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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1360142" data-attributes="member: 63">11) RangerWickettWhile traveling through an unexplored wood, the party is offered guidance by the strange furred Wickett.  If they accept his aid, their journey goes off course temporarily when Wickett finds tracks of a quarry he has sought for a long time.  After a chase through dangerous parts of the forest and fighting some of the fiercest predators of the wood, Wickett and the party eventually catch up with Wickett's quarry, a nymph of the forest spring.  With this success, Wickett has come of age, and will be free to travel beyond his forest, and the party will be rewarded with safe passage and a nymph's blessing.  Wickett, for his own part, thereafter multiclasses as bard and becomes a wandering minstrel.. . . Or, a longer story . . . a young wilderness creature is rumored to know the secret to traveling to the forest moon (or possibly the Plane of Forests), where a villain is corrupting nature into artifice.  The party approaches this 'Wickett,' and he agrees to teach them how to reach the forest moon, a ritual which requires several rare items.  The mysterious and somewhat dim-whitted Wickett came from his homeland years ago to explore this world.The journey to recover the items can only be undertaken by foot; because the items must power a powerful teleportation magic, they themselves cannot be teleported.  Thus, Wickett leads the group across hundreds of miles of terrain, always warning of the danger they will face, but never revealing more than the location of the next needed item.  The items include nothing of monetary value, just things with spiritual significance or seemingly whimsical attractions.After many weeks of travel and adventure, when all the necessary items are collected, Wickett reveals that he could have sent them from the beginning, but their journey was necessary to attune them to the spirits of the world.  Without this guidance, the group may have reached the forest moon, but would have been a threat to the natural order.  By proving their trustworthiness, they have earned the aid of Wickett's people, who will help defeat the villain's armies.</blockquote>

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