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Nero Ashbury module "Shrooms"



In this module players are asked to follow an Orienteering trail. But before they do that, they must discover and build the tools of the trade,  A map and compass. They must also realize the fundamentals of orienteering: following a compass bearing across rough terrain, learning how to retrace their steps when they make a mistake.



Section 1: entrance

[insert noble here] needs a certain type of mushroom that the mushroom farmer has found before. He wants to use it to make a food delicacy to impress a visiting dignitary. He shows the party a sample of the mushroom asleep





About the mushrooms: 



Alchemy detects them as poisons, "similar to a cause light damage" poison. When ingested, it blows a "resist poison" but causes no damage.



This particular mushroom, in addition to its delicate flavor, is a potent yet subtle poison. After ingestion, the poison stays in the system of the victim for one month undetected.  If the victim consumes a second mushroom of a specified type, within the same month, the victim will receive the equivalent of a "death" poison.



Each party that goes on this module is going after one of the two types of mushroom. If a member of the party consumes the mushroom he is given a packet to be opened if he consumes the other type of mushroom.

The packet will say something like "open this packet if you ingest an item labelled 'xyx' before n/n/98."









section 2:small town



-- the semstress

she has a needle that, when rubbed by a piece of magnetic rock, and placed where it can rotate freely (on top of some still water)



* the metallurgist

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he has a rock that is magnetic



-- the farmer

he knew the mushroom farmer very well. 



-- shroom farmer's friend

He has compass directions to the truffle patch but doesn't know how to follow them.



Shroom directions read crypticly:



270 50, 0 100   (west 50 paces, north 100 paces)