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The drunken mouse is shaken but when calmed A Ghostly Tail is an independent production by Ross Burton and is not
affiliated with Losing Games. It is published under the Mausritter
with a stiff drink can give directions to where he Third Party Licence. Mausritter is copyright Losing Games.
saw the ghost (see Ghost Hunting). On finding
the ghost you discover that Basil (ghost This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
mouse) is not maliciously scaring people but Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Ghostly
worried and panicked herself, trying to find
someone to help recover her belongings. Copyright © Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com> 2020
Release 20210210
She was buried with a favourite trinket which
has been uncovered and taken by Zorphax

Tail
(magpie). Basil has found Zorphax’s nest but
being a spirit cannot take the trinket back
herself, so she asks if you can retrieve the
trinket and bury it again so that she can return
to the spirit plane.
Will you negotiate with Zorphax to retrieve the
trinket? Or try to steal it? Or is that too much
Whilst in a tavern late one night a mouse
effort when you can simply use magical weapons
runs in terrified: a ghost is outside! Most
to destroy Basil?
patrons think the mouse has simply had too
much mead, but the landlord is concerned.
They have heard this story too many times
recently and are worried about losing trade,
so asks you quietly as adventurers of renown
— or modest rates — to investigate, with a
reward of 300 pips if the ghost doesn’t
return again.
Basil (Ghost Mouse) The Lost Trinket Zorphax and Koshi (Magpies)
Basil is a deceased female pet mouse, with brown and What does Basil ask to be recovered? Roll a d4 for Zorphax is a male magpie who loves everything and
white piebald coat, large ears, and bright eyes. She will inspiration. anything colourful or shiny. He has collected a
not attack other mice unless in retaliation. d4 Trinket substantial horde in his nest, but is possessive and will
8hp, STR 5, DEX 9, WIL 8 1 Silver filigree thimble attack if any of his treasure is brazenly stolen. However
Attacks: ghostly power, d6 chilling touch (damages 2 Crystal geode fragment he is always after something new so will swap items for
WIL) 3 Bright cut glass beads new treasure, and can be easily distracted.
Cannot be attacked unless via silver weapons or magic. 4 Encrusted butterfly brooch He collects treasure for his partner Koshi, a female
magpie. On a roll of 1 on a d4 Koshi is incubating a clutch
Ghost Hunting Burial Site of eggs, otherwise the two birds will come and go as long
Where are the players told to find the ghost? Roll a d4 to as they think it is safe.
Where Basil was buried, and where the trinket needs to
pick a location, or adapt to fit in with your own world. be returned. Some of her bones are exposed so do try Magpies do eat mice, so be polite unless you want to be
d4 Location to be respectful. Roll a d4 to pick a site, or adapt to fit in dinner!
1 Wandering a country path with your world. 15hp, STR 8, DEX 13, WIL 11
2 Hiding in a dark nook d4 Site Attacks: d8 talons, d6 beak
3 Roaming in a field of flowers 1 In the roots of a chestnut tree
4 Lost in an abandoned nest Zorphax and Koshi’s Nest
2 By a river bank in the shade of a willow
3 Alongside a field of poppies Magpie nests are large dense domes with one or two
When the ghost is found she is timid and quite scared, but
entrances, constructed from sticks and twigs then lined
as she was a human’s pet all her life she is also excited to 4 Under a shrub, in a human’s cottage garden
with vegetation and mud. Zorphax has embedded his
see mice with clothes and tools.
treasure into the walls of the nest for safe keeping.
She explains that she is called Basil, and desperately
Roll a d4 to pick a location, or make up your own.
needs help from an alive mouse to recover her trinket.
She loved it when alive and it was buried with her, but d4 Location
somehow it’s been taken from her burial site. Since it was 1 In the branches of an old oak
taken a few days ago she has been searching for the 2 Nestled inside a large hawthorn bush
trinket, and has discovered that a magpie took it to his 3 High up in a tall silver birch
nest. 4 Perched on top of an electricity pylon