Root Barrel Farm / New Goblin City
Batdorf
Madam Batdorf is a gnoll matron spirit bound to a bone charm set recovered by Ash Stonefist. She berates, warns, and advises from the charm, especially around poison, preparation, hygiene, and survival.
Act 5 Root Barrel Farm/New Goblin City: Ash recovered Madam Batdorf’s Bone Charm Set from gnoll loot. Madam Batdorf later manifested and insisted she was meant for the “red ledger kid,” not Ash, warning him about poison and the green substance below New Goblin City.
Spectral gnoll matron / wrong-bearer critic
Appears over Ash's shoulder, says he is not the red ledger kid, complains that he smells, warns about poison, and demands to find the red ledger kid.
Status: Bone Charm Set gains active voice and target desire
Knowledge: Players know Madam Batdorf is looking for a red ledger kid and can appear visibly to the party.
Defeated caster / item source
Provides the soul and loot source for Madam Batdorf's Bone Charm Set, Necromancy Draught, and Rot Vial.
Status: Witch doctor loot source preserved
Knowledge: Players know the charm set came from the gnoll side of the cave fight.
Soul-in-charm advisor / berating matron voice
Reveals herself as the dead gnoll witch doctor's soul stored in the Bone Charm Set and promises to berate cooking, seasoning, preparation, hygiene, and medicine skills.
Status: Madam Batdorf becomes interactive inventory presence
Knowledge: Players know the item contains an opinionated soul rather than passive loot.
Curse caster / hyena summoner
Hits Vic and Morgan with psychic curse bolts that impose disadvantage, then summons flesh-and-blood hyenas before Elmyra's Fireball kills her.
Status: Caster threat and soul-charm source established
Knowledge: Players know the witch doctor is important later because her soul remains in the Bone Charm Set.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 49
2026-04-30 / Upper cave chamber
The party enters the cave and triggers a gnoll ambush around partially eaten owlbear corpses after finding the students' earlier fight site.
Act 5, Episode 5, Scene 55
2026-04-30 / Upper cave chamber / post-combat loot
Ash recovers Madame Batdorf's Bone Charm Set, Necromancy Draught, and Rot Vial, discovering Batdorf's soul remains in the charms.
Session Log / Meta / cave combat and New Goblin City reveal / Session continuity
2026-04-30 / Session continuity
This session resumes at the cave with the VQU student trio guiding the party. The group clears a gnoll ambush, recovers Madame Batdorf’s soul-charm loot, finds a Lloyd-corrupted owlbear egg, then accidentally drops Jonah and Elmyra into a lower boost-contaminated cavern where goblins identify the settlement as New Goblin City and boosted phase spiders begin reacting to Elmyra’s amplified command.
Act 5, Episode 6, Scene 2
2026-05-14 / New Goblin City descent route
Madame Batdorf manifests from Ash's bone charm and insists she is meant for the mysterious red ledger kid.
Session Log / New Goblin City / Dimoggio Clan / Emrites / Fidelphi Castro / Lawful-MAI / New Goblin City
2026-05-14 / New Goblin City; Maine’s prison
Session advances two fronts: the party enters New Goblin City through Runner Landing and black market while Maine faces Nora and Malevolus Krane in prison. New Goblin City factions clarified: Dimoggio Clan, Tech Runners, workers, Queen loyalists, and Emrites.
Plot Clue / Mystery Clue
Plot clue linked to Madame Batdorf's Bone Charm Set: Madame Batdorf believes she is supposed to be with "the red ledger kid" and asks Ash to find them. Any time the Bone Charm is consulted about ledgers, poison, gnoll witchcraft, or cooking-medicine, the DM may provide one pointed hint that moves the party toward the red ledger kid.
Wondrous Item / Charm Set
Scatter bones to summon Madame Batdorf within 30 ft for 1 minute. Once per round she can force a reroll on failed Medicine, cooking, herb, venom, poison, or poultice checks. Crumbles after effect.
Potion / Necromancy
Drink to see final violent injuries for 1 minute and gain advantage on Medicine/Investigation involving bodies; or pour into corpse dead under 24 hours to ask one Speak with Dead-style question. Drinking requires DC 14 Con save or poisoned until end of next turn.
Potion / Poison
Apply to one melee weapon or up to three ammunition. Next hit within 1 minute deals +2d6 poison and target must make DC 14 Con save or be poisoned until end of next turn; disadvantage if in/inhaling boost vapor.
The party enters the cave and triggers a gnoll ambush around partially eaten owlbear corpses after finding the students' earlier fight site.
storyAsh recovers Madame Batdorf's Bone Charm Set, Necromancy Draught, and Rot Vial, discovering Batdorf's soul remains in the charms.
storyThis session resumes at the cave with the VQU student trio guiding the party. The group clears a gnoll ambush, recovers Madame Batdorf’s soul-charm loot, finds a Lloyd-corrupted owlbear egg, then accidentally drops Jonah and Elmyra into a lower boost-contaminated cavern where goblins identify the settlement as New Goblin City and boosted phase spiders begin reacting to Elmyra’s amplified command.
storyMadame Batdorf manifests from Ash's bone charm and insists she is meant for the mysterious red ledger kid.
storySession advances two fronts: the party enters New Goblin City through Runner Landing and black market while Maine faces Nora and Malevolus Krane in prison. New Goblin City factions clarified: Dimoggio Clan, Tech Runners, workers, Queen loyalists, and Emrites.
itemPlot clue linked to Madame Batdorf's Bone Charm Set: Madame Batdorf believes she is supposed to be with "the red ledger kid" and asks Ash to find them. Any time the Bone Charm is consulted about ledgers, poison, gnoll witchcraft, or cooking-medicine, the DM may provide one pointed hint that moves the party toward the red ledger kid.
itemScatter bones to summon Madame Batdorf within 30 ft for 1 minute. Once per round she can force a reroll on failed Medicine, cooking, herb, venom, poison, or poultice checks. Crumbles after effect.
itemDrink to see final violent injuries for 1 minute and gain advantage on Medicine/Investigation involving bodies; or pour into corpse dead under 24 hours to ask one Speak with Dead-style question. Drinking requires DC 14 Con save or poisoned until end of next turn.
itemApply to one melee weapon or up to three ammunition. Next hit within 1 minute deals +2d6 poison and target must make DC 14 Con save or be poisoned until end of next turn; disadvantage if in/inhaling boost vapor.
Hidden until revealed.