1308 Scoyfe’s Mire

Trees are shaggy with yellow, hanging mosses. Visibility is low, with vapours hanging at head level.

• Terrain: Open forest (2), Aldweald
• Lost/encounters: 1-in-6
• ### Noisome Pond
• In the north of this hex, the ground slopes downward to a waterlogged region of puddles and tussocks. In a dim and damp glade sits a pond, about 35′ across, completely covered

in lily pads. Around its edges are many diseased-looking orange flowers, all facing into the centre of the water.

Rising Scoyfe: Anyone dallying at the pond soon sees a bizarre pair of figures arise slowly from the centre, known in local legend as The Scoyfe. The pair bellow in anger and attack intruders, pursuing them for up to a mile if they flee.

Treasure horde: Scattered about the bottom of the pond is 1,000gp, mostly near a submerged, rotten, burst sack.

The Scoyfe

A pair of corpse-like men, one riding on the other’s back, both draped in lilies and foul mire water. Though the two appear to be in conflict, they act in unison.

Undead: Immune to biological effects (e.g. disease, poison) and mind-affecting spells (e.g. Vapours of Dream, Paralysation, Dominate).

Immunities: Only harmed by magic, silver weapons, or magic weapons.

Eternal grudge: In life, the two were bandits who killed each other arguing over a sack of gold. There is a 1-in-6 chance per Round that the two fall to attacking each other, vanishing in a puff of stringy ectoplasm.

Return from death: Can only be permanently defeated if the corpses of both beings are incinerated. Otherwise, both re-manifest in the pond at midnight.

Upper Being

A scrawny man cloaked in tattered bandages, with a moon-like face and red-rimmed eyes. Sits astride the Lower Being, holding a rusty knife at his neck.

Medium Undead—Sentient—Chaotic

Level 3 AC 13 HP 15 Saves D11 R12 H13 B14 S15 Att Knife (+2, 1d4 + drown) Speed 0 Morale 10 XP 65

Drown: Lungs fill with pond weed and newt-spawn. –2 to Attack Rolls for 1 Turn or until being is defeated.

Lower Being

A hulking brute, with long orange hair and a beard that covers his entire body. Walks upon rough stilts, gripping at the Upper Being’s ankles with long, biting nails.

Medium Undead—Sentient—Chaotic

Level 5 AC 13 HP 26 Saves D10 R11 H12 B13 S14 Att 2 grasps (+4, 1d8+1) Speed 30 Morale 10 XP 160

Gold lust: Walks on his stilts to attack the member of the party carrying the most gold.

The Hoary Gate

At the centre of this hex stand two 10′ pillars of glistening ice, crackling with hoarfrost. The 5′ aperture between the pillars is filled with a swirling, chill mist.

Stepping between the pillars: Whisks one away to the Prince’s Road (see Fairy Roads, p26).