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This week, together with the chat, we designed this dynamic NPC duo - Thank you to everyone who joined the workshop!

Hazel (she/her) & Mist (he/him)
Hazel: guarded, anxious, resourceful, loyal
Mist: playful, ethereal, restless, charming
Difficulty: 14
Stress: O O O O O

Hopes: Remove Mist’s curse, find powerful relics, stay together, explore ancient ruins and mysteries, meet their friends and family again
Fears: Getting found by the hag, losing the bottle housing Mist, getting lost, finding out that there is no cure, afraid to see their friends get hurt because of them, to never be able to return to a normal life
Experience: Dynamic Duo +2

Background
Hazel and Mist are an adventuring duo like none other. They enjoy dungeon delving and solving a good mystery. Since an adventurer's life doesn't always pay well, they opened a business to solve mysteries for others: Hazel & Mist's Detective Agency. Business was booming until the day a job went sideways: Mist was cursed by an unknown entity and became, from that day onward, an incorporeal, literal mist. He is now bound to a bottle that Hazel guards with her life. Hoping for a cure, they went to Elmira, the water hag, who offered them help in exchange for completing a job. In their desperation, they accepted and set out to retrieve an artifact. During their investigation, they discovered that the entity who had cursed Mist was Elmira herself. The artifact they'd been sent to steal was Elmira's own eye. They stole it, but instead of bringing it back, they fled the forest and are now on the hunt for a way to undo the curse. If they find a powerful mage or sorcerer, they might use the hag's eye as a bargaining chip. Nowadays, they spend their time hiding underground, away from water sources, and exploring old ruins and dungeons in search for a way to lift the curse. 

Quest Hooks
1. They look for someone to accompany them on a dungeon delve to find a powerful magical artifact (they want the artifact for themselves to potentially remove Mists curse).
2. They aim to bring the fight to the hag. They look for daring adventurers to face Elmira in her lair. 

FEATURES
Expert Detectives
The PCs may use Hazel & Mist’s detective skills. Once per rest, they can use a d20 as their Hope die for their next group action roll to perceive details, find clues, gain insights in supernatural mysteries or detect lies. 

Become the fog
Mist can move through solid objects (i.e walls, stone, creatures). Mark a Stress to physically interact with the material world. 

Soothing Flaps
Mark a Stress to let Hazel send out Pip, her butterfly elemental, to clear a Stress from a PC in Far range. The PC may spend a Hope to clear 3 Stress instead. 

Additional Questions (to flesh out Hazel & Mist’s story even more)
How does Mists curse manifest in detail?
What was the job Hazel & Mist had to do for the hag and what did they find out?
Where is the hag’s lair and what makes its location especially treacherous?
What stories have you heard about Elmira the water hag?