So gf started off with the Manticore quest, which in hindsight is pretty boring. It's essentially you arrive at the quest location, and the Manticore is already there trying to kill the person you wanna save. Then you either kill the monster or bribe it to go away, and that's it really. So she managed to make it go away by healing its wounds and giving it 10 days' worth of food. Pretty uninspiring.
Then off to the Gnome quest, which turned out to be quite difficult for a complete beginner. You traverse a network of caves with Gnomes in them, with a little bit of fighting and a little bit of persuasion. Then you find that the king has locked himself in because a Mimic is hiding about, eating the Gnomes one by one. He refuses to open until he's convinced the Mimic is dead. The player's objective there is actually just to bring back a magical item, so they can finish the quest any number of ways. Gf managed to (after some gentle nudging since she was stuck) trick the king into believing that a piece of rope was the Mimic corpse, and she got a Wand of Pyrotechnics as a reward. She's now contemplating if she should actually look for the Mimic at all or just go back. It's pretty tricky since I'm a new GM and not really used to new players who don't really know what they can do. We had to stop there so we'll see next time what she ends up doing. I'm advising her to try and think what her character would want to do (a chaotic neutral cleric). But it's a pretty fun quest, all in all. If I end up being a GM more often, I'll definitely reuse it.
As a DM, you have a couple of options. If she leaves the Mimic alive(which is likely what a chaotic neutral character would do, after all they got their reward) if she ever ends up going back to this gnome village she might find it completely devastated. Or you could have a gnome that knows she didnt kill the mimic follow her around seeking revenge, or possibly a gnome rogue sent by the king because they obviously will eventually find out that she didnt kill the mimic. Or any other possibilites that you can think of for consequences for the actions she took.
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