Notes and Ideas
smugglers, gang fight, merchant fight, events with new npcs like Ashgrey and Ahendrua, events at specific towns, what's up blindwater, the hags, child that is leader of thief gang. Anyone could be a hag, cambion, etc.
lmao what if Besottany's herd are mostly warlocks. a bunch of centaurs with eldritch blast. Otherwise, hags that are more like archfey in that they're patrons of warlocks, either with or without their warlocks knowing what they are.
another idea for hag/coven, the deal is that they will keep a bigger badder creature off their lawn if we stay off her lawn nd let her play in the city every once in a while. also haha this is how tek pisses off a coven by inviting a manticore to hang out on his lawn while he makes a grocery run. maybe that is getting around some agreement that the manticore and hags have that is beyond just them keeping him away. Also imagine the chain reaction of do something that pisses off the hags, so they let in the harpies, then something is mad because the harpy balance is being thrown off, etc etc etc. After have already being doing something to mess with a hag, or killed off one of the coven members, someone else seeks you out to help them with a hag, lures into trap because they themselves were the hag in disguise.
blindwater sports team?? are there any good people in blindwater? explore that lmao. have to go track someone down in blindwater, either because they're on the run, or they're evading lockhinge but for a "good" reason and you need them for a skill or piece of knowledge they have. rumor that someone who bought, stole, or has something you need has been last spotted in blindwater. Even if it's something like someone has a recipe or whatever for you to win a contest etc.
"moonshiners" out in the swamp. either super dangerous or whatever. can be dangerous but will also do business if you convince them. Either that or are sent to go and interfere/take them out.
someone trying to smuggle animals into lockhinge. is it for profit or is it because they just want their dog to be with them. also someone trying to pass off their dog as being awakened through illusion or something, instead of being a normal pet dog. but then realize they need to have the dog go do paperwork etc. Smuggle in creature that secretes some kind of drug or valuable ingredients. Rich visitors to the city trying to assert that their normally illegal animal is required for emotional support etc. purposes.
actually experiencing one of these holes in the plane that the swamp is rumored to have. it's either a new one or one that hasn't been mapped, hasnt acted up badly until now. find a pocket of creatures who have slipped through? find where something is intentionally going in and out via hole? accidentally step through or trigger hole? What does the hole look like? it is just a rip in reality, is it invisible, or does it look like something in particular like a stump, fairy ring, something that looks like a creature.
cambion character mostly hiding out, maybe pretending to be a tiefling for the most part. has some skilled talent or something that people go to her for, but she tries to stay out of the spotlight. Is she really as innocent and just wants to be left alone as she seems, or is there actually something else going on with her. Is she doing stuff behind the scenes, does she have infernal ties, does she have crime ties, etc. And if so, is it her fault or is she in a stuck situation. She pretends to be a tiefling, hides her wings etc. Maybe a lot of hair to distract from her horns and face things.
coming across an awakened animal, but is it really an animal or is it something in disguise? Either something bad, tricky, or something trying to hide? Maybe there is just an awakened animal living its life but needs some help. maybe find them because someone told them to go take care of whatever this animal is, but animal eventually admits to being awakened, and player might think that reveal is the only one, but there is one more. Maybe sent by someone else to go take care of a certain person or creature, and then they go and find it's the animal? (maybe. not really sold on that last idea i think, but something close could be interesting)
go take care of or check out rumors or are caught randomly by a ghost, but they are intelligent and can communicate (but have a drawback like can't communicate audbily or something?) They have something they want to have or have some other task that they can't reach and need help attaining. Or maybe they have a problem and/or want and don't know how to fulfill it. Maybe they're going about it in the wrong way, causing problems or being harmful because of this thing that they want. So can either destroy them or solve the problem by helping them get the thing they've been trying to get.
Wars between the crocodile basks! Westminster crocodile show. Paid to take out or steal opponent's croc. go find crocs being smuggled to one of the illegal and/or unofficial basks (Gillan's well, Blindwater). Find someone who stole eggs/babies. If eggs, worried that they won't be cared for. The eggs could die, and the babies need special care when they're born. Maybe take in or help unwanted crocodile babies? break up backyard breeder? Steal crocodile from bad owner, especially if that owner is either protected by the law or has wormed their way out of being found out by rangers etc, but someone knows or sure that they're still bad, so do you believe them and help or not, and is the person who sent them on the quest legit or are they lying.
meet ashgrey traveling. can help him get things he needs? still hurt from attack that separated him from his friends? can suggest go back and see if can find whether friends are alive or dead? help him get to next harpy clan (both for normal reasons, help because hard to travel while injured, and maybe also to hide out while healing from some people who are looking to hunt him down.)
someone gone missing, but why can't rangers help? maybe are already out in the swamp or near a settlement other than lockhinge? maybe find people lost in the swmap and they're lost because looking for someone? maybe can't go to the rangers because this person is in trouble with lockhinge "law" but their friends say that doesn't mean they deserve to die. What was this person looking for? Maybe they were out there looking for something shady, or were going to meet someone specific that their friends are now worried about. Maybe going to meet Besottany, or don't know what the person was looking for and then find out along the way that they were going to see her, and so you have to deal with them if they want to get this person back. She may have sent them on a quest in exchange for whatever it was that they wanted. Maybe sent them to take care of a hag, or another creature (and was the request genuine to take them out or actually to feed them?) maybe this would be a good place to meet Ahendrua, or Ahendrua can provide some information about Besottany or function as guide.
creature has a rare part needed by someone. maybe either misled, and the person is someone more like a wizard, but the reward is great? or someone needs it for somehting important (like the endangered plant idea) and have to decide between life of this rare (or dangerous) creature and whoever is relying on it.
Variation on the creature part and/or rare plant quest: the thing required is being protected by harpies. Probably Bower Bog, as they cultivate their wilderness and will also communicate with people under the right conditions. Can either sneak and steal, fight, or speak with the harpies and either discover an injustice or barter for the plant instead of something else. May have to barter with favor instead of goods.
Need help protecting from swamp poachers? Why would ranger need help with that? If can find a reason that, can have a bunch of quests with that. Otherwise, could also happen upon or find out about it some other way and just have the opportunity to handle yourself (or drop it by contacting a ranger), like maybe hearing from a community or group/family/something outside of the city about the problem, so that rangers are a little out of the way.
rare plant one in every how many has revivify or whatever and someone needs it but rangers or someone wants to protect them. Do you break the law and try to poach one, risk getting caught by the rangers? If poach the plant, it won't be able to seed, preventing people in the future from being able to use it, and potentially helping to doom the species from the region. Also if you get caught, huge trouble. If you don't help, extremely likely that this person will really die, be lost, whatever. The threat is a very real one.
Tourists: robbed by swamp pirates. pickpockets, otherwise struggling with getting used to how the city works (whose side do you choose?). arguing with trying to get the law involved with pickpocketing. lost in the swamp. getting super grifted, like rolan and laroakan, we have so much gold everywhere just come over to this one place and they'll let you just take some but it's ambush point. lied to or misinformation or just not understanding how things work in lockhinge. going into the tiefling bar and causing problems bc hey this is a safe space. people so lost bc can't see the thieves cant directions.
Mugged/beaten up/whatever by gang, but this gang is all children. They really are causing trouble and have taken something from you, but do you treat them differently because children? and if you help them, they will likely take advantage of you again and won't really thank you.
