{"ashvale3d":"module","name":"quests","api":1,"v":1,"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 warrens under the eastern hills.","Bandits buying from goblins. Whatever passes between them, it starts in those warrens. You have earned this, and more."],"locked":["The warrens' mouth caved in years ago. Garrick swears he can dig it out; the man needs time and more ale than I can spare.","Train while you wait. Chop, fish, swing that sword. When the way under the hill opens, come and find me."]},{"id":3,"zone":"warrens","goal":{"kill":"goblin_chief","n":1},"reward":"shield_t3","talk":["Garrick has opened the old tunnel. Be careful down there; goblins fight dirty, and in the dark they fight dirtier.","The map names a Chief. Whatever the goblins trade the bandits, he decides it. Find him."],"progress":["The Goblin Chief still holds the warrens. Torches won't last forever; go in prepared."],"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."]}}}}