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Abandoned Windmill
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“My vessel. He fought the transformation - he found it excoriating. I can still taste his terror. It is delicious, but will not sustain me.„
Overview[edit | edit source]
The windmill can be found up the hill at X: 44 Y: -32, north from the Requisitioned Barn and west of the Gur Camp. A blood trail leads to its entrance. When the party first approaches the windmill, they hear noises of distress coming from the cellar.
The windmill door is locked and requires 
Sleight of Hand check to lockpick. Inside, the millstone chamber is empty, but it has a hatch leading into the basement. Within the basement a sleeping, newly 
transformed 
mind flayer can be encountered. The note laying on a crate nearby points out that before transforming it was a member of the Flaming Fist by the name of Alyan and a True Soul.
On coming close to it, the 
Emperor comments, instigating the player character to take advantage of the creature's weakness and kill it.
The party can then attack the mind flayer or wake it. When awaken, the creature claims it needs a brain to sustain itself, and demands that party provided them with food. Agreeing to do it begins the quest 
Feed the Mind Flayer, which can be resolved by finding a corpse and bringing it to the windmill basement.
Otherwise, the party can tell the creature to take care of its needs itself. Killing and looting it awards the party with the 
Mind Flayer Brain and 
Ring of Truthfulness (the latter can also be pickpocketed from it while it is sleeping).
The mind flayer waits inside the windmill basement until the party leaves the area for a Long Rest, then disappears.
Providing the mind flayer with a dead body to feed is considered an oathbreaking action for 
Paladins of any Oath subclass.
Various outcomes of the situation may grant one of the following inspirations:
Kill 'Em While They're Young (
Haunted One background)- Newfound Subject (
Noble background) - Unexpected Parenting ( Haunted One background)
Outside the windmill[edit | edit source]
There are several NPC vignettes placed around the windmill.
Sloncha Owena and 
Bogdan Vortleson are having a picnic on a patch of wheat field near the windmill. If the mind flayer inside the mill is ordered to find food, it attacks both lovers and devours Sloncha.
Jenniver Antilles and 
Spargo Ovilliers are talking at the foot of the stairs leading to the windmill.- An elderly gnome
Tonsure Bellagio has climbed on the hill to take pleasure in scapes viewed from it. - Behind the windmill, three halflings -
Tina Two-Thumbs, 
Slarmy, and 
Zeffy Softbluff are scavenging the broken cart, considering anyone who talks to them as a competitor for the food scraps in it.
Also, the haystack at X: Y: can be investigated. A successful DC 25 Investigation check reveals a single 
Arrow of Acid.
