Elephant Seal Man starts life in a large hamlet, and performs some truly awful songs. He masses 1500 kilos, so no one says anything negative about the performance. Neither does anyone point out any problems of him wearing socks and sandals at the same time. The local bard politely declines to join a performing group with ESM.
After getting a little drunk and shouting out a quick prayer to his god, ESM takes a walk through the local temple and encounters some sort of Goblin 'Master' starting fights. ESM gut-punches him once and then tries to talk him down, but a spearman runs the goblin through while he is vomiting and ends the scuffle.
Spearman mentions a group of bandits whom have taken over some hillocks, so ESM enlists his aid and that of a local speardwarf to go end the bandits.
Long journey short, SM and ESM arrive at the hillocks alive, though SM is missing some minor parts.
ESM is not very good at chasing down fleeing Gobbos, as his sprint speed is more of a sprint-schlump, or exactly what you would expect from an elephant seal. Eventually, ESM and SM clean out the place, including a Dwarven metalsmith who was leading the Goblins.
Immediately after killing the metalsmith, the spearman declares herself to be Baroness of the hillocks. It was a sort of double-reveal, as I had not realized spearman was a spearwoman until that moment.
Not entirely sure how that worked out, we were not in a formal group and had not laid claim... Maybe SM brought the place up in conversation initially, because of a hereditary tie?