Heart of a Hero

Rumour wakes up in the middle of the night seeing his patron leaning against the wall in his room, eating a golden apple. Reynard requests Rumour to head to the Flowering Forest if he truly wants to be a hero, there will be something useful there. Rumour heads back to sleep believing it to be a dream, to his dismay it was not.

## Adventurers Attending

* Rumour
* Raph the Betrayer
* Artix
* Philip T - Character
* Sam McCall's Character -

## Mission Notes

Rumour wakes up in the middle of the night to his patron,Reynard the Fey Lord standing in his room messing around with his belongings, checking over the quality of his adventuring gear. Reynard leans against the way and starts telling Rumour about a forest to the north called the Flowering Forest, pulling out golden apple, Reynard start prepping it to eat while letting Rumour know he will do great things and needs to go there to become a hero.

Heading downstairs from his room in the Junction Inn to have a liquid breakfast to try and deal with the terrible dream he experienced the night prior. No where seems to be safe from the fluffy demon not even his dreams.Rumour is joined not too long after by some of the other members of the Adventures Guild, some he knows and other hes never met before and finds out to his horror it wasn't a dream last night. The rest of the group were "contacted in their sleep last night", promised riches, truths and their hearts desire if they follow a Tiefling with a crazed look in his eye, by foppish fox man. They all found a golden apple in their room upon waking,which is why they all seeked out Rumour. Rumour lets them know who it was they saw in their dreams last night and the torture of his current existence due to Reynard and he shouldn't be trusted, but he would be heading north.

The group decided to accompany Rumour, after a few days of travel north to the Flowering Forest, Rumour notices a fox there that seems to be trying to lead him somewhere, following it the group are eventually lead to a clearing with scattered remains of what seemed to be a stone structure. The fox walked past a strange overgrown stone archway with ivy growing all around it, disappearing from sight as it should have come out the other side. Investigating further the archway seemed to be a portal one way leading to opulent garden maze bathing in sunlight, checking out the other side it looks to just be an empty archway.

just freestanding in the middle of a clearing in the forest. Looking through the archway there seems to be the start of a garden maze that should be there as it can't be seen on the other side in the clearing. After a little discussion the party decided to proceed sprawling maze of hedges and gardens. It quickly became apparent that taking the wrong turn will put them back to where they began. Through some trial and error they eventually make their way through this bizarre garden to a beautiful building that seems to have fallen into disuse as plants seemed to have taken it back.

Once inside the group finds that their progression is blocked by a door with several locks, four chambers branch off from the main room and each with a key for the main door. Inside each key is hidden behind trials that involve some form of misdirection or unintuitive thinking. Eventually the group made it past all the trails gaining access to pass, and continued on to the main chamber of the building.

Once inside the main chamber, a loud dripping noise can be heard coming from a crack in the ceiling, while everyone had fanned out to explore a large splat is hear from the same area as the dripping and huge slime creature that resembles a frog besets the party. As battle breaks out a fierce fight happens and some of the party are eaten but are freed by their companions. Upon slaying the beast Reynard thanks Rumour and lets him know he is really getting there with this hero thing, thanking him for clearing out his holiday home he hasn't used in a very long time. Upon hearing this Rumour breaks down finding out they were just doing busy work for the foxy devil, the rest of the party are a little confused to what is happening due to only hearing Rumour's side of the conversation. Reynard tells Rumour not to be so glum as their reward is close at hand, a tile pulls back across the black and white checkered floor to reveal a pedestal rising out the floor with a cushion sat upon it. On top of this cushion is a large bag of gems and a selection of other items.

Rumour not trusting this fey trickster warns the rest of the party to stay back and uses the mage hand his patron bestowed to him, to skillfully grab the items off the cushion. Reynard feigns insult to the mere thought that he would try to trick them with their reward, secretly pleased that Rumour would use caution rather than rushing into things. Quickly urging the group to leave before anything else happens Rumour leads the group out of the garden and to the Flowering Forest.

It isn’t till the group gets back to the outskirts of Othas Rest that Reynard informs Rumour that there was a item hidden compartment in the pedestal that he would have noticed if he had taken the time to look and didn't try and rush out. In the compartment was hidden an amulet that hid something that would give him the heart of a hero and helped him become the hero he was destined to be, giving him a much improved constitution and making it easier to stand against attacks that would fell a lesser man. Rumour with a heavy sigh let's his companions know the situation and heads back, leaving the group to continue back home to the Junction Inn

## Loot

* 600xp each
* 550 gold in Gems each - You can chose to convert that into gold or keep it as gemstones for material components up to yourself.
* Amulet of Health - Rumour

## Rumours

* Whats the deal with the Flowering Forest?
* Why didn't Reynard just tell Rumour the amulet was there?