Island Hoppers 002 (COMPLETED)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 1:55 am
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Re: Island Hoppers 002 (INCOMPLETE)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 2:09 am
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (INCOMPLETE)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 11:33 am
I laughed really hard at that note, thank you for making this. Also I thought the next session was going to be September 3rd but Craig can clarify.
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (INCOMPLETE)
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2026 12:37 pm
Confirming that it’s September 3rd
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (INCOMPLETE)
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 1:33 am
I agree with 9/3
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (INCOMPLETE)
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 1:12 pm
Yes, the 3rd is what we agreed upon.
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (COMPLETED)
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 2:35 am
Base XP granted. I'll double check my sleepy math tomorrow. Good times!
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (COMPLETED)
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 2:58 am
Semi-Phonetic Transcript:
"Well howww-DEE folks, make sure yer Sendin' Stones are tuned just under the Eee-thereal Plane and set near a heat source cuz this her's another install-ay-tion of Frontwoods! And boy-o-Corellon we got a doozy of a double day for ya.
Finally got to git off the boat, see what was what and what had happened so far. Truth be told, listeners, not much to see at first, lotta hustle but not nearly as much bustle as I was expectin'. Also there was a guy yellin' about looking for martial aid. I asked if he needed help with the reception or something, but he just gave me a look I couldn't really describe in words, something like
, and then he said he was talking about fightin'. I asked what kinda weddin he was tryna have, but then he said he meant paid adventurin, and I said I don't know how high you can count but you can count me in it!
So off we float on a lot teenier boat; talkin' a raft they burnt at the sides so they'd curl up a bit kinda small. Real friendly fella called Milo asks if I like to party, to which I can only respond in the B-ffirmative (a fairy made off with the A, check out episode thirty-four for that story!). He likes using non-magic means to get to other planes, mostly mushrooms, and there was plenty to be had on the island we were goin to, but there was some frogs we had to be high careful on, called 'em bulleewugs. If ya kin believe it some of these folk had been here previous and knocked a half dozen down in the dirt with no delay! But now we wanted somethin' from 'em so we were gonna stay real respectful. Guy called Torben got us up next to the mountain, spot with some real nice houses with legs, and we ended up chattin with the bulleewugs. I know a full belly gets lenience from the judge and benefit of the doubt from strangers so I popped out some Goodberries to maybe smooth over the before murderin', when I wasn't here yet. I think it worked! Nobody got kilt. The wizard Earlicker said he knew their tongue (which is crazy cuz their tongues were fuggin' huge), said they said more of these fellers were west of the city, and if we brung steel they might have things for trade! Small world.
We also got told to never, ever, under any kind of way, get back on this island. And that was okay with me, plenty of other sights to see, like the island further to the south, which we went to without delay. On the way out Torben musta fallen down and got tickers in his knickers because he was real sore we ended up leaving Tasty Chicken Island without one a-them walking birds from the big beach. Just kinda...stared at 'em.
Anyway!
We make it to the new island, and it looks like a mighty bit of a climb to get anywhere. Then crafty Torben finds some slits in the slate rock, man I gotta look after him more close, he is always gettin out of sight and finding cool stuff to look at! We all kinda head in after he doesn't come back mangled or nothin', find the rock is like a big honkin ring around a jungle. We all just kinda look around for a bit when we get in there before somebody points out a strucksure on the far side of the whole ring. We tell the Boat Boys to go on and git back to a dock on the bigland, no sense in a quick getaway when we're makin' our way through foliage thick as this to get to that thing we saw. Whaddaya know, it's just a house! Reminds me of one from the Backwoods, got a wrap porch and an older lady with nice silver hair rockin' in the front. Her name is Jenny, sometimes Smilin' Jenny from kin, and she gets us a nice batch of tea that makes a couple fellers get refamiliarized with their breakfast. Jenny even talks Common like I do! I ask if maybe there's some bit of family from long ago. Maybe she knows my sister-cousin, If'nI'd've, or my granddaddy, Fixin' Tuh? No such luck.
What she does have is talk about some green smallfolk we ain't seen yet givin her a real spot of trouble. She wants the head of their leader, one who ain't got no eyes, which is honestly pretty baller for a leader if you ask me, listeners. We said we'd give it a shot right after the rest of the boys stopped horkin up whatever they had in their stomach. Jenny also wanted female companionship, preferably with some babies? I still ain't got a lock on if that's hinky or not, but hell we still took a note. She also says to watch out for raptors who must have our smell, they come from the Heart of the Island, but, and I quote, "we ain't ready for that". She's at least part right, one of 'em came for us in the dead of night, sleepin' on her porch. Next day we say our tell-your-mom-I-said-Hi's (I left her some more Goodberries, she likes to cook and they make a damn fine cobbler) and get back to the boat.
One thing Jenny did let us know about was some more axebeaks to the east of the city, and we all kinda lit up at that. Big birds are cool, am I right?! Havin' one to gawk at any time of the day must surely be even better.
Speakin' of big birds, there was one we saw on the way away from Jenny, island to the east of hers. We saw one of these axebeaks get et by another bird, big as the boat that brought me here! And by et, I mean swallowed, didn't bother to chew. I don't think we could have dragged that one back to the city even if we wanted to.
So we head over and London the druid and Torben hatch a plan to steal some eggs and some axebeaks! Brains on these boys, for sure. I also made sure to stay back and not got get between the feathers and the magic boys, not after all this travel. Daddy had a sayin: "Don't matter how far down the road you are, ditch is the same distance away." And I had a mind to mind him. Luckily we were able to magic some of the birds and their eggs into the boat, even making it back. We did get 'em off the boat, but that's a story I'll start another time.
Now this a-been one more ep of Frontwoods, and I'm Y'all. Thanks for giving me yer ear, you can have it back now."
Y'all'd'nt've's Song of the Session
"Well howww-DEE folks, make sure yer Sendin' Stones are tuned just under the Eee-thereal Plane and set near a heat source cuz this her's another install-ay-tion of Frontwoods! And boy-o-Corellon we got a doozy of a double day for ya.
Finally got to git off the boat, see what was what and what had happened so far. Truth be told, listeners, not much to see at first, lotta hustle but not nearly as much bustle as I was expectin'. Also there was a guy yellin' about looking for martial aid. I asked if he needed help with the reception or something, but he just gave me a look I couldn't really describe in words, something like
, and then he said he was talking about fightin'. I asked what kinda weddin he was tryna have, but then he said he meant paid adventurin, and I said I don't know how high you can count but you can count me in it!So off we float on a lot teenier boat; talkin' a raft they burnt at the sides so they'd curl up a bit kinda small. Real friendly fella called Milo asks if I like to party, to which I can only respond in the B-ffirmative (a fairy made off with the A, check out episode thirty-four for that story!). He likes using non-magic means to get to other planes, mostly mushrooms, and there was plenty to be had on the island we were goin to, but there was some frogs we had to be high careful on, called 'em bulleewugs. If ya kin believe it some of these folk had been here previous and knocked a half dozen down in the dirt with no delay! But now we wanted somethin' from 'em so we were gonna stay real respectful. Guy called Torben got us up next to the mountain, spot with some real nice houses with legs, and we ended up chattin with the bulleewugs. I know a full belly gets lenience from the judge and benefit of the doubt from strangers so I popped out some Goodberries to maybe smooth over the before murderin', when I wasn't here yet. I think it worked! Nobody got kilt. The wizard Earlicker said he knew their tongue (which is crazy cuz their tongues were fuggin' huge), said they said more of these fellers were west of the city, and if we brung steel they might have things for trade! Small world.
We also got told to never, ever, under any kind of way, get back on this island. And that was okay with me, plenty of other sights to see, like the island further to the south, which we went to without delay. On the way out Torben musta fallen down and got tickers in his knickers because he was real sore we ended up leaving Tasty Chicken Island without one a-them walking birds from the big beach. Just kinda...stared at 'em.
Anyway!
We make it to the new island, and it looks like a mighty bit of a climb to get anywhere. Then crafty Torben finds some slits in the slate rock, man I gotta look after him more close, he is always gettin out of sight and finding cool stuff to look at! We all kinda head in after he doesn't come back mangled or nothin', find the rock is like a big honkin ring around a jungle. We all just kinda look around for a bit when we get in there before somebody points out a strucksure on the far side of the whole ring. We tell the Boat Boys to go on and git back to a dock on the bigland, no sense in a quick getaway when we're makin' our way through foliage thick as this to get to that thing we saw. Whaddaya know, it's just a house! Reminds me of one from the Backwoods, got a wrap porch and an older lady with nice silver hair rockin' in the front. Her name is Jenny, sometimes Smilin' Jenny from kin, and she gets us a nice batch of tea that makes a couple fellers get refamiliarized with their breakfast. Jenny even talks Common like I do! I ask if maybe there's some bit of family from long ago. Maybe she knows my sister-cousin, If'nI'd've, or my granddaddy, Fixin' Tuh? No such luck.
What she does have is talk about some green smallfolk we ain't seen yet givin her a real spot of trouble. She wants the head of their leader, one who ain't got no eyes, which is honestly pretty baller for a leader if you ask me, listeners. We said we'd give it a shot right after the rest of the boys stopped horkin up whatever they had in their stomach. Jenny also wanted female companionship, preferably with some babies? I still ain't got a lock on if that's hinky or not, but hell we still took a note. She also says to watch out for raptors who must have our smell, they come from the Heart of the Island, but, and I quote, "we ain't ready for that". She's at least part right, one of 'em came for us in the dead of night, sleepin' on her porch. Next day we say our tell-your-mom-I-said-Hi's (I left her some more Goodberries, she likes to cook and they make a damn fine cobbler) and get back to the boat.
One thing Jenny did let us know about was some more axebeaks to the east of the city, and we all kinda lit up at that. Big birds are cool, am I right?! Havin' one to gawk at any time of the day must surely be even better.
Speakin' of big birds, there was one we saw on the way away from Jenny, island to the east of hers. We saw one of these axebeaks get et by another bird, big as the boat that brought me here! And by et, I mean swallowed, didn't bother to chew. I don't think we could have dragged that one back to the city even if we wanted to.
So we head over and London the druid and Torben hatch a plan to steal some eggs and some axebeaks! Brains on these boys, for sure. I also made sure to stay back and not got get between the feathers and the magic boys, not after all this travel. Daddy had a sayin: "Don't matter how far down the road you are, ditch is the same distance away." And I had a mind to mind him. Luckily we were able to magic some of the birds and their eggs into the boat, even making it back. We did get 'em off the boat, but that's a story I'll start another time.
Now this a-been one more ep of Frontwoods, and I'm Y'all. Thanks for giving me yer ear, you can have it back now."
Y'all'd'nt've's Song of the Session
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (COMPLETED)
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 2:50 pm
My personal favorite Doors’ song!Deschain wrote: Fri Sep 04, 2026 2:58 am [Reserved for Y'all's post]
Y'all'd'nt've's Song of the Session
Re: Island Hoppers 002 (COMPLETED)
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2026 2:35 am
19th of Springrise
Ahoy there,
it's been a minute since i've catalogued and organized my thoughts as so much has happened.
I was able to set sail with a new compatriots Y'all'dnt've,Milo & Erlingr as well as Linden that I met the inn before we set voyage. for the local land features that with Thalia/Helena' directive for procuring safety for establishing trade routes/resources or some of the tasty chickens for the city. We set to explore were a bounty of questions and rewards just ripe for the picking.
Once we had had come to a consensus & charted a course, we set sail to Tasty Chicken Island. We made land at the previous expedition's landing point and let our party comb the front of it. I had heard while on the ride over between boat boys and the crew alike that there were creatures called "Axebeaks" that would fancy shellfish and the like.With this in mind I set my eyes to the shore for mussles to find 3 servings of Mussles & 6 Servings of Crabs with the new trident to boot! After finishing preparing rations for the future I set them aside in the boat with the Sack of Mangoes ascertained from the fauna with palm leaves to hide our quarry. With Y'all keeping eye out and torbin motioning to move further, we made our way to the village of the bullywogs. A species of frog men with a language that sounds like the song of the everglades.After an enhancement of speech by the chief Gribbsworth Croake they motioned towards bullywog royaltyRoyal B Marsh and they would be tentatively interested in trading steel with the empire with their permission. Noting that the island itself & their inhabitants was forbidden till we had clemency from their allegiance.
**We started a new day in the village after our initial contact through trade thanks to y'all**
We had set off to the island south of TCI. Lo and behold it turned out to be a mountainous island that resembled a bowl with fauna and jungle that spanned the inside. We made land and were able to find an inhabitant by the name of Smiling Jenny after a brief trek in the jungle and the then leading bayou. After a tasting of tea that didnt our parties constitution didnt rejoice by shomiting in the yard. I abstained as not to impose on our new host, while the rest of our party recovered in their stead. They shared privy that Goblins have been raiding her island and promised more information/medicine for trade upon the return of their leader with no eyes/Goblin ears for singular trade. They originated northwest of the city past the mountain as well as noting that the waterfalls source north of the city had been dammed off by beavers
(Note: the same angry beaver illustrates their journal/map for a point of interest) potentially giving more cause to expand the reaches for not only our sake.
After some discussion, we ascertained that Jenny themselves had been to the faewild and may be of use in our future endeavors . With mention of our efforts to restore the lands and our predicament with the aforementioned chief and tci's inhabitants that axebeaks inhabit the main land far east of the city next to the shore and on the shoreline. With a possible way to finish what we started out on we charted another course back to the main land that spanned 20 hours of sea travel.
We made passage between two islands when heading east of Jenny's Island of us showed on the tree line of the island north of us what i can only call a man sized raptor...
After breaking land with the help of Torbin and Linden we were able to coax them over and a with a breadcrumb trail of mussels and what I can only call a introductory chicken dance from Milo we were able to board a pair of them onboard. Now when I first heard of these creatures I had been under the assumption they were small and boy was I wrong. After seeing the first one reel their head mid way and feeling the hair on the back of my neck stand up on all ends I offered up the rest of my mussel findings to save the integrity of the hull and our heads.
And with that we set sail back home and I dubbed our newest part of the empire Mr and Mrs axebeaks! I intend to give a more personal name when we get to know these birds.
P.s Devin would call the one who likes him more Bladebeak and would want to send a copy of his report to the govenor & Helena with his appended charts and notes.
Ahoy there,
it's been a minute since i've catalogued and organized my thoughts as so much has happened.
I was able to set sail with a new compatriots Y'all'dnt've,Milo & Erlingr as well as Linden that I met the inn before we set voyage. for the local land features that with Thalia/Helena' directive for procuring safety for establishing trade routes/resources or some of the tasty chickens for the city. We set to explore were a bounty of questions and rewards just ripe for the picking.
Once we had had come to a consensus & charted a course, we set sail to Tasty Chicken Island. We made land at the previous expedition's landing point and let our party comb the front of it. I had heard while on the ride over between boat boys and the crew alike that there were creatures called "Axebeaks" that would fancy shellfish and the like.With this in mind I set my eyes to the shore for mussles to find 3 servings of Mussles & 6 Servings of Crabs with the new trident to boot! After finishing preparing rations for the future I set them aside in the boat with the Sack of Mangoes ascertained from the fauna with palm leaves to hide our quarry. With Y'all keeping eye out and torbin motioning to move further, we made our way to the village of the bullywogs. A species of frog men with a language that sounds like the song of the everglades.After an enhancement of speech by the chief Gribbsworth Croake they motioned towards bullywog royaltyRoyal B Marsh and they would be tentatively interested in trading steel with the empire with their permission. Noting that the island itself & their inhabitants was forbidden till we had clemency from their allegiance.
**We started a new day in the village after our initial contact through trade thanks to y'all**
We had set off to the island south of TCI. Lo and behold it turned out to be a mountainous island that resembled a bowl with fauna and jungle that spanned the inside. We made land and were able to find an inhabitant by the name of Smiling Jenny after a brief trek in the jungle and the then leading bayou. After a tasting of tea that didnt our parties constitution didnt rejoice by shomiting in the yard. I abstained as not to impose on our new host, while the rest of our party recovered in their stead. They shared privy that Goblins have been raiding her island and promised more information/medicine for trade upon the return of their leader with no eyes/Goblin ears for singular trade. They originated northwest of the city past the mountain as well as noting that the waterfalls source north of the city had been dammed off by beavers
(Note: the same angry beaver illustrates their journal/map for a point of interest) potentially giving more cause to expand the reaches for not only our sake.After some discussion, we ascertained that Jenny themselves had been to the faewild and may be of use in our future endeavors . With mention of our efforts to restore the lands and our predicament with the aforementioned chief and tci's inhabitants that axebeaks inhabit the main land far east of the city next to the shore and on the shoreline. With a possible way to finish what we started out on we charted another course back to the main land that spanned 20 hours of sea travel.
We made passage between two islands when heading east of Jenny's Island of us showed on the tree line of the island north of us what i can only call a man sized raptor...
After breaking land with the help of Torbin and Linden we were able to coax them over and a with a breadcrumb trail of mussels and what I can only call a introductory chicken dance from Milo we were able to board a pair of them onboard. Now when I first heard of these creatures I had been under the assumption they were small and boy was I wrong. After seeing the first one reel their head mid way and feeling the hair on the back of my neck stand up on all ends I offered up the rest of my mussel findings to save the integrity of the hull and our heads.
And with that we set sail back home and I dubbed our newest part of the empire Mr and Mrs axebeaks! I intend to give a more personal name when we get to know these birds.
P.s Devin would call the one who likes him more Bladebeak and would want to send a copy of his report to the govenor & Helena with his appended charts and notes.