{"ashvale3d":"module","name":"quests","api":1,"v":2,"data":{"quests":{"ashen_crown":{"name":"The Ashen Crown","giver":"maren","steps":[{"id":1,"zone":"whisperwood","goal":{"kill":"wolf","n":10},"reward":"sword_t1","talk":["Ah. A traveller. Forgive an old woman for staring; we've seen few new faces since the river took the Brightwater road.","I am Maren. I keep the records here, and the well, and more memories than the valley has room for.","Something is wrong in Whisperwood. Every night the wolves come down to the fold and take a lamb. Always one. Always at the same hour.","Hungry wolves are never that tidy. These hunt as if someone tells them when.","My late husband's blade hangs over my hearth. Thin out ten of the grey wolves in the wood and it is yours. Plain bronze, but honest.","Whisperwood begins past the north gate. Tam sells bread if you need it. And come back alive; I hate writing names in the records."],"progress":["{left} more of the grey wolves, {name}. They run in threes near the old stumps.","If they bite deep, eat. Tam's bread mends a torn arm faster than any prayer."],"complete":["Ten. And not one of them with a full belly. Strange, for wolves that eat a lamb every night.","Here: Aldric's sword. He'd want it swinging again rather than gathering soot."],"locked":[]},{"id":2,"zone":"whisperwood","goal":{"kill":"bandit_leader","n":1},"reward":"xp:attack:1500","talk":["Something else troubles me. The hunter found boot prints among the wolf tracks. Men's boots, walking calm beside the pack.","Bandits. They herd the wolves to keep folk off the old road. There is something on that road they want kept quiet.","Their leader camps deep in Whisperwood, past the split oak. He is no farmhand with a stolen knife; he fought in the old wars.","Bring him down, {name}, and bring me whatever he carries. Train first if you must. The wood will wait; he will not get kinder."],"progress":["The bandit leader still walks free. Look past the split oak, deep in the wood.","He won't be alone. Thin his men first, and keep your strength up."],"complete":["You're back, and with blood on your sleeve. Not all of it yours, I hope.","A map, sewn into the lining of his coat? Let me see... These marks are the goblin camp, east of the old forest.","Bandits buying from goblins. Whatever passes between them, it starts in that camp. You have earned this, and more."],"locked":["The goblins have dug in at their camp east of the old forest. Garrick says go in strong, or not at all.","Train while you wait. Chop, fish, swing that sword. When the way under the hill opens, come and find me."]},{"id":3,"zone":"whisperwood","goal":{"kill":"goblin_chief","n":1},"reward":"shield_t3","talk":["The goblin camp lies east of the old forest, through the gap in its east edge. Goblins fight dirty; their Chief fights dirtier.","The map names a Chief. Whatever the goblins trade the bandits, he decides it. Find him."],"progress":["The Goblin Chief still holds the camp east of the old forest. His goblins rally to him; thin them first."],"complete":["The Chief wore this round his neck? A shard of black glass... no. Not glass. Ash, hard as iron.","I have read of this. The Ashen Crown. Take this shield; you'll need it where this leads."],"locked":[]},{"id":4,"zone":"keep","goal":{"kill":"wraith","n":3},"reward":"xp:defence:6000","talk":["The crown was the old king's, burned with him when the Keep fell. Its pieces have been calling things out of the dark ever since.","A ghost walks the Keep's gate. The old stories say it will open the way for three wraith essences. Gather them."],"progress":["{left} more wraith essences. The cold you feel at the Keep isn't the weather."],"complete":["Three essences. The gate will know them. Go when you're ready, and not a moment before."],"locked":[]},{"id":5,"zone":"keep","goal":{"kill":"ash_knight","n":1},"reward":"body_t4","talk":["The gate opens onto the throne room, and onto the Ash Knight, who still guards a king long dead. He was the best of them, once."],"progress":["The Ash Knight still stands his watch. Grief makes a soldier stubborn; ash makes him tireless."],"complete":["You gave him his rest. I hope he thanked you, in whatever way a knight of ash can."],"locked":[]},{"id":6,"zone":"keep","goal":{"kill":"lich","n":1},"reward":"choice_t5","talk":["Behind the throne waits the one who wears the rest of the crown: the Lich of Ashvale. End it, and the valley remembers what it was."],"progress":["The Lich still holds the crown. Every night it does, the valley forgets a little more of itself."],"complete":["It's over. Take what it guarded; choose well. It's yours by every right this valley has."],"locked":[]}],"done":["The crown is ash again, and the valley is ours. There'll always be a seat by my fire for you, {name}.","Now go on. Somewhere out there, something else is waiting to be written down."]},"drove_road":{"name":"The Drove Road","giver":"rowan","steps":[{"id":1,"zone":"whisperwood","goal":{"kill":"wolf","n":5},"reward":"xp:strength:600","talk":["Mind you stand between me and the gate. That heifer spooks at strangers and she's twenty stones of stranger.","Rowan. I take beasts down the east road and sell 'em at Saltmere, eleven seasons running. This season I can't get a drove out of Ashvale.","Grey wolves come off the wood at dusk and run at the near side. They don't kill so much as scatter. Two miles an hour, and you'll walk 'em back twice over before dark.","Five of 'em. That's what it took last season and what it'll take now: thin the pack till the pack takes notice of a quieter road.","North gate, then keep the old stumps on your left. Come back with five and I'll stand you shoeing at Garrick's."],"progress":["{left} more wolf, {name}. The drove's nervous enough as it stands.","They run in threes. Two at a time suits me better."],"complete":["Five. That's the west run, the lot of 'em, by the look of that pelt.","Beast walked two mile further today than it did last week. That's the whole of this trade, that is."]},{"id":2,"zone":"saltmere","goal":{"kill":"boar","n":6},"reward":"pack_t1","talk":["Aye, the beasts are calmer. The next trouble's further down the road, and it's closer to Saltmere than anyone down there will admit.","There's grazing west of the town - good grass, with a marsh drain running through it. Boar root the whole of it at night. Six acres this year, turned over like a kitchen garden.","Nettie feeds half the town off those marshes and Sela sells the reeds. They'll back me, but they're not going out at dusk to say it themselves.","Six boar. Quick, for the weight they carry, and they'll charge if you back them onto the drain bank. Keep a way back to the path open."],"progress":["{left} more boar. The grazing's still turned up wherever you haven't been."],"complete":["That's the marsh quiet again, and the grass'll come back before the frost.","Mention it at the Tap when you get down there. Hollis'll want to know who did it, and he won't charge you for the drink."]},{"id":3,"zone":"saltmere","goal":{"kill":"timber_wolf","n":4},"reward":"helmet_t2","talk":["There's a bigger trouble on the trail, and it isn't the grey pack you cleared.","Timber wolves. Bigger than the wood wolves and a good deal bolder. They follow a drove at night and take one off the rear, and by morning you've a collar in the grass and no dog.","Four of 'em. They won't come at you in the open - they'll test you where the path goes under the pines and the bells are out of sight.","Take the iron out of Ashvale if you've not got it. I'd rather pay for a helmet than write to a man's wife."],"progress":["{left} more of the big wolves. Listen for the bells - if the drove's gone quiet, they're behind it."],"complete":["Four. And they came off the north trail, not the road, which is the difference between a loss and a story.","Wear that. You've earned the weight of it."]},{"id":4,"zone":"saltmere","goal":{"kill":"bandit","n":6},"reward":"xp:attack:1800","talk":["Last of it, and it's the part I've not said to either elder, in Ashvale or in Saltmere.","There's a camp where the road bends out of the trees, and they've set a toll on anything with hooves in it. Six of 'em. A grey coat runs it; the rest are boys with sticks.","I won't pay it, and I've no wish to carry a sword into it myself. Take the camp apart, {name}, and the road's open again for everyone walking it, me included."],"progress":["{left} more of the toll-men. The camp's where the road bends out of the trees - you'll smell the fire before you see it."],"complete":["The camp's broken. That's my living handed back to me, and I don't know what to do with the thanks.","Go and sit in the Saltmere Tap and tell Hollis Rowan sent you. Whatever he's got for a traveller like you, you've earned it twice over."]}],"done":["The drove went east with all six beasts and none of them lost. That's what the road looks like now, {name}.","When you've a mind for more of it, ask after you in Saltmere. A town on the coast has its own way of being in trouble."]}}}}