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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9862137" data-attributes="member: 1125">I've done maybe 3 adventures that fit the ecological models1. The local starts expanding, flooding adjacent farmland with what the peasants call sick water. Swamp dwelling stirges attack sheep, some livestock miscarry. Thus the local baron (a PC) decides to get in pumps and drain the swamp, also getting the PCs to exterminate the stirge infestation.This bring them into conflict with the local bullywugs who are protecting their breeding pools, goblins who have been feeding on mutated fish (and bullywug tadpoles) and the Naiad/Swamp hag.The Swamp Naiad reveals that she has been using her body to filter corrupted waters from the north (which causes her to become a Hag), the expanding swamp is an attempt to contain the taint before it floods out to destrom the entire area. The PCs track the taint through increasingly putrid swamp infested with rot worms and abberations until the find the source - an attempt by cultust to open a gate to the Far Realms that failed. Destroying the gate doesnt cleanse the corruption - they still need to stop the drainage works and stabilize the ecosystem2. A new vendor brings apples to the market, but on eating them the villagers fall into a curse sleep, seeing a black horse with a lantern face, and hearing the sound of hooves on wood. That night the sleepers all rise and sleepwalk towards an old int he east gully. PCs follow and it leads towards the old Thornmere Apple Orchard, which is now overgrown, apples on the ground ferment but do not rot, giant owls swoop down on the sleepwalkers.  The House is haunted and PCs must deal with the haunting to save the sleepwalkers.3 Shipments of Wax and Honey fail to reach the local temple. PCs go to investigate and discover that the Apiary has become groundzero for a rebellion of the Giant Bees led by an Abeil Queen who objects to human exploitation of the Hives.</blockquote>

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