Flustered in the Faewild

**Flustered in the Faewild** was a 12-part campaign that ran in the third quarter of 2021. It was DMed by Emma Rose.

## Player characters

* Ogden, played by Shamini Bundell
* Gertie, played by Chris Hislop
* Old Jorgie, played by Shaun Smith
* Enoch the Vague, played by Liz Drake
* Pip, played by Tom Jancis

## Plot

The party for *Flustered in the Faewild* all meet at the Seelie Court, which is inside a giant tree (with leaves as a turn tickets). They all have various things they want/need - Enoch the Vague wants to return to the Material Plane, Ogden and Old Jorgie (from Windfall in Waterdeep) have gotten lost from their theatre company, Pip is working off a debt, and Gertie is just here for the work! A boggle gives them a job, in return for which all of their requests will be answered - find a missing satyr, Tecia, who vanished in the small town of Dusk Falls not long ago.

Leaving for Dusk Falls, Faewild locals Pip and Gertie quickly become go-tos for how the Faewild works - which Gertie treats dismissively, while Pip is brought out of his gruff shell and starts coming up with a list of Faewild rules. The path seems to change around them as they try and approach Dusk Falls, which they try and deal with by telling off a way-marker stone, but eventually not looking where they are going manages to allow them to avoid the magic.

They arrive at a circle of mushrooms, which seems to be forming a ring around Dusk Falls. As they try to cross, they are attacked by an army of darklings led by a pixie, and Pip's lethal nature is revealed, as is Old Jorgie's robot rat Robert (who was there the entire time). Unable to get much information out of the remaining fey, who either turn invisible or run away (or both), the party head into Dusk Falls.

Inside the town, the townsfolk seem blissfully unaware of being in any way locked or trapped away from the rest of the Faewild, to the point of actively avoiding discussing the outside world and seeming unable to even think about leaving. The party make their way to The Happy Cucumber, a local tavern, to try and find Tecia, and have very different reactions to the tavern serving pickled cucumbers with every meal, and the cook Ethel's habit of carving faces into every single one! The party also discuss not necessarily killing their enemies, and instead trying to offer them employment (a tactic that worked for Ogden and Old Jorgie in Windfall in Waterdeep) after Pip's violent display with the darklings.

Receiving directions from the barkeep, Lexis, the party head for Tecia's house outside town, which they break into and are assaulted by various animated household objects. They realise that Tecia has been investigating the strange goings-on in the town, and follow up on her research the next day - but not before Ogden and Pip start to bond, specifically about making sure the sky isn't falling in.

The next day, the party investigate various shops and services around town, based on Tecia's notes, discovering that there are a large number of strange goings-on in Dusk Falls, but most of which turn out to be red herrings. Heading out of town to investigate the mushroom ring, some of the party start behaving like the townsfolk and actively avoid leaving - which Gertie immediately blames on the pickles, although Old Jorgie continues to eat them. They try and bring this to the mayor's attention, who appears to be similarly ensorcelled, but the baker Acorn does unearth a clue they can action - mysterious tunnels under Dusk Falls!

Entering the tunnels, the party find a shrine to Verenestra, and discover an eladrin protecting a strange crystal which they call the Heartspring, and Tecia, who asks them to return her to the Sanctum of Verenestra, a church in town. Returning her there, the local cleric Mirin reveals that the Sanctum is here because of the Heartspring, but they've not been able to secure it for a very long time, thanks to the eladrin guarding it. Tecia also reveals that she was kidnapped by a green hag, who is also trying to unlock the Heartspring's secrets - and the party meet Tecia's estranged wife, a paladin called Revi.

Mirin goes to guard the Heartspring while the party rest, but upon waking they find themselves shrunk down to minute size, and have to use various tricks to make their way back to Mirin, who can restore them. Once there, they agree to guard the Heartspring, as they assume their shrinking is the hag attacking, and once Tecia, Mirin and Revi have departed, are indeed attacked by a powerful sea hag, whilst suddenly finding themselves in each others' bodies!

Having defeated the hag, they head out of the shrine, but Dusk Falls is now under attack by an army of darklings! Pip offers the darklings a job, which they accept, forming his own army, who reveal that their boss is another hag - and the party realise they've been dealing with a full coven. Assuming that the green hag is amongst them (and accusing each other), the party realise that Lexis has suddenly left, and upon confronting them discover that they were replaced by a green hag, who also accepts a job offer to undo their work with the pickles.

The party leave to take out the dusk/darkling hag, and have an epic fight with it that leads to Ogden and Pip starting to talk about their blossoming feelings. Returning to Dusk Falls proper, all of the hags vanquished or hired, they assume that they have won - but the Heartspring is activated, making the townsfolk go on the hunt for humanoid hearts! Stealing through, the party return to the Heartspring, where Tecia, Mirin and Revi are protecting it and also looking for hearts - until the party manage to knock them all out, and finally destroy the Heartspring.

With everything calming down, and Tecia found, the Seelie Court offer to honour all of their requests - but Ogden no longer wants to return to Waterdeep with Old Jorgie, and the Court agree to allow both of them a one-time trip, whenever they want. Thus, the whole group agree to travel together, with their first job to defeat Pip's evil hag adoptive parents...

## Twitch Clip Archive

* Three Party Members Down, Using Every Attack... Look at the Tension!
* Ah! Ah? Aaaah!
* Shaun, Do the Face
* Haggling with the Hag
* The Genesis of Crabteon
* What Can I See?
* A Tale as Old as Time
* Tinfoil Hats Cliffhangers
* And so #TeamCupcake was Born
* Elk on a Ladder!
* #TeamStoot Avoid a Domestic
* Life Advice from a Theatre Technician
* Body-Swapping Gold
* Your Charmed Commoner is Not Effective
* T-Rex Cat!
* Honey, I Shrunk the Adventuring Party!
* Mid-Scarecrow Cliffhanger
* Pip's Backstory Gets Even More Peculiar
* Everything's Fine
* Ogden Tries to be the Bad Cop
* A Small Recap
* Pip's List of Faewild Rules
* The Selfish L...
* Ah Warding Bond...
* The Pickles Saga Continues...
* Gertie Wins the Dig a Deeper Hole Award
* Shaun Gets a Taste of his Own Medicine - Mmmm Lemon Meringue
* This Bizarre Fever Dream (Crowning the Elk)
* The Pickles! THE PICKLES!
* Do NOT Mess with Pip
* Ogden and Old Jorgie are Back (and Bumbling as Ever)
* The New Team Prove their Worth by Intimidating a Stone

## Media

A typical scene from Flustered in the Faewild.Flustered in the Faewild - IntroThe intro sequence for Flustered in the Faewild.