The Pixie Dust Tree

Tips for the Guide:

• Depending on the skill level of your players, you may need to suggest that they ask the Elder Fairy where they can find more pixie dust, or have a non-player character step in to guide them to the Hunter Fairies.

Creatures:

• Fairies
• Pirates
• Piranha

Scenery & Props:

• Forest
• Cabin
• Mountains
• River

Props:

• Compass

a. Locate the Elder Fairy

The Elder Fairy of the northern forest knows the secret to getting a new pixie dust tree, and it’s up to you to find him.

• Tips: Players might trying using their compass, or rely on their pets to help.
• Difficulty:
  • Up to three players: 3
  • Four or more players: 4
• Once players succeed: It wasn’t easy, but you’ve located the Elder Fairy! You head in the direction of his remote woodland cabin.

a. A Rocky Cliff

You’re making great progress, when your path suddenly ends in front of a steep, rocky cliff. It’s too high to climb with your bare hands, but it’s also the only way to get where you’re going.

• Difficulty:
  • Up to three players: 4
  • Four or more players: 5

b. The Elder Fairy

As you approach a small cabin in middle of the forest, the Elder Fairy emerges.

You tell him why you’re there, and he wants to help. But first, he needs to make sure you don’t plan to use the fairy dust for your own personal gain.

How can you prove to him that you are truly helping the fairies and not trying to steal the dust for yourself?

• Difficulty:
  • One or two players: 4
  • Three or more players: 5
• Once players succeed: The Elder Fairy provides you with the secret recipe: 3 grains of blue dust, 1 grain of yellow. Heat in a pot, stir, and allow to cool into a seed. Plant in the ground, and pour water from the Sacred Stream to grow a new pixie dust tree.

c. Locate More Pixie Dust

The fairy’s village does not have the special blue dust, only yellow. How will you find more?

• Tips: Players might try using tools like a Magic Map, use tracking skills, or ask for help.
• Difficulty:
  • Up to three players: 3
  • Four or more players: 4
• Once players succeed: The players learn that there’s a tribe of Hunter Fairies near the mountains in the Eastern Grove who have more pixie dust.

a. The Hunter Fairies

As you approach the border where the forest meets the mountains, you enter the territory of the Hunter Fairies. They have a healthy pixie dust tree, but think you’re dangerous and try to attack you. They’re an important part of the ecosystem, so you don’t want to harm them.

How do you prove that you’re a friend, and protect yourself, without harming them?

• Difficulty:
  • Up to three players: 4
  • Four or more players: 5
• Once players succeed: The fairies are overwhelmed by your kindness towards their species. They give a small pouch filled with pixie dust—three blue grains and one yellow. They also warn you that the forest can be dangerous.

b. Pirate Thieves!

As you make your way toward your next destination, you hear rustling in the leaves to your left. Suddenly, a band of pirates emerges from the dark forest.

They’ve heard that you’re in possession of pixie dust, and want it for themselves. They attack you and try to steal the pixie dust.

• Tips: Players can stand their ground and fight, or run away to safety
• Difficulty (if the players choose to avoid fighting):
  • One or two players: 4
  • Three or four players: 5
  • Five or more players: 6
• Battle:
  • One or two players: 3 pirates, 1 captain
  • Three to four players: 4 pirates, 1 captain
  • Five or more players: 6 pirates, 1 captain
• Villains:
  • Pirate: Difficulty - 3, Health - 1
  • Captain: Difficulty - 5, Health - 3
• Once players succeed: Still in possession of your pixie dust, you continue on to your next destination.
• If players fail: You slowly recover from the attack as the pirates run off with your supply of pixie dust. Now, you have to choose: chase after them and try to get it back, or return to the village of the Hunter Fairies and beg for more?

a. The Sacred Stream

Just beyond the trees, you hear the rushing water of the Sacred Stream. You step out into the light, reach down towards the water excitedly.

But before your hand touches the water, you catch sight of the hungry piranha’s swimming just below the surface and pull your hand back. You cannot kill them, as they’re an important part of the ecosystem. But you can’t reach in to get water or they’ll bite you.

How can you get water from the stream without getting hurt?

• Difficulty:
  • Up to three players: 4
  • Four or more players: 5
• Once players succeed: With water from the Sacred Stream safely in hand, you move on quickly. You don’t want to be around the piranha (or in pirate territory) any longer than you have to.