Is it possible to make special area's just for quests? If So, then here's go nothing. Also, I haven't read the herocraft fan fiction so i can't make it historically accurate.
The adventure Of Bastion ... (High cooldown, Higherish level, group perhaps?)
As you leave the safety of bastion, you see a old, beaten down traveler asking for a few spare coins. As you throw a few pennies in the bucket, he looks up and you see a twinkle in his eyes. He asks you. "What is you're name boy," ,
you answer, "Well, if you strong, young man would like to help an old bloke, I have a few task for you. I have a special need for some some string, bones, and Sulpher ( Some insane amount, like 4-5 stacks each?). In exchange for this i will give you a few magical rocks!"
(As you may guess, you go out and get these items,) 'You deliver the items', "Thank you boy! Here the rocks as promised." 'You are handed a few enderpearls {
} "If you would like to help me more I know of a hidden fort of undead forces guarding a treasure, a map! Once you retrieve this map for me, I will tell you to what it is for."
Now, It would be cool if you get TP'ed to a special world or area designated for this area. This fort would have chests hidden, and would have a few ways of completing it, by force or sneakiness the same NPC would be here as well, so he can tell you what to do. Maybe throw in a few withers in there?? Or Oinkzombs.
"Ah, I thought you would show up! This fortress is guarded my many hundreds of undead, so you have two choices of doing this, using the magic rocks i gave you, you can try and get to the treasure room. But beware! There is a mighty lord, now long gone, guarding it! So be ready for a fight!"
"You made it out alive!!! I am very much impressed. Now that you have brought me this artifact, I believe you deserve to know who I really am. I am the Map maker of the DragonGuard of old, I survived the dragons attack and made it here. After I fled the old stronghold, I hid the royal map of all of land land surrounding DragonGuard, as well a the last know portal there this is why you saw so many undead guarding it. Because of this cursed old age i have forgoten the route and such, so i have been waiting for the right hero to come and help me reclaim the ancient Stronghold of DragonGuard!!! The riches the riches that the dragons must have gather aught to be staggering!! The wealth that would follow the reclaiming of the Castle would be tremendous. But hear now, the portal is not easily opened. But I,thankfully, remember the order and amount of special ingredients. There are these stars that drop off of withers, this is one of the ingredients. Bring me one and I will tell you the rest."
(Sorry for the wall of text)
"Now, the final parts of the puzzle! I will need many emeralds, gold helms, buckets of lava, skeleton heads and magic rocks. (
Good thing if you didn't do the sneaky path, the easier) Bring these to me and we will discuss more."
'mindless grinding, mindless grinding and a lot of running'
"Thank goodness you came! A group of bandits came and stole all of my belongings! Quick, they mustn't have gotten far!" ( I Don't know how this will work out, but maybe set up an algorithm that have a percentage chance for completing the quest by doing bounties? )
'You see seek for the bandits and when you find them, you notice the map maker, when you get close one of the bandits points at you, he around, and grin's sinister grin. "Hello my friend, welcome to my humble abode, 'he does a low bow' You see, I have been planing this for a very long time, I knew where the map was a long time ago, I didn't want to risk my friends here so i waited patiently until the right moment. And now, i have the most famed hero in all the lands right where I want him! What a treasure hunt. I can hold you for ransom AND get the treasure of DragonGuard."
'Disheartened, you subdue, giving in to the wicked master mind. as he takes you to a prison cell, you head hung low, you pass another cell, with some one in it. Sleeping it looked like. As the guard lets you in you the chamber, you see a pair hands and long, cragly, grey hair. You make nothing of it and go to sleep quickly. You wake up to the sound of a cough, and get up, no guard. Semi recovered from the shock of being tricked, you look for an escape route, and see the cell with the old man in it, you plan to get him out as well. You check the lock, and see its just a simple iron door, and place a piece of redstone on the floor connecting a torch on the wall to the door. 'Click!' Success! You get out and get to the cell with the old man, sleeping again. You open his cell door as well, and wake him up, you lead him out of the prison. Being stronger then he, you give hime your last bread, and carry him on your shoulder. You place him down for a little and go out to scout a little, you move out a little and see little trouble getting out. Little did you realize that in all the woods surrounding the camp, there were sentries looking out, and didn't see them till the last minute. Frustrated you look for a nearby river for cover and drink.'
'In the morning you wake up relaxed and refreshed, but the old man was missing! You quickly grab your weapon and jump to your feet, looking around quickly you see a small fire and pot steaming some sort of concoction, you carefully approach it very stealthily and looking all around, you hear a twig snap behind you swing your weapon in a 180' spin to face the intruder. The Map Maker!! Startled at his friendly smile you lose focus and lower your weapon, he says calmly' "Surprised to see me?" Still stunned you don't answer, "I thought you might be, You must not have recognized me when you broke me out, that other man? He is a master beguiler, skilled at all sorts of illusions and transformations he over heard everything I said to you and captured me, I thought we hear being evedropped so I hid the star in a concealed pouch in my clothes," 'Hands you star' "Now, i have been watching those sentries for a whiel and figured out there switching pattern, we can get out in 'looks at sky' !!!! we need to go now!! quick, we need to go, there will be only one sentry that we will have to get rid of so, it will not be hard."
'You escape with minimal bloodshed and loudness'
"Now, you ready to open that portal? Might as well go now, we should be able to get there by dark, just give me a couple minutes to get ready. Ok, lets go." 'The map maker places something in your pocket and tells you to not look now, you obey.'
"We need to find a place to rest for the night, its is further then i remember."
'In the morning you find no site of the map maker, and you remember the "Thing". You look in you pocketsess (
eh eh? Guess who?) Oh, all the items the Map Maker asked for, and a note.'
Dear hero,
The beguiler was listening, and was following me, the co-ordinance to the portal are X Y.
I left during the night to his him off the trail, he cannot get the treasure of
DragonGuard! There is more there then gold and silver, there is a magic that
mustn't meat the hand of the wrong person. I wish i could tell you, but if this
note was misplaced somehow, I do not want them to know everything.
I hope we meet again.
Theadray, The Map Maker.
Thus ends the Adventure of bastion, and begins the Quest of DragonGuard!
I didn't expect to turn this into a story but, i tend to do that when i have an idea, hope you like! I Dont have time to go over this and edit so bear with it please. I'll post the other idea I had Tobmoro.
Would need some kind of adventure mode thing, but would be pretty fun, though I guess a region would work right?
Maybe a trip to one significant landmark in all the current major cities!
