Trepolis

Scenario 1: Call for Aid from Trepolis

The hobbits of New Trepolis have called for aid: their crops stopped growing and food is becoming sparse. Will you answer their call and investigate why their crops have stopped growing?

Five brave adventurers answered the call for aid. They utilized the yellow brick road to travel from Crystalheart City to Trepolis, and continued onward to New Trepolis on a blue brick road. Once the adventurers arrived in New Trepolis, they were greeted by the local bakery owner, sampled some baked goods, and were directed toward the farmer with the most dying crops. Wilace, the farmer with the most dying crops, was not overly enthusiastic to help the adventurers but directed them to one of his fields of blue corn. The adventurers investigated the blue corn and the soil. They learned that blue corn relies on crystal dust to grow and that the crystal dust no longer worked as expected due to magic anomalies in the region. They learned that saving the crops would require them to restore magic in the region. However, whenever the adventurers brought up magic around the hobbits of New Trepolis they were faced with fear. The hobbits of New Trepolis are afraid to use magic.

While the adventurers were investigating the crops, a hobbit named Rebecca came running down the street and exclaimed that Pippin is missing. He had gone to the woods in the morning to pick berries and had not yet come back. Adventurers learned that multiple other hobbits had gone missing before Pippin.

The adventurers decided to travel into the woods to find Pippin. They reached the place where Pippin had picked berries and decided to investigate it. They found signs of a fight and very large treeling footprints. They decided to follow the footprints but were attacked by animals. The adventurers quickly realized that the animals meant no harm and were steering them in a specific direction. The adventurers followed the animals lead and eventually arrived at a clearing in the woods where they found three hobbits. One of them was Pippin from New Trepolis. However, the other two hobbits told the adventurers that they were not from New Trepolis but were instead from another hobbit settlement further in the woods named Old Trepolis. None of the hobbits were able to remember anything that had happened from when they vanished and until now.

The adventurers decided to travel to Old Trepolis. The adventurers talked to the major of Old Trepolis, Merovech Fallohide, and learned that there were rumors about treelings living in the woods of Trepolis. However, no hobbit had seen a treeling in at least the last 100 years. The adventurers talked to some older hobbits in Old Trepolis, studied some carvings, and consulted some records in the library. They concluded that there are treelings in Trepolis, that hobbits and treelings of Trepolis used to hold a friendship party every ~250 years, and that the friendship party was usually organized by a wizard. However, the hobbits of Trepolis now believe that treelings are merely legends.

The adventurers decided to return to the woods to track down the treelings. They decided to camp in a clearing. The adventurer, who took first and second watch, decided to not wake anyone up to take third or fourth watch. The adventurers woke up in a deep pit. They tried to climb out put were unsuccessful. They had been trapped by Myrsine, a treeling. After some back and forth, the adventurers learned that Myrsine had been kidnapping hobbits to educate them on the old tradition of the hobbit-treeling friendship party. However, the treeling elders did not appreciate his actions. They wiped the kidnapped hobbit’s mind and released them in the middle of the woods.

The adventurers accompanied Myrsine to talk to the treeling elders. The treeling elders explained that usually once it was time for the hobbit-treeling friendship party a wizard would come and remind the hobbits about it, but the wizard had not shown up this time. Nevertheless, the treeling elders insisted that the hobbits had to remember about the hobbit-treeling friendship party themselves before the treelings would reveal themselves to the hobbits or talk to them.

The adventurers returned to Old Trepolis and reenacted the hobbit-treeling friendship party. They pointed out carvings on buildings in Old Trepolis that depicted parts of the party, while they reenacted it. The adventurers managed to convince a majority of hobbits in Old Trepolis that treelings must exist in Trepolis, and that the hobbit-treeling friendship party is an important tradition that must happen once again. The treeling elders observed the reenactment and, when seeing the change of heart of the hobbits of Old Trepolis, emerged from the woods to reveal themselves to the hobbits of Old Trepolis.

The adventurers mentioned in their report that one of the carvings depicted the ritual site: a clearing in the woods with a stone statue of a hobbit holding a longsword. The statue is overgrown by an extremely large tree. In front of the statue is a stone altar with several objects on it, but the carving does not clearly depict the objects. However, the adventurers believe that these objects are necessary to hold the hobbit-treeling friendship party.

Scenario 2: The Heart of the Ritual

The hobbits Old Trepolis identified one of the objects on the altar that would be necessary to perform the hobbit-treeling friendship ritual, and have requested aid with locating the objects. Seven brave adventurer followed the request for aid and traveled to Old Trepolis. They learned that the objects that they are looking for is a small, bronze statue of a tree with three main tree branches. The statue was passed from generation to generation through one of the hobbit families in Old Trepolis. However, three generations ago a young hobbit of that family decided to leave Trepolis to become an adventurer. He took the statue and sold it to a merchant in Crystalheart City to have some starting capital. When his parents tried to buy the statue back from the merchant that it had been sold to, he had already sold it to someone else.

The adventurers traveled back to Crystalheart City. After inquiring with a clerk as well as the owner of the shop that the statue had been sold to, the adventurers realized that the statue had been bought by a treeling from Trepolis. The adventurers traveled back to Old Trepolis and found a hobbit, who agreed to guide them to the treelings. The adventurers inquired with the treelings, who first denied having ever heard of the statue. However, the oldest treeling eventually confessed that due to ripples in the magic he had felt that the statue had been removed from the region about 150 years ago. He secretly bought the statue back and hid it in a sacred place for the treelings. Unfortunately, that sacred place has since been overtaken by a dragon.

The adventurers agreed to retrieve the statue from the dragon. They attempted to steal the statue from the dragon’s horde but were discovered by the dragon. They then attempted to discuss the matter with the dragon, but given that the adventurers had just attempted to steal from the dragon, he was not open to discussion. After a heated fight, the adventurers defeated the dragon as well as several wyverns and salamanders. The adventurers successfully retrieved the statue and the treelings promised to keep it save until the hobbit-treeling friendship ritual would take place.

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