Weird Wood: The Star Grove

Star Grove: An area filled with strange, alien vegetation, much of which is carnivorous. Star spawn tend the grove. They will give only the most cryptic of answers to any questions directed at them, but will not attack unless attacked. If sick or wounded characters enter the forest the spawn will stop what they are doing and immediately tend to them. If the character or its companions show any signs of hostility, they will disengage and wait for an opportune time to steal the injured party away, even those that have engaged in prior hostile action.  After securing the sick/wounded they will transport them to their strange subterranean lair and tend to them there. Patients will be released once they are healed. 

Weird Wood: the Robot Farm

 Robot Farm: Several thousand Hectares of cultivated land. A wide variety of robots tend the land. The robots come in all sorts. They have all been modified, as none of them were originally built for agriculture. The food generated from their enterprise is stored in a large warehouse. Every year the previous year’s harvest is destroyed. Battle Droids patrol the perimeter of the farm and will attack anyone attempting to enter. It is possible that human adventurers might gain entry and, perhaps, even access to the food stores. Humans, however are thin on the ground in the Weird Wood.  

Weird Wood: Sagoth Caves

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Sagoth Caves: A series of limestone hills riddled with caves. The caves show evidence of former habitation, but nobody lives there now- or at least not permanently. Strange things happen in the caves, ghosts are seen and fell beasts come up, without warning, from the lower tunnels. 

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Weird Wood: The Sands of Time

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Sands of Time: A beach on the shore of Mud Lake, comprised entirely of extremely tiny clock parts and overshadowed by a giant brass watch. Clockwork seagulls sail over the shore and mechanical crabs sidle and click across the gear dunes. The beach first makes itself known upon approach by the thunderous noise of the giant watch ticking.

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Weird Wood Murder Peak, the Observatory and Old Canal.

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Murder Peak: A sharp-peaked basalt formation riddled with caves. The base of Murder Peak is surrounded by a ring of bones. The osseous remains of many species are present in the bone pile, although humans seem to be somewhat overrepresented. 

The Tribusaurus makes its lair in one of the peaks’s many caves. 

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The Observatory: A large and ramshackle house, sporting a tower with a highly conspicuous telescope upon its roof. The house is clearly inhabited and some nights a dark shape has been seen moving about on the tower roof, but, nevertheless, there is nothing to see in Weird Wood’s night sky. 

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Old Canal: An algae chocked and broken down canal. The walls and walkways of the locks are inscribed with strange pictograms of unknown origin. The waterway doesn’t smell too good. 

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Weird Wood Mud Lake

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Mud Lake: An expanse of stinking, hot, wet, burbling filth. The lake teems with huge eels and giant roaches. 

Weird Wood Weeks Two and Three Consolidated

Time is strange. Things age at different rates. Buildings and landmarks appear, disappear and reappear, seemingly at random. Time can flow differently from place to place or from person to person. 

There is nothing like civilization in Weird Wood. The tumultuous and dangerous nature of the place make it impossible to settle. The only exception is the Surrendered, a small group of squatters who hide amongst the half submerged towers of the Sunken City. 

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The Ariel: A cave-riddled, flat-topped sandstone formation at the center of Crystal Meadow. The cliffs leading up to the cloud-veiled summit are sheer and treacherous. Crumbling stone, patches of loose sand, and carnivorous insects only add to the danger. From about half way up on, climbers can hear the static gum of the TV trees above. They are just one of the strange and terrible things atop the mesa. 

Badlands: A haunted wasteland. The expanse of scorching heat and bare rock is somehow far larger than it should be and takes many days to cross. Transparent beings, accompanied but the noise of static, flicker in out of sight. What are they? 

The Barrier: A dense and seemingly impassable forest. The Barrier surrounds the entirety of Weird Wood. It is resistant to cutting and will not burn. With each step deeper into the forest the forest grows more tangled, dense and actively hostile. 

Bone Pond: A crystal clear pond. No visible signs of life. Bones completely cover the bottom. 

Castle Nimbus: Dead Wizard’s stronghold in exile. A floating castle perched atop a cloud. A giant burning and unblinking eye, floats beside it. Hidden by the cloud,  Castle Nimbus and the Eye are invisible from the surface.

Crystal Meadow: A wide field covered by glowing pink nodules of budding crystal. Wind passing through the crystal produces strange and sometimes dangerous music. 

The Dreaming: Mushroom forest and lair of the Worm. 

Dragon Marsh: Monster infested wetland. Giant insects and swamp sharks aren’t the worst things in the marsh. The mysterious, looming Outpost 16 resides in the deepwater near the Barrier. 

Forever Falls: Bottomless waterfall. Some of the lost believe that there is a bottom and a doorway back to the real world hidden there. All you have to do  to reach it is jump over the edge.  Even aside from the obvious, there are many problems with this supposition. Not the least of which is that nobody agrees what the real world is. 

Giant’s Grave: Vast battlefield littered with giant bones and rusted weapons at a scale to match. Although the fighting ended long ago, many claim to hear the noise of battle when they draw near.  

The Lost Saucer: A mysterious spacecraft. Lights blink and flash. Machines hum and whine. Despite these indications of activity, nobody has ever seen the occupants of the saucer. In fact, nobody even knows whether or not the saucer is occupied.

Weird Wood The Lost Saucer

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The Lost Saucer: A mysterious spacecraft. Lights blink and flash. Machines hum and whine. Despite these indications of activity, nobody has ever seen the occupants of the saucer. In fact, nobody even knows whether or not the saucer is occupied.

Weird Wood Giant's Grave

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Giant’s Grave: Vast battlefield littered with giant bones and rusted weapons at a scale to match. Although the fighting ended long ago, many claim to hear the noise of battle when they draw near.  

Weird Wood Forever Falls

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Forever Falls: Bottomless waterfall. Some of the Lost believe that there is a bottom and a doorway back to the real world hidden there. All you have to do  to reach it is jump over the edge.  Even aside from the obvious, there are many problems with this supposition. Not the least of which is that nobody agrees what the real world is. 

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Weird Wood Dragon Marsh

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Dragon Marsh: Monster infested wetland. Giant insects and swamp sharks aren’t the worst things in the marsh. The mysterious, looming Outpost 16 resides in the deepwater near the Barrier. 

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Weird Wood The Crystal Meadow

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Crystal Meadow: A wide field covered by glowing pink nodules of budding crystal. Wind passing through the crystal produces strange and sometimes dangerous music. 

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Weird Wood: Castle Nimbus

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Castle Nimbus: Dead Wizard’s stronghold in exile. A floating castle perched atop a cloud. A giant eye burning and unblinking, floats beside it. Hidden by the cloud,  Castle Nimbus and the Eye are invisible from the surface.

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Weird Wood Badlands, Barrier and Bone Pond

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Badlands: A haunted wasteland. The expanse of scorching heat and bare rock is somehow far larger than it should be and takes many days to cross. Transparent beings, accompanied but the noise of static, flicker in out of sight. What are they? 

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The Barrier: A dense and seemingly impassable forest. The Barrier surrounds the entirety of Weird Wood. It is resistant to cutting and will not burn. With each step deeper into the forest the forest grows more tangled, dense and actively hostile. 

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Bone Pond: A crystal clear pond. No visible signs of life. Bones completely cover the bottom. 

Weird Wood: The Ariel

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The Ariel: A cave-riddled, flat-topped sandstone formation at the center of Crystal Meadow. The cliffs leading up to the cloud-veiled summit are sheer and treacherous. Crumbling stone, patches of loose sand, and carnivorous insects only add to the danger. From about half way up on, climbers can hear the static gum of the TV trees above. They are just one of the strange and terrible things that await atop the mesa. 

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Weird Wood Civilization

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There is nothing like civilization in Weird Wood. The tumultuous and dangerous nature of the place make it impossible to settle. The only exception is the Surrendered, a small group of squatters who hide amongst the half submerged towers of the Sunken City. 

Weird Wood Time

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Time is strange. Things age at different rates. Buildings and landmarks appear, disappear and reappear, seemingly at random. Time can flow differently from place to place or from person to person. 

Weird Wood Week One Consolidated

 

Weird Wood Week One Consolidated 

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The Weird Wood resides at place isolated from the world- or perhaps, outside of normal time and space altogether. It is an impossible place with a strange secret at its very foundations.

Getting to Weird Wood is always the result of getting lost. It doesn’t matter if it’s lost in the woods, in space, at sea, or during the confusion of a natural disaster.

There’s no escape. Nobody leaves Weird Wood. Many trails lead in, but none lead out. The Barrier, an impossibly thick and seemingly endless tangle of trees and undergrowth, surrounds the entire area. Flight is impossible; perpetual storms rage in the sky. You're there to stay. 

The environment of Weird Wood is actively malicious. Weather is extremely unpredictable and dangerous. Any sort of savage beast, from any world or time, might wander out from behind the next tree. The tree itself might attack you.  Further, powerful beings vie amongst themselves for control of the wood and don’t care who gets caught in the crossfire. 

Physics operate differently. Magic, science and superpowers all function within the confines of Weird Wood. Artifacts of every possible configuration, power source and function can be found scattered across the landscape. 

Weird Wood Physics

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Physics operate differently. Magic, science and superpowers all function within the confines of Weird Wood. Artifacts of every possible configuration, power source and function can be found scattered across the landscape. 

The Innate Hostility of Weird Wood

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The environment of Weird Wood is actively malicious. Weather is extremely unpredictable and dangerous. Any sort of savage beast, from any world or time, might wander out from behind the next tree. The tree itself might attack you.  Further, powerful beings vie amongst themselves for control of the wood and don’t care who gets caught in the crossfire.