Seven Vineyards Encounter maps

If you've always wanted to set your adventure in a wine region, these cards give you the opportunity to do so. I live in a wine region myself and really enjoy hiking in the vineyards and had the feeling that there were many opportunities for memorable adventures and encounters here. (I know that the arrangement of the vines is usually more rigid and with straight lines but I found it prettier the way I chose and in the end you always find a good reason in a fantasy setting why things are the way they are :)

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Murder in the vineyard

Inspired by a Walter Moers story, these maps can be used to uncover a series of murders of young women among the grape pickers. They are usually found the next morning, stuck between the vines, completely bloodless. You can now carry out various investigations on the respective cards in order to eventually reveal the murderer. The man confesses and everything seems to be resolved, but if you examine the man more closely, you can find plant roots in his pupils, his blood and on his muscles. He was controlled by the vineyard itself. Over the centuries, the vines have slowly developed consciousness. The plant was fully awakened when a worker cut herself and shed blood on the roots. Since then, the plant has tried to extract more and more blood. The owner of the vineyard knows about it and doesn't approach the mountain anymore because he is too afraid, but he doesn't want to stop it either, because the blood has made it the best wine in the world. If the heroes want to do something against the plant and the owner finds out, he will try to stop the heroes with mercenaries. If a lot of blood is shed in the vineyards during a fight, horror will arise...

Further encounters and dagers

• There are larger monsters that like to come into the vineyards and snack on the fallen fermented grapes. It can therefore often happen that you encounter classic monsters in the vineyards that are not hungry but are completely drunk.

• There is also a thieving satyr lurking in the vineyards, and the landowners wish he would disappear. But he is a smart and very fast fellow who has a passion for games. Anyone who tries to drive him away by force will quickly notice that he has powerful hallucinogenic spells with his flute.

• Then of course there is the powerful winecromancer, who fills the dead buried in the earth with wine instead of blood and brings them back to life. He is not really a necromancer, but can only use the blood channels of fairly fresh corpses to let the wine flow through and move them. A wine bender who disguises himself as a necromancer. In battle he will try to subtly spray the heroes with wine from the zombies' wounds in order to direct it into the heroes' bodies, make them drunk and then partially control them.

I wish you all a lot of fun with wine drunken adventures! :)

-AtaraxianBear

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