Finding Fuel for the forges

***Random Quest***

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## Quest Data

* Normal, from level 10
* Hard, from level 18

* Bandit - level 8
* FULL HEAL
* Speed check (DC 60)
	+ If failed: -10 HPCinderthief - level 7
* Power or Intelligence check (DC75)
	+ If failed: -20 Energy
* Lava Slime - Level 8
1 PXP
1.00 GUILD

* Bandit - level 15
* FULL HEAL
* Speed check (DC 60)
	+ If failed: -10 HPCinderthief - level 14
* Power or Intelligence check (DC75)
	+ If failed: -20 Energy
* Lava Slime - Level 16
1 PXP
1.50 GUILD

* Iron Ore
* Matchstick
* Lava Globule

## Story

### ***Location: Ashbury***

It's a quiet day in the mining town of Ashbury. Checking your gear once again, you prepare to leave the town to continue your journey with Fredrick, one of the apprentice metalworkers from Guildtown. The pair of you have been tasked with retrieving samples of lava from Ol' Fiery, the volcano that is the southernmost peak of the Flametooth Range. It's a dangerous task but Fredrick has loaded up the bag that *you're* carrying with various pieces of safety equipment.

Leaving the town behind, you begin to trek towards Lake Lavarken, the lowest of the mountain's multiple craters. While Ol' Fiery is an active volcano, there hasn't been a major eruption for centuries, so the lower regions of the mountain are rich with life.

### ***Location: Ol' Fiery***

You're along on the journey as both a body guard and to carry all of the gear. Fredrick is telling you all about how they want to use the lava samples to power a new type of forge, when less than half an hour after leaving Ashbury, a pair of bandits appear as you round a bend in the winding trail.

It turns out that your presense was for the best, as they both brandishing their weapons! You drop the heavy bags and start to fight off the closest opponent!

Fight a Bandit!

You quickly send the first bandit fleeing, and a warning shout from Fredrick helps you avoid behind struck in the head by the other bandit's hammer.

Fight a Bandit!

### ***Location: Ol' Fiery***

Realising it's a lost cause, the remaining bandit flees, lugging their stone hammer behind them. You hope that you've given them enough of a scare that they won't bother other travellers. Feeling relatively pleased with yourself, you turn to see Fredrick kneeling beside your discarded bags.

"Oh dear, [your name]. It looks like you forgot to clip the top of the bag shut properly. I think when you dropped the bag, the flasks for the lava samples fell out and rolled somewhere down the mountain." Hearing his words, your good mood leaves faster than the fleeing bandits. You know those flasks are very, *very* expensive.

### ***Location: Ol' Fiery***

Using a healing potion to recover after the fight, and realising you don't have much of a choice, you and Fredrick leave the marked trail and begin to search the mountainside. The apprentice informs you that there's three flasks missing although, having carried the gear all the way from Guildtown, you're more than aware of this fact.

### ***Location: Ol' Fiery***

The first flask you find caught in a bush not too far from the trail. However, as you begin to remove it from the tangled branches, there's a shrill chatter, and a small form darts out of mouth of the open flask.

**Roll a Speed check! (DC60)**

Failed check

***Failed Speed check - Location: Ol' Fiery***

Before you can react, the Cinderthief that had been hiding inside the flask bounces off you. It flutters to a stop in front of your face, then pouts and angrily bops you on the nose with its matchstick, which would have been cute if said matchstick hadn't been alight at the time.

Fight a Cinderthief!

More of a nuisance than a real threat, you defeat the pesky pixie and it vanishes in a puff of smoke and fairy dust.

One flask down, you continue searching for the remaining two.

Passed check

***Passed Speed check - Location: Ol' Fiery***

Your quick reflexes save you as you lean back. The Cinderthief that had been hiding inside the flask zooms through the space your head had occupied moments ago, bouncing off a nearby tree. Seemingly disoriented and seeing that its ambush has failed, the mischevous fae lets out another irked chatter before zooming off into the sky.

One flask down, you continue searching for the remaining two.

### ***Location: Ol' Fiery***

A little further down the slope, you find the next flask. It's seems to have bounced during the fall and ended up wedged firmly between two large boulders. Fredrick reaches in and tries to pull the vessel free, but has no success.

What do you want to do?

**Roll a Power check! (DC75)**

Stretching your muscles, you **carefully** place your pack on the ground, and brace yourself against one of the boulders.
Failed check

***Failed Power check - Location: Ol' Fiery***
You push, and push, and push, and push... but the boulder doesn't budge. Glaring at the huge stone, you focus some of the energy you normally use for your special abilities, and **PUSH!**
The stone goes flying a short way down the slope, coming to a stop with a crash among another group of boulders. The flask, now free, begins to roll down the mountainside as well, but Fredrick jumps forward and grabs it before it can get away again.
"Well done [your name]! That was awesome! Just one more flask to go!"

Passed check

***Passed Power check - Location: Ol' Fiery***
With a grunt of effort, you forcefully shove the boulder, and with your powerful build, the huge stone tumbes a short way down the slope, coming to a stop with a crash among another group of boulders. The flask, now free, begins to roll down the mountainside as well, but Fredrick jumps forward and grabs it before it can get away again.
"Well done [your name]! That was awesome! Just one more flask to go!"

**Roll an Intelligence check! (DC75)**

You examine the two boulders, looking for any kind of way you can easily extract the flask from where it's trapped.
Failed check

***Failed Intelligence check - Location: Ol' Fiery***
You walk around the perimeter of the two boulders but it looks like they're firmly set in place. Sighing, you tap into your arcane reserves and feel the drain on your energy as your condense the magic and then PUSH!
The wave of magical force shakes the surrounding trees, and successfully causes one of the boulders to tumble a short way down the slope, coming to a stop with a crash among another group of boulders. The flask, now free, begins to rolls down the mountainside as well, but Fredrick jumps forward and grabs it before it can get away again.
"Great thinking [your name]! Just one more flask to go!"

Passed check

***Passed Intelligence check - Location: Ol' Fiery***
As you look closer, you spot a faint crack running from the top of one of the boulders, all the way to the bottom. Inspiration strikes, and you **carefully** place your pack on the ground before rummaging through it until you find the hammer and chisel. Looks like carrying all this extra gear came in handy after all!
You align the chisel with the fault in the cracked stone, wedging the tip into the widest point of the fault, and give it a firm hit to test your idea. You have to jump back as the stone splits, and collapses into a pile of rubble. Fredrick walks forward and grabs the freed flask before it can roll away again.
"Great thinking [your name]! Just one more flask to go!"

### ***Location: Ol' Fiery***

Both you and fredrick are more than a little weary when you finally locate the final flask. This time there's no Cinderthieves or boulders. The flask is just sitting in the middle of the path, having rolled so far down the side of Ol' Fiery that it landed on a lower section of the winding trail.

"It's like it's mocking us." Fredrick voices exactly how you're feeling. You both start laughing in exasperation as you bag the metal canister and start to ascend the mountain once again.

### ***Location: Lake Lavarken***

It's much later in the day than you originally anticipated but the pair of you finally reach the lava lake in the crater. Fredrick finds a place to secure a sturdy (and heat-resistant) rope and you take the flasks from him.

Mentally readying yourself for the dangerous work, you uncork and swallow a small pink potion that tastes kind of like strawberries before climbing down to the shore of Lake Lavarken.

### ***Location: Lake Lavarken***

The Fire Resistence Potion is doing its job, and while you can see the shimmer of the heat in the air, you're relatively comfortable. However, it's a race against time though, as you know i won't be that long until the potion wears off!

Getting to work, you start carefully using a crucible on the end of a collapsible pole to collect lava from various points around the edge of the lava lake.

### ***Location: Lake Lavarken***

You're onto the final flask when you hear Fredrick shout from above. Looking up, you see the sandy-haired apprentice frantically gesturing behind you. You spin around and have to jump to the side to avoid being given an unwanted hug by a particularly large Lava Slime!

Fight a Lava Slime!

### ***Location: Lake Lavarken***

The Lava Slime wobbles before losing its form and melting (*does lava melt?*) into a pool of rapidly cooling molten rock. Breathing a sigh of relief, you hear Fredrick call down to you again.

"Get some of that Lava too before it cools too much!" You grab the makeshift ladle and carefully transfer the remains of the Lava Slime into the remaining flask, clipping the lid shut to let the enchanted vessel keep the lava hot. Task complete, you pull yourself back up the rope to where the apprentice metalworker is waiting. "Thanks for your help [your name]! I think that's everything we need." He packs the flasks away again, and after triple-checking the bags are securely shut, you begin the journey home once again.