An hour head start. With a jungle this vast, you knew you wouldn't get far. You run alongside your two party members, bounding down the path that leads to Stonemont Manor and entering the treeline as quickly as you can.

You run for miles. You hurdle over fallen logs, chop through thick vines, ward off oversized bugs that try to attack you, and traverse waist deep swampland.

As you stop to catch your breath, you meet up with members of other parties and decide to set up some traps as quickly as possible to either kill, maim, or slow Mansfield and his frogfolk down.

Pastor Sandor uses his four arms to dig a ditch while Lavina flies upwards to snap tree branches for sticks. The two of them sharpen several sticks into a point and place the punji sticks at the bottom of the pit.

Rok and Booberella also dug a pit, but filled it with something else entirely. Rok came sprinting out of the treeline excitedly, two fistfuls of poisonous snakes. Booberella lunged out of the way as Rok ran by and lowered the snakes into their new home. "That went better than expected." said Booberella as the two walked away without any bites.

Greaseface, Cyrillus, Canassa, and Murder Bunny worked together to craft a large, spikey mace. Canassa and Cyrillus laid a tripwire made of vines while Greaseface and Murder Bunny raised the mace up into position. The four lunged into a nearby bush and waited patiently to see if they'd land a victim.

Ahron, Malus, and Marnu saw Lavina and Sandor digging their spike pit and decided to make...basically the same thing. Marnu was upset to learn that no actual tigers were involved with tiger pits, but their finished product was every bit as deadly.

Rara, Faerora, and Priggat made a Grave error while attempting to make a bamboo whip. The whip backfired, snapping against the three of them and packing a surprisingly heavy punch.

Khanarak used his might to hoist an incredibly large log up onto his shoulders while Randall looped some strong vines around it. The two clambered up into the trees and waited for their prey. Ordella oversaw the project as she silently suffered from her poisoning earlier that day.

Finally, Calius, Tuuluuwaq, and Vandal spent their precious remaining time hauling stones and boulders into a vine basket that they weaved. A well camouflaged trip wire below the hoisted up bundle of heavy stones should do the trick.

All twenty one members of the large adventuring party ducked into the bushes, hid behind trees, and climbed up high to listen and wait for the hunter.

Finally, they heard a whistle.

Mansfield Stonemont confidently entered the clearing and scanned the trees around him. He readied a step and froze his foot just over a trip wire, smiling to himself as he disarmed it with his knife.

"You'll have to do better than that I'm afraid!" he taunted.

As he did, two of his frogfolk henchmen approached him from the brush. Before Mansfield could warn them, the two plunged through the cleverly camoflauged pitfall and met their end on some sharpened sticks. Mansfield sighed and moved deeper through the clearly, deftly avoiding a swinging log but catching a falling boulder on the shoulder.

Lacking the confidence and poise you had seen out of him thus far, and angry Mansfield clutched his shoulder before blindly firing off a few poison arrows into the brush around him, narrowly missing several members of the party.

More frogfolk natives joined him at his flank. The hunter avoided the remaining traps, notched a few more arrows, and was mere moments before converging on your position.

It was time to decide. Run. Hide. Or fight.

Hell's Belles hid! The three lay still in their camouflaged position, wanting no party in the action. The other six trios all roared as they lunged out from their positions, immediately clashing with Mansfield and the frogfolk.

A vicious fight waged on. Several adventurers took some arrows and spears to the gut. Others were forced into their own traps. It was a bloody affair, but Mansfield's forces were thinning.

As more and more frogfolk fell, the rest began to scatter.

"DONT RUN! YOU IDIOTS!" Mansfield yelled out as some of his hired guard began to flee deeper into the jungle.

"USELESS TOADS. THE LOT OF YOU! I SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE JOB I STARTED AND WIPED THE REST OF YOUR KIND OUT WHEN I LANDED HERE!"

As Mansfield screamed, a slash across the back from on adventurer sent him down onto his knees.

Some fleeing frogfolk took pause, Mansfield's words repeating in their heads. Three frogfolk returned, placing their weapons by their side and signally peace to your party.





The three stood before Mansfield, who called for their aid while firing off more insults. Three poison darts from their blowguns connected with Mansfields neck, sending him hurdling backwards and down into the newly dug snakepit. Mansfield screamed out as the pile of snakes hissed and snapped towards him, striking his hands, ankles, neck, and face. His screaming was finally silenced as foam began to pool in his mouth and his eyes turned a foggy white. His body twitched until it went totally still.

The three frogfolk silently bowed to the rest of you, specifically to Marnu. They placed their slimy four fingered hands against their hearts and asked for forgiveness in their native tongue, before complimenting Marnu on his croaking for good measure. Together, the three collected some of their dead and left the clearing, vanishing through the thick brush.


"Well that was exciting." said Akmong. "Now lets leave this god forsaken place and finish what we started."





Main Quest #1: The Most Dangerous Game

You are being hunted through the jungle by Mansfield Stonemont. What is your next move? Decide as a party.

A. Run
LOSE TEN PARTY GOLD
B. Hide
ADD TEN PARTY GOLD
C. Fight
TAKE ONE DAMAGE BUT ADD ONE INSPIRATION



Main Quest #2: Traps

You decide to fashion some traps in the jungle. Which do you make? Choose individually

A. Punji Sticks
FIND TEN GOLD
B. Snake Pit
FIND ONE KEY
C. Swinging Mace
LOSE FIVE GOLD
D. Tiger Trap
EVERYONE WHO PICKED THIS SPLITS THIRTY GOLD
E. Bamboo Whip
FIND FIVE GOLD BUT TAKE ONE DAMAGE
F. Swinging Log Trap
LOSE TEN GOLD BUT ADD ONE INSPIRATION
G. Falling Rocks
LOSE FIVE GOLD BUT HEAL ONE HP




Side Quest #1: Caged Prisoner

Earlier in the day, Randall, Rok, and Khanarak discovered a caged prisoner who claimed to be a victim of Mansfield's. After freeing him, the prisoner attacked the four and called out for Mansfield, alerting him to your position. The haggard man laughed as he ran into the jungle, but left a bit of gold behind.

TAKE ONE DAMAGE BUT FIND FIVE GOLD

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