Quick facts
Type: Island nation · Towns: Ostenkask, PoorsTown (Mount Paozo) · Known for: barley, spring water, whiskey, beer · Notable families: the Reverie Family, the Ashbys, the Dunlevys · Controlled by (C2): under pressure from the Velvet Truffle Company
Beerlia is a wintry island nation known for its drink. In Campaign 1 it was where the Cacklers found Terra Misu and their third Star Orb. In Campaign 2 it is the home of Escher’s family and of Masha’s resistance group, The Free Pour.
In Campaign 1
A portal from the Toasty Temple dropped the party, one at a time, into the town of Ostenkask. Juliette ran a job with Meo to steal a sealed vase from a floating Turtle Island just off the coast. Greene was captured and taken over by the yerrk Visser 3, and Oolong met Max the Andalite, who warned of a silent plague spreading through the town. The party worked with the Island Watch to free Greene and destroy the being called Him (C1 Chapter 03).
Inland, the party broke the Tappin’ Day time loop at PoorsTown and stole a Star Orb from the dragon Giras’s warehouses on Mount Paozo. Terra Misu Umber and part of the Umber Squad deserted the Rose Ribbon Army there, and the party vanished into the island’s winter woods.
The Rose Ribbon Army had occupied the island. The party crossed it northwest, avoiding patrols, to a destroyed port city. There Ashryn was killed by an assassin as the party freed the Crew of the Rootbeer Float from the local jail and escaped on the Rootbeer Float (C1 Chapter 04).
While serving the Collector, Terra Misu Umber ran a job here with Amethyst, Masha and Vath that ended with a chase through a portal into The FeyWild. Vath later died of the Collector’s curse on a ship bound back to Beerlia (C1 Chapter 08).
In Campaign 2
Escher’s family, the Reverie Family, has a large farm on Beerlia where they grow barley and collect spring water for the local whiskey makers. Almost every whiskey maker on the island depends on what the Reveries grow and draw, which makes their farm one of the properties the Velvet Truffle Company wants most.
Beerlia falls under the company’s Islands Dominion, ruled by Seraphina Rusk of the Board of Sweet Lords. The Free Pour is a covert resistance working with local families who refuse to sell to the company. Besides the Reveries, these include the Ashby family, independent boat captains who run cargo between Beerlia, Winealia, and Liquoria without paying company tariffs, and the Dunlevy family, hops growers who run the busiest beer hall in their town. Truffle Guard patrols drink at the Dunlevys’ hall without knowing it is the Free Pour’s meeting place.
Masha’s last memory before waking up in Coghaven was being in Beerlia and possibly setting something on fire (Session 78). She later explained that the company was spreading across Beerlia, that she had founded the Free Pour, and that a job had gone wrong before she was taken. She also said Escher’s sister Lyra had been helping the Free Pour, often without realizing they turned her ideas into action, and that the Reverie family was holding strong (Session 80). The job that went wrong was an operation in which a company ship was set on fire.