I can’t remember her. I was traveling to give her this rose, but I’ve forgotten who she is. Can you help me?
This is an adventure for 1st level characters.
Bathius was walking to his wife’s grave to deliver a rose on what would have been their 60th anniversary. His efforts were interrupted when he was killed by a band of giant frogs that have recently made a nearby crypt their home. The frogs then took his body to their crypt to feed the tadpoles in the spawning pool.
Bathius, due to his violent end, can’t remember who he was giving the rose or how he died.
The players encounter a sad ghost holding a rose, Bathius, who explain that he wants to find his true love but can’t remember who she is. Her face and name were in a locket in his jacket, but he can’t find his body anywhere. He explains that the last thing he remembers was passing through the old cemetery near the large oak tree before blacking our and waking a ghost.
When the characters approach the old oak tree they are attacked by giant frogs that leap out of a nearby crypt. There are some signs of a struggle and Bathias’s body being dragged into the crypt the frogs came from.
The characters will be inclined to explore the flooded crypt to find Bathius’s locket. After fighting more frogs, the matron toad, and the tadpoles eating Bathius’s body they can reclaim the locket.
Once the locket is returned to Bathius he realizes that his love is dead and that the rose was to commemorate what would have been their 60th anniversary. He thanks the characters and gives them the locket and his wedding ring as a reward. He then passes on to be with his wife.
Many areas of the crypt are flooded with 2 feet of water. That area is difficult terrain and if anyone falls unconscious in the area they immediately begin to suffocate.
Frogs of all stages are treated as having half cover and ignore the difficult terrain while in flooded areas. Characters with a swim speed can ignore this cover.
A) Family Crypt. A stone stairwell leads into this dark flooded chamber. There are 6 alcoves that house 6 tombs. A pair of giant frogs are resting on the tombs as if they were lily pads. They jump into the water at the first sign of conflict.
B) Tomb of the Matriarch. A small flight of stairs lead up to this large chamber. The back of it collapsed and leads to area C. A giant toad stands guard over her tadpoles here.
C) Nursery. This flooded pond is where the giant toad spawns. A swarm of tadpoles (statistics of a quipped swarm) are currently feeding on Bathius’s body. The locket is still in his coat pocket. The tadpoles think everything is food and attacks anything that enters the water.
