Quests and conversations

The Cleared has been crossed, the Gatehead is open, and the terraces are alight from the square outward.

Given by The Country · starts on flag:proofing.homecoming_seen

Objectives

1. Cross the Cleared. It is a bowshot and a half of open ground and for the first time that is a measurement.
   flag:coldharrow.cleared_crossed
2. The wall is broken in one place and there are two of them standing in it. There is no other way up.
   flag:coldharrow.gatehead_taken
3. Get into the square.
   flag:coldharrow.square_reached
4. There is a roped line of people in the middle of it. The rope can be cut.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · optional
5. Somebody is still holding the third terrace with a spear off the wall and a door for a shield.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · optional
6. Read the tracks at the Gatehead. Orc and goblin, and the orc sign is underneath.
   flag:coldharrow.sign_read · optional, hidden
7. Put down the thing standing at the head of the road.
   flag:coldharrow.hakkun_killed · branch: killed_him
8. Stop pushing the road head. It goes when the last of them is through.
   flag:coldharrow.hakkun_walked · branch: let_him_walk
9. Ask it, in the only language it will answer in, what it was walking away from.
   flag:coldharrow.hakkun_answered · branch: asked_him

Branches

• Killed the Roadmaker flag:coldharrow.hakkun_killed
  400 XP, flag coldharrow.hakkun_killed, flag coldharrow.roadbreaker_taken, tag story:killed_the_roadmaker, halder_quist +3, ossian_sill +2, ivo_pell +1, rook -1
• Let it walk flag:coldharrow.hakkun_walked
  400 XP, flag coldharrow.hakkun_walked, flag act2.the_column_is_ahead_of_you, tag story:let_the_column_go, sera_ombry +2, rook +3, wyn_cairnwright +1, halder_quist -3, ossian_sill -3
• Asked it what it was running from flag:coldharrow.hakkun_answered
  600 XP, flag coldharrow.hakkun_walked, flag coldharrow.hakkun_answered, flag orcs.spoken_to, flag act2.knows_what_is_above_the_field, flag act2.the_column_is_ahead_of_you, tag story:spoke_the_old_tongue, tag story:asked_the_roadmaker, sera_ombry +4, rook +4, wyn_cairnwright +2, halder_quist -2, ossian_sill -4

Something is holding the Scree Defile, which is the only way out of the Ashwood a loaded party can walk, and it is holding both sides of it at once.

Given by The Country · starts on flag:defile.arrived

Objectives

1. Get up the defile. There is no other way into the hills carrying this much.
   flag:defile.arrived
2. They have both lips. Take one.
   flag:defile.lip_taken
3. Carrying frames, cook-pits banked for a long stop, and nine small piles of stone along the floor. They are not raiding this defile. They are leaving through it.
   flag:defile.read_the_ground · optional, hidden
4. She has gone back up to the stones and stopped there.
   flag:defile.last_stand · optional
5. Break them at the head of the cut.
   flag:vesk.killed · branch: broke_them
6. Pay what she is asking and walk under the lips.
   flag:vesk.tolled · branch: paid_the_toll
7. Stop at the stones. Let her take the ninth one and go.
   flag:vesk.spared · branch: let_her_go

Branches

• Broke the defile flag:vesk.killed
  160 XP, flag defile.held, flag vesk.killed, flag proofing.hills_stirred, tag story:broke_the_ninestone, halder_quist +2, ossian_sill +1, rook -2, sera_ombry -1
• Paid the toll flag:vesk.tolled
  200 XP, flag defile.held, flag vesk.alive, flag vesk.tolled, flag goblins.spoken_to, tag story:spoke_the_old_tongue, tag story:tolled_at_the_defile, party.provisions -3, sera_ombry +3, rook +2, ivo_pell -2, ossian_sill -2
• Let her go at the stones flag:vesk.spared
  180 XP, flag defile.held, flag vesk.alive, flag vesk.spared, tag story:spared_the_ninestone, rook +3, tace_ordwin +2, wyn_cairnwright +1, halder_quist -1

The first camp of the journey out is the last camp of the journey home, and there is somebody in it.

Given by The Country · starts on flag:eaves.return_arrived

Objectives

1. Get back to the Eaves. It is the only flat ground in the Ashwood and you slept on it nine days ago.
   flag:eaves.return_arrived
2. Somebody has used the fire ring since. Work out who.
   flag:eaves.face_identified
3. The scrub behind them is trodden into a road. It runs north, and north from here is one village.
   flag:coldharrow.foreshadowed · optional, hidden
4. There are three being carried in the middle of it, and they are hostile to nobody.
   flag:eaves.saw_the_carried · optional, hidden
5. Take the camp.
   flag:eaves.fought · branch: took_it
6. Ask the thing standing in the path what it is walking away from.
   flag:eaves.rearguard_spoke · branch: spoke_to_it
7. Give Wickerholt back what you took and walk on.
   flag:eaves.repaid_wickerholt · branch: repaid_them
8. Go round. It costs the camp and nobody has slept properly in four days.
   flag:eaves.went_round · branch: went_round

Branches

• Took the Eaves flag:eaves.fought
  180 XP, flag eaves.held, flag eaves.fought, tag story:took_the_eaves, halder_quist +2, ivo_pell +1
• Spoke to the rearguard flag:eaves.rearguard_spoke
  260 XP, flag eaves.held, flag eaves.rearguard_spoke, flag orcs.spoken_to, flag coldharrow.foreshadowed, tag story:spoke_the_old_tongue, sera_ombry +3, rook +3, wyn_cairnwright +1, ossian_sill -2
• Gave it back flag:eaves.repaid_wickerholt
  200 XP, flag eaves.held, flag eaves.repaid_wickerholt, flag wickerholt.dealt_with, tag story:repaid_wickerholt, proofing.bloom_carried -4, ossian_sill +3, tace_ordwin +2, wyn_cairnwright +2, ivo_pell -2
• Went round in the dark flag:eaves.went_round
  120 XP, flag eaves.went_round, flag party.no_camp_tonight, tag story:walked_all_night, party.provisions -2, tace_ordwin -1, halder_quist -2, rook +1

Wickerholt's four are on the last terrace above the field. They got there first, they have cut, and there is not enough.

Given by Corrin Vaile · starts on flag:verge.arrived

Objectives

1. Come up onto the verge. You can see the field from here.
   flag:verge.arrived
2. One of them has walked out to talk. Hear what he has to say.
   flag:verge.heard_corrin
3. Ask to see the tablet on his belt. Wickerholt's number is worse than yours.
   flag:verge.saw_their_tally · optional
4. The one reading the ground behind him has worked out exactly what you have worked out, from the other side of the mountain, on her own. It does not close for anybody.
   flag:verge.anwen_said_it · optional, hidden
5. There is a third team coming over the notch and they have been watching for a while.
   flag:verge.sarn_arrived · optional
6. Take the cut down to the field off them.
   flag:verge.wickerholt_broken · branch: broke_them
7. Talk their healer off the line and finish it against three.
   flag:verge.mag_selwy_walked · branch: fought_them_short
8. Split the acres instead of the baskets.
   flag:verge.divided_the_field · branch: divided_it
9. Fix the leg on the one who has been walking on it for four days.
   flag:verge.treated_their_wounded · branch: treated_them
10. You and Wickerholt broke each other and Sarn Hollow is standing on the cut.
    flag:verge.sarn_took_the_cut · branch: sarn_took_it

Branches

• Took the verge off Wickerholt flag:verge.wickerholt_broken
  220 XP, flag verge.fought_wickerholt, flag verge.wickerholt_broken, flag wickerholt.hostile, tag story:broke_wickerholt, halder_quist +1, sera_ombry -3, ossian_sill -4, tace_ordwin -3, wyn_cairnwright -2
• Fought them without their healer flag:verge.mag_selwy_walked
  240 XP, flag verge.fought_wickerholt, flag verge.mag_selwy_walked, tag story:split_their_line, sera_ombry +1, ossian_sill -3, tace_ordwin -2
• Divided the field flag:verge.divided_the_field
  320 XP, flag verge.divided_the_field, flag wickerholt.dealt_with, flag act2.villages_have_talked, tag story:divided_the_field, sera_ombry +4, wyn_cairnwright +3, tace_ordwin +2, ossian_sill +2
• Treated their wounded flag:verge.treated_their_wounded
  300 XP, flag verge.treated_their_wounded, flag wickerholt.dealt_with, flag act2.villages_have_talked, tag story:treated_wickerholt, party.medicine -2, tace_ordwin +4, ossian_sill +3, sera_ombry +2, ivo_pell -1
• Sarn Hollow took the cut flag:verge.sarn_took_the_cut
  200 XP, flag verge.fought_wickerholt, flag verge.sarn_took_the_cut, flag proofing.field_is_short, tag story:lost_the_verge, proofing.bloom_carried -3, sera_ombry -2, wyn_cairnwright -2

You are of age this year. Cross four days of untracked country to the foot of Kethu, cut what grows there, and carry it home. The carrying home is the part nobody has ever had trouble with.

Given by The Reckoners · starts on flag:proofing.departed

Objectives

1. Reach the foot of Kethu.
   flag:proofing.field_reached
2. Count the cairns. Compare the number to the one you were told.
   flag:ardis.count_done · optional, hidden
3. There is less growing here than there should be.
   flag:ardis.told_us_the_yield · optional, hidden
4. Cut what you came for.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · optional
5. Carry it back to Coldharrow.
   flag:proofing.returned
6. Come up the last rise and look at what is left of the village.
   flag:proofing.homecoming_seen
7. Cut the fresh cairns as well.
   flag:proofing.cut_fresh_cairns · branch: cut_fresh
8. Take only what the old ground gave, and let Coldharrow divide a short year.
   flag:proofing.honest_share · branch: honest_share
9. Carry nothing back but what you worked out.
   flag:proofing.carried_nothing · branch: carry_truth
10. Wickerholt cut first. That is not the same as keeping it.
    flag:proofing.robbed_wickerholt · branch: take_wickerholt
11. Nobody has ever gone higher than the field. Find out why the field is failing.
    flag:proofing.went_up · branch: go_up
12. Read the tracks at the Gatehead. Work out what came across the Cleared.
    flag:coldharrow.sign_read · optional, hidden
13. You met them on the road. They were going north and you were going south.
    flag:coldharrow.realised_we_passed_them · optional, hidden

Branches

• Cut the fresh ground flag:proofing.cut_fresh_cairns
  flag proofing.enough_for_the_village, tag story:cut_the_fresh_cairns, proofing.bloom_carried +4, ossian_sill -4, tace_ordwin -2, wyn_cairnwright -3, sera_ombry +1
• Took the short year home flag:proofing.honest_share
  flag proofing.village_goes_short, tag story:took_the_short_year, wyn_cairnwright +2, ossian_sill +1
• Carried nothing back flag:proofing.carried_nothing
  flag proofing.village_goes_without, flag proofing.reckoners_know_you_know, tag story:carried_nothing_back, sera_ombry -2, ossian_sill -3, rook +3, wyn_cairnwright +3
• Took Wickerholt's year flag:proofing.robbed_wickerholt
  flag proofing.enough_for_the_village, flag wickerholt.hostile, tag story:robbed_wickerholt
• Went above the field flag:proofing.went_up
  400 XP, flag act2.climbed_early, flag proofing.reckoners_know_you_know, tag story:went_up, rook +4, sera_ombry +2

A trapper's steading in the Broken Hills sits directly in the path of something that has not walked this country in two hundred years, and is not stopping for it.

Given by Orrin Bell

Objectives

1. Reach Bell Scar before the column does.
   flag:sq_bell.arrived
2. Count them, and see how they are moving.
   flag:sq_bell.column_observed
3. They are in column, with their wounded in the middle. Nobody raids like that.
   flag:sq_bell.marching_order_noticed · optional, hidden
4. Speak to whatever leads them, and give them a reason to go around.
   flag:sq_bell.column_diverted · branch: turn_them
5. Break the column at the scar.
   flag:sq_bell.column_broken · branch: break_them
6. Tell Orrin Bell what is coming, and let him pay you for the warning.
   flag:sq_bell.warning_sold · branch: sell_warning

Branches

• Sent them around flag:sq_bell.choice_turn
  180 XP, flag sq_bell.steading_stands, flag orcs.spoken_to, flag act2.knows_they_are_leaving, tag story:spoke_the_old_tongue, sera_ombry +3, rook +2, ossian_sill -2, halder_quist -1
• Broke the column flag:sq_bell.choice_break
  flag sq_bell.steading_stands, flag orcs.column_destroyed, tag story:broke_the_column, halder_quist +2, ossian_sill +2, wyn_cairnwright +1, sera_ombry -2
• Sold the warning and left flag:sq_bell.choice_sell
  flag sq_bell.steading_abandoned, tag story:sold_the_warning, party.provisions +3, ivo_pell +2, ossian_sill -2, tace_ordwin -1

Something has been working a two-mile stretch of the burn for a long time. It is not goblins, it is not wild, and it is the only fat thing in the Ashwood.

Given by The Deadfall Pack

Objectives

1. Something runs this stretch of the burn twice a day and does not deviate.
   flag:sq_pack.sign_read
2. Get close enough to see a collar.
   flag:sq_pack.collar_seen
3. The house mark on the collar belongs to a family that has not kept dogs in eleven years.
   flag:sq_pack.house_recognised · optional, hidden
4. Find where they have been feeding.
   flag:sq_pack.feeding_ground_found · optional, hidden
5. Put the pack down on ground of your choosing.
   flag:sq_pack.destroyed · branch: put_down
6. Feed them once and let them decide.
   flag:sq_pack.pack_follows · branch: take_them
7. Take the long way round the burn.
   flag:sq_pack.avoided · branch: leave

Branches

• Put the pack down flag:sq_pack.choice_kill
  210 XP, flag pack.destroyed, flag route.burn_line_clear, tag story:put_the_pack_down, halder_quist +2, ossian_sill +2, wyn_cairnwright +1, rook -3, tace_ordwin -2
• Fed them flag:sq_pack.choice_take
  190 XP, flag pack.follows_party, flag route.ashwood_watched, tag story:fed_the_pack, party.provisions -3, rook +3, tace_ordwin +2, ossian_sill -1, ivo_pell -2
• Went round flag:sq_pack.choice_leave
  flag pack.left_working, tag story:went_round_the_pack, travel.halfdays +1, sera_ombry +2, ivo_pell +1, halder_quist -1, ossian_sill -2

Somebody cut a staircase into a valley wall, and somebody else has been marking the water on it every spring for two hundred years.

Given by The Drowned Stair

Objectives

1. The steps go down into the water. They do not stop at the water.
   flag:sq_stair.arrived
2. Read the gauge stone at the head of the stair.
   flag:sq_stair.gauge_read
3. There is a numeral cut beside each spring. Small numbers. Several are nothing at all.
   flag:sq_stair.numerals_noticed · optional, hidden
4. Find what is holding the water where it is.
   flag:sq_stair.sluice_found · optional
5. Clear the gate and set it the way it was built to sit.
   flag:sq_stair.gate_reset · branch: hold
6. Pull the pins. The stair drops, the fen fills, and you cross dry.
   flag:sq_stair.level_dropped · branch: drop
7. Take the ironwork off the gate.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · branch: strip

Branches

• Set the gate as it was built flag:sq_stair.choice_hold
  170 XP, flag stair.gate_holds, flag route.fen_crossing_open, flag act2.stair_works_known, tag story:set_the_gate, travel.halfdays +1, wyn_cairnwright +3, tace_ordwin +1, ossian_sill +1, ivo_pell -1, sera_ombry -1
• Dropped the water flag:sq_stair.choice_drop
  flag stair.low_crossing_taken, flag route.fen_crossing_open, flag teams.fen_route_closed, tag story:dropped_the_water, travel.halfdays -1, party.provisions +1, sera_ombry +2, ivo_pell +2, halder_quist +1, wyn_cairnwright -2, tace_ordwin -1
• Stripped the gate flag:sq_stair.choice_strip
  flag stair.gate_destroyed, flag route.fen_crossing_open, tag story:stripped_the_stair, halder_quist +2, ivo_pell +1, wyn_cairnwright -3, ossian_sill -2, rook -1

The weather came off the flats without asking. The only roof for two miles has a fire in it already, and two men from Sarn Hollow sitting round it.

Given by Hesk Ordal

Objectives

1. The sedge goes flat and the sky comes down. Get under something.
   flag:sq_bothy.squall_hit
2. There is smoke coming out of the bothy.
   flag:sq_bothy.entered
3. Ask two grown men from another village what they are doing out here in Proofing week.
   flag:sq_bothy.purpose_stated
4. The older one has not taken his left hand out of his coat since you came in.
   flag:sq_bothy.hand_noticed · optional, hidden
5. Sit down. There is enough fuel for one night and one room and you are all in it.
   flag:sq_bothy.night_shared · branch: share
6. Put them out. You are four.
   flag:sq_bothy.men_turned_out · branch: turn_out
7. Go back out into it and find your own ground.
   flag:sq_bothy.walked_into_weather · branch: walk_on

Branches

• Shared the night flag:sq_bothy.choice_share
  190 XP, flag sarn.met, flag sarn.waiting_at_the_fen, flag route.sarn_line_known, tag story:shared_the_bothy, party.provisions -1, tace_ordwin +2, ossian_sill +2, sera_ombry +1, halder_quist -2
• Put them out in it flag:sq_bothy.choice_turn_out
  flag sarn.met, flag sarn.hostile, flag bothy.held, tag story:turned_them_out, party.provisions +2, ivo_pell +2, halder_quist +1, ossian_sill -3, tace_ordwin -3, rook -2
• Walked into the weather flag:sq_bothy.choice_walk
  flag bothy.left_standing, tag story:took_the_weather, party.medicine -2, travel.halfdays +1, ossian_sill +2, tace_ordwin +1, ivo_pell -2, sera_ombry -2

There is a physic living a day outside Coldharrow who is not a Reckoner and does not answer to them, and half the village has walked out to see her at one time or another.

Given by Iseult Marrow

Objectives

1. Marrow Bend is half a day off any sensible line. Somebody is always walking out to it anyway.
   flag:sq_marrow.arrived
2. Watch her work.
   flag:sq_marrow.observed
3. She asked what year you were born. That was not a medical question.
   flag:sq_marrow.question_noticed · optional, hidden
4. Bring her what she is short of.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · branch: help
5. Take her stores. You have four days of walking and she has a roof.
   flag:sq_marrow.stores_taken · branch: rob
6. Tell the Reckoners what she is doing out here.
   flag:sq_marrow.reported · branch: report

Branches

• Gathered for her flag:sq_marrow.choice_help
  160 XP, flag iseult.friendly, flag iseult.present_on_return, flag recipes.iseult_taught, tag story:helped_the_physic, tace_ordwin +3, ossian_sill -1, sera_ombry -1
• Took her stores flag:sq_marrow.choice_rob
  flag iseult.friendly, flag iseult.present_on_return, tag story:robbed_the_physic, party.medicine +4, tace_ordwin -3, ossian_sill -2, wyn_cairnwright -1
• Reported her to the Reckoners flag:sq_marrow.choice_report
  flag iseult.reported, flag iseult.present_on_return, flag reckoners.favour, tag story:reported_the_physic, sera_ombry +2, tace_ordwin -3, rook -2

Coldharrow cuts its peat a morning south of the Cleared. This spring the face gave up something that was walking north.

Given by Esker Lann

Objectives

1. The cutters have a face a mile long open and neither of them is cutting.
   flag:sq_peat.arrived
2. Look at what came out of the peat.
   flag:sq_peat.body_seen
3. There are stems in the satchel. Nothing that grows within four days of here.
   flag:sq_peat.stems_identified · optional, hidden
4. He is lying with his head to the north. He was going home.
   flag:sq_peat.direction_noticed · optional, hidden
5. Stack stones for him. There is no shortage of stone and there is a shortage of light.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · branch: bury
6. Take the satchel. Dried is still dried.
   flag:sq_peat.satchel_taken · branch: take_stems
7. Send word up the Switchback with the levy cart and let the Reckoners own it.
   flag:sq_peat.reported · branch: report

Branches

• Stacked stones for him flag:sq_peat.choice_bury
  150 XP, flag peat.body_cairned, flag esker.friendly, tag story:stacked_the_first_stones, travel.halfdays +1, wyn_cairnwright +3, ossian_sill +3, tace_ordwin +2, ivo_pell -1, sera_ombry -1
• Took the satchel flag:sq_peat.choice_take
  flag peat.satchel_taken, flag esker.friendly, tag story:took_from_the_peat, proofing.bloom_carried +2, ivo_pell +1, sera_ombry +1, wyn_cairnwright -3, ossian_sill -3, tace_ordwin -2
• Reported the find flag:sq_peat.choice_report
  flag peat.face_closed, flag reckoners.favour, tag story:reported_the_cutting, sera_ombry +2, ossian_sill +1, rook -2, wyn_cairnwright -1

There is a man with a mule in the Broken Hills who trades between all six villages, and at the bottom of his load there is a case of brown glass, out of season.

Given by Aldred Kesk

Objectives

1. A man with a mule, on a line where nobody has any business being.
   flag:sq_pedlar.contact
2. Look over what he is carrying.
   flag:sq_pedlar.stock_seen
3. There is a case in fleece at the bottom of the load, and it is six months out of season.
   flag:sq_pedlar.case_seen · optional, hidden
4. Ask him where a man buys a year.
   flag:sq_pedlar.provenance_asked · optional, hidden
5. Walk him and the mule through the defile.
   flag:sq_pedlar.escorted · branch: escort
6. Buy the case. Everything you are carrying is worth roughly one case.
   flag:sq_pedlar.case_bought · branch: buy_case
7. Take the case and the mule. He is one man and he is fifty.
   flag:sq_pedlar.robbed · branch: rob

Branches

• Walked him through the defile flag:sq_pedlar.choice_escort
  280 XP, flag kesk.friendly, flag kesk.present_on_return, flag recipes.kesk_taught, flag act2.ring_road_known, tag story:walked_the_pedlar_through, travel.halfdays +1, sera_ombry +3, tace_ordwin +2, ossian_sill +1, ivo_pell -1
• Bought the case flag:sq_pedlar.choice_buy
  flag kesk.friendly, flag kesk.present_on_return, flag proofing.bought_a_year, tag story:bought_a_year, proofing.draught_carried +6, party.provisions -4, ivo_pell +2, sera_ombry +1, wyn_cairnwright -3, tace_ordwin -2, ossian_sill -2
• Took the mule flag:sq_pedlar.choice_rob
  flag kesk.friendly, flag kesk.present_on_return, flag kesk.alive, flag villages.pedlar_stopped, tag story:took_the_pedlars_load, proofing.draught_carried +6, party.provisions +3, ivo_pell +2, ossian_sill -4, tace_ordwin -3, rook -3, halder_quist -2

Four people and a barrow, working north up the trail line in Proofing week. None of them is sixteen and everything in the barrow belonged to somebody who was.

Given by Hessa Morrow

Objectives

1. A barrow on the trail line, and four people pushing it who are not sixteen.
   flag:sq_scav.contact
2. Look in the barrow.
   flag:sq_scav.barrow_seen
3. Decide what they actually intend.
   flag:sq_scav.intent_read
4. It is sorted. Not by kind. By year.
   flag:sq_scav.sorting_noticed · optional, hidden
5. Walk them as far as the tree line.
   flag:sq_scav.escorted · branch: escort
6. Trade. Their stock is better than yours and both sides know why.
   no condition — completes when the objective before it does · branch: trade
7. Take the barrow. They will not fight you for it.
   flag:sq_scav.barrow_taken · branch: take_barrow

Branches

• Walked them to the tree line flag:sq_scav.choice_escort
  230 XP, flag morrows.friendly, flag morrows.present_on_return, flag route.deathgrounds_known, tag story:walked_the_morrows_out, travel.halfdays +1, tace_ordwin +3, rook +2, ossian_sill +1, ivo_pell -1
• Traded with the Morrows flag:sq_scav.choice_trade
  180 XP, flag morrows.friendly, flag morrows.present_on_return, flag recipes.morrow_repair, tag story:traded_for_kit, sera_ombry +2, ivo_pell +2, halder_quist +1, ossian_sill -2, tace_ordwin -1
• Took the barrow flag:sq_scav.choice_take
  flag morrows.friendly, flag morrows.present_on_return, tag story:took_the_barrow, party.provisions +2, ivo_pell +1, ossian_sill -4, tace_ordwin -3, rook -3, halder_quist -1

Something has been stripping the deadfall for two miles and stacking it. Goblins have not been seen in this country since the Great War, and this lot have built a workshop.

Given by Nettle

Objectives

1. Follow whatever has been stacking the deadfall.
   flag:sq_cache.tracked
2. It has seen you first. It is not running, and it is not attacking.
   flag:sq_cache.contact
3. Look at what it has actually built.
   flag:sq_cache.workshop_seen · optional
4. Work out what Nettle wants, and whether you have it.
   flag:sq_cache.trade_struck · branch: deal
5. Clear the cache.
   flag:sq_cache.cleared · branch: clear

Branches

• Dealt with the scrapper flag:sq_cache.choice_deal
  240 XP, flag goblins.contact_made, flag recipes.firepowder_available, tag story:dealt_with_goblins, rook +2, sera_ombry +2, ivo_pell +1, ossian_sill -3, halder_quist -1
• Cleared the cache flag:sq_cache.choice_clear
  flag goblins.hostile, flag goblins.contact_made, tag story:cleared_the_cache, ossian_sill +2, halder_quist +1, rook -2, sera_ombry -1

Coldharrow's second team went out the same morning you did. You have found what is left of them, and they have four days of walking still to do.

Given by Halla Wick

Objectives

1. Find out who is shouting in the deadwood.
   flag:sq_stranded.found
2. Work out what they actually need.
   flag:sq_stranded.assessed
3. Halla Wick's leg is broken in two places. Someone will have to set it.
   flag:sq_stranded.leg_set · optional
4. Give them enough to reach the field, and lose the half day.
   flag:sq_stranded.supplies_given · branch: aid
5. Take what they are carrying. They will not be needing all of it.
   flag:sq_stranded.supplies_taken · branch: strip
6. Say what can be said, and keep walking.
   flag:sq_stranded.walked_on · branch: pass

Branches

• Gave them the half day flag:sq_stranded.choice_aid
  flag teams.two_supplied, tag story:gave_the_half_day, party.provisions -3, travel.halfdays +1, ossian_sill +2, tace_ordwin +2, halder_quist +1, ivo_pell -1
• Took what they were carrying flag:sq_stranded.choice_strip
  flag teams.two_stripped, tag story:took_from_our_own, party.provisions +4, ossian_sill -3, tace_ordwin -2, wyn_cairnwright -2, ivo_pell +1
• Walked on flag:sq_stranded.choice_pass
  flag teams.two_passed, ossian_sill -1, sera_ombry +1

Coldharrow's fourth team went into the Ashwood, came out of the Ashwood, and stopped. They intend to walk in on the ninth day and say they got lost.

Given by Linnet Ordwin

Objectives

1. There is a fire off the line, in daylight.
   flag:sq_turned.smoke_found
2. Count them. All four are standing and none of them is hurt.
   flag:sq_turned.counted
3. Get Linnet Ordwin to say out loud what she has decided.
   flag:sq_turned.plan_admitted
4. They packed for nine days and they have eaten two.
   flag:sq_turned.stores_noticed · optional, hidden
5. Tell her you will not say anything, and mean it for six more days.
   flag:sq_turned.silence_promised · branch: cover
6. Get them up and walk them back onto the line yourselves.
   flag:sq_turned.team_moved · branch: march
7. Take their food. They are not walking anywhere.
   flag:sq_turned.stores_taken · branch: provision

Branches

• Said nothing flag:sq_turned.choice_cover
  160 XP, flag teams.four_covered, flag teams.four_alive, tag story:covered_for_them, tace_ordwin +3, wyn_cairnwright +1, rook +1, ossian_sill -2, sera_ombry -2
• Walked them back onto the line flag:sq_turned.choice_march
  flag teams.four_moving, flag teams.four_alive, tag story:put_them_back_on_the_road, travel.halfdays +1, party.provisions -2, halder_quist +3, ossian_sill +3, tace_ordwin +1, ivo_pell -2, sera_ombry -1
• Took their nine days flag:sq_turned.choice_provision
  flag teams.four_stripped, flag teams.four_alive, tag story:took_the_unwalked_days, party.provisions +5, ivo_pell +3, sera_ombry +1, tace_ordwin -4, ossian_sill -3, wyn_cairnwright -1

Somebody has been digging where the ground turned to glass, and has been at it long enough that his hands have stopped working properly.

Given by Cass Ordrin

Objectives

1. Find whoever is working the glass field.
   flag:sq_glass.found
2. Look at his hands.
   flag:sq_glass.hands_seen
3. Read the page of dates he keeps checking. Something in them does not add up.
   flag:sq_glass.dates_read · optional, hidden
4. Get him off the glass and back to a road.
   flag:sq_glass.carried_out · branch: carry_out
5. Take the notes and the warglass. He is not going to finish either.
   flag:sq_glass.notes_taken · branch: take_notes
6. Leave him to it.
   flag:sq_glass.left · branch: leave

Branches

• Carried him out flag:sq_glass.choice_carry
  200 XP, flag cass.alive, flag act2.war_dates_known, flag recipes.warglass_handling, tag story:carried_cass_out, travel.halfdays +1, tace_ordwin +2, ossian_sill +2, wyn_cairnwright +1, ivo_pell -1
• Took the notes and the glass flag:sq_glass.choice_notes
  flag cass.alive, flag act2.war_dates_known, flag act2.notes_incomplete, tag story:took_the_notes, ossian_sill -3, tace_ordwin -2, sera_ombry +1
• Left him to it flag:sq_glass.choice_leave
  flag cass.alive, ossian_sill -1

A stone shelter stands at a junction in the Broken Hills. Six villages keep it. None of them has ever mentioned it to any of the others.

Given by The Wayside Niche

Objectives

1. A roofed shelter at a junction, in country where nothing else has been built in two hundred years.
   flag:sq_niche.found
2. Look in the niche.
   flag:sq_niche.niche_opened
3. Six marks on the lintel. Each has been cut over the last until the stone is going soft.
   flag:sq_niche.lintel_read · optional
4. Unstopper one.
   flag:sq_niche.flask_opened · optional, hidden
5. Work out which of the six marks is Coldharrow's.
   flag:sq_niche.our_mark_found · optional, hidden
6. Leave Coldharrow's measure and recut Coldharrow's mark.
   flag:sq_niche.tended · branch: tend
7. Take the five that are not yours.
   flag:sq_niche.flasks_taken · branch: take
8. Empty them, fill them from the runnel, stopper them, and put them back the way they sat.
   flag:sq_niche.flasks_watered · branch: top_up

Branches

• Kept the stone flag:sq_niche.choice_tend
  260 XP, flag niche.tended, flag act2.six_marks_known, tag story:kept_the_wayside, party.medicine -2, ossian_sill +4, wyn_cairnwright +3, tace_ordwin +2, ivo_pell -2
• Took the five flag:sq_niche.choice_take
  flag niche.robbed, flag act2.six_marks_known, flag villages.niche_short, tag story:emptied_the_niche, party.medicine +5, ivo_pell +3, sera_ombry +1, ossian_sill -4, wyn_cairnwright -3, tace_ordwin -3
• Put them back full flag:sq_niche.choice_topup
  flag niche.watered, flag act2.six_marks_known, flag villages.niche_short, flag niche.nobody_knows, tag story:watered_the_flasks, party.medicine +5, sera_ombry +2, ivo_pell +1, rook -2, tace_ordwin -4, ossian_sill -5, wyn_cairnwright -3

Wickerholt sent four as well. Three of them are still walking, and the one who is not is being carried.

Given by Brede Ossam

Objectives

1. Wickerholt's team have seen you. Somebody is going to speak first.
   flag:sq_wick.contact
2. Decide what they actually intend.
   flag:sq_wick.intent_read
3. They use the same words for the flower that your Reckoners do. Nobody taught both villages that.
   flag:sq_wick.shared_vocabulary_noticed · optional, hidden
4. Treat the one they are carrying.
   flag:sq_wick.wounded_treated · branch: treat
5. Agree how the field gets divided before either of you reaches it.
   flag:sq_wick.accord_struck · branch: accord
6. Take what they have cut. They got there first; that is not the same as keeping it.
   flag:sq_wick.harvest_taken · branch: take

Branches

• Treated their wounded flag:sq_wick.choice_treat
  150 XP, flag wickerholt.owes_you, flag wickerholt.hostile, tag story:treated_a_rival, party.medicine -2, tace_ordwin +3, ossian_sill +2, sera_ombry +1
• Struck an accord over the field flag:sq_wick.choice_accord
  260 XP, flag wickerholt.accord, flag act2.villages_have_talked, tag story:first_to_ask, sera_ombry +3, wyn_cairnwright +2, ossian_sill -1
• Took their harvest flag:sq_wick.choice_take
  flag wickerholt.hostile, flag proofing.robbed_wickerholt, tag story:robbed_wickerholt, proofing.bloom_carried +4, tace_ordwin -3, ossian_sill -3, wyn_cairnwright -2, ivo_pell +1