Return to Morley's Workshop - A 5e One Shot

Return to Morley’s Workshop

This is a one shot DnD 5e adventure for 2^nd to 4^th level characters. It leads on from the adventure called “Murder at Morley’s Workshop” and is set in the village where Morley’s Workshop is situated. The players are enlisted to exterminate a creature that has come through the portal which Morley originally discovered.

Story

After the events surrounding Ellen’s return in Murder at Morley’s Workshop, the story of her transformation became common knowledge in the village. This led to the Village Committee deciding that something should be done about the portal as it posed a threat to the safety of their homes. At first, the forest was declared to be out of bounds, which seemed straightforward enough and most people adhered to the rule. But one night a group of youths ventured into the darkness and found that the portal had become unstable, ripping open a permanent passage from the Material Plane to the Feywild. They could see the edge of another forest through the opening, but one that was very different to their own. It was dark, ancient and twisted, overrun with copper flecked mushrooms, and purple veins ran through the looming trunks. Its magical presence struck fear into their hearts. The three youths attempted to flee, but two of them were taken captive by an unidentified beast that charged at them from the portal. The third individual escaped and raved for days about what happened before leaving the village for good.

That is when it started. Soon after, people began going missing and the creature from the wood was blamed for the disappearances. It was sighted going underneath the workshop, as if drawn to it because of what had happened there. Many of the villagers have now moved away, and those that remain live in fear as they have nowhere to go and know the beast will come for them in the end. So, they try to enlist the party of adventurers who helped before.