Bolgranna's Bogus Burg
- Adventuring On
- 2020-11-16
- Field Notes
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- Retelling
- We all woke up after we took a long rest
And though healed, we still did not quite feel our best
Vale told us to jump in the portal as one
And that's how our quest to Bolgranna's begun
When Hoj came awake he was mighty confused
His memory was something that he seemed to loose
So Mugs caught him up on all that had occurred
And Hoj found it hard to take her at her word
We all then appeared and the group was made whole
But we didn't yet know that Hoj had lost his soul
A devil appeared and growled at us
We kinda ignored him till he made a fuss
Vale advised all that we not kill him there
We'd just arrived and we were not yet prepared
To take on this entire plane's populace
How many more were there we only could guess
Out of the room, the devil led our band
And Vale was sure right to have stayed all our hands
The whole place was crawling with devilish guys
Who all seemed to follow us 'round with their eyes
Our guard brought us into a room with some dude
Who spoke to us harshly because we were rude
He'd asked us to bow and half had refused
It seemed that this fat guy was not that amused
He told us we'd come to Bolgrana's Domain
A place of oppression and chock-full of pain
Our life here, it seemed, could take one of two routes
Either yield to some beatings or dole beatings out
We all quickly realized this place was no good
And we'd rather not settle in this neighborhood
We'd all need to find a way to leave this place
We all looked to Vale with a frown on his face
No nearby portals could he yet detect
Our plans of quick exit were certainly wrecked
We were stuck here for now and had no way to leave
The thought of it made some of us want to heave
We were herded outside and onto a path
Where we took in a sight that made all of us gasp
A city of iron spread out far and wide
Where should we go first we could not decide
We wandered around with no real goal in mind
And stumbled across a most marvelous find
A handsome winged shapeshifter caught Rys' gaze
And at him our friendly bard opted to wave
Handsome invited us all in for ales
And asked us to tell him our travelers' tales
He asked about Rampart and how it had been
He'd been stuck in this hell-hole for who knows since when
He had a companion of equal allure
She and her man told of how they'd endured
Their time in this city amongst all these fiends
On leaving this wasteland they certainly were keen
Her name was Vellora and his Baraxus
How to thrive in this city they gladly discussed
"Fighting the demons will just get you killed"
About our group's prospects no one was quite thrilled
This place had no water, they hated haiku
They didn't like gambling, and nothing here grew
Souls were their coins, and they had no graves
About our favorite past-times, we all felt dismayed
"There's no water here?" Juniper asked in fear
"They use souls as money?" probed Fenn with a tear
"They only like couplets?!" gasped Rys all aquiver
"They won't let me gamble!" exclaimed Mugs with a shiver
"This place sucks a big one" Baraxus replied
"And worst of all here is the way that you die"
"You'll just become pond scum and sent out to fight"
"The way to avoid that is climb social heights"
We asked how we'd go about climbing the ranks
Baraxus seemed delighted and stated it frank
"In just a few decades you'll be near the top"
"That is, if you seek ladder-climbing non-stop"
This plan didn't quite suit our party's timeline
Decades in this place was too much of a grind
We had to get back to Rampart post-haste
We felt like we had not a second to waste
Baraxus asked Hoj, "Hey, what is your deal?"
"I don't know," Hoj responded, still lacking much zeal
"I've lost all my mem'ries, I feel hollow inside"
When asked who's the real god, he could not decide
We asked were we might go and find Hoj's soul
As getting that back was our primary goal
"Zoraza must have it" Baraxus opined
"Retrieving it will take our forces combined"
"Why are you helping?" we asked Baraxus
Especially when he was an incubus
"You certainly look tasty" he grinned and replied
"But I think that we find ourselves on the same side"
"You're the first decent folk that we've met in a while"
"We're bored and we're homesick" he said with a wan smile
"I doubt that you'll ever get out of this land"
"But if you pulled it off that'd be ever so grand"
"Just please take us with you, should you escape"
"And we'll try to keep all you out of bad scrapes"
And so that was how an allegiance was forged
So long as upon us, no succubus gorged
And so we were stuck in Bolgrana's Domain
With no clear way out of this damned wretched plane
We had two new friends with dubious designs
And some devilish issues weighing on our minds