All published quests

A charming realtor shows homes that stay empty no matter who buys—furniture resets, deeds fade, and previous owners wave from upstairs windows. Close the listing, free a trapped buyer, or buy one hous…

Overnight, one enormous spider silk wraps the square—mail, gossip, and footsteps all vibrate to a listening nest. Merchants cut strands and vanish. Trace a message to the spinner, negotiate a toll in…

A night market sells masks that are actual faces—sellers claim the originals volunteered. Wearers gain skills and enemies. Retrieve a stolen visage, expose the face-thief, or buy a mask that remembers…

Local ghosts unionize and demand paid haunt shifts, break rooms, and hazard candy. Landlords lock attics; tourists cheer. Broker a contract, break a wildcat haunting, or side with the ghosts who promi…

At the fair bobbing tank, winners taste childhood and losers drown in memories that are not theirs. The prize apple floats with a name carved inside. Win without losing yourself, pull a trapped bobber…

A jack-o'-lantern on the clocktower grins wider each dawn and the sun refuses to rise while it burns. Merchants light lamps; crops sulk. Climb the tower, bargain with the carved face, or light a rival…

A decorated street bends into another plane where candy is currency and manners are law. Children come back older, richer, or not at all. Map the detour, ransom a lost group with courtesy, or close th…

A bone key opens only doors people wish they had never closed—closets of old deals, attics of apologies, cellars of almost-crimes. Thieves and therapists both want it. Escort a client through one door…

Field scarecrows quit the crops and apply for town jobs, stuffing résumés with straw and threats. Crows celebrate; employers panic. Place them somewhere useful, send them back without a riot, or hire…

The annual coven bake-off requires recipes that alter fate—last year's winner still ages in reverse. Judges vanish into pies; contestants cheat with stolen hours. Compete honestly, sabotage a doom-tar…

October fog snips shadows from ankles and stitches them into Halloween costumes sold at noon. Victims feel light and hunted; fashion thrives. Recover a client's silhouette before it walks alone, shut…

Officials counting black cats discover each feline answers to a missing person's name—and refuses to be counted twice. The missing list shrinks; the meowing grows. Track a familiar name into the alley…

The seasonal hayride loops the same moonlit mile, dropping passengers into yesterday each time the wagon hits a certain rut. Tickets keep selling; faces age a night per loop. Break the circuit, ride a…

Halloween sweets whisper the secrets of whoever handed them out—and refuse to melt until the secret is spent. Children become blackmail brokers; parents panic. Audit a candy trail, silence a talkative…

Anyone still wearing a costume at midnight becomes that role until dawn—and some costumes refuse to come off at all. A clerk is stuck as a dragon; a mayor is stuck as a jester. Free the wearers before…

The prize pumpkin grew a crown of vines overnight and now issues decrees from the patch—tax the cider, exile the scarecrows, appoint a knight of the rind. Farmers refuse; the pumpkin grows louder. Det…

Something from next month knocks a day early—masks without faces, candy that bites back, and a calendar page that refuses to turn. Townsfolk freeze mid-harvest. Hold the line until midnight, send Octo…

On Michaelmas quarter-day, rent spirits knock collecting coin, favors, and firstborn apprenticeships. Landlords who skip payment lose rooms to the spirits' ledger. Pay, fight, or rewrite a lease so th…

Tradition demands a Michaelmas goose, but this year's bird speaks every secret at the carving table—including which guest poisoned the gravy. Hosts cancel; assassins advance. Protect the dinner, silen…

A leaf-rake left outdoors overnight becomes a spirit that piles leaves into shapes of people who owe the neighborhood favors. The piles walk; debts get collected. Destroy the rake, finish the favors,…

Ghosts of past crushers return to stomp grapes that only they can see, flooding cellars with phantom wine that intoxicates the living. Bottlers sell it as a novelty until people drown standing up. Exo…

Classroom chalk dust settles on skin and writes accusations that only teachers can read. Students mutiny; faculty panic. Find the source chalkboard, scrub the town without erasing true evidence, or wr…

Squirrels open a bank that accepts acorns as coin and issues loans with usurious interest in forgotten nuts. Townsfolk default; forests foreclose on cottages. Rob the vault, renegotiate terms with the…

A spectral coach appears for homesick students and delivers them to childhood bedrooms—then locks the doors until they fail a test they already passed. Parents find empty beds that still breathe. Brea…

A cartel corners the seed market for prize pumpkins, branding rival growers with rotting vines. Fair season depends on one smuggled packet. Infiltrate the seed vault, broker a ceasefire, or grow a pum…

At true equinox noon, every scale in town tips toward perfect fairness—debts halve, feuds even, and one party member's luck becomes average forever unless the balance is broken. Guard the ceremonial s…

On the eve of equal day and night, reflections peel off mirrors and march to claim equal rights. Some reflections are kinder; some want the originals gone. Mediate the parade, seal the glass without t…

Abandoned electives form a library between walls: Dropped Alchemy, Forgotten Fencing, Never-Taken Ethics. Students who enter graduate from courses they never signed up for—with side effects. Rescue a…

Whispers travel the corn silk like telegraph wire—every secret in the county arrives at one abandoned silo by midnight. Spies pay; farmers listen. Tap the network, plant a false rumor that saves a lif…

A weather witch sells frost forecasts that come true only if buyers believe them—skeptics wake frostbitten for free. Panic buying empties the markets. Debunk the forecast without killing the crops, st…

A night market of autumn fungi opens under the pier—some mushrooms cure, some argue, some open doors to places that should stay closed. Buyers disappear between stalls. Retrieve a missing cook, identi…

Two rival farmhouses claim the same threshing floor; whoever loses a ritual duel loses their entire harvest to the winner's silos. Champions keep dying of polite accidents. Survive as a hired champion…

The harvest moon arrives early, sticky with honey, and refuses to set until someone pays last year's overdue sweetness tax. Bees riot; lovers cannot sleep. Climb the sticky sky, settle the ledger with…

The academy bell rings reverse, sending classes into yesterday and trapping seniors in first-day nerves. Schedules unravel; lunch repeats. Climb the tower, reverse the reverse, or ride one wrong perio…

Fallen leaves arrive addressed like mail—each one a letter from autumn itself, some invitations, some threats. Postmasters cannot keep up; one leaf names the party. Deliver the dangerous correspondenc…

Naturalists counting migrating owls discover each bird carries a missing person's face in its eyes. The census numbers keep climbing; the missing list shrinks. Track a familiar face into the roost, br…

At the vineyard crush, stompers sink into wine that ages them a year per minute. The vintage improves; the workers do not. Pull the trapped from the vat, find who spiked the grapes with time, or bottl…

Assigned essays animate after dark, grading their authors and correcting mistakes with sharp quills. Students vanish into footnotes; parents find blank pages smelling of ink. Destroy the master rubric…

Field scarecrows organize overnight and refuse to frighten crows until paid in dry clothes and stories. Crows feast; crops vanish. Broker a contract, break the strike without burning the fields, or si…

Anyone who drinks the new press confesses a secret they have never spoken—then forgets they confessed while everyone else remembers. Blackmail thrives in the tasting room. Sabotage the fermentation, p…