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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 6951577" data-attributes="member: 6778479">Fairly Bizarre (Wilderness, Day)The PCs begin to encounter rural folk along the roadside - a shepherd looking for lost sheep, a huntsman looking for his dog, a handful of villagers with torches and pitchforks seeking bandits who they claim stole livestock.  If the PCs agree to help, they can find animal tracks and follow them to a secluded vale with a DC:15 Survival check.  The animal trails lead through a grove of dark and twisted trees within the vale to a grassy clearing.  Within the clearing can be found the missing animals, milling around a variety of brightly colored tents, crumbs of various foodstuffs, empty cups and bowls, perhaps a wooden stage with straw bales for seating.  All apparently signs of some sort of country faire.  However, there are no signs of life other than the animals.  The PCs can attempt to steal or return the animals and maybe gather some tents or other abandoned equipment.  Depending on the needs of the group at the time, DM can decide what happened or leave it as an unexplained mystery.  Some possibilities - fey, ghosts, the animals are actually people transformed by a curse that is lifted once every ten years or so, it's all an elaborate trick, slaughter by competing bandit groups, or whatever else.  The PCs may have to contend with whatever brought the animals to the abandoned faire, might suffer pranks, or even a curse themselves.  Perhaps ten years pass by while the PCs explore the vale.</blockquote>

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