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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3056334" data-attributes="member: 1656">Well, grigs and pixies are neutral good, so the encounter is unlikely to be maliciously motivated.However, "needs habitat" and "needs party to do something" could be combined.Let's say that, centuries ago, the king of the sprites and the king of the nearby human kingdom made a compact, that recognised the fey's sovereignty over the forest, and denied humans the right to hunt and chop wood within its bounds.And let's say that over the years, the humans have all but forgotten the compact, and just remember that the woods are 'haunted'.And let's say that in the last year or so, a band of woodcutters have begun chopping down the trees of the haunted forest.  Their precautions against the 'evil spirits' have served to protect them from direct action by the fey.Enter the PCs, who are in the forest for some reason.  The sprites see a group of humans without the 'evil spirit' protections, and initially seek revenge for the fallen trees.  (Cue encounter to showcase druid and bard.)Once the mistaken identity problem is recognised, the fey cease attacking... but the PCs are still in violation of the compact by trespassing on fey lands.  The sprites demand service in penance - the PCs must stop the woodcutters' incursions.Perhaps one or more dryads have already been killed by the tree-felling; by the terms of the compact, the human king (whoever currently holds the throne) is responsible (while everyone's forgotten it, the original contract can be found in the palace archives, and is still binding), and must either provide for the dryads' resurrection, or turn over those responsible, or else his first-born child is forfeit.  Perhaps the employer who provided the woodcutters with their anti-fey protections knew about the compact all along, but needed dryad oak for the construction of some device or other, and will take steps to thwart the PCs from carrying out their task.-Hyp.</blockquote>

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