Adventures in Gulluvia #18 - Suzie and the BearOwl

18 Jun 534 - Village of Mere, Barony of Gulluvia

After the burial of Brother Barry Manaslow, the party made acquaintance with the last friend Barry ever made, Suzie, a 15-year old girl, turned acolyte of the Church.  She had found the dying man's stories captivating, although she had trouble recollecting all of them.  

Suzie, Church Acolyte 

The mourning ultimately turned to drinking at the inn, and Suzie continued telling poor versions of Barry's "war tales,"  much to the chagrin of the some of the war veterans drinking there.  The party had little to protect her, but Carya, the large merchant caravan organizer took a liking to her and dispatched the complainers to another site.

19 Jun 534 - Village of Mere, Barony of Gulluvia
After a quick morning patrol/walk, the party took notice to the clamor at the inn.  It was not waffle day, rather the gruesome attack of one of the farmer's cows by what was rumored to be a vicious BearOwl!

It was determined quickly that the party would do some scouting in the last known location of the beast.

22 Jun 534 - The Abandoned Village of Cillamar
Three days of travel and the party had been unmolested by trouble.   The ultimately found the foundations of a long-abandoned village.  Some further searching found a small obelisk and the even further searching found the secret door, which wildly swung inward, forcing Suzie to tumble down a set of stairs.

Underneath the obelisk was a short series of rooms.  The group made quick work some albino goblinoids with chilling touch before discovering another stairwell and a remains of a bridge that once crossed a chasm.

25 Jun 534 - Village of Mere, Barony of Gulluvia
With no sign of the BearOwl, and no easy way to traverse the chasm.. or climb down it, the party returned home, beat up but slightly wiser.

GM Notes:  A quick look at DCC #51.5 - The Sinister Secret of Whiterock for Goodman Games.   I may tie in the chasm later on, but for now the risk/reward ratio was simply not there for Neutral Greedy Hugo and the others agreed. 

For now there is no Episode #19 of Gulluvia.  With Nate's (Slothina) disappearance from the group, and the addition of Jim "The Gnome King," the group stopped D&D and 90's Canadian Cthulhu and focused on something different.  Gulluvia is by no means finished (I think we're only a third of the way there, we've set up the most basic storyline.

The new Actual Play will start up in about a month and run for quite some time.  No major announcement (I've talked about it in other posts over the last few months), but I'll give a small one-word hint.

Regular Actual Plays return on May the 4th!