B13. Parents Of The “Wicked Children”

Unbeknownst to the people of Blackapple, seven children from the village entered a magic mirror in Figwort Manor and are currently held in servitude in the underground Brugh by an Elf Lord. To avoid detection, the Elf Lord sent seven of his allies, goatfolk known as ibix, to replace the missing children in Blackapple (see Background on page 2). By donning magical pumpkin-shell masks, these ibix have changed their form to resemble each of the seven missing children. The ibix impersonating the first child, Arthur Figwort, has been taken to a local sanitarium (A2). Another two, Amelia and Bernard Goodall, are the children of the owner of Goodall's Fine Trading (B3). The other four children are each from less noteworthy families living in homes clustered in the northeast corner of Blackapple (B13). These children are: • Giles Weadley (age 12) • Philip Anvil (age 10) • Ursula Cooke (age 5) • Stevie Leeford (age 7) The disguised ibix are rarely home, instead out getting into mischief. Their statistics are included in Random Encounters in Blackapple on page 10. The parents of each child are at their wits' end. All are aware that something is deeply wrong with their children, and suspect they might not even be their real children. But they have no idea what to do or where to turn. If the PCs go to one of these houses to interview these parents, there's a good chance that a sibling will overhear the conversation and disclose that they saw what happened (once out of their parents’ hear