
### Coniferous Forest

It's quiet here. Dried pine needles crunch softly underfoot and absorb most sound. It smells sticky, sappy, and piney.

- A bunch of woodpeckers decide you must be full of delicious bugs.

- A large murder of crows stands in a circle around one of their own. They stand still and listen attentively, waiting to pass judgement, as the lone crow in the middle caws incessantly, hopping from one foot to the other now and again as though nervous.

- A crop of [bush brats](#bush-brat) jump out of the brush and ambush you!

- An [alces] rubbing its horns on the trunk of a tree.

- Giant ants carrying food back to their mound.

- An enourmous spider web blocks the path ahead. Which means there is probably an enourmous spider nearby..

- Goats. They dance and frolick and jump around. If you scare them, they faint.

- A giant sloth hanging sleepily from a branch overhead.

- Sylph Village __perm

    You wouldn't even know this village was here until you stumbled into it: they make next to no impact on the forest around them. The sylph live simply in natural shelters and lean-tos. Several can be seen fletching arrows, drying fruit, and otherwise living their peaceful sylvan lives. A small but steady stream of bush brats enter the village and are lead to into a sealed cave by one of the sylph. None of them come out.

    If you investigate the sealed cave, read [Protocol A].

- Hut __perm

    __witch has lived here deep in the heart of the wood for as long as anyone can remember. She claims that when she was a girl, her hut stood at what then was the edge of the forest.

    When you deliver the blankets to __witch, read [Protocol D].
