The village of Cooling Shade lies within an old forest where they farm trees to avoid the wrath of the druids and rangers that live within the woods. Using the farmed trees to make wood crafts and the like. Their relationship with the druids and rangers has allowed them to survive within the woods for over a hundred years in woods few other villages could, being safe from the worst of the forest creatures attacks.
Now however the bugbear raids have intensified as the rangers and druids have begun disappearing. Then their children began to disappear leaving the people of the village to contend with increasing dangers.
Now people from the village itself have started to go missing from their beds which has lead to panic, those who escape the attacks of the creature taking them tell of a beautiful witch with wings. The diviner of the village has come to find that this witch is located in an old abandoned Halfling village deep in the woods. The PC’s are hired to go to the Halfling village to capture the witch or kill her if this proves impossible.
The witch is in truth an erinyes that has fled the wrath of her devilish masters to the material, where she chose an isolated hiding place.
Encounters in the woods on the way to the village.
1-Deer and Wolves work together to attack the PC’s as they move through the woods. The deer begin by appearing to be fleeing from the wolves, however they veere off towards the PC’s and ram into them giving the wolves an opportunity to strike the PC’s.
15 deer and 10 wolves
2-6 bugbear worshipers of dark gods of the forest and a human worshiper of a god of light and nature ambush the players at some point in the woods near here. They are all under the influence of the erinyes.
Level 7 human ranger.
3-A pack of were wolves 5 in all attacks the PC’s lead by a level 4 fighter the remaining 4 are level 2 fighters.
The Village
The village is so overgrown that the houses are barley visible through a thick tangle of trees.
4-A pair of brown bears lives in this household they are under the erinyes influence and so will attack the PC’s on site.
5-A pack of bugbears 17 in all lives in these two houses their chieften was killed by the erinies as a potential threat that might throw off her spells
6-2 level 6 rangers and a level 7 druid live in this house
7-A second pack of bugbears 15 in all
8-A back of ravenous gnoll’s attacks the PC’s here, more interested in eating then fighting. 12 Gnolls
9-Ettercap and Giant Spider Webs
3 Ettercap’s and 6 giant spiders.
10-A pair of dire weasels attack the PC’s leaping of the roof.
11-A throng of missing children 20 of them in all attack the PC’s with short swords, forcing the PC’s to flee, or battle children, although subdual is easily possible it still presents a difficult challenge
12-A patch of assiasian vines dangles down along this house catching animals and even the false towns resadents. 3 Assasian vines.
13-A small pack of 8 were wolves lives here lead by a level 6 druid.
14-The Erinies Lives in this house however as they PC’s drew closer they called to her a level 9 ranger to aid her in her fight.
She cannot teleport and doing so would give away her position to her master. And she is terrified of dying because doing so will send her back to hell where her master will retrieve her. If she gets close to loosing she will beg the PC’s to spare her offering them aid or anything else they might want.
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