14 - Into the Grove

You beach your boat and climb ashore. Safely away from danger, what would you like to do?

LET THEM FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO. They are on the shores of Niaam

FOREST MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2_x4svbX_o

DESERT MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svdbNil4fAI

• kids go into the forest
• see Gwendolyn Urmbask (small elf girl with white hair and a cream coloured gown)
• she runs away
• perception
  • hear the phrase "woe, oh, the rot"
• boys get surrounded by elf guards
  • 
• get taken to Willow Grove
  • can be peaceful
  • can be talked out of it
  • LET THE PLAYERS CHOOSE
  • TOWN MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUuy7bvzRw
• greeted by Petunia Urmbask
  • wisdom to see if you remember her from fables
• she asks what you're all doing in her forest
• Rodney Romé wants a cure
  • they suggest praying to Wareh for guidance, as there is no cure here
• Mole Wheatbreath is here wow!
• patience has sent a letter forth for cyrus via bird
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lgEvsd9L9-OQMYwypFB2JMyAyiNu2AVckmS3rEovGIs/edit?usp=sharing 

SIDE QUESTS

QUEST NAME	QUEST BLURB/SOLUTION
The Bog Boys	3 skeletons covered in mud inhabit the local bog.  https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Skeleton#content They do not attack unless attacked first after one dies its bones reconnect and reanimate themselves (like stalmoblins/stalkoblins in botw). The mud is difficult terrain movement speed is halved The skeletons do not speak. If they search in the mud, they will find a dull green amulet with a total of 5 charges of the animate dead spell. https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Animate%20Dead#content However, every time a skeleton is reformed it loses a charge. Charges do not require a spell slot to cast.
Blind Man's Ring	An elderly blind man has dropped his ring. He is feeling around on the ground to find it. Upon investigating, even with a nat 20, they cannot find the ring. on a high enough check, they do see footsteps leading from the vicinity where the man is looking over to a group of small children. One of the kids, a small half elf boy won't be talking and has the ring in his mouth.
Fred's Frog	Fred runs a giant frog ranch off on the outskirts of Willow Grove, off over near the bog. https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Giant%20Frog#content However, he has become trapped by one of his frogs, a beautiful looking one named Regina. She's sitting on him, and refuses to move. can't kill her, she is  prize winning frog. (see photo) Turns out Fred also sells Frog eggs, which are a bit of a delicacy in this town. Regina has some fertilized eggs that she doesn't want him taking. She will occasionally glance at a tree whose roots flow down into the bog, and tucked around the roots/under the stump in some tall cattails/grass is a bunch of eggs with golden little tadpoles swimming around in them, soon to be hatched. If they try to touch the eggs, she will try and hit them back out of reach of her eggs and she will sit in front of them, croaking menacingly. If they try to leave after she begins to guard the eggs, she will jump and try and restrain Farmer Fred again. PCs can solve it for themselves. They need to find a way to protect her eggs, and make sure that the Farmer won't try and steal them. Illusion magic might work, convince him that there is something under the tree that is safe for the frogs and dangerous for him, something. PC's can figure it out. :)
Grick Grove	heard over gossip a parent telling their child not to go too far north into the forest as there are gricks in the grove past the northernmost hill https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Grick#content if the party goes to fight them, there are 4 gricks