Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2630805" data-attributes="member: 11760">MaidensbridgeMaidensbridge (hamlet): Conventional, AL NG; 100 gp limit; Assets 1,000 gp; Population 200; Isolated (192 humans, 4 dwarves, 2 gnomes, 2 other)Authority figures: Russell Bailey (male human Exp, bailiff), Ward Bridger (male human Pal, constable)Notable NPCs: Heda Littlelark (female gnome Brd 5, minstrel), Therurt Glangirn (male dwarf Exp/Bar, blacksmith)Militia: The smallest community in Midwood, only a small fringe of trees separate Maidensbridge from the lower slopes of Green Mountain to the east. The hamlet is named for the bridge that straddles the Moss River as it heads north and downstream towards the larger community of Foxton on Moss. Although it is close by fast-moving water, by land, the hamlet is distant from both Foxton on Moss and Middleborough beyond it: It is more than two miles through dark woods before travelers reach the safety of Foxton on Moss.Maidensbridge is almost entirely located on the west side of the Moss River, although the apple orchards are located on the east side towards Green Mountain, as is Ward Bridger’s watch tower. A simple log fence surrounds the hamlet on both sides of the river, with only a single opening on the east side and several on the west side. The west side openings in the fence are normally (casually) guarded by militia members.The residents of Maidensbridge are apple farmers. Due to their proximity to Green Mountain, the residents of Maidensbridge have had to defend themselves more than any of the other communities have and has given birth to more adventurers. Even in distant Freeport or Ptolus, it is not strange to encounter an adventurer born and raised in the tiny hamlet of Maidensbridge, half a continent away.The bridge that gives the hamlet its name was once the rendezvous for a pair of lovers from Foxton on Moss, whose families were of very different stations and who could not openly be together. Finally, the young girl was to be married to a much older man whom she did not love. The lovers conspired to meet at the bridge and run away together. Her lover was delayed on the road when his cart wheel broke. While she waited for him on the bridge, a river troll stole up from beneath the bridge and dragged her beneath the water, drowning her. When her lover finally made it to the bridge, he found her drowned corpse laying on the river bank, flowers still clinging to her hair where she had woven them, as she had always had for him. Spotting the river troll, he leapt on the beast, insane with rage and loss. The troll killed him as well, leaving his torn and broken body beside the girl he had loved. The tale of the two lovers was made into a popular song, The Maiden’s Bridge, and when the area was settled for orchards, the new hamlet inevitably took the name.Once every autumn, the Green Mountain Kobolds descend under the cover of darkness and pluck apples from the orchards surrounding Maidensbridge and then pelt the houses with them. The event is known as Apple Night, and while it is frustrating for the farmers, who lose a portion of their crop every year to this vandalism, so far it has been a harmless annual ritual.In the centuries since Maidensbridge became a community, those living there have become known as Bridgers, and Bridger is a common surname for the inhabitants.</blockquote>

Verification