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What will it be like to become a card-carrying member of the Dumbarton Oaks Experience? After posing this question to the group on our latest adventure (collecting rat tails for cash in sewers, meeting the inhabitants of the Hall of Hobos, and losing Rue to an unexpected centipede attack), I find myself wondering if the group will vote me in, and if so, what this will mean for me and Selden (aka, my oaf).

I think after Selden’s valiant role as a human shield on our last adventure, the group will most likely vote him in as a member – even if it is just out of pity. The poor thing literally didn’t know what hit him. But me? I try to keep up with the group, and keep my wits about me, but this is a whole new world from where I was...

They grow up so fast. 🙂

It was a watershed day for all our recent companions, I’ll wager. Sure, you take some stuff, you get in a fight. You think your an adventurer. And then you end up on a real quest, and dive into effort and danger you had never imagined. All in the span of hours, or minutes!

We must’ve hiked for miles to even get to the enemy camp, and killed a bear to even get there. We silently took to kobolds scouting for food, and turned them. We made a plan of attack. And we killed a bunch of enemy fighters.

By the end of the day, I was spent. Sure, I had two or three tricks left, but they were all pissant. The kids closed this one on their own. They learned they can do some serious damage when they all work together.

The townspeople seemed quite grateful...

Goblins are stinky. Really really stinky. And who poops in a closet? That’s DISGUSTING!

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Wish I didn’t have to scare the bear off like that. I hope Father Bear isn’t angry. I need to go leave some offerings. Maybe burning goblins will keep me safe from the Dark Den of Death.

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We have FIGS… They are so good. I have to keep the Fenkeh away from them. He’s gonna gain all his weight back. That would be FAT-tastic.

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Oh, and rats. F***ing hate Rats.

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And just like that, all the money we earned is going into Karinar Manor.  We were rich and now we’re land… uh… renters? Nynevah is trying to explain this to me but all I hear is “waah waah waaah”.

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Ulric is getting big. Wow. And boy is he smart. Except for the pee part. I need to ask Nyneva to have a kennel built for him...

Giant spiders… amirite? You hate ’em. I hate ’em. Everybody hates giant spiders! Hell, I suspect other giant spiders hate giant spiders.

And don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against spiders. Pixie Fairies live in the woods. Full of spiders. Think of all the bugs in the world. Spiders eat bugs. If it wasn’t for spiders, we’d be up to our asses in bugs, pardon my Paelific.

No. Just giant spiders. Spiders shouldn’t be bigger than me. Sure, I’m small. But you could be smaller than me and still be a wicked big spider. Spiders the size of babies, big dogs, little ponies… that’s just creepy!

Oh! What happened next? Well, that’s where the story just starts getting interesting. I’m flying downriver, fast as I can, praying my team is behind me...

Great Bear, oh wise and wonderful protector, giver of strength and a stout heart. I pray first, for The Dumbarton Oakes Experience. Protect us, give us honor and strength. I pray too, as always, to you for your protection and strength and for those who of my tribe survived. I hold faith. Faith that I will be among them again… So that I might kill the honorless ones that sold me into slavery. Great Bear, this I still pray. Unceasingly. Every. Single. Day. I keep my sword sharpened to the task.

Ok that was nuts. And the smell! I’m really starting to hate those nasty little goblins. Like a lot. Maybe even worse than spiders. Remember, we were contracted by the local chieftan to get his illegitimate daughter away from kidnappers.

With much stealth and guile we followed a man into the woods...

Torhalla In Training

Great Bear, oh wise and wonderful protector, giver of strength and a stout heart. I pray first, for The Dumbarton Oakes Experience. Protect us, give us honor and strength. I pray too, as always, to you for your protection and strength and for those who of my tribe survived. I hold faith. Faith that I will be among them again… So that I might kill the honorless ones that sold me into slavery. Great Bear, this I still pray. Unceasingly. Every. Single. Day. I keep my sword sharpened to the task.

The friend they call Sweet Doreen has joined up with us. She is a mighty halfling. I would not mess with her. But I think Fenkeh is growing sweet on her. That’s so cute.  Maybe he’ll think about that the next time he tries to stuff half a chicken in his mouth.

We have been ...

Great Bear, oh wise and wonderful protector, giver of strength and a stout heart. I pray first, now, for this party that I find myself among—The Dumbarton Oakes Experience. Protect us, give us honor and strength. I pray too, as always, to you for your protection and strength and for those who of my tribe survived. I hold faith. Faith that I will be among them again… So that I might kill the honorless ones that sold me into slavery. Great Bear, this I still pray. Unceasingly. Every. Single. Day. I keep my sword sharpened to the task.

Helpless and alone…

Today was a good day. I killed things.

Also… ALL PRAISE AND HONOR to YOU! I have a wolf pup! For now I call him Dog but it is because I do not want others to know I have named him for my brother and father, Ulric...

Great Bear, oh wise and wonderful protector, giver of strength and a stout heart. I pray first, for The Dumbarton Oakes Experience. Protect us, give us honor and strength. I pray too, as always, to you for your protection and strength and for those who of my tribe survived. I hold faith. Faith that I will be among them again… So that I might kill the honorless ones that sold me into slavery. Great Bear, this I still pray. Unceasingly. Every. Single. Day. I keep my sword sharpened to the task.

I am a badass.

We have become famous, I think. In a good way, of course. For we are gaining a reputation for being great warriors who fight with honor. We are becoming known as those that can be trusted to fulfill a task once contracted. Please let nobody find out about the castle we sunk...

Great Bear, oh wise and wonderful protector, giver of strength and a stout heart. Protect Fenkeh and I, give us honor and strength. I pray too, as always, to you for your protection and strength and for those who of my tribe survived. I hold faith. Faith that I will be among them again… So that I might kill the honorless ones that sold me into slavery. Great Bear, this I still pray. Unceasingly. Every. Single. Day. I keep my sword sharpened to the task.

There are others now, that have joined Fenkeh and I in our adventures. There is one named Nurther Skye. He is a healer of a gentle god’s healing favor. There is a very snooty female half elf named Nynevah, she is also a healer, and is one of Dumbarton and the Great Warrior Kaaaylaan’s friends...