Planning session 28: Dragon Peach of Valor

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One Page Oneshot

Robert Peake's One Page One-shot Tookit

1. Noun/Name

Dragon Peach of Valor - does not handle impacts well. no dropping it!

2. Setting/Flavour

• The wilderness/cavern
• whimsical & strange

3. Mission

fetch quest

4. Rewards/Perils

5. Secrets/Twists

• the 'monster' is actually a human in disguise (but maybe there's a real one there as well? and the human is the social skills part and maybe also the chase?)
• the fruit is actually just used for the cake

6. Game Elements

• exploration
• chase scene (maybe sth has the key to get to where they need to go)
• monsters
• puzzle Four by Four opens secret door to fey-like place where they can find the fruit
• social skills

7. Hook

8. Structure

Lazy Dungeon Master

Sly Flourish's 'Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master'

Mama Mudcradle's Map by Simurgh

Strong Start

Potential Scenes

• talking with locals to figure out where to go
• exploring the Storm Surges. Maybe finding some loot, or encountering Yrrim, The Swift
• encountering Franklin in his Harpy costume, trying to not be attacked
• attacked by harpies on the bridge
• the puzzle Four by Four(opens door to fey-like place with fruit tree)
• fighting with the corrupted fairies for the peaches

non-combat encounters/events:

• Three elven scouts are using a dead body in an archery contest (Kellamin Shestua, Fenven Mistmoon & Nornelis Ravenkind)
• An old dire wolf is trapped in a deep pit. It looks hungry.
• A heavy (or enchanted) mist descends around party

Secrets & Clues

1. Some areas in Kator still exude some of the planar off-kilterness due to the Shift. Some of those Distortments can cause malformations in beings, almost like a curruption
2. Some of these areas, both fey and distorted, attract creatures like a moth
3. The Storm Surges are the result of a... friendly? territorrial fight between water and earth elemental powers
4. there are hidden caves and niches in the Storm Surges
5. Some of those caves harbour creatures - and riches
6. all along the coast are caves and smuggler's dens
7. the children of dread have taken over some of the smugglers hide-outs and are trying to gather power and forces
8. There are both fey-spots as well as corrupted spots all over the verdant belt
9. A necromancer used to live in the Forest of Vae
10. Other groups have started to send out scouts to figure out what the hell is going on with Kator
11. the water in the cave has some wild magic/weird fey magic stuff

Fantastic Locations

ORDERED:

• river bridge leading into cave
• in cave: shrine with puzzle
• through shrine: fey-like location with fruit/berry

OTHER:

• Storm Surges - sharp rocks and cliffs rising from the water like massive waves. many of them made out of aquamarine. low hanging mist always covering them.
• Gordala's Skull - a giant's skull with twisted horns. Overgrown by nature. Surrounded by the sea.
• A patch of thorny heath surrounded by dead blue flowers (it is misty)
• A few mossy oak trees and a mound of logs (there is a flag warning of great danger beyond) -> Corpse Flower
• Several shrines to a healing fey deity (Avaraya) line a river bank. Under a full moon the flow of the water reverses, taking swimmers to another realm.

Important NPCs

• Franklin (dresses up as a harpy)
• Daybreak (fairy, captured by the corrupted ones)
• Yrrim, the fierce

Relevant Monsters

• Blue Dragon Wyrmling->Yrrim, the Swift
• Harpies-> can grab and drop characters
• Harpy Matriarch-> sings harpy song. as long as she sings she isn't fighting

Storm Surges

Forest

• Owlbears
• twig blights
• giant wasps

Fairy Realm

• Quickling
• Reflection
• Corrupted Pixie
• Blood Fungus

Magic Item Rewards

• Feather Token (Anchor)
• Scroll of Protection (fiends)
• Bag of Nagging
• general loot

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